leeks
what do you mean How many boats were damaged or sunk
100000 boats have sunk
155 u-boats where sunk by Coastal Command.
Yes people escaped in boats but not many boats made it back.
Well over a dozen US Navy riverine boats were sunk in the Vietnam War; Swift Boats (PCF); PBRs (Patrol Boat River), Alpha Boats (ASPB-Assault Support Patrol Boats); unknown number of Monitors sunk, if any. The ex-USN Aircraft Carrier USS Card was sunk by communist sappers in harbor in South Vietnam.
thousands
They sunk
It was sunk by German u-boats (submarines).
Counting the wooden PT boats, about 155 warships.
The Allies sunk German Uboats. Uboat, not you-boat. Uboats stand for Unterseeboot - undersea boat.
the lusitania
They sunk American ships.