| Found this on the nameless webpage "W" Allied warships Battleships Six battleships took part: three British and three US: · USS Arkansas · HMS Nelson · USS Nevada · HMS Ramillies · USS Texas (Flagship of Rear Admiral C.F. Bryant) · HMS Warspite Cruisers Twenty-five cruisers (19 British and Commonwealth, 3 US, 2 Free French, 1 Polish and 1 Dutch), including: · HMS Ajax · HMS Arethusa, · HMS Argonaut · USS Augusta (Flagship of Rear Admiral Kirk - Lt. General Omar Bradley embarked) · HMS Belfast (Flagship of Rear Admiral Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton) · HMS Capetown · HMS Ceres (Flagship of U.S. Service Force) · HMS Danae · HMS Diadem · HMS Durban (used as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater) · ORP Dragon (Polish, damaged in July and then used as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater) · HMS Emerald · HMS Enterprise · HMS Frobisher · Georges Leygues (Free French) · HMS Glasgow · HMS Mauritius (Flagship of Rear Admiral Patterson) · Montcalm (Free French, Flagship of Rear Admiral Jaujard) · HMS Orion · USS Quincy · HMS Scylla (Admiral Vian's flagship, mined and seriously damaged, out of action until after the war) · HNMLS Sumatra (Dutch, decommissioned due to crew shortages and losing her guns to HNMLS Flores and Soemba, used as blockship in"Gooseberry" breakwater) · USS Tuscaloosa 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) · USS Carmick · HMS Cattistock · HMS Cottesmore · USS Doyle · HMS Eglinton · HMS Faulknor · USS Frankford · HMS Fury (mined 21 June and not repaired) · HMS Glaisdale · 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 Satterlee · HMS Saumarez · HMS Scorpion · HMS Scourge · HMS Serapis · HMCS Sioux (Canadian) · ORP Slazak (Polish) · HMS Stevenstone · HNoMS Stord (Norwegian) · HNoMS Svenner (hit by German torpedo and sunk off Normandy at dawn, 6 June)[2] HMS Swift (mined and sunk 24 June 1944 off Normandy) · HMS Talybont · HMS Tanatside · USS Thomson · HMS Ulster · HMS Ulysses · HMS Undaunted · HMS Undine · HMS Urania · HMS Urchin · HMS Ursa · HMS Venus · HMS Verulam · HMS Vigilant · HMS Virago · HMS Wrestler (damaged by a mine and not repaired) Other warships 508 ships (352 British, 154 US and 2 other Allied): · USS Bayfield, attack transport · 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 · HNLMS Flores, Dutch gunboat · HNLMS Soemba, Dutch gunboat · HMS Lawford, frigate (bombed and sunk} · HMS Roberts, monitor · HMS Bulolo, H.Q. ship 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.
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