According to an item in
this newspaper (1) destroyed the German air force between 22 June and 16
November of that year 135 Russian merchant ships and transports with a
total tonnage of 383.650 BRT and were another 131 merchant ships and transports
damaged. In the Baltic were 77 ships with a total tonnage of 156,650 BRT
destroyed and 67 damaged and in the Black Sea
58 ships with a total tonnage of 227.000 BRT destroyed and 64 damaged.
The Russian navy also
suffered severely while 52 of her ships were sunk and another 57 damaged.
German bombers destroyed in the Baltic 2 cruisers, 9 destroyers, 5 patrol
vessels, 9 minesweepers, 1 coast guard vessel and 9 other vessels. Damaged were
a battleship, 3 heavy cruisers, 3 cruisers, 1 auxiliary cruiser, 18 destroyers,
1 gunboat, 2 minesweepers, a flotilla leader and 5 other vessels. In the Black
Sea were destroyed 1 battleship, 2 cruisers, 6 destroyers, 2 submarines, 2
gunboats, 1 air defence ship, 1 patrol vessel, 1 motor torpedo boat and a guard
vessel and damaged 1 heavy cruiser, 6 cruisers, 1 destroyer, 2 torpedo boats, 1
gunboat, 1 patrol vessel and 10 other vessels.
Note
1. As the Netherlands
were at that moment occupied by Germany
and the Dutch press controlled I do not know to what extent this figures are trustful
or just propaganda.
