LANDING SHIPS
Landing
Ship Infantry (Large) LSI(L)
EL HIND (R, 5,319 tons),
destroyed
by fire in Bombay Docks, India, April 14, 1944
EMPIRE BROADSWORD (4,285 tons),
sunk by mine off Normandy, N France, July 2, 1944
EMPIRE JAVELIN (4,285 tons),
lost
on passage from Portsmouth to Le Havre. Believed torpedoed
by U-boat,
December 28, 1944
KARANJA (R, 9,890 tons, 1931),
sunk by aircraft, Bougie, Algeria, November 12, 1942
Raiding
Craft Carrier, later designated LCP(L)
PRINCE PHILIPPE (R, 2,938 tons,
1939), sunk in collision off W. Scotland, July 15, 1941
Landing
Ship Infantry (Small) LSI(S)
PRINCE LEOPOLD (R, 2,938 tons,
1930), torpedoed by U-boat, capsized and sank, English
Channel, July
29, 1944
Landing
Ship Tank (Class II) LST (2,750 tons)
No.79 (17/7/43), sunk by
aircraft,
off Corsica, September 30, 1943
No.80 (19/7/43), mined in
English
Channel and sank off Ostend, Belgium, March 20, 1945
No.178, mined on passage to
Corfu,
grounded and became total wreck, February 24, 1945
No.305 (7/12/42), sunk by
U-boat,
torpedo during Operation Shingle, Anzio Landings, W Italy,
February 20,
1944
No.362 (23/11/42), sunk by
U-boat,
torpedo, Biscay area, March 2, 1944
No.364 (7/12/42), torpedoed by
U-boat off Ramsgate, S England, February 22, 1945
No.407 (31/12/42), damaged
beyond
repair by weather in Mediterranean, April 24, 1944
No.411 (8/1/43), mined or
torpedoed (31st Dec. 1943) on passage from Maddalena to
Bastia,
Sardinia, abandoned owing to heavy weather, January 1,
1944
No.414 (20/1/43), torpedoed by
aircraft, off Cani Rocks, Tunisia, beached off Bizerta,
August 15, 1943
No.418 (1/2/43), sunk after two
underwater explosions, Operation Shingle, Anzio Landings,
W Italy,
February 16, 1944
No.420 (16/2/43), sunk by mine
off
Ostend, November 7, 1944
No.422 (5/2/43), mined and sunk
in
Operation Shingle, Anzio Landings, W Italy, January 26,
1944
No.429 (21/2/43), lost by fire,
Mediterranean, July 3, 1943
Fighter
Direction Tender FDT
No.216 (2,750 tons, 4/3/43),
sunk
by aircraft, torpedo off Barfleur, N France, July 7, 1944
LANDING
CRAFT, MAJOR
Landing Craft
Infantry
Landing craft headquarter
LCH
No.185 (384 tons), sunk by
mine,
Operation Neptune, Normandy Landings, N France, June 25,
1944
Landing craft infantry
(Large)
LCI(L) (380-384 tons)
No.7, sunk by aircraft off
Algiers, April 21, 1943
No.99, sunk in convoy, presumed
by
U-boat, Operation Neptune, Normandy Landings, N France,
August 14, 1944
No.102, damaged by gales and
abandoned, Vis, Adriatic, November 11, 1944
No.105, torpedoed, Operation
Neptune, Normandy Landings, N France, June 8, 1944
No.107, wrecked off Reggio,
Italy,
September 2, 1943
No.132, lost and formally paid
off, June 17, 1944
No.162, exploded and sank en
route
for Algiers, February 7, 1943
No.273, sunk by aircraft,
Anzio, W
Italy, March 17, 1944
No.309, sunk by aircraft in
Biscay
area, October 23, 1943
Landing craft infantry
(Small)
LCI(S) (110 tons) – able to carry 100 troops
No.511, beached at Portslade,
Sussex, S England. Total loss, February 2, 1944
No.512, 517, 524, 531, 540
(total
5), lost in Operation Neptune, Normandy Landings, N
France, June 1944
No.532, lost in Operation
Infatuate, Walcheren Landings, Holland, November 1, 1944
No.537, damaged beyond
economical
repair, June 1944
Landing Craft
Tank
Landing craft tank (MkI) LCT
(372 tons) – able to carry 3-40t or 6-20t tanks
No.1, 12, 15, 19 (total 4, 372t
each), lost in Middle East. Date reported, August, 1941
No.2, 7 (total 2), lost after
leaving Tobruk, Libya. Date given as 12th-13th, October
13, 1941
No.3, presumed lost in attack
on
Kos, Dodecanese, formally paid off. Later recovered and
redesignated
NSC(L)94, October 11, 1943
No.5, lost in Home waters. Date
reported, August, 1941
No.6, 20 (total 2), lost in
Middle
East, June, 1941
No.8, lost in Middle East, July
29, 1941
No.10, lost by enemy action,
Middle East, July 17, 1941
No.11, lost in Middle Fast,
December 16, 1941
No.14, lost in Home waters,
August
12, 1941
No.16, lost in Suda Bay, Crete,
June 2, 1941
Landing craft tank (MkII)
LCT
(450 tons) – able to carry 3-40t or 7-20t tanks
No.102, 103 (total 2), lost in
Home waters, October 10, 1941
No.105, 109 (total 2), lost in
Home waters, November 4, 1941
No.106, 107 (total 2), sunk in
Benghazi Harbour as result of heavy weather, January 6,
1943
No.110, 143 (total 2), lost in
Home waters, November, 1941
No.115, sunk by aircraft off
Casteloriso, Aegean, October 28, 1943
No.119, 150 (total 2), lost at
Tobruk, June 20, 1942
No.120, lost in heavy weather,
November 20, 1942
No.121, 124, 126, 145, 159
(total
5), lost in Operation Jubilee, Dieppe Raid, August 19,
1942
No.129, cause and place
unknown.
