List of shipwrecks in December 1941

The list of shipwrecks in December 1941 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during December 1941.

World War II: Continuation War: The troopship, a converted Iosif Stalin-class passenger ship, was sunk when she struck three mines, and then was hit by a 12-inch (305 mm) shell from Finnish coast artillery while evacuating troops from the Hanko naval base. Only 1,740 of the 5,589 people on board could be rescued, some of them by M-205, M-211, M215, M-217 (all  Soviet Navy) and five Soviet Navy patrol boats. The ship then drifted half-submerged till beaching at Lohusalu bay, Estonia where its wreck is still partly above water. About 3,000 were captured and 841 were killed. Raised, towed to Tallinn in July 1945 and scrapped.

For the loss of the Italian coastal tanker Speranza on this day, see the entry for 30 November 1941.

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