This information, taken from a 1916 publication has been kindly contributed by Cliff McMullen. Note that some of this information will be in error.

From The Navy League Annual 1915/16

Tables of Warship Losses

(Corrected to Jan. 19th 1916)

I. THE ALLIED NAVIES.

A. - BRITISH NAVY.

Battleships

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality and date of loss
King Edward VII	'03	16,350	4 - 12" 4 - 9.2" 10 - 6"	Severely damaged by mine and sunk in the North Sea; loss announced, Jan. 9th, 1916. Exact date not known.
Triumph	'03	11,985	4 - 10" 14 - 7.5"	Torpedoed off Gallipoli Peninsula by unk. German submarine, 25th May 1915.
Bulwark	'99	15,000	4 - 12" 12 - 6"	Destroyed by internal explosions in Sheerness Harbour, 25th Nov. 1914
Formidable	'98	"	"	Torpedoed in the Channel by an unknown German submarine, 1st Jan. 1915.
Irresistible	"	"	"	Mined off Eren-Kioi in the Dardanelles, 18th March, 1915.
Ocean	"	12,950	"	see Irresistible
Goliath	"	"	"	Torpedoed by Turkish destroyers of Mouvanets-i-Millet type in the Dardanelles, 12 May 1915.
Majestic	'95	14,950	"	Torpedoed off Gallipoli Peninsula (Cape Helles) by unknown German submarine, 27th May 1915.

Armoured Cruisers:

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality and date of loss
Natal	'05	13,550	6 - 9.2" 4 - 7.5"	Destroyed by internal explosions in harbour, 30th Dec. 1915. (Exact locality not known.)
Argyll	'04	10,850	4 - 7.5" 6 - 6"	Wrecked on East Scottish Coast on night of 26th to 27th Oct. 1915
Good Hope	'01	14,100	4 - 9.2" 16 - 6"	Sunk off Coronel, Chilian Coast, by gunfire of the German armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau 1st Nov 1914.
Monmouth	'01	9,800	14 - 6"	see Good Hope
Aboukir Hogue Cressy	'00 " '99	12,000 " "	4 - 9.2" 4 - 9.2"	All three armoured cruisers sunk off the Hook of Holland by German submarine U-9, 22nd Sept. 1914.
Hawke	'91	7,350	2 - 9.2" 10 - 6"	Torpedoed while on patrol duty off East Scottish Coast by German submarine U-9, 15th Oct. 1914.

Light Cruisers:

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality and date of loss
Amphion	'11	3,440	10 - 4"	Mined off mouth of the Thames by mine laid by German mercantile mine-layer Konigin Luise, 5th Aug. 1914.
Pathfinder	'04	2,940	9 - 4"	Torpedoed off St. Abb's Head (East Scottish Coast) by German submarine U-21, 5th Sept. 1914.
Hermes	'98	5,600	11 - 6"	Torpedoed off Dover by an unknown German submarine, 31st Oct. 1914.
Pegasus	'97	2,200	8 - 4"	Driven ashore after being disabled by gun-fire of German light cruiser Konigsberg at Zanzibar, 20th Sept 1914.

Torpedo-Craft:

Torpedo-gunboats (TG), Destroyers (D), Torpedo-boats (TB) and Submarines (S)