Date reported, November 1944
No.155, lost on passage to
Gibraltar, March 1942
Landing craft tank (MkIII)
LCT
(625-640 tons) – able to carry 5-40t or 11-30t tanks
No.326, lost by weather or mine
off Isle of Man, February 2, 1943
No.328, mined off W Greece,
December 5, 1944
No.329, damaged beyond
economical
repair, November 23, 1943
No.332, lost off Gijon, N
Spain,
after engine failure, November 16, 1943
No.333, 343, 385 (total 3),
sunk
in gale off Land's End, SW England, November 14, 1943
No.353, sunk by aircraft at
Syracuse, Sicily, July 27, 1943
No.357, lost in
Suda Bay, Crete, as result of explosion, May 29, 1945
No.358, lost in Mediterranean,
June 18, 1943
No.375, sunk in Mediterranean.
Date reported, February 1944
No.377, lost, probably mined,
on
passage Marseilles to Maddalena, Sardinia, October 1944
No.381, missing from convoy
after
attack by E-boats, English Channel, February 27, 1943
No.387, mined off W Italy, July
17, 1944
No.390, cause and place
unknown,
July 9, 1944
No.391, formally paid off. Date
approximate, October 1, 1943
No.395, mined and grounded in
Mediterranean, June 18, 1943
No.403, lost through stress of
weather off Barra Head, outer Hebrides, February 24, 1943
No.418, lost in gale off NW
France, November 16, 1943
No.427, cause and place
unknown,
August 1944
No.480, 488, 491, 494, 7014,
7015
(total 6, 625-640t each), lost through stress of weather
off Land's
End, SW England. Date given as October 18th-19th, 1944
No.492,
capsized
and sank, Red Sea, March 6, 1945
No.7011, lost in Operation
Infatuate, Walcheren Landings, Holland, November 2, 1944
No.7057, 7064 (total 2,
625-640t
each), cause and place unknown, July 16, 1944
No.7089, hit obstruction in
Boulogne Harbour, N France. Total loss, December 6, 1944
Landing craft tank (MkIV)
LCT
(611t-640 tons) – able to carry 6-40t or 9-30t tanks
No.511, broke back while in
tow,
July 9, 1944
No.524, 715, 750, 809, 886, 947
(total 6), lost in Operation Neptune, Normandy Landings, N
France, June
1944
No.547, foundered off Malta,
July
8, 1943
No.553, lost in Mediterranean,
October 1, 1943
No.572, 626 (total 2), lost in
Mediterranean, September 9, 1943
No.583, lost in Mediterranean,
November 4, 1943
No.589, destroyed to avoid
capture, Mediterranean, June 16, 1944
No.609, abandoned after damage
by
weather off Ostend, Belgium, November 6, 1944
No.618, lost in Mediterranean,
October 2, 1943
No.621, lost in Mediterranean,
October 7, 1943
No.624, formally paid off,
September 8, 1943
No.631, broke back, August 17,
1944
No.689, destroyed by explosion,
July 20, 1944
No.757, formally paid off, July
10, 1944
No.789, 839, 1133 (total 3),
lost
in Operation Infatuate, Walcheren Landings, Holland,
November 2, 1944
No.875, sunk by enemy action,
June
8, 1944
No.901, broke back, July 24,
1944
No.936, broke back through
stress
of weather off Lowestoft, E England, October 30, 1944
No.943, sunk, October 1944
No.967, mined, June 13, 1944
No.976, abandoned with broken
back, Schelde River area, Belgium, November 7, 1944
No.1022, wrecked through stress
of
weather off Dungeness, SE England, November 17, 1944
No.1023, damaged beyond
economical
repair, July 23, 1944
No.1029, blew up, possibly
mined,
while at anchor off Skegness, E England, January 16, 1944
No.1039, broke back, August 5,
1944
No.1045, broke in two while in
tow, English Channel, October 25, 1944
No.1074, mined, English
Channel,
August 25, 1944
No.1076, broke in two, August
5,
1944
No.1092, broke back while in
tow,
August 10, 1944
No.1171, sunk off N European
Coast, October 23, 1944
No.1238, mined in Rangoon
River,
Burma, May 2, 1945
Landing craft tank (MkV) LCT
(291-311 tons)
No.2006, lost in transit from
USA,
October 13, 1942
No.2049, 2229, 2307 (total 3,
on
loan to US Navy), lost in Operation Neptune, Normandy
Landings, N
France, June 6, 1944
No.2054, 2312 (total 2), lost
in
transit from USA, December 1942
No.2187, lost in transit from
USA,
November 1942
No.2190, 2192, 2284 (total 3),
lost in transit from USA, October 28, 1942
No.2231, lost in LST-79, sunk
off
Corsica, September 30, 1943
No.2239, 2267, 2344 (total 3),
lost in "Vestfold", torpedoed in convoy, N Atlantic,
January 17, 1943
No.2281, lost in transit from
USA,
October 27, 1942
No.2331, broke back, July 1944
No.2335, lost in "Daghild",
torpedoed in convoy, N Atlantic, February 7, 1943
No.2341, lost in "Bonneville",
torpedoed in convoy, N Atlantic, March 10, 1943
No.2398, lost in "Gorgas",
March
1943
No.2461, capsized and sunk by
gunfire, Bay of Bengal, November 1944
No.2480, lost in "Fort Lamy",
torpedoed in convoy, N Atlantic, March 8, 1943
No.2498, lost in Operation
Neptune, Normandy Landings, N France, June 1944
Landing craft tank
(Armoured)
