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
  USS Arkansas (BB-33)
  USS Arkansas , a was the third ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 25th state.A dreadnought battleship, Arkansas was laid down on 25 January 1910 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation. She was launched on 14 January 1911 sponsored by Miss Nancy Louise...
  
  , BB-33, eastern Omaha Beach (Wyoming class
  Wyoming class battleship
  The Wyoming class battleship was the fourth series of two battleships built for the United States Navy. The class comprised two ships: and . At the time of the design of this pair of dreadnoughts, not a single one of the previous designs had yet gone to sea...
  
  , 26,100 tons, main armament: 12 - 12"/50 cal. guns) primarily in support of the US 29th Infantry Division.
• USS Nevada
  USS Nevada (BB-36)
  USS Nevada , the second United States Navy ship to be named after the 36th state, was the lead ship of the two Nevada-class battleships; her sister ship was...
  
  , BB-36, Utah Beach (damaged and beached to avoid sinking at Pearl Harbor, Nevada class
  Nevada class battleship
  The Nevada class battleships were the United States Navy's first battleship design equipped with triple gun turrets , as well as introducing the so-called "all or nothing" armor scheme, in which protection of vital areas was optimized against heavy caliber guns, leaving other parts...
  
  , 29,000 tons, main armament: 10 - 14"/45 cal. guns).
• HMS Nelson (1925, Nelson class
  Nelson class battleship
  The Nelson class was a class of two battleships of the British Royal Navy, built shortly after, and under the terms of, the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922...
  
  , 38,000 tons, main armament: 9 - 16 inch guns). Held in reserve until June 10.
• HMS Ramillies
  HMS Ramillies (07)
  HMS Ramillies was a Revenge-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named after the Battle of Ramillies. The ship is notable for having served in both the First and Second World Wars...
  
   (1915, Revenge class
  Revenge class battleship
  The Revenge class battleships were five battleships of the Royal Navy, ordered as World War I loomed on the horizon, and launched in 1914–1916...
  
  , 33,500 tons, main armament: 8 - 15"/42 cal. guns).
• HMS Rodney (1925, Nelson class, 38,000 tons, main armament: 9 - 16 inch guns).
• USS Texas
  USS Texas (BB-35)
  USS Texas , the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas, is a . The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914....
  
  , BB-35, western Omaha Beach (New York class
  New York class battleship
  The New York class battleship was the fifth series of two super-dreadnought battleships of the United States Navy which served during World War I and World War II. The class represented the first use of the 14" naval gun by the U.S. Navy...
  
  , 27,000 tons, main armament: 10 - 14"/45 cal. guns, Flagship of Rear Admiral
  Rear Admiral
  Rear admiral is a naval commissioned officer rank above that of a commodore and captain, and below that of a vice admiral. It is generally regarded as the lowest of the "admiral" ranks, which are also sometimes referred to as "flag officers" or "flag ranks"...
  
   C.F. Bryant) primarily in support of the US 1st Infantry Division.
• HMS Warspite (1913, Queen Elizabeth class
  Queen Elizabeth class battleship
  The Queen Elizabeth-class battleships were a class of five super-dreadnoughts of the Royal Navy. The lead ship was named after Elizabeth I of England...
  
  , 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 Frobishers main gun armament had been reduced from seven to four single mounted 7.5 inch guns.

• USS Augusta
  USS Augusta (CA-31)
  USS Augusta was a Northampton-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy, notable for service in the Atlantic and Mediterranean during World War II, and for her occasional use as a presidential flagship carrying both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman under wartime conditions...
  
   (Flagship of Rear Admiral Alan Kirk - Lt. General Omar Bradley
  Omar Bradley
  Omar Nelson Bradley was a senior U.S. Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army in the United States Army...
  
   embarked)
• HMS Frobisher
  HMS Frobisher (D81)
  HMS Frobisher was a Hawkins-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built at Devonport Dockyard and launched on 20 March 1920.-Interwar career:...
  
  
• HMS Hawkins
  HMS Hawkins (D86)
  HMS Hawkins was a Hawkins-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 1 October 1917. With the conversion of her sister, HMS Cavendish, to become the aircraft carrier HMS Vindictive, HMS Hawkins became the name ship of her class.-Interwar career:HMS...
  
