List of hospital ships sunk in World War II

Hospital ships should display large Red Crosses or Red Crescents . The HS Awa Maru was displaying illuminated white crosses on its side when sunk.

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Name	Nationality	Date	Location of wreck	Cause	Lives lost	Note
HS Andros	Greece	23 April 1941	At Loutraki (West of the Corinth Canal)	Sunk by Italian aircraft	?	^[1]
HS Armenia	Soviet Union	7 November 1941	On voyage from Yalta to Gurzuf 44°15′00″N 34°17′00″E / 44.25000°N 34.28333°E / 44.25000; 34.28333	Attacked by German torpedo-carrying He 111H Bombers,	Over 5,000	^[2]
HS Arno	Italy	10 September 1942	About 40 miles NE of Ras el Tin 33°14′00″N 23°23′00″E / 33.23333°N 23.38333°E / 33.23333; 23.38333	Sunk by aerial torpedoes from the RAF	27	^[3]
HS Asahi Maru	Japan	17 August 1945	Inland Sea. W of Ushijima, 1.25 miles off Bizan Seto	Collides with oiler Manju Maru, beached. Abandoned as a constructive total loss.	–	^[4]
HS Attiki	Greece	11 April 1941	Doro Channel off Karystos	Bombed and sunk by German Stuka dive-bombers at 11:30 pm even though the large red crosses were well placed and illuminated. One of the Stukas machine-gunned the survivors struggling in the water. ^[5]	28 ^[6]	^[7]
HS Awa Maru	Japan	1 April 1945	Inland Sea. W of Ushijima, 1.25 miles off Bizan Seto	Sunk by the U.S. Navy submarine USS Queenfish	2003	^[8]^[9]
HS Berlin	Germany	31 January 1945	8 miles (13 km) from the port at Novorossiysk and 2 miles (3.2 km) from shore, at 44°36′15″N 37°52′35″E / 44.60417°N 37.87639°E / 44.60417; 37.87639	Note that during World War II Berlin was mined and in the Baltic and beached in shallow waters at position 54°02.6 N/14°19 E, in shallow waters. After the war Berlin was salvaged, handed over to the Soviet Union as a prize and renamed Admiral Nakhimov. She was in service as a passenger liner in the Black Sea on August 31, 1986, when she collided with the freighter M/S Pjotr Wassjew and sank.	423	^{[citation needed]}
HS Buenos Aires Maru	Japan	27 November 1943	Off Saint Matthias Island in Steffen Strait 02°40′00″S 149°20′00″E / 2.66667°S 149.33333°E / -2.66667; 149.33333	Bombed by American warplanes	158	^[10] ^[11]^[12]
HS California	Italy	11 August 1941	Syracuse Harbour	Torpedoed and sunk by British aerial torpedoes	10	^[13]
AHS Centaur	Australia	14 May 1943	Off North Stradbroke Island, Queensland	Torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-177	268	^[14]
HS Città di Trapani	Italy	1 December 1942	11 miles east of Isola dei Cani (off Bizerta)	She struck a sea mine.	5	^[15]
HS Dronning Maud	Norway	01 May 1940	Near Gratangen, Norway	Sunk by German warplanes	42	^[16]
HS Esperos	Greece	21 April 1941	Off Missolonghi, Greece	Sunk by German warplanes	?	^[17]
SS Giulio Cesare	Italy	28 August 1944	Off Trieste, Italy	Sunk by South African warplanes	?
SS Op Ten Noort renamed: HMHS Hikawa Maru No.2	Netherlands Japan	17 August 1945	Wakasa Bay	Scuttled by placing explosive charges in the hull, to cover war crimes (14 August 1945)	0	^[18] ^[19]
HMHS Maid of Kent	Great Britain	21 May 1940	Dieppe harbour	Bombed by German warplanes	43	^[20] ^[21]
HMHS Newfoundland	UK	13 September 1943	40 nautical miles (74 km) off of Salerno, Italy, 40°13′00″N 14°21′00″E / 40.21667°N 14.35000°E / 40.21667; 14.35000	Bombed by German warplanes. After burning for two days, she was sunk by gunfire from the destroyers USS Mayo and USS Plunkett.	21	^[22]
HMHS Paris	British Empire	02 June 1940	Off Dunkirk	Bombed by German warplanes	?	^[23] ^[24]
HS Po	Italy	14 March 1941	Inside the Bay of Valona, Albania, 2.0 kilometers off Cape Dukati and Crionerò 40°22′00″N 19°28′00″E / 40.36667°N 19.46667°E / 40.36667; 19.46667	Sunk by a British torpedo bomber	24	^[25]^{[citation needed]}^{[citation needed]}
HS RAMB IV	Italy United Kingdom	10 May 1942	Off Alexandria, Egypt	Bombed and set afire by German warplanes and sunk	165	^[26]
MV Robert Ley	Germany	09 March 1945	Hamburg	Bombed and sunk by British warplanes	?
HS Sicilia	Italy	04 April 1943	Naples Harbor	Bombed and sunk by American warplanes	?	^[27]
HS Sokratis	Greece	22 April 1941	Antikyra, Greece	Sunk by German warplanes	?	^[28]
HMHS St David	British Empire	24 January 1944	40 kilometers south of Anzio	Sunk by German warplanes (Hs-293)	96	^[29] ^[30]
HS Tevere	Italy	17 February 1941	Off Tripoli	She struck a sea mine	4	^[31]
HS Tübingen	Germany	18 November 1944	3.5 miles south of Cap. Premantura Pula (Pola)	Attacked by two British warplanes (Beaufighters)	6	^[32]
HMHS Talamba	British Empire	10 July 1943	Off Syracuse, Italy during the amphibious landings on Sicily	Bombed and sunk by an Italian aircraft while embarking wounded	5	^[33] ^[34]

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