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality and date of loss
Speedy (TG)	'93	810	2 - 4.7" 3 - 18" T	Mined in the North Sea, 3rd Sept. 1914.
Niger (TG)	'92	"	"	Torpedoed off Deal by unknown German submarine, 11 Nov. 1914.
Louis (D)	'14	965	3 - 4" 4 - 21" T.	Wrecked on Turkish Coast in Aegean Sea, 10th Nov. 1915.
Lynx (D)	'13	935	3 - 4" 2 - 21" T	Mined in the North Sea, 9th Aug. 1915.
Maori (D)	'09	1,035	2 - 4" 2 - 18" T	Mined off Belgian Coast, 7th May 1915.
Erne (D)	'03	550	4 - 12 pdr. 2 - 18" T.	Wrecked on East Scottish or British Coast, about 6th Feb.1915.
Recruit (D)	'96	'96	1 - 12 pdr. 5 - 6 pdr. 2 - 18" T.	Torpedoed in the North Sea near the Galloper Lightship by an unknown German submarine, 1st May 1915.
No.12 (TB) No.10 (TB)	'06 "	172 166	2 - 12 pdr 2 - 18" T.	Both torpedo-boats torpedoed in the North Sea by an unknown German submarine, 10th June 1915.
No.96 (TB)	'94	140	2 - 3 pdr 3 - 14" T	Sunk in the Straits of Gibraltar from collision with an unknown British mercantile cruiser, 1st Nov. 1915.
? (S)	?	?	?	An unidentified British submarine was wrecked on the Dutch Coast on 20th Jan. 1916.
"E-20" (S)	?	?	?	Netted and captured in the Dardanelles or Sea of Marmora, 5th Nov. 1915.
E-17 (S) (a)	?	?	?	Disabled and sunk off the Texel, 6th Jan. 1916.
E-17 (S) (b)	'14	725/810	2 - 12 pdr. 4 - 21" T	Missing
E-15 (S)	"	"	"	Stranded near Kephez Point in the Dardanelles, and torpedoed by picket-boats of H.M. ships Triumph and Majestic, 18th Apr. 1915.
E-13 (S)	"	"	"	Stranded on Saltholm Island, near Copenhagen, attacked and severely damaged by gun-fire of German torpedo-craft, 8th Aug. 1915. (Salved and interned at Copenhagen.)
E-10 (S)	"	"	"	Missing.
E-7 (S)	'13	"	"	Sunk or captured in the Sea of Marmora or Dardanelles, 8th Sept. 1915
E-3 (S)	'12	"	"	Sunk by German destroyers near Heligoland, 18th Oct. 1914.
AE-2 (S)	'13	"	"	Destroyed or captured in the Sea of Marmora or the Dardanelles, 31st April, 1915. (belonged to the Australian Fleet Unit.)
AE-1 (S)	"	"	"	Believed to have accidentally founderedin the Pacific about 14th Sept. 1914. (belonged to the Australian Fleet Unit.)
D-5 (S)	'11	500/600	3 - 18" T	Mined off Yarmouth by mine thrown out by German warship, 3rd Nov. 1914.
D-2 (S)	"	"	"	Missing.

Armed Merchantile Cruisers, Auxiliaries, Mine-Sweepers, Patrol Craft, etc.:

Name	Cause, locality and date of loss
Oceanic	Wrecked near Wick, N.B., 8th Sept. 1914.
Princess Irene	Destroyed by internal explosion in Sheerness Harbour,27th May, 1915.
Clan McNaughton	Destroyed while on patrol duty, 3rd Feb. 1915 (locality and cause of loss not known).
Bayano	Torpedoed in the Irish Sea by an unknown German submarine, 11th March, 1915
Viknor	Mined or wrecked on North Irish Coast, 11th March 1915.
India	Torpedoed and sunk off north-western Norwegian Coast by an unknown German submarine, 8th Aug. 1915.
Ramsey	Sunk by gun-fire of the armed German mercantile mine-layer Meteor in the North Sea, 8th Aug. 1915.
Hythe	Sunk by collision in the Aegean Sea, 29th Oct. 1915.
Tara	Sunk by gun-fire of two unknown German submarines in the Eastern Mediterranean, 5th Nov., 1915.
Princess Beatrice Drumoak Mary	Trawlers: locality and cause of loss not known. Sunk 5th Oct., 1914. Sunk 5th Nov., 1914.
Columbia	Sunk by German vedette boats A-2 and A-6 in the North Sea, 2nd May, 1915.
Sanda*	Armed yacht sunk by gun-fire of German coastal batteries off the Belgian Coast. Exact date not known.
Great Heart*	Drifter sunk by mine off the Belgian Coast. Exact date not known.
Brighton Queen*	Mine-sweeper sunk by mine off the Belgian Coast. Exact date not known.
And Others	Armed trawlers, drifters, and yachts, patrol vessels, mine-sweepers, and other smaller craft requisitioned for war duties lost by mines, stranding, and other causes. Causes, localities, and dates of losses not published.

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* These three vessels were sunk, between 22nd Aug. and 19th Nov., 1915, while operating with the Dover Patrol.

EGYPT

Coastguard Vessels:

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns
Abdel Monaym	'02	598	2 - 3 pdr.
Abbas	'84	298	"

Both vessels sunk by gun-fire of two unknown German submarines in Eastern Mediterranean, 5th Nov. 1915.

B. - FRENCH NAVY.

Battleship:

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality, and date of loss
Bouvet	'96	12,007	2 - 12" 2 - 10.8" 8 - 5.5"	Mined or destroyed by explosion of magazines off Eren-Kioi in the Dardanelles, 18th March, 1915.

