List of hospital ships sunk in World War II
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Hospital ships should display large Red Crosses 40px or Red Crescents File:Flag of the Red Crescent.svg. The HS Awa Maru was displaying illuminated white crosses on its side when sunk.
List
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Name
!class=unsortable| Image ! Nationality ! Date ! Location of wreck ! Cause ! Lives lost !class=unsortable| Note |
|---|
| HS Andros
| | 40px Greece | {{sort|1941-04-23|23 April 1941}} | At Loutraki (West of the Corinth Canal) | Sunk by Italian aircraft |align=center| ? |
| HS Armenia
| {{sort|1941-11-07|7 November 1941}} | On voyage from Yalta to Gurzuf {{coord|44|15|00|N|34|17|00|E |
| Attacked by German torpedo-carrying He 111H Bombers,
|align=center| Over 5,000
|-
| HS Arno
| 40px Italy
| {{sort|1942-09-10|10 September 1942}}
| About 40 miles NE of Ras el Tin {{coord|33|14|00|N|23|23|00|E|}}
| Sunk by aerial torpedoes from the RAF
|align=center| 27
|-
| 40px Japan
| {{sort|1945-08-17|17 August 1945}}
| Inland Sea. W of Ushijima, 1.25 miles off Bizan Seto
| Collides with oiler Manju Maru, beached. Abandoned as a constructive total loss.
|align=center| –
|-
|
| 40px Greece
| {{sort|1941-04-11|11 April 1941}}
| Doro Channel off Karystos
| Bombed and sunk by German Stuka dive-bombers at 11:30 pm even though the large red crosses were well placed and illuminated. One of the Stukas machine-gunned the survivors struggling in the water. The New York Times, April 14, 1941, pg 6
|align=center| 28 The New York Times, April 14, 1941, pg 6
|-
|
| 40px Japan
| {{sort|1945-04-01|1 April 1945}}
| Inland Sea. W of Ushijima, 1.25 miles off Bizan Seto
| Sunk by the U.S. Navy submarine USS Queenfish
|align=center| 2003
| {{Citation |last= National Security Agency |author-link= National Security Agency |title= The Sinking and the Salvage of the Awa Maru (U): A Strange and Tragic Tale (U) |date= May 1981 |url= http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_spectrum/sinkingawa_maru.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160315161053/https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_spectrum/sinkingawa_maru.pdf |archive-date= 2016-03-15 }}{{cite web |year= 2011 |url = http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?59646|title = SS Awa Maru (+1945)|publisher = wrecksite| access-date = November 9, 2011 }}
|-
| 40px Germany
| {{sort|1945-01-31|31 January 1945}}
| {{convert|8|mi|km}} from the port at Novorossiysk and {{convert|2|mi|km}} from shore, at {{coord|44|36|15|N|37|52|35|E|type:landmark}}
| Note that during World War II Berlin was mined and in the Baltic and beached in shallow waters at position 54°02.6 N/14°19 E, in shallow waters. After the war Berlin was salvaged, handed over to the Soviet Union as a prize and renamed Admiral Nakhimov. She was in service as a passenger liner in the Black Sea on August 31, 1986, when she collided with the freighter M/S Pjotr Wassjew and sank.
|align=center| 423
| {{cn|date=January 2019}} All 423 people died when the ship sank as Admiral Nakhimov in the 1980s.
|-
| 40px Japan
| {{sort|1943-11-27|27 November 1943}}
| Off Saint Matthias Island in Steffen Strait {{coord|02|40|00|S|149|20|00|E|}}
| Bombed by American warplanes
|align=center| 158
|-
|
| 40px Italy
| {{sort|1941-08-11|11 August 1941}}
| Syracuse Harbour
| Torpedoed and sunk by British aerial torpedoes
|align=center| 10
|-
| 40px Australia
| {{sort|1943-05-14|14 May 1943}}
| Off North Stradbroke Island, Queensland
| Torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-177
|align=center| 268
|-
|
| 40px Italy
| {{sort|1942-12-01|1 December 1942}}
| 11 miles east of Isola dei Cani (off Bizerta)
| She struck a sea mine.