  
• USS Quincy
  USS Quincy (CA-71)
  USS Quincy , a Baltimore class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy. She was the third ship to carry the name.Quincy was authorized on 17 June 1940; laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Company, Shipbuilding Division, Quincy, Massachusetts as St...
  
  
• USS Tuscaloosa
  USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37)
  USS Tuscaloosa was a United States Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser.She was laid down on 3 September 1931 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Co., launched on 15 November 1933, sponsored by Mrs. Thomas Lee McCann, the wife of Lieutenant Thomas L...
  
  

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 Argonaut (61)
  HMS Argonaut was a Dido class cruiser-References:***...
  
  
• HMS Ajax
  HMS Ajax (22)
  HMS Ajax was a Leander class light cruiser which served with the British Royal Navy during World War II. She became famous for her part in the Battle of the River Plate, the Battle of Crete, the Battle of Malta and as a supply escort in the Siege of Tobruk. This ship was the eighth in the Royal...
  
  
• HMS Arethusa
  HMS Arethusa (26)
  HMS Arethusa was the name ship of her class of light cruisers built for the Royal Navy. She was built by Chatham Dockyard , with the keel being laid down on 25 January 1933...
  
  
• HMS Belfast
  HMS Belfast (C35)
  HMS Belfast is a museum ship, originally a Royal Navy light cruiser, permanently moored in London on the River Thames and operated by the Imperial War Museum....
  
   (Flagship of Rear Admiral
  Rear Admiral
  Rear admiral is a naval commissioned officer rank above that of a commodore and captain, and below that of a vice admiral. It is generally regarded as the lowest of the "admiral" ranks, which are also sometimes referred to as "flag officers" or "flag ranks"...
  
   Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton
  Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton
  Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton KCB was a British naval officer who served in World War I and World War II.-Naval career:...
  
  )
• HMS Bellona
  HMS Bellona (63)
  HMS Bellona was the name ship of her subgroup of light cruisers for the Royal Navy. She was a modified Dido-class design with only four turrets but improved anti-aircraft armament...
  
  
• HMS Black Prince
  HMS Black Prince (81)
  HMS Black Prince was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, of the Bellona subgroup. The cruiser was commissioned in 1943, and served during World War II on the Arctic convoys, during the Normandy landings, and as part of the British Pacific Fleet. In 1946, the cruiser was loaned to the...
  
  
• HMS Capetown
  HMS Capetown (D88)
  HMS Capetown was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, named after the South African city of Cape Town. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. She was part of the Carlisle group of the C-class of cruisers....
  
  
• HMS Ceres
  HMS Ceres (D59)
  HMS Ceres was a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy. She was the name ship of the Ceres group of the C-class of cruisers.-Construction and early years:...
  
   (Flagship of U.S. Service Force)
• HMS Danae
• HMS Diadem
  HMS Diadem (84)
  HMS Diadem was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Bellona subgroup of the Royal Navy. She was a modified Dido design with only four turrets but improved AA armament - aka Dido Group 2. She was built by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited , UK), with the keel being laid down on 15...
  
  
• ORP Dragon
  HMS Dragon (D46)
  HMS Dragon, also known in Polish service as ORP Dragon , was a D- or Danae-class cruiser built for the Royal Navy. She was launched in Glasgow, in December 1917, and scuttled in July 1944 off the Normandy beaches as part of the Arromanches Breakwater.-Pre World War II:One of the fastest-built ships...
  
   (Polish, damaged in July and then used as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater
  Mulberry harbour
  A Mulberry harbour was a British type of temporary harbour developed in World War II to offload cargo on the beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy....
  
  )
• HMS Emerald
  HMS Emerald (D66)
  HMS Emerald was an Emerald-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Armstrong , with the keel being laid down on 23 September 1918...
  
  
• HMS Enterprise
  HMS Enterprise (D52)
  HMS Enterprise was one of two Emerald-class light cruisers of the Royal Navy. She was built by John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd., with the keel being laid down on 28 June 1918. She was launched on 23 December 1919, and commissioned 7 April 1926...
  
  
• Georges Leygues
  French cruiser Georges Leygues
  The Georges Leygues was a French light cruiser of the La Galissonnière class. During World War II, she served with both the Vichy France and Allies. She was named for the prominent 19th and 20th century French politician Georges Leygues....
  