(MkV) LCT (290-295 tons)
No.2039, cause and place
unknown,
June 1944
No.2263, cause and place
unknown,
July 15, 1944
No.2273, 2301, 2402 (total 3,
on
loan to US Navy), lost in Operation Neptune, Normandy
Landings, N
France, June 1944
No.2428, lost in Operation
Neptune. Normandy Landings, N France, June 1944
No.2454, ran ashore in Lyme
Bay,
English Channel, in heavy gale, wrecked, October 13, 1944
Landing Craft Flak,
Gun
& Rocket
Landing craft flak (MkII)
LCF
(500-550 tons)
No.1, blew up and sank,
Operation
Neptune, Normandy Landings, N France, August 17, 1944
No.2, lost in Operation
Jubilee,
Dieppe Raid, August 19, 1942
No.13, bombed off Pantellaria,
Central Mediterranean. Total wreck, June 12, 1943
No.15, mined in Convoy,
Operation
Brassard, Elba landings. Date given as 16th-17th, June 17,
1944
Landing craft flak (MkIV)
LCF
(500-510 tons)
No.31, lost in Operation
Neptune,
Normandy Landings, N France. Date reported, September 5,
1944
No.37, 38 (total 2), lost in
Operation Infatuate, Walcheren landings, Holland, November
1, 1944
Landing craft gun (Large)
(MkIII) LCG(L) (500-627 tons)
No.I, 2 (total 2, 500t each),
lost
in Operation Infatuate, Walcheren Landings, Holland,
November 2, 1944
No.15 (627 tons), lost off
Milford
Haven, SW Wales, in heavy weather, April 25, 1943
No.16 (627 tons), lost off
Milford
Haven, SW Wales, in heavy weather, April 26, 1943
No.764, 831, 1062 (total 3,
530t
each), lost in Operation Neptune, Normandy Landings, N
France,
July-August 1944
Landing craft gun (Medium)
(MkIII) LCG(M) (381 tons)
No.101, 102 (total 2), lost in
Operation Infatuate, Walcheren Landings, Holland, November
1, 1944
Landing craft tank (Rocket)
LCT(R) (600 tons)
No.457, mined off Ostend,
Belgium,
November 5, 1944
Landing craft support
(Large)
(MkI) LCS(L) (23 tons)
No.201, lost in collision,
English
Channel, September 1943
Landing craft support
(Large)
(MkII) LCS(L) (112 tons) – gun support
No.252, 256, 258 (total 3),
lost
in Operation Infatuate, Walcheren Landings, Holland,
November 1, 1944
LANDING
CRAFT, MINOR - CARRIED BY LANDING SHIPS
including:
LCA, Landing
Craft Assault – able to carry 35 troops
Landing craft assault LCA
(11-13.5 tons)
No.1, 2 (total 2), lost in Home
waters June 14, 1940
No.4, 18 (total 2), lost in SS
Clan Macalister, sunk by aircraft at Dunkirk May 29, 1940
No.6, cause and place unknown.
Date loss reported July, 1940
No.8, 15 (total 2), lost at
Dunkirk May 31, 1940
No.11, 14 (total 2), lost in
Home
waters June 9, 1940
No.16, sunk by aircraft at
Dunkirk
May 29, 1940
No.28, lost during evacuation
of
Crete, May, 1941
No.31, 32, 38, 39, 45, 48, 40,
51,
60, 63, 64, 75, 79-81, 87, 105, 113 (total 18), lost in
Middle East.
Date reported, August, 1941
No.33, 56, 146 (total 3), lost
in
E Indies. Date reported, June 1944
No.35, 55, 128, 135, 153, 167,
169, 176, 187-189, 218, 219, 222, 227, 235, 239, 244, 245,
259-261,
266, 269, 271, 286, 287, 301, 307, 309, 330, 321, 375,
423, 436, 447,
451(total 37), lost in Operation Torch, N Africa. Date
approximate,
November 1942
No.37 52, 92, 94. 97, 102, 192,
209, 214, 215, 237, 247, 251, 262, 284, 314, 317 (total
17), lost in
Operation Jubilee, Dieppe Raid, August 19, 1942
No.54, lost in E Indies. Date
reported, July 1944
No.59, 69 (total 2), lost
Bombay
area, June 15, 1944
No.70, lost in Middle East,
1941
No.78, lost in tow from Algiers
to
Djedjelli. Date reported, June 1943
No.107, sunk, June 6, 1944
No.119, sunk in home waters.
Date
reported), July, 1941
No.121, cause and place
unknown,
December 24, 1941
No.130, destroyed by fire at
Marve. Date reported, May 1944
No.138, lost in Home Waters,
June
1942
No.149, lost in India, November
16, 1944
No.166, lost in Home Waters,
April
10, 1942
No.171, 208, 279, 289, 303,
320,
337, 339, 341, 349, 350, 352, 360, 367, 383, 387, 401,
409. 418, 424,
431, 434, 442, 458, 462, 463, 476, 48.5, 494, 496, 503,
509,
318-520,522, 525, 530, 535, 540, 566, 579, 581, 584, 586,
588-590,
592-594, 611, 613, 623, 637, 642, 649-652, 655, 661, 664,
665, 673,
683, 691, 692, 704, 705, 710, 717, 721, 722, 729, 731,
738, 748, 750,
768, 775, 779, 780, 788, 791, 792, 795-797,803, 808-810,
812, 814, 815,
821, 825, 827, 835, 849, 853, 857, 859, 860, 867, 869-871,
879, 881,
886, 900, 903, 911, 913, 914, 918-920, 929, 933, 946, 949,
958, 978,
984, 998-1000, 1005, 1008, 1013, 1016, 1021, 1024,
1026-1028, 1034,
1050, 1057/1059, 1063, 1068, 1069, 1074, 1082, 1086, 1088,
1091, 1093,
1096, 1129, 1131, 1132, 1137, 1138, 1143, 1144, 1146,
1149-1151,1155,
1156, 1213, 1215, 1216, 1251-1253, 1256, 1338-1341, 1343,
1372, 1379,
1381/1383 (total 184), lost in Operation Neptune, Normandy
Landings, N
France, June-July 1944
No.182, cause and place
unknown.
