HMS Boxer (F121)

	HMS Boxer fitted out as a fighter direction ship
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Boxer
Ordered	6 March 1941
Builder	Harland and Wolff
Yard number	1155
Launched	12 December 1942
Completed	1 May 1943
Commissioned	10 April 1943
Identification	Pennant number: F121
Fate	Scrapped 1958
General characteristics
Type	Landing Ship, Tank Mark I
Displacement	3,620
Speed	18 knots laden to beaching draught; 16.5 knots at deep;
Capacity	13 Churchill infantry tanks, 27 vehicles, 193 men
Complement	169
Sensors and ; processing systems	SM fire directional radar; SK-1 air-search radar;
Service record
Operations:	Allied invasion of Italy; Normandy landings;

HMS Boxer was built as a Landing Ship, Tank (LST(1)) at Harland and Wolff. Launched in December 1942 and commissioned the following April, she saw service as part of the Allied invasion of Italy.

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