How much tons of American ships were destroyed going to Britian were sunk in WW2?

Answer 1

The Second Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945 ( the First was WW1, the Third would have been versus the Soviets) saw something on the order of 4,000 Allied merchant ships totaling about 20 million...yes million.... tons sunk by German U-Boats, surface raiders, mines and aircraft.

Its a staggering number; but when you considered much of the WW2 merchant fleet was left over from WW1 or earlier, and that the mass production Liberties weren't that fast, atypical Halifax to England convoy had a speed of 7 miles an hour. That's right SEVEN. My damn sailboat goes faster but there it is. There was therefore a lot of time for U-Boats to catch, stalk and stalk again as the ships made their way across.

In WW2, only the US Marines had a higher casualty rate than the US Merchant Marine.

Despite these horrendous losses, by 1943 the tide had turned.American mass production of escorts, radar, and better SONAR on the escorts, and shipyards that could crank out a Liberty from empty slip to ship ready to steam away in 10 days, did the trick.

And the Germans went down fighting; something like 785 of 1000 U boats built were sunk; by 1944 it was almost 100% of those who sailed didn't come back.

Go out to Lands End, or the SW coast of Ireland; or the great convoy ports of Halifax and Sydney, or the outer banks of Cape Cod; if you look with the right eyes you'll see that the Great Western Ocean is still tinged crimson with the blood of Germans fighting for the wrong cause and the blood of Englishmen Canadians Americans,New Zelanders, South Africans Aussies and Indians...the sailors of the Nations of the English Speaking Peoples keeping the sea lanes open...

Answer 2

None going to britan but my guess is 532 tons going to france.