Date reported, June 1944
No.193, lost during fall of
Tobruk, June 20, 1942
No.196, lost by enemy action,
July
1942
No.211, lost in Home Waters,
April
1942
No.212, 316. 505, 545 (total
4),
lost in Mediterranean. Date reported, November 1943
No.222, 312 (total 2), lost in
Mediterranean. Date reported, June 1943
No.226, 254, 347, 440, 487,
696,
753 (total 7), cause and place unknown, 1944
No.248, 400 (total 2), lost in
Mediterranean, July 1, 1944
No.272, lost in Mediterranean,
April 1943
No.323, 394, 428, 697 (total
4),
lost in Operation Shingle, Anzio Landings, W Italy. Date
approximate,
January 1944
No.326, lost in Mediterranean,
1944
No.364, 382, 398, 417, 433,
459,
492, 526, 573, 761 (total 10), cause and place unknown.
Date reported,
May 1944
No.446, lost in heavy weather
in
Mediterranean, August 29, 1943
No.551, lost in heavy weather,
River Blackwater, Essex, SE England, November 7, 1944
No.552, wrecked during
exercises
off E Scotland, February 9, 1944
No.553, sunk in collision off
Southampton, December 2, 1943
No.577, 625 (total 2), lost in
Mediterranean. Date reported, September 1944
No.614, lost in heavy weather,
English Channel, November 29, 1944
No.645, 646 (total 2), lost in
heavy weather, English Channel, December 21, 1943
No.675, lost during gale at
Salerno, September 24, 1943
No.713, 725, 817, 831, 843,
1018,
1030, 1079, 1125, 1260 (total 10), lost in Operation
Infatuate,
Walcheren Landings, Holland. Date given as, November
2nd-5th, 1944
No.723, broke adrift from
Hopetoun
II, Port Edgar. Date approximate, December 1943
No.726, 908 (total 2), lost in
Home Waters, March 1, 1944
No.783. 790, 865 (total 3),
lost
in Home Waters off E Scotland. Date reported, January 19,
1944
No.813, lost during exercise in
Home Waters, November 29, 1943
No.841, sunk in operations off
Holland, April 22, 1945
No.845, became waterlogged and
sank during exercises off Leith, E Scotland, January 29,
1944
No.848, 1378 (total 2), lost in
heavy weather in Home Waters, September 26, 1944
No.1112, 1153 (total 2),
presumed
lost during 1945, March, 1945
No.1161, lost through heavy
weather at Leyte, Philippines, February 26, 1945
No.1188, lost in Solomon
Islands,
SW Pacific, December 1944
No.1304, lost in heavy weather
in
Home Waters, July 14, 1944
No.1329, 1591 (total 2), lost
overboard from LST off India, August 17, 1945
No.1346, 1396 (total 2), lost
in
Mediterranean; presumed during 1945. Date reported, April,
1945
No.1393, lost in Operation
Overlord, Normandy Landings, N France, July 3, 1944
No.1433, smashed by heavy seas,
Admiralty Islands, SW Pacific, March 30, 1945
No.1472, lost at Leyte,
Philippines, March 27, 1945
Landing craft assault
(Hedgerow) LCA (12 tons)
No.183, 258, 802 (total 3),
lost
in Mediterranean, July 1, 1944
No.671. 690, 965, 1072 (total
4),
lost in Operation Neptune, Normandy Landings, N France,
June-July 1944
No.672, 811 (total 2),
foundered
during exercises off E Scotland, April 2, 1944
No.689, sank in Home Waters,
March
13, 1944
Landing craft assault
(Obstruction Clearance) LCA (13.5 tons)
No.1211, lost in Home Waters,
presumed during 1945. Date reported, May, 1945
Landing craft support
(Medium)
(MkI) LCS(M) (9-11 tons) – LCA with 4in smoke mortar
No.1, unknown cause, 1941
No.4, 6, 15, 18, 19, 22 (total
6),
lost during fall of Tobruk, June 20, 1942
No.9, lost in Operation
Jubilee,
Dieppe Raid, August 19, 1942
No.11, 14 (total 2), lost in
Operation Torch, N Africa, November 1942
No.16, lost in India, August
29,
1943
No.17, sunk by enemy action,
Mayu
River, Burma, April 25, 1943
No.23, lost on patrol, Mayu
River,
Burma, March 1943
Landing craft support
(Medium)
(MkII) LCS(M) (12 tons) - LCA with 4in smoke mortar
No.28, lost in Operation Torch,
N
Africa, November 1942
No.30, lost in operations on
Arakan Coast, Burma. Date reported, June, 1945
Landing craft support
(Medium)
(MkIII) LCS(M) (13.5 tons) - LCA with 4in smoke mortar
No.42, cause and place unknown,
August 25, 1944
No.46, lost in Operation
Shingle,
Anzio Landings, W Italy. Date approximate, January 1944
No.47, cause and place unknown,
June 1944
No.49, cause and place unknown,
1944
No.54, cause and place unknown,
July 1, 1944
No.59, cause and place unknown.