Armoured Cruiser:

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality, and date of loss
Leon Gambetta	'01	12,352	4 - 7.6" 16 - 6.4"	Torpedoed in the Straits of Otranto by Austrian submarine U-5, on the night of 26th-27th April, 1915.

Torpedo-Craft:

Torpedo-gunboats (TG), Destroyers (D), Torpedo-boats (TB) and Submarines (S)

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality and date of loss
Casablanca (TG) Mine-layer	'95	1,045	1 - 3.9"	Destroyed by premature explosion of own near Smyrna on the night of 3rd-4th June, 1915.
Zelee (TG)	'99	636	Nil	Sunk by gun-fire of German armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau at Papeete (Tahiti), 22nd Sept., 1914. (Zelee was disarmed at time of loss.)
Dague (D)	'10	730	2 - 3.9" 4 - 9 pdr. 4 - 18" T.	Either torpedoed by an unknown Austrian submarine or mined off Antivari, 24th Feb., 1915.
Branlebas (D)	'07	330	1 - 9 pdr. 6 - 3 pdr. 2 - 18" T.	Mined at night off the Belgian Coast, exact date of loss not known, but probably in Nov. 1915.
Mousquet (D)	'01	310	1 - 9 pdr. 6 - 3 pdr.	Sunk by gun-fire of German light cruiser Emden, near Penang, 28th Oct., 1914.
No.338 (TB) No.347 (TB)	'06 "	97 "	2 - 1 pdr 3 - 15" T	Both torpedo-boats sunk by collision off Toulon, 9th Oct., 1914.
No.219 (TB)	'98	88	2 - 1 pdr 2 - 15" T	Sunk off Nieuport about the end of January 1915. (Exact cause and date of loss unknown.)
Mariotte (S)	'11	522/615	6 tubes	Sunk or captured in the Dardanelles or Sea of Marmora, 26th July, 1915.
Joule (S)	"	392/550	7 tubes	Sunk by mine in the Dardanelles, 1st May, 1915.
Curie (S)	"	"	"	Netted and captured by the Austrians at Pola, 28th Dec., 1914.
Fresnel (S)	"	"	"	Stranded at mouth of Bojano River (10 miles north of San Giovanni di Medusa, Adriatic) and destroyed by gun-fire of the Austrian destroyer Varasdinier, 6th Dec., 1915.
Monge (S)	'08	"	"	Destroyed off Cattaro by Austrian light cruiser Helgoland and destroyers of the Balaton class on the night of 28th-29th Dec., 1915.
Saphir (S)	"	386/450	6 tubes	Wrecked in diving to avoid mines near Pola or Fiume, 17th Jan., 1915.
Turquoise (S)	"	"	"	Disabled by gun-fire and captured in the Sea of Marmora, Nov., 1915. Since reported to have foundered with Turkish crew.
And Others	-	-	-	Missing.

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Armed Mercantile Cruisers and other Auxiliaries:

Name	Cause, locality and date of loss
Carthage	Torpedoed off Gallipoli Peninsula by an unknown German submarine about June 1915.
Indien	Torpedoed in the Aegean Sea by an unknown German submarine, 8th Aug., 1915.
La France (IV ?)	Torpedoed in the Western Mediterranean by an unknown German submarine early in Nov., 1915.
And Others*	Armed patrol-craft, yachts, mine-sweepers, etc., and other smaller craft requisitioned for war service lost by submarine attacks, mines, stranding, and other causes. Localities and dates of losses not available.

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* Three unidentified patrol craft were lost while assisting the British Dover

Patrol in operations off the Belgian Coast between 22nd Aug. and

19th Nov., 1915.

C. ITALIAN NAVY

Battleship:

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality, and date of loss
Benedetto Brin	'01	13,215	4 - 12" 4 - 8" 12 - 6"	Destroyed by internal explosion in Brindisi Harbour, 29th Sept., 1915.

Armoured Cruisers:

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality, and date of loss
Amalfi	'08	9,958	4 - 10" 4 - 7.5"	Sunk by an unknown Austrian submarine in the Adriatic Sea, 7th July, 1915.
Giuseppe Garibaldi	'99	7,234	1 - 10" 2 - 8" 14 - 6"	Sunk by an unknown Austrian submarine off the Dalmatian Coast, 19th July, 1915.

Light Cruisers: - Nil.

