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- But disaster struck when German E-boats snuck among the flotilla, torpedoing the gasoline-loaded ships, and leaving scenes of burning carnage in their wake. More than 700 Americans died in the ensuing chaos: one of the largest single-incident losses for the US after the bombing of Pearl Harbour.
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- USS LST-523
- SS Empire Broadsword
- SS Charles W Eliot
- HMS Magic
- HMS Durban
- HMS Pylades
- HMS Lawford
LST-523 was a Tank Landing Ship built in the United States at the Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Co. in Indiana in 1943. Tank Landing Ships were cargo holders capable of delivering tanks and other large vehicles to invasion points along the French coast during the invasion. LST-523 made three successful round trips to France, dropping off supplies a...
The SS Empire Broadsword is one of the largest and most visually stunning WWII wrecks off the coast of Normandy. Its four-inch stern gun is still intact and there is live 20 mm ammunition on the seabed. Like the LST-523 it sank after D-Day. Built in 1943 by the Consolidated Steel Corporation of Wilmington, California, the Empire Broadsword was orig...
The Charles W Eliot was a Liberty ship launched in the US in May 1943. She arrived on Juno Beach on 26th June 1944. Two days later after unloading her cargo, she turned around and prepared to journey back to England. Four miles out, the ship struck a mine that exploded with such ferocity that it lifted the Charles W Eliot out of the water. The ship...
HMS Magic was a minesweeper built in the United States in May 1943 and commissioned into the Royal Navy in October of the same year. On 6th July 1944, Magic was deployed off the coast of France when she was hit by a Neger - a small craft piloted by a single man that carried a torpedo on its underside. The Neger gained the nickname of ‘the human tor...
HMS Durban was a light cruiser that had been used by the Royal Navy since 1921. She saw service in the Atlantic at the outbreak of the Second World War, and then in the Indian Ocean as part of the navy’s Eastern Fleet, protecting British shipping against Japanese attacks. In November 1943, HMS Durban returned to Britain and was placed in reserve. S...
HMS Pylades was one of 93 Catherine-class minesweepers built in the United States, 22 of which served with the Royal Navy during World War II. HMS Pylades was sunk on 8th July 1944 as she searched for mines near Juno Beach. Crew onboard reported hearing two explosions coming from the stern, and the captain of Pylades later concluded that these were...
Built in 1943 in the United States and transferred to the Royal Navy as part of Lend-Lease, HMS Lawford was a Captain-class frigate that was converted for use as a floating HQ for the D-Day landings. Lawford was attacked and sunk on 8th June 1944. 37 members of her crew died in the attack. The official Royal Navy report into Lawford’s sinking was t...
Dec 9, 2013 · A unique expedition to map sunken allied vessels off the Normandy Coast has revealed stunning never-before-seen images from beneath the waves. Using state-of-the-art sonar technology, experts have shone light on ships, submarines and even tanks which still lie at the bottom of the sea, 70 years after D-Day.
Dec 8, 2013 · Organisers split the expedition into two phases, the first lasting four weeks and the second lasting two weeks. Crews worked 24 hours a day in order to reveal never-before-seen images of the sea bed with many sunken vessels remaining intact despite being battered by the sea for 70 years.
The scene on Omaha Beach on the afternoon of D-Day, 6 June 1944, showing casualties on the beach, a bogged-down M4 Sherman tank, several wrecked trucks, and German anti-landing obstructions. A LST is beached in the left distance and invasion shipping is offshore.
Sep 3, 2024 · The large ships dwarfed the thousands of small craft required to reach the beach on D-Day. These included 4,126 landing ships and craft – 3,261 of which were British, 736 auxiliary ships and craft, and 864 merchant ships of various design.
The larger D-Day ships, such as the Rich, were wrecked twice—first by German shells, torpedoes, and mines and then by salvagers, who blew up or sliced up the sunken ships and carried off the pieces to sell as scrap. By 1957, salvagers had harvested 25,000 tons of Neptune metal off a stretch of D-Day beach from Omaha to Sword, the easternmost ...
