# 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.

## List

| 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 | ? | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | – | |
| 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. | 28 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| AHS Centaur | Australia | 14 May 1943 | Off North Stradbroke Island, Queensland | Torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-177 | 268 | |
| HS Città di Trapani | Italy | 1 December 1942 | 11 miles east of Isola dei Cani (off Bizerta) | She struck a sea mine. | 5 | |
| HS Dronning Maud | Norway | 01 May 1940 | Near Gratangen, Norway | Sunk by German warplanes | 42 | |
| HS Esperos | Greece | 21 April 1941 | Off Missolonghi, Greece | Sunk by German warplanes | ? | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ? | |
| HS Sokratis | Greece | 22 April 1941 | Antikyra, Greece | Sunk by German warplanes | ? | |
| 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 | |
| HS Tübingen | Germany | 18 November 1944 | 3.5 miles south of Cap. Premantura Pula (Pola) | Attacked by two British warplanes (Beaufighters) | 6 | |
| 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] |