HMS Boxer fitted out as a fighter direction ship
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Boxer |
Ordered | 6 March 1941 |
Builder | Harland and Wolff |
Yard number | 1155[1] |
Launched | 12 December 1942 |
Completed | 1 May 1943[1] |
Commissioned | 10 April 1943 |
Identification | Pennant number: F121 |
Fate | Scrapped 1958 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Landing Ship, Tank Mark I |
Displacement | 3,620 |
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Capacity | 13 Churchill infantry tanks, 27 vehicles, 193 men |
Complement | 169 |
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HMS Boxer was built as a Landing Ship, Tank (LST(1)) at Harland and Wolff. Launched in December 1942 and commissioned the following April, she saw service as part of the Allied invasion of Italy.