User:Hungrydog55/sandbox/military/europeanfront/1944-06 NormandyAlliedShips

This is a list of warships which took part in the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944.

Battleships
Seven battleships took part: four British and three US:
 * USS Arkansas (BB-33), eastern Omaha Beach (Wyoming-class battleship, 26,100 tons, main armament: twelve 12" guns) primarily in support of the US 29th Infantry Division.
 * USS Nevada (BB-36), Utah Beach (Nevada-class battleship, 29,000 tons, main armament: ten 14" guns).
 * HMS Ramillies (07) (1915, Revenge-class battleship, 33,500 tons, main armament: eight 15-inch guns).
 * HMS Rodney (29) (1925, Nelson-class, 38,000 tons, main armament: nine 16-inch guns).
 * USS Texas (BB-35), western Omaha Beach (New York-class battleship, 27,000 tons, main armament: ten 14-inch guns, Flagship of Rear Admiral Carleton F. Bryant) primarily in support of the US 1st Infantry Division.
 * HMS Warspite (03) (1913, Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, 35,000 tons, main armament eight 15-inch guns, only six operational).

In addition HMS Nelson (28) (Nelson-class battleship main armament: nine 16-inch guns) was held in reserve until June 10.

Heavy cruisers
Five heavy cruisers (main guns of 8 inches) took part, three from the United States and two from Britain, HMS Hawkins had her original armament of seven 7.5-inch guns while HMS Frobisher's main gun armament had been reduced from seven to five single-mounted 7.5-inch guns.
 * USS Augusta (Flagship of Rear Admiral Alan Kirk – Lt. General Omar Bradley embarked)
 * HMS Frobisher
 * HMS Hawkins
 * USS Quincy
 * USS Tuscaloosa

Light cruisers
17 British light cruisers took part along with two of the Free French navy, and one of the Polish navy. All carried either 6- or 5.25-inch guns of varying numbers.


 * HMS Argonaut (61)
 * HMS Ajax (22)
 * HMS Arethusa
 * HMS Belfast (C35) (Flagship of Rear Admiral Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton)
 * HMS Bellona - also carried jamming equipment against radio controlled bombs
 * HMS Black Prince (81)
 * HMS Capetown
 * HMS Ceres (D59) (Flagship of U.S. Service Force)
 * HMS Danae
 * HMS Diadem
 * ORP Dragon (Polish, damaged in July and then used as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater)
 * HMS Emerald
 * HMS Enterprise
 * Georges Leygues (Free French)
 * HMS Glasgow
 * HMS Mauritius (Flagship of Rear Admiral Patterson)
 * Montcalm (Free French, Flagship of Rear Admiral Jaujard)
 * HMS Orion (which fired the first shell of the coastal bombardment)
 * HMS Scylla (Rear Admiral Philip Vian's flagship, mined and seriously damaged, out of action until after the war)
 * HMS Sirius In reserve until June 10

Destroyers and escorts
139 ships (eighty-five British and Dominion, 40 US, 10 Free French and 7 other Allied):

Canada
 * HMCS Alberni
 * HMCS Algonquin
 * HMCS Cape Breton
 * HMCS Chaudiere
 * HMCS Kitchener
 * HMCS Regina
 * HMCS Sioux

Free French
 * Frigate La Surprise
 * Frigate FRENCH FRIGATE L'Escarmouche
 * Frigate La Découverte
 * Frigate L'Aventure
 * Corvette Aconit
 * Corvette La Renoncule
 * Corvette La Roselys
 * Corvette d'Estienne d'Orves
 * Submarine-hunter Benodet
 * La Combattante

