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HMS Lawford (K514) was a Royal Navy converted Captain class frigate (pennant DE-516), built in the US in 1944. She was converted into an HQ ship for the Normandy landings. On 8 June 1944, whilst operating off Juno Beach, she was hit by enemy fire during an air attack and sunk. Thirty-seven of her crew died. The Royal Navy's damage summary reportstates that the ship was hit by an "aerial torpedo", which has been taken to mean a torpedo dropped from an aircraft. However, a survey of the ship undertaken as part of the Channel 4 TV series "Wreck Detectives" found evidence that the vessel was broken up and sunk by an internal explosion, indicating a hit from one or more bombs or from an early guided missile such as an Hs-293 or (less likely) a Fritz X.

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  • HMS Lawford (K514) (en)
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  • HMS Lawford (K514) was a Royal Navy converted Captain class frigate (pennant DE-516), built in the US in 1944. She was converted into an HQ ship for the Normandy landings. On 8 June 1944, whilst operating off Juno Beach, she was hit by enemy fire during an air attack and sunk. Thirty-seven of her crew died. The Royal Navy's damage summary reportstates that the ship was hit by an "aerial torpedo", which has been taken to mean a torpedo dropped from an aircraft. However, a survey of the ship undertaken as part of the Channel 4 TV series "Wreck Detectives" found evidence that the vessel was broken up and sunk by an internal explosion, indicating a hit from one or more bombs or from an early guided missile such as an Hs-293 or (less likely) a Fritz X. (en)
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  • HMS Lawford (K514) (en)
  • USS Lawford (DE-516) (en)
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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HMS_Lawford_1944_IWM_A_21817.jpg
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  • *SA & SL type radars *Type 144 series Asdic *MF Direction Finding antenna *HF Direction Finding Type FH 4 antenna (en)
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  • *2 × /50 Mk.22 guns *15 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns *Mark 10 Hedgehog antisubmarine mortar *Depth charges (en)
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  • United Kingdom (en)
  • United States (en)
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  • 0001-06-08 (xsd:gMonthDay)
  • Transferred to Royal Navy under Lend-Lease (en)
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  • HMS Lawford (en)
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