Royal Naval ships Involved in the Korean War

Royal Naval ships Involved in the Korean War
(Lest we Forget)

As researched By James Robinson
ex Royal Marine 1947 to 1971

FLEET CARRIERS

Ship	Built	Builders	Displacement	Fate
H.M.S. Glory	Built 1943	Built by Harland & wolfe	13,190 tons	Scrapped in 1961
H.M.S. Ocean	Built 1944	Built by Stephen Ship yards,	13,190 tons	Scrapped in 1962
H.M.S. Theseus	Built 1944	Built by Fairfield Ship yard	13,190 tons	Scrapped in 1962
H.M.S. Triumph	Built 1944	Built by Hawthorne Leslie	13,350 tons	(converted to heavy repair ship)
H.M.S. Unicorn	Built 1943	Built by Harland & wolfe	14,700 tons	(aircraft maintenance ship)

CRUISERS

Ship	Built	Builders	Displacement	Fate
H.M.S. Belfast	Built 1938,	Harland & wolfe	11,550 tons	,(now preserved moored port of London
H.M.S. Birmingham	Built 1936	Devonport Dockyard	9,100 tons	Scrapped at Inverkeithing 1960
H.M.S. Ceylon	Built 1942	Stephen Ship yards	8,800 tons	sold to Peru 1959
H.M.S. Kenya	Built 1939	Stephen Ship yards	8,000 tons	Scrapped 1962
H.M.S. Newcastle	Built 1936	Vickers Armstrong	9,100 tons	Scrapped 1959
H.M.S. Jamacia	Built 1940	Vickers Armstrong	8,000 tons	Scrapped 1960

DESTROYERS

Ship	Built	Builders	Displacement	Fate
H.M.S. Concorde	1945	Thornycroft	2,106 tons	Scrapped 1962
H.M.S. Cockade	1944	Yarrow	2,106 tons	Scrapped 1964
H.M.S. Comus	1945	Thornycroft	2,106 tons	Scrapped 1958
H.M.S. Consort	1944	Stephen Ship yards	2,106 tons	Scrapped 1961
H.M.S. Constance	1944	Vickers Armstrong	2,106 tons	Scrapped 1956
H.M.S. Cossack	1944	Vickers Armstrong	2,106 tons	Scrapped 1961
H.M.S. Charity	1944	Thornycroft	1,710 tons	Scrapped 1965
H.M.C.S. Crusader	1944	Clydebank	1,710 tons	Scrapped ?

SLOOPS/FRIGATES

Ship	Built	Builders	Displacement	Fate
H.M.S. Alacrity	1944	Denny Ship yard	1,350 tons	Scrapped 1962
H.M.S. Amethyst	1943	Stephen ship yards	1,350 tons	Famous for the Yangtse incident
H.M.S. Blackswan	1939	Yarrow	1,250 tons	Scrapped 1946
H.M.S. Crane	1942	Denny	1,350 tons	Scrapped 1965
H.M.S. Sparrow	1946	Scotts	1,350 tons	Scrapped in 1949
H.M.S. Modeste	1944	Yarrow at Chatham	1,350 tons	Scrapped 1961
H.M.S. Opossum	1944	Denny Bros	1,430 tons	reserve fleet 1949
H.M.S. Cardigan Bay	Built 1944 (frigate)	Robb	2,420 tons	Scrapped at Troon March 1962
H.M.S. Whitesand Bay	Built 1944 (frigate)	Harland & Wolfe	1,580 tons	Scrapped 1956
H.M.S. Morecambe Bay	Built 1944 (frigate)	Pickersgill Clark	2,420 tons	Portugal 1961)
H.M.S. St Brides Bay	Built 1944 (frigate)		1,580 tons	Scrapped ?
H.M.S. Mounts Bay	Built 1945 (frigate)	Pickersgill Clarke	2,420 tons	Portugal 1961
H.M.S. Hart	1943 (frigate)	Stephens	1,350 tons	German fed republic 1958)

Support/and Misc

Ship	Built	Builders	Displacement	Fate
H.M.S. Tyne	1940	Scotts yard	11,000 tons	(depot ship for destroyers)
H.M.S. Maine	1948	ex-Empire Clyde	Unknown	(hospital ship) sold in 1954
H.M.S. Telemachus	1943	Vickers-Armstrong	1,090 tons	Scrapped in 1961

FLEET SUPPLY SHIPS

RFA Wave Premier	RFA Wave Sovereign	RFA Brown Ranger	RFA Green Ranger	RFA Wave Premier
RFA Wave Prince	RFA Wave Baron	RFA Wave Chief	RFA Wave Knight

FLEET AIR ARM SQUADRONS

800	801	802	804	805
807	808	810	812	817
821	825	827	898

THE 41st (IND) ROYAL MARINE COMMANDO

Attached to 1st US Marine Div at the Chosin Reservoir (winning a presidential unit citation)

Special Mention

H.M.S. Jamacia and the frigate H.M.S. Blackswan, fought the first naval action of the Korean War.

At dawn the two ships were attacked by six North Korean Torpedo boats; the action was brief and decisive: all the enemy craft save one were sunk. The date was 2nd July 1950.

Please read H.M.S. Jamaica The Galloping Ghost of the Korean Coast by Michael Stephens ex RN

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