Date reported, May 1944
No.69, sunk during exercises
off E
Scotland, March 3, 1944
No.75, 76, 80, 81, 83, 91, 99,
101, 103, 108, 114 (total 11), lost in Operation Neptune
Normandy
Landings, N France, June 1944
No.148, lost in operations on
Arakan Coast, Burma. Date reported, June, 1945
Landing craft emergency
repair
LCER (10 tons)
No.1, 9 (total 2), lost in
Mediterranean, October 1943
No.5, 14, 21 (total 3), cause
and
place unknown. Date reported, May 1944
No.15, cause and place unknown,
July 13, 1944
LCP, Landing
Craft Personnel – able to carry up to 35 troops
Landing craft personnel
(Small)
LCP(S) (6 tons)
No.1, cause and place unknown,
1944
No.9, driven ashore at
Weymouth, S
England, April 6, 1944
No.25, 50, 61, 73, 101, 135,
137
(total 7), cause and place unknown. Date reported, May
1944
No.60, wrecked in Azores,
January
25, 1944
No.74, lost overboard at
Messina,
Sicily. Date reported, May 1944
No.76, lost on passage, March
13,
1944
No.116, lost during exercises
in
Home Waters, December 22, 1943
No.129, lost by fire at Hythe,
S
England, November 10, 1944
No.136, lost in Operation
Neptune,
Normandy Landings, N France, June 1944
No.183, wrecked in
Mediterranean.
Date reported, July 1944
Landing craft personnel
(Medium) LCP(M) (7 tons)
No.14, date reported, November
1943
No.17, lost off Isle of Wight,
January 5, 1943
Landing craft personnel
(Large)
LCP(L) (8-11 tons)
No.7, 18 (total 2), lost in
Home
Waters, October 6, 1944
No.8, 263, 287, 577 (total 4),
lost overseas. Date reported, May 1944
No.11, lost on passage from
Brest
to Cherbourg, January 18, 1945
No.13, 14, 21-23, 40, 51, 121,
132, 139, 170, 175, 176, 187, 189, 197, 199, 208, 272,
280, 282, 285,
286, 289, 309, 312, 528, 556 (total 28), lost in Operation
Neptune,
Normandy Landings, N France, June-July 1944
No.17, lost by fire at
Chittagong,
India, January 3, 1943
No.24-27, 38, 82 (total 6),
lost
in Home waters, 1941
No.29, lost by fire in Middle
East, September 15, 1942
No.30, lost in air raid on
Liverpool. Date given as December 20th-21st, 1940
No.36, lost by fire at
Chittagong,
India. Date given as 24th-25th, December 25, 1942
No.42, 45, 8I, 157, 164, 174,
210,
212 (total 8), lost in Operation Jubilee, Dieppe Raid,
August 19, 1942
No.52, lost by fire, Portsmouth
Area, S England, October 11, 1944
No.57, bombed at Tobruk, March
1942
No.59, 71 (total 2), lost
through
heavy weather while at anchor, Middle East, September 2,
1941
No.63, lost in Middle East.
Date
reported, August 1941
No.64, lost during fall of
Tobruk,
June 20, 1942
No.65, lost in bad weather off
Alexandria, Egypt, June 30, 1942
No.66, 356, 373 (total 3), lost
in
Operation Shingle, Operation Anzio. Date approximate,
January 1944
No.80, broke adrift during gale
in
Home Waters, January 15, 1943
No.83, lost by fire at
Newhaven, S
England, September 2, 1942
No.84, 85, 88, 97, 98, 110,
118,
128, 137, 145, 146, 149, 162, 163, 198, 200, 230/233, 235,
238, 239,
241, 242, 246, 247, 269, 293. 294 (total 30, on loan to US
Navy), lost
in Operation Neptune, Normandy Landings, N France, August
9, 1944
No.87, lost in Home Waters,
February 25, 1943
No.93, destroyed by fire at
Shoreham, S England, July 10, 1942
No.106, wrecked off Tobruk,
March
4, 1943
No.107-109 (total 3), lost in
home
waters in transit from USA, May 1941
No.117, lost in Home Waters,
March
1942
No.126, burnt out, August 1943
No.127, 134 (total 2), lost in
Operation Infatuate, Walcheren Landings, Holland. Date
reported,
December 1944
No.133, lost in Schelde River
Area, Belgium, November 5, 1944
No.136, caught fire and blew up
during exercises off Southampton, S England, December 8,
1943
No.138, 507, 543, 544, 550,
560,
562, 565, 566, 568, 573, 575, 576, 759 (total 14), lost in
Operation
Torch, N Africa, November 1942
No.152, wrecked during
exercises
in Home Waters, February 24, 1944
No.180-185 (total 6), lost at
Singapore, February 1942
No.193, 194 (total 2), lost
overboard through heavy weather in Home waters, December
1941
No.203-206 (total 4), lost at
Sourabaya, Java (in January 1943?), January 1943
No.209, lost in Seaford Bay, S
England, November 6, 1942
No.229, 298/300, 303/305, 308,
310
(total 9), lost in Home Waters, July 1944
No.267, sunk by mine off
Cherbourg, N France, July 8, 1944
No.276, 277 (total 2), lost in
transit, March 1943
No.302, wrecked E of Ostend,
Belgium, November 5, 1944
No.316, sunk at Bombay,
September
12, 1943
No.323, destroyed in explosion
at
Bombay, April 14, 1944
No.325, sunk at Bombay,
September
4, 1943
No.344, 378 (total 2), sunk at
Akyab, Burma, May 29, 1945
No.348, destroyed by fire in
India, September 15, 1944
No.360, 367 (total 2), lost
during
exercises at Mandapam, India. Date reported, April 1944
No.540, 760 (total 2), lost
overseas, presumed during 1944, 1944
No.541, lost off Isle of Wight,
S
England. Date given as 28th-29th, February 29, 1944
No.764, lost in Home Waters,
March
18, 1945
Landing craft personnel
(MkII)
LCP (3.8 tons)
No.1110, 1121 (total 2), lost
in
Aegean operations, May 1945
No.1113, damaged in gale at
Maddalena, Sardinia and written off. Date reported, June
1945
Landing craft personnel
(Ramped) LCP(R) (9-11 tons)
No.578, lost at Inveraray, W
Scotland, December 13, 1942
No.584, sunk in Home Waters,
May
1944
No.603, 620, 629, 721, 783,
794,
837, 850, 858, 901,909, 1009, 1029, 1036 (total 14), lost
in Operation
Torch, N. Africa. Date approximate, November 1942
No.613, 661, 1035 (total 3),
lost
overboard from "Hilary", December 22, 1943
No.614, 634, 663, 824, 844,
912.