   (Free French)
• HMS Glasgow
  HMS Glasgow (C21)
  The seventh HMS Glasgow , built on the Clyde, was a Southampton-class light cruiser, a sub-class of the Town-class and commissioned in September 1937. She displaced 11,930 tons and had a top speed of 32 knots . She was part of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron of the Home Fleet; she escorted the...
  
  
• HMS Mauritius
  HMS Mauritius (C80)
  HMS Maurituis, pennant C80, was a Crown Colony-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was named after Mauritius, which was a British possession when she was built...
  
   (Flagship of Rear Admiral Patterson)
• Montcalm
  French cruiser Montcalm
  The Montcalm was a French light cruiser of the La Galissonnière class, named in honour of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm. During World War II, she served with both Vichy France and the Allies.-Pre-war:...
  
   (Free French, Flagship of Rear Admiral Jaujard)
• HMS Orion
  HMS Orion (85)
  HMS Orion was a Leander class light cruiser which served with distinction in the Royal Navy during World War II.She received 13 battle honours, a record only exceeded by one other ship, and matched by two others.-History:...
  
  
• HMS Scylla
  HMS Scylla (98)
  HMS Scylla was a Dido-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company , with the keel being laid down on 19 April 1939...
  
   (Admiral Vian's flagship, mined and seriously damaged, out of action until after the war)
• HMS Sirius
  HMS Sirius (82)
  HMS Sirius was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Portsmouth Dockyard , with the keel being laid down on 6 April 1938. She was launched on 18 September 1940, and commissioned 6 May 1942.-History:...
  
   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
  HMCS Algonquin (R17)
  HMCS Algonquin was a V-Class World War II destroyer, laid down for the Royal Navy as HMS Valentine and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion....
  
   (Canadian)
• USS Amesbury
  USS Amesbury (DE-66)
  USS Amesbury , a of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Lieutenant Stanton Morgan Amesbury , who was killed in action while flying from the aircraft carrier during Operation Torch in 1942....
  
  
• USS Baldwin
  USS Baldwin (DD-624)
  The USS Baldwin , was a United States Navy , in service from 1943 to 1946. She was the only ship of the U.S. Navy to be named for Charles H. Baldwin, an 1864 Medal of Honor recipient....
  
  
• USS Barton
  USS Barton (DD-722)
  USS Barton , an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral John Kennedy Barton.-Construction:...
  
  
• HMS Bleasdale
• HMS Boadicea
  HMS Boadicea (H65)
  HMS Boadicea was a built for the Royal Navy that saw service during World War II until sunk on 13 June 1944 while supporting the invasion of Normandy.-Construction:...
  
   (torpedoed and sunk 13 June)
• HMCS Cape Breton
  HMCS Cape Breton (K350)
  HMCS Cape Breton was a River-class frigate that served the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II....
  
   (Canadian)
• USS Carmick
  USS Carmick (DD-493)
  USS Carmick , a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Major Daniel Carmick , an officer in the United States Marine Corps who served during the Quasi-War with France and during the War of 1812.Carmick was launched 8 March 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma...
  
  
• HMS Cattistock
• HMCS Chaudiere (Canadian)
• USS Corry
  USS Corry (DD-463)
  USS Corry , a Gleaves-class destroyer, , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant Commander William M...
  
   (sunk during the invasion)
• HMS Cottesmore
• USS Doyle
  USS Doyle (DD-494)
  USS Doyle , a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Richard Doyle, who fought during the Barbary Wars, and died while in service in 1807....
  
  
• HMS Eglinton
• HMS Faulknor
  HMS Faulknor (H62)
  HMS Faulknor was a F class destroyer flotilla leader of the British Royal Navy in commission from 1934. The ship had a particularly active operational role during World War II, being awarded 11 battle honours, and was known as "The hardest worked destroyer in the Fleet"...
  
  
• USS Frankford
  USS Frankford (DD-497)
  USS Frankford , a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for John Frankford, who commanded the privateer Belvedere during the Quasi-War with France....
  
  
• HMS Fury
  HMS Fury (H76)
  HMS Fury was an F class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was ordered from the yards of J. Samuel White, of Cowes, Isle of Wight on 17 March 1933 and was laid down on the 19 May of that year. She was launched on 10 September 1934 and commissioned on 18 May 1935...
  
