List of hospital ships sunk in World War II

Hospital Ships sunk

Name	Nationality	Location of wreck	Cause	Lives lost
HS Andros	Greece	At Loutraki (West of the Corinth Canal)	Sunk by Italian aircraft	?
HS Aquileia Italian ship Ramb IV The Ramb IV was an Italian hospital ship, built at Monfalcone by the United Yards of the Adriatic in 1938....	Italy UK	Off Alexandria in Egypt	Bombed and set afire by German aircraft and sank	165
HS Armenia Armenia (ship) The Armenia was a transport ship operated by the Soviet Union during World War II to carry both wounded soldiers and military cargo. It had originally been built as a passenger ship for operations on the Black Sea, one of the first passenger ships constructed in the Soviet Union.Armenia was sunk on...	Soviet Union Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....	On voyage from Yalta to Gurzuf 44°15′00"N 34°17′00"E	Attacked by German torpedo-carrying He-111H Bombers,	Over 5,000
HS Arno	Italy	About 40 miles NE of Ras el Tin 33°14′00"N 23°23′00"E	Sunk by aerial torpedoes from the RAF	?
HS Asahi Maru	Japan	Inland Sea. W of Ushijima, 1.25 miles off Bizan Seto	Collides with oiler MANJU MARU, beached. Abandoned as a constructive total loss.	–
HS Attiki	Greece	Doro Channel off Karystos	Bombed and sunk	?
HS Awa Maru	Japan	Inland Sea. W of Ushijima, 1.25 miles off Bizan Seto	Collides with oiler MANJU MARU, beached. Abandoned as a constructive total loss.	–
HS Berlin	Germany	Off Swinemünde, and was put in tow for Kiel 54°02′06"N 14°19′00"E	Mined. Again hit a mine on the same day and sank	?
HS California	Italy	Syracuse Harbour	Torpedoed and sunk by British aircraft torpedoes	?
AHS Centaur AHS Centaur Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was a hospital ship which was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, Australia, on 14 May 1943...	Australia	Off North Stradbroke Island, Queensland	Torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-177 Japanese submarine I-177 Japanese Submarine I-177 was a Japanese KD7 type that saw service during World War II in the Imperial Japanese Navy. I-177 was commissioned on 28 December 1942 and was sunk by on 3 October 1944 with the loss of her entire crew of 101 sailors...	268
HS Dronning Maud SS Dronning Maud (1925) SS Dronning Maud was 1,489 ton steel-hulled steamship built in 1925 by the Norwegian shipyard Fredrikstad Mekaniske Verksted in Fredrikstad. Dronning Maud had been ordered by the Trondheim-based company Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskipsselskap for the passenger and freight service Hurtigruten along the...	Norway	Near Gratangen, Norway	Sunk by German aircraft	42
HS Erlangen	Germany	17 km off Pantelleria, and was beached at Deiva di Marina	Bombed	?
HS Esperos	Greece	Off Missolonghi, Greece	Sunk by German aircraft	?
HMHS Hikawa Maru No.2	Netherlands Japan	Wakasa Bay	Scuttled by placing explosive charges in the hull	?
HMHS Maid of Kent	UK	Dieppe harbour	Bombed by German aircraft	43
HMHS Newfoundland HMHS Newfoundland HMHS Newfoundland was a British hospital ship. She served during the Second World War and was sunk in an air attack in the Mediterranean.-Career:...	UK	40 nautical miles (74 km) offshore of Salerno Salerno Salerno is a city and comune in Campania and is the capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea.... 40°13′00"N 14°21′00"E	Bombed by German aircraft. After burning for 2 days she was sunk by gunfire by destroyers USS Mayo USS Mayo (DD-422) USS Mayo was a Benson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo.... and USS Plunkett USS Plunkett (DD-431) USS Plunkett , a Gleaves-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett.... .	21
HMHS Paris	UK	Off Dunkirk	Bombed by German aircraft	?
HS Po	Italy	Inside the Bay of Valona (Albania), 1,5 miles off Cape Dukati and Crionerò 40°22′00"N 19°28′00"E	Sunk by a British torpedo bomber	21
HS Sicilia	Italy	Off Naples	Torpedoed and sunk by British aircraft	?
HS Sokratis	Greece	Antikyra, Greece	Sunk by German aircraft	?
HMHS St David	UK	25 miles south of Anzio	Sunk by German aircraft (Hs-293)	96
HS Tübingen	Germany	3.5 miles south of Cap. Premantura Pula (Pola)	Attacked by two British air plane (Beaufighters)	6
HS Wilhelm Gustloff	Germany	About 30 km offshore between Großendorf and Leba 55°07′29"N 17°42′13"E	Torpedoed by Soviet submarine S-13 Soviet submarine S-13 S-13 was a Stalinets-class submarine of the Soviet Navy. Her keel was laid down by Krasnoye Sormovo in Gorky on 19 October 1938. She was launched on 25 April 1939 and commissioned on 31 July 1941 in the Baltic Fleet, under the command of Captain Pavel Malantyenko.-Service history:In the first half...	6000 - 9000

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