British Naval Casualties (1793-1815)

	Number	Per thousand effectives annually
Killed by the Enemy	6,663	3
Drowned or killed in shipwrecks or fires	13,621	6
Died of disease or accident on board ship	72,102	32
Total	92,386	41

Average number of effectives 110,180 men

Source: Dumas, Samuel and K.O. Vedel-Petersen. Losses of Life Caused by War
Oxford : Clarendon Press; 1923.

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