Hospital ships should display large Red Crosses or Red Crescents . The HS Awa Maru was displaying illuminated white crosses on its side when sunk.
| Name | class=unsortable | Image | Nationality | Date | Location of wreck | Cause | Lives lost | class=unsortable | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HS Andros | Greece | At Loutraki (West of the Corinth Canal) | Sunk by Italian aircraft | ? | [1] | ||||
| HS Armenia | Soviet Union | On voyage from Yalta to Gurzuf 44.25°N 34.2833°W | Attacked by German torpedo-carrying He 111H Bombers, | Over 5,000 | [2] | ||||
| HS Arno | Italy | About 40 miles NE of Ras el Tin 33.2333°N 23.3833°W | Sunk by aerial torpedoes from the RAF | 27 | [3] | ||||
| 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. | – | [4] | ||||
| 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. [5] | 28 [6] | [7] | ||||
| HS Awa Maru | Japan | Inland Sea. W of Ushijima, 1.25 miles off Bizan Seto | 2003 | [8] | |||||
| HS Berlin | Germany | 8miles from the port at Novorossiysk and 2miles from shore, at 44.6042°N 37.8764°W | 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 | Off Saint Matthias Island in Steffen Strait -2.6667°N 149.3333°W | Bombed by American warplanes | 158 | [9] [10] [11] | ||||
| HS California | Italy | Syracuse Harbour | Torpedoed and sunk by British aerial torpedoes | 10 | [12] | ||||
| AHS Centaur | Australia | Off North Stradbroke Island, Queensland | Torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-177 | 268 | [13] | ||||
| HS Città di Trapani | Italy | 11 miles east of Isola dei Cani (off Bizerta) | She struck a sea mine. | 5 | [14] | ||||
| HS Dronning Maud | Norway | Near Gratangen, Norway | Sunk by German warplanes | 42 | [15] | ||||
| HS Esperos | Greece | Off Missolonghi, Greece | Sunk by German warplanes | ? | [16] | ||||
| 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 | [17] [18] | ||||
| Great Britain | Dieppe harbour | Bombed by German warplanes | 43 | [19] [20] | |||||
| HMHS Newfoundland | UK | 40 nautical miles (74 km) off of Salerno, Italy, 40.2167°N 14.35°W | Bombed by German warplanes. After burning for two days, she was sunk by gunfire from the destroyers USS Mayo and USS Plunkett. | 21 | [21] | ||||
| HMHS Paris | British Empire | Off Dunkirk | Bombed by German warplanes | ? | [22] [23] | ||||
| HS Po | Italy | Inside the Bay of Valona, Albania, 2.0 kilometers off Cape Dukati and Crionerò 40.3667°N 19.4667°W | Sunk by a British torpedo bomber | 24 | [24] | ||||
| HS RAMB IV | Italy United Kingdom | Bombed and set afire by German warplanes and sunk | 165 | [25] | |||||
| MV Robert Ley | Germany | Hamburg | Bombed and sunk by British warplanes | ? | |||||
| HS Sicilia | Italy | Naples Harbor | Bombed and sunk by American warplanes | ? | [26] | ||||
| HS Sokratis | Greece | Antikyra, Greece | Sunk by German warplanes | ? | [27] | ||||
| HMHS St David | British Empire | 40 kilometers south of Anzio | Sunk by German warplanes (Hs-293) | 96 | [28] [29] | ||||
| HS Tevere | Italy | Off Tripoli | She struck a sea mine | 4 | [30] | ||||
| HS Tübingen | Germany | 3.5 miles south of Cap. Premantura Pula (Pola) | Attacked by two British warplanes (Beaufighters) | 6 | [31] | ||||
| HMHS Talamba | British Empire | Off Syracuse, Italy during the amphibious landings on Sicily | Bombed and sunk by an Italian aircraft while embarking wounded | 5 | [32] [33] |