   (mined 21 June and not repaired)
• HNoMS Glaisdale (Norwegian)
• HMS Grenville
  HMS Grenville (R97)
  HMS Grenville, pennant number R97, was the second ship of this name to serve with the Royal Navy in World War II. HMS Grenville and seven other U class destroyers were ordered as part of the Emergency Programme...
  
  
• USS Harding
  USS Harding (DD-625)
  USS Harding , a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Seth Harding....
  
  
• USS Hobson
  USS Hobson (DD-464)
  USS Hobson , a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Richmond Pearson Hobson, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the Spanish-American War...
  
  
• HMS Jervis
  HMS Jervis (F00)
  HMS Jervis was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy named after Admiral John Jervis . Jervis was laid down by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited, at Hebburn-on-Tyne on 26 August 1937...
  
  
• HMS Kelvin
  HMS Kelvin (F37)
  HMS Kelvin was a K-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, at Govan in Scotland on 5 October 1937, launched on 19 January 1939 and commissioned on 27 November 1939....
  
  
• HMS Kempenfelt
  HMS Kempenfelt (R03)
  HMS Kempenfelt was a W-class destroyer flotilla leader of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War. She was the second destroyer of her name to have served in the war; the first Kempenfelt was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in October 1939 and renamed HMCS...
  
  
• HMCS Kitchener
  HMCS Kitchener (K225)
  HMCS Kitchener was a Royal Canadian Navy which took part in convoy escort duties during World War II. The vessel was originally named HMCS Vancouver but was renamed in November 1941 before the ship was launched....
  
   (Canadian)
• ORP Krakowiak
  ORP Krakowiak
  ORP Krakowiak was a British Hunt II-class destroyer escort, used by the Polish Navy during World War II. Initially built for the Royal Navy, it bore the name of HMS Silverton during British use..-History:...
  
  , (Polish, former HMS Silverton)
• La Combattante
  French destroyer La Combattante
  The Combattante was a destroyer of the Forces navales françaises libres . A British-built Hunt class destroyer, she was offered to the Free French in 1942.-History:...
  
   (Free French
  Free French Forces
  The Free French Forces were French partisans in World War II who decided to continue fighting against the forces of the Axis powers after the surrender of France and subsequent German occupation and, in the case of Vichy France, collaboration with the Germans.-Definition:In many sources, Free...
  
  , former HMS Haldon)
• USS Laffey
  USS Laffey (DD-724)
  USS Laffey , an , was the 2nd ship of the United States Navy to be named for Bartlett Laffey. Seaman Laffey was awarded the Medal of Honor for his stand against Confederate forces on 5 March 1864...
  
  
• USS McCook
  USS McCook (DD-496)
  USS McCook , a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Commander Roderick S. McCook , who was an officer in the Union Navy during the American Civil War....
  
  
• HMS Melbreak
• HMS Middleton
  HMS Middleton (L74)
  HMS Middleton was a Type 2 Hunt class destroyer of the Royal Navy and served in the Second World War. Her rôle was providing support for minelaying operations in the Atlantic and anti-aircraft protection for the North Russian convoys...
  
  
• USS Murphy
  USS Murphy (DD-603)
  USS Murphy was a Benson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Lieutenant John McLeod Murphy....
  
  
• USS O'Brien
  USS O'Brien (DD-725)
  USS O'Brien , an , was the 4th ship of the United States Navy to be named after Captain Jeremiah O'Brien and his five brothers, Gideon, John, William, Dennis and Joseph, who captured HMS Margaretta on 12 June 1775 during the American revolution.The fourth O'Brien was laid down by Bath Iron Works,...
  
  
• HMS Pytchley
• USS Satterlee
  USS Satterlee (DD-626)
  USS Satterlee was a Gleaves-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She the second Navy ship named for United States Coast Guard Captain Charles Satterlee....
  
  
• HMS Saumarez
  HMS Saumarez (G12)
  HMS Saumarez was an S class destroyer of the Royal Navy, completed on 1 July 1943. As a flotilla leader, her standard displacement was 20 tons heavier than other ships of her class...
  
  
• HMS Scorpion
• HMS Scourge
  HMS Scourge (G01)
  HMS Scourge was an S-class destroyer. She was built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead and launched on 8 December 1942.She was at sea during the Battle of North Cape in 1943, escorting the Russia-bound Arctic convoy JW 55B. She took no part in the fighting.She was sold to the Royal Netherlands Navy on 1...
  
