List of Allied warships in the Normandy landings

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 (, 26,100 tons, main armament: 12 - 12"/50 cal. guns) primarily in support of the US 29th Infantry Division.
 * USS Nevada (BB-36), Utah Beach (damaged and beached to avoid sinking at Pearl Harbor,, 29,000 tons, main armament: 10 - 14"/45 cal. guns).
 * HMS Nelson (28) (1925,, 38,000 tons, main armament: 9 - 16 inch guns). Held in reserve until June 10.
 * HMS Ramillies (07) (1915,, 33,500 tons, main armament: 8 - 15"/42 cal. guns).
 * HMS Rodney (29) (1925, Nelson class, 38,000 tons, main armament: 9 - 16 inch guns).
 * USS Texas (BB-35), western Omaha Beach (, 27,000 tons, main armament: 10 - 14"/45 cal. guns, Flagship of Rear Admiral C.F. Bryant) primarily in support of the US 1st Infantry Division.
 * HMS Warspite (03) (1913,, 35,000 tons, main armament 8 - 15"/42 cal. guns).

Heavy cruisers
Five heavy cruisers (main guns of 8 inches) took part, three from the United States and two from Britain, HMS Hawkins had been re-armed with 6 inch guns and HMS Frobisher's main gun armament had been reduced from seven to four 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
 * HMS Ajax
 * HMS Arethusa
 * HMS Belfast (Flagship of Rear Admiral Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton)
 * HMS Bellona
 * HMS Black Prince
 * 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
 * HMS Scylla (Admiral Vian's flagship, mined and seriously damaged, out of action until after the war)
 * HMS Sirius In reserve until June 10

Destroyers and escorts
135 ships (eighty-five British and Dominion, 39 US, 7 Free French and 7 other Allied):
 * HMCS Algonquin (Canadian)
 * USS Amesbury
 * USS Baldwin
 * USS Barton
 * HMS Bleasdale
 * HMS Boadicea (torpedoed and sunk 13 June)
 * HMCS Cape Breton (Canadian)
 * USS Carmick
 * HMS Cattistock
 * HMCS Chaudiere (Canadian)
 * USS Corry (sunk during the invasion)
 * HMS Cottesmore
 * USS Doyle
 * HMS Eglinton
 * HMS Faulknor
 * USS Frankford
 * HMS Fury (mined 21 June and not repaired)
 * USS Glennon (hit by mine 8 June, sunk by German artillery 10 June)
 * HNoMS Glaisdale (Norwegian)
 * HMS Grenville
 * USS Harding
 * USS Hobson
 * HMS Jervis
 * HMS Kelvin
 * HMS Kempenfelt
 * HMCS Kitchener (Canadian)
 * ORP Krakowiak, (Polish, former HMS Silverton)
 * La Combattante (Free French, former HMS Haldon)
 * USS Laffey
 * USS McCook
 * HMS Melbreak
 * HMS Middleton
 * USS Murphy
 * USS O'Brien
 * HMS Pytchley
 * USS Rich (sunk by mines 10 June)
 * USS Satterlee
 * HMS Saumarez (G12)
 * HMS Scorpion
 * HMS Scourge
 * HMS Serapis
 * HMCS Sioux (Canadian)
 * ORP Slazak (Polish)
 * HMS Stevenstone
 * HNoMS Stord (Norwegian)
 * HNoMS Svenner (Norwegian, hit by German torpedo and sunk off Normandy at dawn, 6 June)


 * HMS Swift (mined and sunk 24 June 1944 off Normandy)
 * HMS Talybont
 * HMS Tanatside
 * USS Thompson
 * HMS Ulster
 * HMS Ulysses
 * HMS Undaunted
 * HMS Undine
 * HMS Urania
 * HMS Urchin
 * HMS Ursa
 * HMS Venus
 * HMS Verulam
 * HMS Vigilant
 * HMS Virago
 * HMS ''Wanderer'
 * HMS Whimbrel
 * HMS Wrestler (damaged by a mine and not repaired)
 * RHN Kriezis Royal Hellenic Navy (Flower Class Corvette -ex HMS Coreopsis)
 * RHN Tobazis Royal Hellenic Navy (Flower Class Corvette -ex HMS Tamarisk

Other warships
508 ships (352 British, 154 US and 2 other Allied): 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 various Motor Gun Boat flotillas.
 * USS Bayfield, attack transport
 * HMS Bulolo, Landing Ship Headquarters (LSH) for Gold Beach carrying tri-service commanders and staff
 * HMS Centurion, old battleship sunk as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater
 * Courbet, Free Naval French Forces, old battleship sunk as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater
 * USS Charles Carroll attack transport
 * 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)
 * HMS Erebus, monitor 2 - 15 inch guns
 * 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, Icelandic patrol boat
 * HMS Roberts, monitor 2 - 15 inch guns
 * HNMLS Sumatra (Dutch, decommissioned due to crew shortages and losing her guns to HNMLS Flores and Soemba, used as blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater)