What source can I go to in order to determine the number of ships sunk, (allied & enemy) in WW2?

Question

Between 1/1/1930 and 12/31/1945 opposing forces, allied, (U.S, U.K, Canadian, French) and German, Japanese & Italian submarines & ships, sunk maritime ships at sea. Is there a central repository for this type of info. I am specifically looking for ships carrying petroleum products.

Answer 1

I can't find a central source.

For US-owned merchant ships: http://www.usmm.org/shipsunkdamaged.html and http://www.uscg.mil/history/WEBSHIPWRECKS/ShipwreckWWIIIndex.html

Axis ships (including merchants) sunk by US submarines: http://www.valoratsea.com/JANAC.htm

Norwegian ships: http://www.warsailors.com/freefleet/index.html

Canadian Navy ships: http://members.shaw.ca/jollytar/WW2%20Ship%20Losses/Roll%20of%20Ships.htm

Latvia's ships: http://vip.latnet.lv/lpra/ww2_navy.htm

British Merchant Navy and fishing ships lost in WWII: http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/merchant_navy_losses.htm

Answer 2

The source below is for all losses of U.S. Navy warships during World War Two. That's about the only digital archive
I'm familiar with. It does not include USS Reuben James which was sunk by a German U-boat in October of 1941. Nor does it include the Navy gunboat Panay attacked by Japanese aircraft on the Yangtse River in China in the 1930s. As for merchant ship losses, there were plenty. My own father was torpedoed at least three times during that war in the Atlantic and the North Sea.