Destroyer losses in World War II

Those models look more like battleships than destroyers.

My my what big guns these destroyers have.

All of the Swedish destroyers were lost in one go, in an accidental explosion while they were tied up to each other. They did not see actual action as Sweden was not a combatant in WW2. Only one of them was permanently lost however, the other two were raised and repaired.

The Canadian flag is anachronistic. The maple leaf flag was not designed or adopted before the mid 1960s. Canada used a Canadian version of the Red Ensign during the war.

Canada, wrong flag. All the ships are not destroyers. Destroyers were never that large or have triple turrets.

it's look like not destroyers, but cruisers or battleships...

the Australian navy lost more than two, we lost, vampire, voyager, waterhen and nizam

Ironically, the Japanese destroyer Kamikaze survived the war.

Two things to mention;1) Japan built alot of large "fleet destroyers" that were formidable surface opponents and in the Long Lance torpedo had one of the best anti-ship weapons but their destroyers had 2 flaws- they were unbelievably vulnerable to air and submarine attack (just Google the submarine USS Harder to see what I mean!). 2) The Soviets lost 34 destroyers but quite a few of them were to air attack when they had no air cover whatsoever and even then they only sank after taking a real pasting.

На эсминцах второй мировой башен с тремя орудиями не было. Мелочь но не приятно.

The names of Japanese destroyers are all poetic and beautiful, but many of the names don't come across unless you know Japanese. YUDACHI” is a (sudden) evening shower (rain) in English. Names that are easy to translate SUZUTUKI is used in haiku, but is more difficult to translate than YUDACHI.

I find the small number of Australian destroyers lost surprising. The Aussies were heavily committed to the Pacific war.

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The problem to my mind is that the figures are just the number of destroyers lost, and not the percentage of destroyers that each nation started with, and the percentage of destroyers lost in comparison to the number built during the war. So while the British and Japanese have very high figures for destroyers lost, it doesn’t take into account what percentage this was. So a smaller nation like Greece could lose virtually all of its destroyers, and not build any replacements, whereas Britain could and did lose a large number, but still end up with more destroyers in its service by the close of the war.

Canada lost 24 destroyers in WW2, not 8. The 8 mentioned were lost due to collisions or other accidents, but NOT German U-Boats.

I think some of your numbers are pretty suspect. For example you show Germany loosing 53 destroyers in the war. They only ever had 37 total. Australia lost 4 destroyers yet you showed only 2

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