
The most obvious impact of this would be to interdict Ukrainian grain exports: Russia recently withdrew from an agreement under which it was permitting such exports to continue, and has been hitting Ukrainian ports and grain storage facilities with missile strikes. The Royal Navy lost 132 destroyers, according to Stephen Roskill and 153, including Commonwealth/Dominion ships, according to the Naval-History project.British military intelligence reported yesterday that Russia’s Black Sea fleet may be planning a naval blockade of Ukraine, in which it might intercept and seize merchant vessels travelling to and from the embattled nation. Sunk by Japanese naval gunfire and torpedoes Scuttled following Italian explosive boat raid Scuttled following Italian motor torpedo boat attack

Scuttled after torpedo damage by U-456 and then by German destroyers Sunk by Italian submarine Alpino Bagnolini The Royal Navy lost 28 cruisers according to Stephen Roskill, and 34 including Commonwealth/Dominion ships, according to the Naval-History project. Sunk by naval gunfire from Scharnhorst and Gneisenau The Women's Royal Naval Service lost 102 killed and 22 wounded. The Royal Navy lost 50,758 men killed in action, 820 missing in action and 14,663 wounded in action.

See also List of ships of the Royal Navy. This is a list of Royal Navy ships and personnel lost during World War II, from 3 September 1939 to 1 October 1945. The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinking after being torpedoed by a German submarine in November 1941, the assisting destroyer HMS Legion was sunk in 1942.