  
• HMS Serapis
• HMCS Sioux
  HMCS Sioux (R64)
  HMCS Sioux was a V class destroyer of the Royal Canadian Navy that saw service in World War II.She was launched as HMS Vixen for the British Royal Navy...
  
   (Canadian)
• ORP Slazak
  ORP Slazak
  The ORP Ślązak was a World War II . Initially laid down in 1940 for the Royal Navy as HMS Bedale, in 1942 she was commissioned by the Polish Navy....
  
   (Polish)
• HMS Stevenstone
• HNoMS Stord
  HNoMS Stord
  HNoMS Stord was an S-class destroyer that served with the Royal Norwegian Navy during and after World War II. She was laid down as HMS Success, but transferred to the Norwegians before completion. She was renamed HNoMS Stord when commissioned into the exiled Royal Norwegian Navy on 26 August 1943...
  
   (Norwegian)
• HNoMS Svenner
  HNoMS Svenner
  HNoMS Svenner was an S-class destroyer in the service of the exiled Royal Norwegian Navy during World War II. She was launched on 1 June 1943 as the Royal Navy ship HMS Shark , but was rechristened HNoMS Svenner when she was commissioned in the Norwegian Navy in 1944...
  
   (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
  HMS Tanatside (L69)
  HMS Tanatside was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Yarrow in April 1942. Ships of this class were designed as cheap, easily built vessels for convoy escort and antisubmarine duties. She was named like her sisters after a fox hunt, in her case one in North Wales. War...
  
  
• USS Thompson
  USS Thompson (DD-627)
  USS Thompson USS Thompson USS Thompson (DD-627 (later DMS-38) was first a Gleaves-class destroyer, then became an Ellyson-class destroyer minesweeper. She was the second Navy ship named "Thompson", and the first named in honor of Robert M...
  
  
• HMS Ulster
  HMS Ulster (R83)
  HMS Ulster was a U-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F83.-Notes:...
  
  
• HMS Ulysses
  HMS Ulysses (R69)
  HMS Ulysses was an U-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F17....
  
  
• HMS Undaunted
  HMS Undaunted (R53)
  HMS Undaunted was an U-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F53.-Operations against the Tirpitz:...
  
  
• HMS Undine
  HMS Undine (R42)
  HMS Undine was a U-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F141....
  
  
• HMS Urania
  HMS Urania (R05)
  HMS Urania was a U-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II.She was converted into a reserve fleet accomodation ship in in 1949, and was based at Devonport. She was then converted again into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with her pennant number changed...
  
  
• HMS Urchin
  HMS Urchin (R99)
  HMS Urchin was a U-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F196. She served off Iceland during the 'Cod wars' in 1959....
  
  
• HMS Ursa
  HMS Ursa (R22)
  HMS Ursa was a U-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F200.In September 1955 at Chatham dockyard...
  
  
• HMS Venus
  HMS Venus (R50)
  HMS Venus was a V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War. She was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, of Govan, Scotland and launched on 23 February 1943...
  
  
• HMS Verulam
  HMS Verulam (R28)
  HMS Verulam was an V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F29....
  
  
• HMS Vigilant
  HMS Vigilant (R93)
  HMS Vigilant was an V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F93....
  
  
• HMS Virago
  HMS Virago (R75)
  HMS Virago was an V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F76....
  
  
• HMS Whimbrel
  HMS Whimbrel (U29)
  HMS Whimbrel is the last surviving Royal Navy warship present at the Japanese Surrender in World War II. She was a sloop of the Black Swan class, laid down on 31 October 1941 to the pennant of U29 at the famed yards of Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun, Glasgow.Launched on 25 August 1942 almost nine...
  
  
• 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):

• USS Bayfield
  USS Bayfield (APA-33)
  USS Bayfield was a built for the United States Navy during World War II, the lead ship in her class. Named for Bayfield County, Wisconsin, she was the only U.S...
  
  , attack transport
• HMS Bulolo, H.Q. ship for Gold Beach carrying tri-service commanders and staff
• HMS Centurion
  HMS Centurion (1911)
  HMS Centurion was the second battleship of the King George V class, built at HM Dockyard, Devonport.The Battleships of the King George V class had been designed as Dreadnought Battleship....
  
