List of amphibious warfare ships of the Royal Navy

This is a list of amphibious warfare ship
Amphibious assault ship
An amphibious assault ship is a type of amphibious warfare ship employed to land and support ground forces on enemy territory by an amphibious assault...

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Active Ships

Albion class
Albion class landing platform dock
The Albion class is a class of landing platform dock, and are the newest amphibious assault vessels in the Royal Navy fleet. The class consists of two vessels, and and they were ordered in 1996 under a programme known as LPD to replace the aging Fearless class...

Landing Platform Dock (LPD)
- Albion
  HMS Albion (L14)
  HMS Albion is a Landing Platform Dock of the Royal Navy, the first of the two-ship Albion class. Built by BAE Systems Marine in Barrow-in-Furness, Albion was launched in March 2001 by the Princess Royal...
- Bulwark
  HMS Bulwark (L15)
  HMS Bulwark is an , the UK's newest class of amphibious assault warship and built in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. For numerous reasons, delays caused the delivery date to be put back, with the ship entering service in December 2004. Together with Albion, Ocean, and other amphibious ships, she...
Ocean class
Landing Platform, Helicopter
LPH is the hull classification used by a number of the world's navies to designate a type of amphibious warfare ship designed primarily to operate as a launch and recovery platform for helicopters and other VTOL aircraft...

Landing Platform Helicopter (LPH)
- Ocean
  HMS Ocean (L12)
  HMS Ocean of the Royal Navy is an amphibious assault ship , the sole member of her class. She is designed to support amphibious landing operations and to support the staff of Commander UK Amphibious Force and Commander UK Landing Force...

Fearless class
Fearless class landing platform dock
The Fearless class amphibious assault ships were the first purpose built amphibious warfare vessels in the Royal Navy. The class comprised only two ships: and ....

Landing platform dock ships

Fearless
HMS Fearless (L10)
HMS Fearless was a Royal Navy ship which served from 1965 until 2002. One of two from the Landing Platform Dock class she was based in HMNB Portsmouth and saw service around the world over her 37 year life...
Intrepid
HMS Intrepid (L11)
HMS Intrepid was one of two Fearless class amphibious warfare ships of the Royal Navy. A Landing Platform Dock , she served from 1967 until 1999...

Centaur class
Centaur class aircraft carrier
The Centaur class of aircraft carriers of the British Royal Navy was the last of the light fleet carrier designs started during the closing years of World War II.-Ships In Class:HMS Centaur...

Commando carrier ships

Albion
HMS Albion (R07)
HMS Albion was a 22,000 ton Centaur-class light fleet carrier of the Royal Navy.-Construction and modifications:She was built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. Her keel was laid down in March 1944 and she was launched in May 1947...

Bulwark
HMS Bulwark (R08)
The sixth HMS Bulwark of the Royal Navy was a 22,000 tonne Centaur-class light fleet aircraft carrier.-Construction:Bulwark was laid down by the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast on 10 May 1945...

Hermes
HMS Hermes (R12)
HMS Hermes was a Centaur-class British aircraft carrier, the last of the postwar conventional aircraft carriers commissioned into the Royal Navy.-Construction and modifications:...

Colossus class
Colossus class aircraft carrier
The 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier, commonly referred to as the British Light Fleet Carrier, was a light aircraft carrier design created by the Royal Navy during World War II, and used by eight naval forces between 1944 and 2001...

Commando carrier ships

Ocean
HMS Ocean (R68)
HMS Ocean was a Royal Navy Colossus-class light fleet aircraft carrier of 13,190 tons built in Glasgow by Alexander Stephen and Sons. Her keel was laid in November 1942, and she was commissioned on 30 June 1945....
Theseus
HMS Theseus (R64)
HMS Theseus was a Colossus-class light fleet aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. She was laid down in 1943 by Fairfield at Govan, and launched on 6 July 1944.-Workup and initial service:...

Landing Ships, Tank (LST)

Boxer
HMS Boxer (1941)
HMS Boxer, pennant F121, was built as a Landing Ship, Tank at Harland and Wolff. Launched in December 1942 and commissioned the following April, she saw service as part of the Allied invasion of Italy.-Design and devleopment:...
Bruiser
Thruster
Misoa
Tasajera
Bachquera
LST 3001
LST 3002
LST 3003 Anzio
LST 3004
LST 3005
LST 3006 Tromsø
LST 3007
LST 3008
LST 3009
LST 3010 Attacker
LST 3011 Avenger
LST 3012 Ben Nevis
LST 3013 Ben Lomond
LST 3014
LST 3015 Battler
LST 3016 Dieppe
LST 3017
LST 3018
LST 3019 Vaagso
LST 3020
LST 3021
LST 3022
LST 3023
LST 3024
LST 3025 Bruiser
LST 3026 Charger
LST 3027 Lofoten
HMS Lofoten (K07)
HMS Lofoten was a vessel of the Royal Navy. Initially built as one of a large number of LSTs in 1945, she was named after the Norwegian islands that were raided during Operation Claymore in 1941...
LST 3028
LST 3029 Chaser
LST 3031
LST 3033
LST 3035
LST 3036 Puncher
LST 3037
LST 3038 Fighter
LST 3042 Hunter
LST 3041 Hull
LST 3041
LST 3041 was a Landing Ship, Tank that served in the Royal Navy at the end of World War II, before being converted to a commercial ferry. She was later requisitioned by the Navy during the Suez Crisis, and was scrapped in 1960.-Description:...
LST 3043 Messina
LST 3044 Narvik
LST 3501
LST 3502
LST 3503
LST 3504 Pursuer
LST 3505 Ravager
LST 3506
LST 3507
LST 3508 Searcher
LST 3509
LST 3510 Slinger
LST 3511 Reggio
LST 3512
LST 3513 Salerno
LST 3514 Smiter
LST 3515 Stalker
LST 3516 Striker
LST 3517 St Nazaire
LST 3518 Sulva
LST 3519
LST 3520 Thruster
LST 3522 Tracker
LST 3523 Trouncer
LST 3524 Trumpeter
LST 3525 Walcheren
LST 3532 Zeebrugge
LST 3534

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Active Ships

Fearless classFearless class landing platform dockThe Fearless class amphibious assault ships were the first purpose built amphibious warfare vessels in the Royal Navy. The class comprised only two ships: and ....

Centaur classCentaur class aircraft carrierThe Centaur class of aircraft carriers of the British Royal Navy was the last of the light fleet carrier designs started during the closing years of World War II.-Ships In Class:HMS Centaur...

Colossus classColossus class aircraft carrierThe 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier, commonly referred to as the British Light Fleet Carrier, was a light aircraft carrier design created by the Royal Navy during World War II, and used by eight naval forces between 1944 and 2001...

Landing Ships, Tank (LST)

Fearless class
Fearless class landing platform dock
The Fearless class amphibious assault ships were the first purpose built amphibious warfare vessels in the Royal Navy. The class comprised only two ships: and ....

Centaur class
Centaur class aircraft carrier
The Centaur class of aircraft carriers of the British Royal Navy was the last of the light fleet carrier designs started during the closing years of World War II.-Ships In Class:HMS Centaur...

Colossus class
Colossus class aircraft carrier
The 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier, commonly referred to as the British Light Fleet Carrier, was a light aircraft carrier design created by the Royal Navy during World War II, and used by eight naval forces between 1944 and 2001...