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Originally Posted by aspqrz
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Figures are from V E Tarrant, "The U-Boat Offensive 1914-1945" and are approximate only because he breaks figures down by month and named period of the U-Boat war, not by calendar year.
I have no idea where your figures come from, but Tarrant is regarded as pretty reliable, and your figures seem way way out for the early war years.
British Merchant Navy at the beginning of the war, ~20 million grt.
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World War II A Statistical Survey by John Ellis. The most complete compilation of data related to all aspects of the Second World War that I have ever read and it is my most prized book and not cheap to buy.
Allied merchant fleet tonnage in 1939
17,891,134. Britain
03,110,791. British Commonwealth
08,909,892. United States
04,833,813. Norway
02,969,578. Netherlands
02,933,933. France
01,174,944. Denmark
00,408,014. Belgium
01,780,666. Greece