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How little SBS operational history may survive

Even one percent of Special Boat Service missions being known is a tentative estimate, with no archival count offered.

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Question

What percentage of SBS missions are known rather than lost or still secret?

Short answer

Researchers may be lucky to know even one percent, but that is an estimate rather than a measured figure.

Notes

Researchers may be lucky to know even one percent of SBS missions. That is a tentative personal estimate of the surviving public history, with no count of operations or records offered to establish the percentage.