  , old battleship sunk as a blockship in "Gooseberry"
  Mulberry harbour
  A Mulberry harbour was a British type of temporary harbour developed in World War II to offload cargo on the beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy....
  
   breakwater
• Courbet, Free Naval French Forces, old battleship sunk as a blockship in "Gooseberry"
  Mulberry harbour
  A Mulberry harbour was a British type of temporary harbour developed in World War II to offload cargo on the beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy....
  
   breakwater
• USS Charles Carroll attack transport
• HMCS Cowichan, Canadian minesweeper
• HMS Durban
  HMS Durban (D99)
  HMS Durban was a Danae-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was launched from the yards of Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company on 29 May 1919 and commissioned on 1 November 1921.-Early career:...
  
   (light cruiser used as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater
  Mulberry harbour
  A Mulberry harbour was a British type of temporary harbour developed in World War II to offload cargo on the beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy....
  
  )
• HMS Erebus
  HMS Erebus (I02)
  HMS Erebus was a World War I monitor launched on 19 June 1916 and served in both world wars. She and her sister HMS Terror are known as the Erebus class...
  
  , monitor
  Monitor (warship)
  A monitor was a class of relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armoured but carried disproportionately large guns. They were used by some navies from the 1860s until the end of World War II, and saw their final use by the United States Navy during the Vietnam War.The monitors...
  
   2 - 15 inch guns
• HNLMS Flores
  Flores class sloops
  The Flores class sloops, HNLMS Flores and Soemba were gunboats in the Royal Netherlands Navy during World War II. They were in several ways the most successful surface ships of the Dutch navy during the war....
  
  , Dutch gunboat
• HMS Hilary, H.Q. ship for Juno Beach carrying tri-service commanders and staff
• HMS Largs, H.Q. ship for Sword Beach carrying tri-service commanders and staff
• HNLMS Soemba
  Flores class sloops
  The Flores class sloops, HNLMS Flores and Soemba were gunboats in the Royal Netherlands Navy during World War II. They were in several ways the most successful surface ships of the Dutch navy during the war....
  
  , Dutch gunboat
• HMS Lawford
  HMS Lawford (K514)
  HMS Lawford was a Royal Navy converted Captain class frigate , built in the US in 1944. She was converted into an HQ ship for the Normandy landings. On 8 June 1944, whilst operating off Juno Beach, she was hit by enemy fire during an air attack and sunk. Thirty-seven of her crew died...
  
  , frigate (bombed and sunk)
• HMS Roberts
  Roberts class monitor
  The Roberts class of monitors of the Royal Navy consisted of two heavily-gunned vessels built during the Second World War. They were the Roberts, completed in 1941, and Abercrombie, completed in 1943....
  
  , monitor
  Monitor (warship)
  A monitor was a class of relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armoured but carried disproportionately large guns. They were used by some navies from the 1860s until the end of World War II, and saw their final use by the United States Navy during the Vietnam War.The monitors...
  
   2 - 15 inch guns
• HNMLS Sumatra
  Java class cruiser
  The Java class was a class of light cruisers of the Royal Netherlands Navy, named after the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies . Originally, three ships were planned: HNLMS Java, HNLMS Sumatra, and HNLMS Celebes...
  
   (Dutch, decommissioned due to crew shortages and losing her guns to HNMLS Flores and Soemba, used as blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater
  Mulberry harbour
  A Mulberry harbour was a British type of temporary harbour developed in World War II to offload cargo on the beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy....
  
  )

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

HMS Onslow (G17)

HMS Onslow was an O-class destroyer flotilla leader of the Royal Navy She was ordered from John Brown & Company at Clydebank, Glasgow on 3 September 1939. The ship was laid down on 1 July 1940 and launched on 31 March 1941. She was completed on 8 October 1941 at a cost of £416,942.Attached to the...

, Offa, Onslaught, Oribi

HMS Oribi (G66)

HMS Oribi was an O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Following the style of her sister ships she was named with a word beginning with O...

, Melbreak and Brissenden. Additional protection from E-boat

E-boat

E-boats was the designation for Motor Torpedo Boats of the German Navy during World War II. It is commonly held that the E stood for Enemy....

s was provided by various Motor Gun Boat

Motor Gun Boat

Motor Gun Boat was a Royal Navy term for a small military vessel of the Second World War. They were physically similar to the Motor Torpedo Boats but equipped with a mix of guns instead of torpedoes. Their small size and high speed made them difficult targets for E-boats or torpedo bombers, but...

flotillas.