Sunken Ships of the Second World War

Yuu might be interested to zoom in the Toulon harbor area (FR) and to observe the numbers: 99 ships sunk, representing 290 968 Tons, but only 3 causalities. Here is why [1].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scuttling_of_the_French_fleet_at_Toulon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scuttling_of_the_French_fleet_...</a>

This is neat. I was curious about the demand for steel that wasn&#x27;t exposed to atomic explosions, making this a kind of treasure map for scavengers.<p>However, Wikipedia says that there&#x27;s much less need because there haven&#x27;t been anywhere near as many atomic explosions recently.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Low-background_steel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Low-background_steel</a>

One of the dots off Dunkirk represents the Lancastria.<p>And one of the thousands killed when it was sunk was my Grandma&#x27;s half-brother.<p>He was twenty two and his name was Arthur.<p>One dot.

Randomly clicking on the map led me to learn about this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Laconia_incident" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Laconia_incident</a><p>Would love to be able to filter for events with a Wikipedia page (assuming they were the most significant)!

This is really cool, nice work!<p>I knew U-boats operated off the Eastern US coast but I did not know they operated so much in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.<p>Tangential, I&#x27;ve been watching this documentary series called Battlefield (highly recommended) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=21qqkC1cWvE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=21qqkC1cWvE</a> and they mention later versions of U-boats had a 12,000+ mile range. So the Gulf of Mexico is within range especially if they sortied from France.

There were more ship sunk in the Gulf of Mexico than I expected. Mostly by u-boats. (A few ships ran into mines.)<p>U-166 was depth-charged&#x2F;sunk off Louisiana, among a cluster of blue dots.

Excellent visualization!<p>It would be amazing if the timeline could be filtered - to compare the rate and number of sinkings in each area year over year.

This doesn&#x27;t work in Chromium