Torpedo-Craft: - Destroyers (D) and Submarines (S):

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality, and date of loss
Intrepido (D)	'12	680	1 - 4.7" 4 - 12 pdr. 2 tubes	Mined off Straits of Otranto or off Albanian Coast about the end of Nov. or early in Dec. 1915. (Exact locality and date of loss not known.)
Turbine (D)	'01	325	5 - 6 pdr.	Sunk by gun-fire of an Austrian light cruiser of Admiral Spaun type and Austrian destroyers of Huszar type in the Adriatic Sea, 24th May, 1915.
Nereide* (S)	'13	221/315	2 tubes	Missing. Believed to have foundered accidentally off Pelagosa Island in the Adriatic Sea early in August 1915.
Medusa (S)	'11	241/295	"	Torpedoed by an unknown Austrian submarine in the Adriatic Sea, 15th June, 1915.

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* Nereide was admitted by the Italian Ministry of Marine to be "missing" and overdue at her base. The presumed cause of loss was given as above. But by accounts in neutral naval papers, Nereide subsequently returned to her port seriously damaged by a mine, or through having been torpedoed by an unknown Austrian submarine. Her commanding officer and three men were reported to have been killed by the explosion. Nereide's loss need not be accepted as definite pending further information.

Appenda: An official despatch by H.R.H. the Duke of Aosta (commanding the Third Italian Fleet), dated 30th Dec., 1915, contained a list of posthumous honours conferred on 20 officers and men of an Italian submarine who lost their lives in an attempt to attack an Austrian submarine at close range off Pelagosa Island (Adriatic) on 5th Aug., 1915. The Italian submarine referred to is evidently the Nereide, and her loss may now be accepted as definite.

Armed Mercantile Cruisers and other Requisitioned War Auxiliaries:

Name	Cause, locality and date of loss
Citta di Palmero	Sunk by mine in Lower Adriatic, 8th Jan., 1916. (Armed with 2 - 4.7" and 6 -12 pdr. Q.F. guns)
Brindisi	Sunk by mine in Lower Adriatic, 6th Jan., 1916.
And Others*	Small vessels requisitioned for war duties, sunk by mines and other causes in the Adriatic. Exact dates and other details not available.

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D. - JAPANESE NAVY.

(All losses incurred in attacks on Kiao- Chau, 1914.)

Battleships. - Nil.

Armoured Cruiser (old):

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality, and date of loss
Takachiho	'85	3,700	8 - 6"	Torpedoed by German destroyer S-90, off Tsing-tao, 17th Oct., 1914.

Torpedo-Craft (Destroyer and Torpedo-boat): .

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality, and date of loss
Shirotaye	'06	380	6 - 12 pdr 2 - 18" T.	Wrecked in Kiao-Chau Bay, 4th Sept., 1914.
No.33	'99	82	1 - 3 pdr 3 tubes	Mined in Kiao-Chau Bay,11th Nov., 1914.

E. - RUSSIAN NAVY

Battleships. - Nil.

Armoured Cruiser:

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality, and date of loss
Pallada	'06	7,775	2 - 8" 8 - 6"	Torpedoed in the Gulf of Finland by the German submarine U-26, 11th Oct., 1914.

Light Cruiser:

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality, and date of loss
Jemtchug	'03	3,130	8 - 4.7"	Sunk by gun-fire and torpedoes of German light cruiser Emden in Penang Harbour, 28th Oct., 1914.

Gunboats:

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality, and date of loss
Donetz	'87	1,200	2 - 6" 1 - 4.7"	Both gunboats scuttled or torpedoed at Odessa in the Black Sea, 29th Oct., 1914.
Kubanetz	-	-	2 - 12 pdr.	"
Sivoutch	'07	875	2 - 4.7" 4 - 12 pdr.	Sunk in Gulf of Riga by gun-fire of a German light cruiser and torpedoes of German destroyers, 19th Aug., 1915.

Torpedo-craft. - Destroyers, torpedo-boats, and submarines.

No losses in these types have been officially announced, but some have certainly taken place.

Auxiliaries. - Mine-layers

Name	Date	Displ (Tons)	Guns	Cause, locality, and date of loss
Yenessi	'06	2,926	1 - 4.7" 11 - 12 pdr. 360 mines	Torpedoed off Courlandian Coast 11 - 12 pdr. by an unknown German submarine, 6th June, 1915.
Prut	'79	4,921	8 - 3 pdr.	Scuttled at Odessa to avoid capture, 29th Oct., 1914.

Some minor craft, requisitioned for war service, have been lost in the Baltic and Black Sea by mines and other causes. No details available.

BELGIUM.

At the outbreak of war, there were about a dozen Belgian steamers belonging to the Bureau of Marine. It is not known if any of these were scuttled or destroyed on the evacuation of Antwerp, 1914.

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