913, 995 (total 8), lost overseas. Date reported, May 1944
No.616, broke adrift and badly
holed in Home Waters, January 22, 1944
No.617, sunk in Home Waters,
September 15, 1942
No.622, sunk in Home Waters,
September 24, 1942
No.640, 735, 978, 982, 987,
989,
991, 993, 1023 (total 9), lost overseas, presumed during
1944, 1944
No.643, lost at Naples, Italy.
Date approximate, May 1944
No.652, 669 (total 2), lost in
Home Waters, presumed during 1944
No.673, 680, 684, 685, 689,
692,
693, 727 (total 8), lost in "Marietta E", sunk by U-boat
in convoy,
Indian Ocean, March 4, 1943
No.683, lost in action off
coast
of France. Date reported, July 1944
No.707, lost by enemy action in
Home Waters, February 22, 1945
No.723, lost in Mediterranean.
Date reported, June 1944
No.738, lost during storm in
Mediterranean, April 9, 1945
No.753, 771, 795 (total 3),
lost
during beaching exercises in Home Waters, December 19,
1943
No.769, lost in Mediterranean.
Date reported, June 1943
No.780, 782 (total 2), lost in
"Sembilan", sunk by U-boat, Indian Ocean, April 17, 1943
No.781, lost in collision, Home
Waters, February 14, 1944
No.805, 806 (total 2), cause
and
place unknown. Date reported, November 1944
No.832, lost in tow in
Mediterranean. Date reported, June 1945
No.840, lost by enemy action in
Home Waters, March 28, 1945
No.854, cause and place
unknown.
Date reported, June 1944
No.866, destroyed by fire at
Bombay, April 14, 1944
No.867, wrecked at Mandapam, S
India across from Ceylon, June 1944
No.879, wrecked at Bombay,
September 12, 1943
No.894, 896 (total 2), lost in
Operation Neptune, Normandy Landings, N France, June 1944
No.895, damaged and sunk,
Portsmouth area, S England, June 1944
No.905, lost in bad weather in
Home Waters, June 19, 1944
No.965, lost in tow in
Mediterranean. Date reported, July 1945
No.966, damaged en route to
Anzio,
W Italy. Date reported, June 1944
No.970, lost in Home Waters.
Date
reported, June 1944
No.971, lost in collision in
Home
Waters, July 28, 1944
No.979, lost when in use as
ship's
boat in Eastern Theatre, March 5, 1945
No.999, sunk in gale in Home
Waters, September 26, 1944
No.1008, damaged and sunk in
heavy
weather in Home Waters, August 1942
No.1011, lost in collision in
Home
Waters, October 21, 1944
No.1012, sunk in collision in
Home
Waters, August 1942
No.1018, lost in Scheldt area,
Holland, January 26, 1945
No.1019, sunk during heavy
weather
in Salerno Bay, Italy, September 28, 1943
No.1026, sunk in Mediterranean,
March 23, 1944
Landing craft personnel
(Survey) LCP(Survey) (9 tons)
No.154, cause and place
unknown.
Date reported, July 1944
LCV and
LCV(P),
Landing Craft Vehicle (and Personnel) – able to carry 36
troops
or 3t vehicle
Landing craft vehicle LCV
(10-11 tons)
No.579, lost at Inverary, W
Scotland, December 13, 1942
No.584, sunk off Inellan, W
Scotland, March 15, 1943
No.597, lost in Home Waters,
September 12, 1942
No.719, cause and place
unknown,
June 1944
No.752, 754 (total 2), lost in
"Fidelity", sunk N Atlantic, December 30, 1942
No.798, lost in Home Waters,
September 25, 1942
No.801, broke adrift and holed,
Portsmouth area, S England, October 18, 1944
No.802, lost in tow in Home
Waters, August 2, 1945
No.814, lost in Home Waters,
January 30, 1945
No.825, blew up during exercise
off W Scotland. Date given as May 21st-22nd, 1943
No.894, lost on service with
Royal
Army Service Corps, CTC, Rothesay, Scotland. Date
reported, February
1944
Landing craft vehicle
(Personnel) LCV(P) (10.5-13.5 tons)
No.1016, 1029, 1031, 1033,
1044-1046, 1049,1054, 1056, 1062, 1065, 1084, 1088, 1093,
1098, 1101,
1102, 1104, 1106, 1111, 1114, 1117, 1120-1122, 1124, 1129,
1132, 1133,
1139, 1146, 1153, 1155, 1157, 1159, 1165, 1170-1172, 1184,
1188, 1201,
1204, 1211, 1216, 1218, 1242, 1245, 1246, 1248, 1249,
1251, 1255, 1260,
1262, 1264 (total 57), June, lost in Operation Neptune,
Normandy
Landings, N France. Date approximate, June 1944
No.1040, capsized off Newhaven,
S
England after engine room flooding, November 1, 1943
No.1066, lost during exercises,
Richborough area, Kent, SE England, February 1944
No.1103, abandoned at
Chichester,
S England, November 20, 1944
No.1129, sank, Portsmouth area,
S
England, November 25, 1944
No.1167, lost, Channel Islands,
English Channel, July 15, 1945
No.1191, cause and place
unknown,
January 1945
No.1228, lost in Home Waters,
November 27, 1944
No.1288, lost in Home Waters,
July
13, 1944
No.1358, lost by stranding, E
Mediterranean, April 1945
LCM,
Landing Craft Mechanised (30-37 tons) – able to carry
one 16t-40t
tank or 60-100 troops
Landing craft mechanised
(MkI)
LCM
No.1, sunk in home waters, 1941
No.10, 11, 14, 15, 18-20 (total
7), presumed lost during operations at Narvik, Norway
between May 6th
and 27th, 1940 (Note: with thanks to Russell J
Atkinson (26 Nov 2010) - Bernard
Fergusson "The Watery Maze", The London Gazette
"Operations in Norway" and LEH Maund "Assault from the
Sea" all state that only one LCM(1) was used in the 1940
Narvik operations, namely "MLC20" a 1938 Thornycroft
design. The other tank landing craft were 1926-1929
designed MLC (Motor Landing Craft) designed by J. Samuel
White Company. Six of them were used in total.)