Greece
 * RHN Kriezis
 * RHN Tombazis

Norway
 * HNoMS Glaisdale
 * HNoMS Stord
 * HNoMS Svenner

Poland
 * ORP Błyskawica
 * ORP Krakowiak
 * ORP Ślązak

United Kingdom
 * HMS Beagle
 * HMS Bleasdale
 * HMS Boadicea
 * HMS Cattistock
 * HMS Cottesmore
 * HMS Eglinton
 * HMS Eglinton
 * HMS Eglinton
 * HMS Faulknor
 * HMS Fury
 * HMS Grenville
 * HMS Jervis
 * HMS Kelvin
 * HMS Kempenfelt
 * HMS Loyalty
 * HMS Melbreak
 * HMS Middleton
 * HMS Pytchley
 * HMS Pelican (L86)
 * HMS Saumarez (G12)
 * HMS Scorpion
 * HMS Scourge
 * HMS Serapis
 * HMS Stevenstone
 * HMS Swift
 * HMS Talybont
 * HMS Tanatside
 * HMS Ulster
 * HMS Ulysses
 * HMS Undaunted
 * HMS Undine
 * HMS Urania
 * HMS Urchin
 * HMS Ursa
 * HMS Venus (R50)
 * HMS Verulam (R28)
 * HMS Vigilant
 * HMS Virago (R75)
 * HMS Wanderer
 * HMS Wallflower
 * HMS Whimbrel
 * HMS Wrestler

United States
 * USS Amesbury
 * USS Baldwin
 * USS Barton
 * USS Carmick
 * USS Corry
 * USS Doyle
 * USS Emmons
 * USS Fitch
 * USS Frankford
 * USS Glennon
 * USS Hulbert
 * USS Harding
 * USS Herndon
 * USS Hobson
 * USS Jeffers
 * USS Laffey
 * USS Maloy
 * USS McCook
 * USS Murphy
 * USS O'Brien
 * USS Rich
 * USS Rodman
 * USS Satterlee
 * USS Shubrick
 * USS Thompson

Monitors

 * HMS Erebus, monitor with two 15-inch guns
 * HMS Roberts, monitor with two 15-inch guns

Troop transports

 * USS Joseph T. Dickman, attack transport
 * USS Samuel Chase, attack transport operated by the US Coast Guard
 * USS Charles Carroll, attack transport
 * USS Bayfield, attack transport
 * USS Henrico, attack transport

Other warships
508 ships (352 British, 154 US and 2 other Allied):
 * HMS Bulolo, Landing Ship Headquarters (LSH) for Gold Beach carrying tri-service commanders and staff
 * HMS Centurion, old battleship sunk as a blockship to form part of "Gooseberry" breakwater of the Mulberry harbour on Sword beach
 * Courbet, Free Naval French Forces, former battleship, sunk as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater on Sword beach
 * Forbin, Free Naval French Forces, patrol boat, sunk as a artificial dike in "Arromanches"on Gold Beach
 * HMCS Cowichan, Canadian minesweeper
 * HMS Dacres (K472), Captain class frigate converted to act as a headquarters ship
 * HMS Durban (light cruiser used as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater)
 * HNLMS Flores, Dutch gunboat
 * HMS Hilary, H.Q. ship for Juno Beach carrying tri-service commanders and staff
 * HMS Kingsmill (K484), Captain class frigate converted to act as a headquarters ship
 * HMS Largs, H.Q. ship for Sword Beach carrying tri-service commanders and staff
 * HNLMS Soemba, Dutch gunboat
 * HMS Lawford (K514), Captain class frigate converted to act as a headquarters ship (bombed and sunk)
 * HNoMS Nordkapp, Norwegian patrol boat
 * HNLMS Sumatra (Dutch, decommissioned due to crew shortages and losing her guns to HNLMS Flores and Soemba, used as blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater)

The British 9th and 159th minesweeping flotillas and U.S. 7th Minesweeping Squadron provided minesweeping protection.

A distant anti-submarine screen to the operation was provided by HMS Onslow, Offa, Onslaught, Oribi, Melbreak and Brissenden. Additional protection from E-boats was provided by Motor Gun Boat flotillas.

Support

 * HMS Boxer - fighter direction ship
 * HMS Bruiser - fighter direction ship