Operation Locker is a collaborative project to produce comprehensive coverage of all ships lost during the years 1914-1918 and 1939-45.

WWI articles

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Task List
  • Create individual lists for each month between August 1914 and December 1918.
    •   Not done 1914.
    •   Done All 1915-1918 lists.
Expand lists from various sources

WWII articles

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Task list
  • Create separate lists of shipwrecks for each month from January 1939 to December 1945
    •   Done - 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945
Expand lists from various sources
  • Wrecksite - Treat with caution and try to cross-verify info
    •   Done All 1939 ships, All 1940 ships A-Z, All 1941 ships A-Z, All 1942 ships A-Z.
    •   Not done All 1943 ships A-Z, All 1944 ships A-Z, All 1945 ships A-Z

Category checking

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All entries in these categories to be cross-checked with the relevant list and missing entries added to the list as necessary.

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  Not done

Maritime incidents

Not all entries in these categories will be shipwrecks.
  Done

  Not done

Notes

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As this is a list of shipwrecks, generally vessels under 100 tons should not listed. Exceptions are commissioned naval vessels, and vessels sunk by enemy action. The latter should not be wikilinked unless there is an article on the vessel in question. Many ships will need to be dabbed. Plimsoll ship data and Miramar Ship Index (subscription required) will prove useful in achieving this. Both sites will also say whether or not a merchant vessel was a steamship or motor vessel as appropriate.