No.12, 22 (total 2), abandoned
at
Dunkirk June 2, 1940
No.17, abandoned at Dunkirk
June
3, 1940
No.23-25, 34, 45 (total 5),
lost
in Middle East, August 1942
No.26, sunk in Mediterranean,
off
Libya, January 2, 1943
No.31, lost in Home Waters.
Date
reported, October 1942
No.32, 55, 67, 95, 96, 103,
107,
108 (total 8), lost in Middle East. Date reported, August
1941
No.33, damaged beyond repair in
Home Waters, December 20, 1943
No.38, lost in Mediterranean.
Date
reported, April 1942
No.46, capsized and sank, E.
Indies, May 5, 1942
No.51, 53 (total 2), lost in
Middle East, March 1942
No.56, lost in Operation
Jubilee,
Dieppe Raid, August 19, 1942
No.58, sunk in Mediterranean,
off
Libya, January 25, 1943
No.61, sunk in Benghazi Harbour
through heavy weather, February 8, 1943
No.63-65, 69, 72, 73, 190, 147,
153, 161, 169, 186 (total 12), lost in Operation Torch, N.
Africa,
November 1942
No.76, lost in E Indies. Date
reported, March 1944
No.80, stranded off Benghazi.
Total loss, February 6, 1943
No.82, 97 (total 2), lost in
Middle East, August 9, 1941
No.84, 90, 93, 119, 122, 135,
137
(total 7), lost in Middle East, June 1942
No.89 Believed lost in tow en
route to Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), October 22, 1942
No.91, lost in E Indies. Date
reported, June 1944
No.98, lost by enemy action in
Benghazi area, December 6, 1942
No.106, lost at Crete, May 1941
No.110, 113, 145, 146, 148
(total
5), lost during fall of Tobruk, June 20, 1942
No.127, 128, 165, 168, 180,
191,
203, 216, 226, 229, 231, 241, 251, 281, 316, 319, 330,
335, 337, 338,
345, 346, 348, 355, 357, 377, 382, 383, 408, 409, 419,
421, 425, 443,
444, 466 (total 36), lost in Operation Neptune, Normandy
Landings, N
France, June-July 1944
No.131, 182, 183, 207, 209
(total
5), lost in E Indies. Date reported, May 1944
No.136, cause and place
unknown.
Date reported, February 1945
No.138, lost, English Channel,
July 7, 1944
No.139, lost through heavy
weather
in Middle East, November 20, 1942
No.140, lost in Middle East,
July
1942
No.181, lost in Azores,. Date
reported, November 1943
No.192, 234, 254, 279, 282,
327,
329, 367 (total 8), lost in Home Waters. Date reported,
February 1944
No.212, 215, 218, 219, 243,
272,
277, 285, 288, 324 (total 10), lost overseas. Date
reported, May 1944
No.232, lost in Mediterranean.
Date approximate, October 1943
No.263, wrecked on beach,
Operation Neptune, Normandy Landings, N France, September
11, 1944
No.270, 339, 359, 422 (total
4),
lost from "Asa Lothrop". Date reported, February 1945
No.295, lost overseas, June
1944
No.340, 424 (total 2), lost
overboard from "John L Manson" in Mount's Bay, Cornwall,
SW England,
November 19, 1944
No.354, 493 (total 2), lost in
operations on Arakan Coast, Burma. Date reported, June
1945
Landing craft mechanised
(MkIII) LCM (52 tons)
No.501, 510, 516 (total 3),
lost
in Middle East, August 1942
No.508, 509, 519, 522, 523,
532,
537, 547, 620 (total 9), lost in "Southern Empress",
torpedoed in
convoy, N Atlantic, October 14, 1942
No.518, 520, 528, 539, 543.
551,
555, 556, 558, 564, 567, 569, 571, 572, 574, 581, 584,
590, 592, 593,
595, 596, 606, 609, 624, 635 (total 26), lost in Operation
Torch, N
Africa, November 1942
No.525, 559, 591, 650, 907
(total
5), lost overseas, presumed during 1944
No.527, 534, 540, 588, 1029,
1045,
1071, 1083, 1123, 1171, 1205 (total 11), lost overseas.
