List of shipwrecks in September 1939

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Shipwrecks in September 1939 were ships that were sunk, foundered, grounded, or lost during the month. A submarine rescue vessel was driven ashore by a typhoon at Tsingtao, China; it was later refloated and returned to service. HMS Courageous, a Courageous-class aircraft carrier, was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic southwest of Ireland by the German submarine U-29, with the loss of 518 of her 1,259 crew.