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 Image Nationality Date Location of wreck Cause Lives lost Note HS Andros Greece At Loutraki (West of the Corinth Canal) Sunk by Italian aircraft ? HS Armenia Soviet Union On voyage from Yalta to Gurzuf Attacked by German torpedo-carrying He 111H Bombers, Over 5,000 HS Arno Italy About 40 miles NE of Ras el Tin Sunk by aerial torpedoes from the RAF 27 HS Asahi Maru Japan 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 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. The New York Times, April 14, 1941, pg 6 28 The New York Times, April 14, 1941, pg 6 HS Awa Maru Japan Inland Sea. W of Ushijima, 1.25 miles off Bizan Seto Sunk by the U.S. Navy submarine USS Queenfish 2003 HS Berlin Germany from the port at Novorossiysk and from shore, at 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. 1 423 people died when the ship sank as Admiral Nakhimov in 1986. HS Buenos Aires Maru Japan Off Saint Matthias Island in Steffen Strait Bombed by American warplanes 158 HS California Italy Syracuse Harbour Torpedoed and sunk by British aerial torpedoes 10 AHS Centaur Australia Off North Stradbroke Island, Queensland Torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-177 268 HS Città di Trapani Italy 11 miles east of Isola dei Cani (off Bizerta) She struck a sea mine. 5 Enrico Cernuschi, Maurizio Brescia, Erminio Bagnasco, Le navi ospedale italiane 1935-1945, p. 46 HS Dronning Maud Norway Near Gratangen, Norway Sunk by German warplanes 42 HS Esperos Greece Off Missolonghi, Greece Sunk by German warplanes ? SS Giulio Cesare Italy Off Trieste, Italy Sunk by South African warplanes ? SS Op Ten Noort renamed: HMHS Hikawa Maru No.2 Netherlands Japan Wakasa Bay Scuttled by placing explosive charges in the hull, to cover war crimes (14 August 1945) 0 Great Britain Dieppe harbour Bombed by German warplanes 43 HMHS Newfoundland UK 40 nautical miles (74 km) off of Salerno, Italy, 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 Off Dunkirk Bombed by German warplanes ? HS Po Italy Inside the Bay of Valona, Albania, 2.0 kilometers off Cape Dukati and Crionerò Sunk by a British torpedo bomber 24 HS RAMB IV Italy United Kingdom Off Alexandria, Egypt Bombed and set afire by German warplanes and sunk 165 MV Robert Ley Germany Hamburg Bombed and sunk by British warplanes? HS Sicilia Italy Naples Harbor Bombed and sunk by American warplanes ? HS Sokratis Greece Antikyra, Greece Sunk by German warplanes ? HMHS St David British Empire 40 kilometers south of Anzio Sunk by German warplanes (Hs-293) 96 HS Tevere Italy Off Tripoli She struck a sea mine 4 Enrico Cernuschi, Maurizio Brescia, Erminio Bagnasco, Le navi ospedale italiane 1935-1945, p. 30 HS Tübingen Germany 3.5 miles south of Cap. Premantura Pula (Pola) Attacked by two British warplanes (Beaufighters) 6 HMHS Talamba British Empire Off Syracuse, Italy during the amphibious landings on Sicily Bombed and sunk by an Italian aircraft while embarking wounded 5
See also List of hospital ships sunk in World War I
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