|align=center| 5
| Enrico Cernuschi, Maurizio Brescia, Erminio Bagnasco, Le navi ospedale italiane 1935-1945, p. 46
|-
| 40px Norway
| {{sort|1940-05-01|01 May 1940}}
| Near Gratangen, Norway
| Sunk by German warplanes
|align=center| 42
|-
|
| 40px Greece
| {{sort|1941-04-21|21 April 1941}}
| Off Missolonghi, Greece
| Sunk by German warplanes
|align=center| ?
|-
|
| 40px Italy
| {{sort|1944-08-28|28 August 1944}}
| Off Trieste, Italy
| Sunk by South African warplanes
|align=center| ?
|
|-
| SS Op Ten Noort renamed: HMHS Hikawa Maru No.2
| File:S.S. Op ten Noort van de KPM, Bestanddeelnr 935-3124.jpg
| 40px Netherlands
40px Japan
| {{sort|1945-08-17|17 August 1945}}
| Wakasa Bay
| Scuttled by placing explosive charges in the hull, to cover war crimes (14 August 1945)
|align=center| 0
|-
| {{HMHS|Maid of Kent||6}}
| 40px Great Britain
| {{sort|1940-05-21|21 May 1940}}
| Dieppe harbour
| Bombed by German warplanes
|align=center| 43
|-
| 40px UK
| {{sort|1943-09-13|13 September 1943}}
| 40 nautical miles (74 km) off of Salerno, Italy, {{coord|40|13|00|N|14|21|00|E|}}
| Bombed by German warplanes. After burning for two days, she was sunk by gunfire from the destroyers USS Mayo and USS Plunkett.
|align=center| 21
|-
|
| {{sort|1940-06-02|02 June 1940}}
| Off Dunkirk
| Bombed by German warplanes
|align=center| ?
|-
| HS Po
|
| 40px Italy
| {{sort|1941-03-14|14 March 1941}}
| Inside the Bay of Valona, Albania, 2.0 kilometers off Cape Dukati and Crionerò {{coord|40|22|00|N|19|28|00|E|}}
| Sunk by a British torpedo bomber
|align=center| 24
{{cn|date=January 2019}}
{{cn|date=January 2019}}
|-
| 40px Italy
40px United Kingdom
| {{sort|1942-05-10|10 May 1942}}
| Off Alexandria, Egypt
| Bombed and set afire by German warplanes and sunk
|align=center| 165
|-
| File:Bundesarchiv Bild 147-1215, Kdf-Schiff "Robert Ley".jpg
| 40px Germany
| {{sort|1945-03-09|09 March 1945}}
| Hamburg
| Bombed and sunk by British warplanes
|align=center|?
|
|-
|
| 40px Italy
| {{sort|1943-04-04|04 April 1943}}
| Naples Harbor
| Bombed and sunk by American warplanes
|align=center| ?
|-
|
| 40px Greece
| {{sort|1941-04-22|22 April 1941}}
| Sunk by German warplanes
|align=center| ?
|-
|
| 40px British Empire
| {{sort|1944-01-24|24 January 1944}}
| 40 kilometers south of Anzio
| Sunk by German warplanes (Hs-293)
|align=center| 96
|-
|
| 40px Italy
| {{sort|1941-02-17|17 February 1941}}
| Off Tripoli
| She struck a sea mine
|align=center| 4
| Enrico Cernuschi, Maurizio Brescia, Erminio Bagnasco, Le navi ospedale italiane 1935-1945, p. 30
|-
|
| 40px Germany
| {{sort|1944-11-18|18 November 1944}}
| 3.5 miles south of Cap. Premantura Pula (Pola)
| Attacked by two British warplanes (Beaufighters)
|align=center| 6
|-
| File:Hmhs Talamba E24034.jpg
| 40px British Empire
| {{sort|1943-07-10|10 July 1943}}
| Off Syracuse, Italy during the amphibious landings on Sicily
| Bombed and sunk by an Italian aircraft while embarking wounded
|align=center| 5
|
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See also
References
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Category:British World War II crimes
{{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Hospital Ships Sunk In World War I}}
Category:Hospital ships in World War II
Category:World War II casualties