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Posted: **2008-05-30 05:14am**

Since this data is hard to come by and I've not seen any reliable books on the subject (besides the ones I've bought for my personal collection immediately on seeing them) I share with you the raw data from "The Gulf Tanker War" by Nadia El-Sayed El-Shazly. The information is taken from Lloyd's of London which opened its collection on ships to her. I made the presentation of the data a bit more intuitive at times from her sometimes clunky graphs.

First up. the number of attacks carried out by Iran or Iraq by month:

Attacks by Iraq

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           J     F     M     A     M     J     J     A     S     O     N     D

1984    1     4     7     3     6     4    10     4     5     7     0     4    

1985    4     3     8     1     1     0     2     1     1     1     3     1

1986    4     6     4     7     5     3     3     8     5     4     9     4

1987    8     5     3     4     3     2     3     4    12    11    10    14

1988    6     5     6     0     9     3     4     X     X     X      X     X

Attacks undertaken by Iran

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           Jan     Feb     Mar     Apr     May     Jun     Jul     Aug     Sep     Oct     Nov     Dec

1984    0         0        1        1         4        1        2         1        1       2        0        6

1985    2         4        3        0         2        1        0        2        1        2        1        2

1986     2        2        8        2        3        4        0        8        3        4        2        0

1987     7        3        3        2        8        5        4        4        12       10       10       17

1988    8        6        13        5        5        3        4        1        X        X        X        X

There were attacks whose origin is unknown in August of '84, March and May of '85, December of 86, March and October of '87 and January of 88. (One each time.)

Posted: **2008-05-30 05:24am**

Next up! Ships hit by Nationality and type by Year.

First up 1984:

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Flag                           Tanker            Cargo         Other
Bahamas                       1                 0                 0

Britain                           1                 0                 0    

China                            0                 1                 0

Cyprus                          2                 3                 0

Greece                          4                 3                 0

India                            2                 2                 0

Iran                             3                 6                  0

South Korea                  0                 1                  1

Kuwait                          4                 0                  0

Liberia                          8                 3                  0

Norway                         1                 0                  0

Pakistan                      1                  0                  0


Panama                       5                  9                 1

Saudi Arabia                 3                 0                 1

Singapore                    0                  2                 0

Spain                          1                  0                 0

Sri Lanka                     1                 0                  0

Turkey                         1                  1                 0

1985

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Flag                           Tanker            Cargo         Other


Belgium                         1                  0                  0

Cyprus                           4                  0                  0

West Germany                0                  2                  0

Greece                           4                  0                  1

Iran                               1                  0                  4

Italy                              1                  0                  0

Japan                            1                  0                  0

North Korea                    1                  0                  0

South Korea                   0                  1                  0

Kuwait                           1                  2                  0

Liberia                          8                  0                   0

Malta                            3                  0                  0

Panama                        2                  4                  0

Saudi Arabia                  1                  0                  0

Singapore                     0                  0                  2

Sri Lanka                      2                  0                  0

Turkey                         3                  0                  0

1986

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Flag                           Tanker            Cargo         Other

Britain                           1                  0                  0

Cyprus                           17                1                  0

France                           4                  0                  0

West Germany                0                  0                  1 

Greece                          6                  0                  0

Iran                             10                  1                  1

Kuwait                          2                    1                  0

Liberia                          22                  1                  0

Malta                            8                   0                  0

Netherlands                  0                    0                  1

Norway                         2                    0                  0

Philippines                    2                    0                  0

Panama                       9                    0                  1

Qatar                           1                    0                  0

Saudi Arabia                 3                    0                  0

Singapore                     0                   0                  1

Turkey                         2                    0                  0

United Arab Emirates      0                   1                  0

Unknown                      1                    0                  0

1987:

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Flag                           Tanker            Cargo         Other

Australia                      0                   0                   1

Bahamas                    3                   0                   0

Bermuda                     1                    0                   0

China                         0                     1                   0

Cyprus                       19                    2                   0

Denmark                    2                    0                   0

France                       0                     1                   0

West Germany            0                   1                   0

Gibraltar                     1                    0                    0

Greece                       12                   2                   0

Hong Kong                  1                   0                   0

India                          2                   0                   0

Iran                           28                   4                   3

Italy                           0                    1                   0

Japan                         4                   0                   0

South Korea                1                   1                   0

Kuwait                        2                   2                   0

Liberia                       26                  0                   0

Maldive                      0                   1                   0

Malta                         3                   0                   0

Norway                       3                   0                   0

Pakistan                   1                    0                   0

Panama                   14                   1                   2

Philippines                 0                   1                   0

Qatar                        0                   1                   0

Romania                   0                   1                   0

Saudi Arabia              4                   0                   0

Sharjah                     0                   0                   1

Singapore                 2                   0                   2

Spain                       2                   0                   0

Turkey                     0                   1                   0

USA                         2                   0                   0

USSR                        1                   1                   0

1988

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Flag                           Tanker            Cargo         Other

Bermuda                       2                   0                   0

Cyprus                          8                   2                   0

Denmark                       3                   0                   0

Greece                          3                   0                   0

Hong Kong                    1                   0                   0

India                            1                   0                   0

Iran                            12                   4                   1

Liberia                         13                   0                   0

Malta                            1                   2                   0

Norway                         7                   0                   0

Panama                       5                    1                   1

Romania                      1                   0                   0

Saudi Arabia                  1                   0                   0

Sharjah                        1                   0                   0

Singapore                     4                   0                   0

Spain                           1                   1                   0

And that's it. I'll be adding the methods used by the two belligerents and a break down of which nations' ships each one of them struck (which is, unfortunately, not broken down by year.)

Posted: **2008-05-30 02:22pm**

This is a far better source Straha

List of warships and merchants attacked, damaged, or sunk by air and surface action during the I Persian Gulf War, 1980-1988.

Key for the raw data:

Confirmed entries are in GREEN
New entries are in RED
Corrected entries are in YELLOW
Fratricide entries are in LIGHT BLUE
Claims and unconfirmed entries are in WHITE
Damaged and Close Calls entries are in VIOLET

Thats all I can show you. The rest you must click the link to see as I can not transfer the tables.

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