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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS AND CRAFT

"LSF"-type fighter direction ships

Stuart Prince 1944

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions, m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Antwerp (ex-convoy escort) 1920 // 1943 John Brown, Clydebank 2957 98.0ppx13.1x 21 2turbines, oil 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V, 4 x 1 - 40/39 returned 1945
Boxer (ex-LST(1)) 12.12.1942 // 1943 Harland & Wolff, Belfast 3620 118.9x14.9x5.6 16.25 2turbines, oil 1728 2 x 4 - 40/39, 12 - 20/70 radar TS 1947
FDT13 (ex-LST13) 18.11.1942 // 1.1944 Dravo, Pittsburgh, USA 4080 ts (Dp) 100.0x15.2x3.0 12.1 2diesels, diesel oil 7 - 40/56, 12 - 20/70 to USA 2.1946
FDT216 (ex-LST216) 4.7.1943 // 2.1944 Chicago Bridge, USA 4080 ts (Dp) 100.0x15.2x3.0 12.1 2diesels, diesel oil 7 - 40/56, 12 - 20/70 sunk 7.7.1944
FDT217 (ex-LST217) 13.7.1943 // 2.1944 Chicago Bridge, USA 4080 ts (Dp) 100.0x15.2x3.0 12.1 2diesels, diesel oil 7 - 40/56, 12 - 20/70 to USA 2.1946
Palomares (ex-auxiliary AA) 20.10.1937 // 1943 Doxford, Pallion 1896 90.1ppx13.7x 16 1diesel, diesel oil 136 4 x 4 - 40/56, 12 - 20/70 sold 4.1946
Stuart Prince 15.8.1940 // 1941 Smiths Dock, South Bank 1911 92.7ppx13.5x 12 1VTE, coal 400 24 - 20/70 returned 1945
Ulster Queen (ex-auxiliary AA) 28.3.1929 // 1943 Harland & Wolff, Belfast 3791 105.5ppx14.1x 18 2diesels, diesel oil 170 2 x 2 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 2 x 4 - 40/39, 10 - 20/70, 2 DCR (14) returned 4.1946

Project history: Radar-equipped HQ ships intended for fighters direction, used in defense of Home Islands and at Normandy landing.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: FDT216 was torpedoed by German Ju 88 bomber off Le Havre 7.7.1944.

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