User:Hungrydog55/sandbox/military/europeanfront/1940-00 List of RCN ships

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Delta naval forces[edit]

Task Force 85[1]

Rear Admiral Bertram J. Rodgers
Battleship USS Nevada bombarding the French coast during Operation Dragoon
French light cruiser Montcalm

Rear Admiral Bertram J. Rodgers in amphibious force flagship Biscayne

Force Flagship Group
1 amphibious force flagship: Biscayne
1 Gleaves-class (4 × 5-in. main battery) destroyer: Forrest
1 fighter-director tender
Transport Group (Captain R.A. Dierdorff)
6 transports: Elizabeth C. Stanton, Lyon, SS Marine Robin, SS Santa Rosa, Barnett, Joseph T. Dickman
2 attack freighters: Procyon, Arcturus
British LSP Dilwara, LSI HMS Ascania, Landing Ship Gantry RFA Ennerdale (carrying LCM).
3 destroyers
2 Gleaves-class (4 × 5-in. main battery): Baldwin, Carmick
1 Benson-class (5 × 5-in. main battery): Madison
2 Buckley-class destroyer escorts (3 × 3-in. main battery): Marsh, Haines
Assault Groups
Red Beach Assault Group: 10 LST, 6 LCI, 7 LCT, 1 LCG, I LCF, 4 LCS, 2 LCM(R), 2 SC, 2 LCC; 1 LCM
Green Beach Assault Group: 5 LST, 5 LCI, 7 LCT, 4 LCS, 2 LCM, 2 SC, 1 LCC
Yellow Beach Assault Group: 2 LST, 2 LCI, 26 LCVP, 4 LCS, 4 LCT, 3 LCM, 1 SC, 1 LCC
Blue Beach Assault Group: 1 LST, 26 LCVP, 16 LCT, 1 LCG, 1 LCF, 4 LCS, 3 LCM, 1 PC, 1 LCC, 1 LCI
Corps and Division Reserve Groups: 5 LST, 20 LCI, 18 LCT, I FT
Gunfire Support Group (Rear Admiral C.F. Bryant)
2 old battleships: Texas, Nevada
1 light cruiser: Philadelphia
2 French light cruisers: Montcalm, Georges Leygues
8 Gleaves-class (4 × 5-in. main battery) destroyers: Ellyson, Hambleton, Rodman, Emmons, Macomb, Forrest, Fitch, Hobson
3 French large destroyers: Le Fantasque, Le Terrible, Le Malin
Minesweeper Group
8 minesweepers
2 Auk-class: Sway, Symbol
6 British: HMS Rinaldo, HMS Antares, HMS Arcturus, HMS Brave, HMS Rosario, HMS Spanker
2 danlayers: Satsa, Calm
Combat and Firefighting Group
5 fleet tugs
2 Navajo-class: Narragansett, Pinto
3 British: HMS Aspirant, HMS Athlete, HMS Charon
1 ATA, 2 YTL

Camel naval forces[edit]

Task Force 87[2]

Attack cargo ship USS Cepheus
Heavy cruiser USS Tuscaloosa
Light cruiser HMS Argonaut underway
Destroyer USS Boyle

Rear Admiral Spencer S. Lewis

Force Flagship Group
1 attack transport: Bayfield
British LCH-3l5
Assault Groups
Red Beach Assault Group
2 attack transports: Charles Carroll, Thomas Jefferson
3 transports: Dorothea L. Dix, Florence Nightingale, General G. O. Squier
3 attack freighters: Cepheus, Achernar, Betelgeuse
5 LCI, 3 LST, 21 LCT, 20 LCVP, 9 LCS, 3 LCC, 1 LCG, 1 LCF, 2 LCM, 3 SC, 2 PC; 1 LSI (Br.), 1 LSD (Br.)
Green Beach Assault Group
23 LCI, I LCH, 14 LST, 21 LCT, 7 LCVP, 7 LCS, 3 LCC, 1 LCG, 1 LCF, 2 LCM, 2 PC, 2 SC
Blue Beach Assault Group
5 LST, 1 LCI, 3 LCS, 2 LCT, 2 SC, 1 PC
Escort and Screening Group
Destroyers from Bombardment Group
6 PC, 10 SC, 1 LST, 2 LCF, 1 LSF, 1 LCC, 5 LCS, 5 LCVP, 1 LCT, 2 LCM
Bombardment Group
Rear Admiral Morton L. Deyo
1 old battleship: Arkansas
1 heavy cruiser: Tuscaloosa
5 light cruisers
Brooklyn, Marblehead
HMS Argonaut
Duguay-Trouin, Émile Bertin
11 destroyers
8 Benson-class (5 × 5-in. main battery): Boyle, Champlin, Parker, Kendrick, MacKenzie, McLanahan, Nields, Ordronaux
3 Gleaves-class (4 × 5-in. main battery): Woolsey, Ludlow, Edison
Minesweeper Group
4 Auk-class: Strive, Steady, Speed, Sustain
6 YMS, 6 BYMS, 2 danlayers, 6 British ML, 12 British AM, HMS Product
Salvage and Firefighting Group
2 fleet ocean tugs: Moreno, Arikara
1 U.S., 2 British ATA, 1 YTB, 3 LCI, 1 LCT, 4 LCM, 1 boom vessel, 1 YTL
  1. ^ Morison, pp. 340-341
  2. ^ Morison, pp. 341-342