Date reported,
May 1944
No.531, 535, 568, 587, 627,
628,
631, 641, 908, 929, 1053.1059,1062, 1088, 1098, 1108,
1120, 1127, 1128,
1139, 1145, 1146, 1161, 1175, 1189, 1197, 1200, 1207,
1208, 1212, 1220,
1221, 1227, 1232, 1233, 1240, 1244, 1278, 1282, 1293,
1297, 1397 (total
42), lost in Operation Neptune, Normandy Landings, N
France, June-July
1944
No.545, 938, 1044 (total 3),
lost
in Mediterranean. Date approximate, October 1943
No.577, lost in Operation
Overlord, Normandy Landings, N France, June 1944
No.583, lost in Mediterranean.
Date reported, November 1943
No.611, 613, 632-634, 636
(total
6), lost in "Empire Tarpon", off N.W. Scotland, October
14, 1942
No.618, 640 (total 2), lost in
Mediterranean, August 9, 1944
No.623, 910, 930, 1022, 1064,
1173, 204 (total 7), lost in Operation Shingle, Anzio
Landings, W
Italy. Date approximate, January 1944
No.1011, lost in Mediterranean.
Date reported, March 1945
No.1092, cause and place
unknown.
Date reported, June 1945
No.1101 (52t each), wrecked
near
Aden, en route to India, November 15, 1944
No.1115, 1130 (total 2), lost
in
Mediterranean. Date reported, June 1944
No.1131, lost in Arromanches
Area,
Normandy, January 23, 1945
No.1165,1182 (total 2), lost in
Home Waters. Date approximate, October 1943
No.1185, lost, presumed during
1945. Date reported, July 1945
No.1313, 1314, 1373, 1378
(total
4), lost on passage from USA to India. Date reported,
April 1944
No.1319,1327 (total 2), lost on
Arakan Coast, Burma, April 1945
No.1380, 1381 (total 2), lost
in
Mediterranean. Date reported, May 1944
LANDING
BARGES
Landing
Barge
BB 150 ton type
No.332, 362 (total 2), sunk by
aircraft near Salcombe, S England, September 19, 1942
CC 200 ton type
No.382, cause and place
unknown,
September 1942
Landing
Barge, Emergency Repair
200 ton type
No.8, 17, 25-27, 57, 60 (total
7),
written off charge as result of damage caused in assault
area during
gale, Normandy Landings. Date given as 19th-25th, June 25,
1944
No.12, 30, 32-34 (total 5),
written off. Date reported, June 1945
Landing
Barge, Kitchen
No. 8, sank in tow, English
Channel, July 31, 1945
Landing
Barge, Oiler
150 ton type
No.4, cause and place unknown,
August 17, 1944
No.10, written off charge as
result of damage caused in assault area during gale,
Normandy Landings.
Date given as 19th-25th, June 25, 1944
No.11, 21, 24, 26, 77, 82, 92,
95
(total 8), written off. Date reported, June 1945
No.17, swamped and sank in
Arromanches Harbour during gale, N France, January 20,
1945
No.30, cause and place unknown,
August 31, 1944
No.73, cause and place unknown,
August 9, 1944
200t type
No.6, cause and place unknown,
June 1944
No.13, 37, 63, 69, 88, 96
(total
6), written off. Date reported, June 1945
No.46, 56, 81 (total 3),
written
off charge as result of damage caused in assault area
during gale,
Normandy Landings. Date given as June 19th-25th, 1944
No.53, cause and place unknown,
August 9, 1944
No.87, cause and place unknown,
July 11, 1944
Landing
Barge, Vehicle (MkI)
150 ton type
No.16, 51 (total 2), lost
through
stress of weather, June 12, 1944
No.52, cause and place unknown,
June-July 1944
No.83, sank in tow, August 19,
1944
No.84, cause and place unknown,
June 26, 1944
No.121, 175 (total 2), cause
and
place unknown, July 1, 1944
No.136, 149, 497 (total 3),
cause
and place unknown, February 1944
No.154, sank at moorings off
Portsmouth, S England, August 14, 1944
No.229, 266 (total 2), cause
and
place unknown. Date reported, March 1944
No.367, wrecked on passage
Dartmouth to Portland, S England, January 17, 1944
Landing
Barge, Vehicle (MkII)
150 ton type
No.1, 5, 9, 11, 31, 35, 42, 65,
72, 73, 75, 76, 99, 118, 211, 212 (total 16), written off.
Date
reported, June 1945
No.3, 27, 49, 61, 67, 94, 95,
103,
209, 214 (total 10), written off charge as result of
damage caused in
assault area during gale, Normandy Landings. Date given as
June
19th-25th, 1944
No.16, 20, 51 (total 3), cause
and
place unknown, June 1944
No.19, 28, 116, 122 (total 4),
cause and place unknown, July 29, 1944
200 ton type
No.132, written off, May 29,
1945
No.137,140,157, 170 (total 4),
written off. Date reported, June 1945
No.152, written off. Date
reported, May 1945
No.172, 176, 206, 232 (total
4),
written off charge as result of damage caused in assault
area during
gale, Normandy Landings. Date given as June 19th-25th,
1944
Landing
Barge, Water
150t type
No.1, 6 (total 2), written off.
Date reported, June 1945
No.7, written off charge as
result
of damage caused in assault area during gale, Normandy
Landings. Date
given as June 19th-25th, 1944
No.11, cause and place unknown,
September 12, 1944
No.14, cause and place unknown,
August 27, 1944
200t type
No.15, written off charge as
result of damage caused in assault area during gale,
Normandy Landings.
Date given as June 19th-25th, 1944
Ramped
Dumb
Barge
100 ton type
No.43, 65 (total 2), cause and
place unknown, July 1, 1944
No.83, sank on passage to
Sheerness, SE England, May 23, 1944
150 ton type
No.59, sank in Edinburgh
Channel,
Scotland, November 26, 1945
No.114, written off. Date
reported, June 1945
