HMS Boxer (1941)

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Launched:	12 December 1942
Commissioned:	10 April 1943
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Fate:	Scrapped 1958
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Boxer.

See also: List of amphibious warfare ships of the Royal Navy

HMS Boxer was built as a Landing Ship, Tank at Harland and Wolff. Launched in December 1942 and commissioned the following April, she saw service as part of the Allied invasion of Italy.

In 1944, she was refitted as a "Fighter Direction ship", for use during the Normandy landings, then as a "Action Information Organisation" tender^[1] (a radar training ship) in 1946. She was placed in reserve in 1956, and scrapped at Barrow-in-Furness in 1958.

HMS Boxer carried the Writer/Comedian Spike Milligan from North Africa to Italy when he served with the 56th Heavy Regiment Royal Artillery^[2].