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Tuesday, June 6, 1944 @ 0530 		EMPIRE GAUNTLET (1944 Landing Ship Infantry of U.S. Maritime Commission : 1944-46 Royal Navy HMS SEFTON : 1946-47 Min.of War Transport EMPIRE GAUNTLET : 1947 to USMC : Scrapped 1964 Own Page

Report of H.M.S. EMPIRE GAUNTLET part in the D-Day landings in France in June 1944
Vessel MasterR J JeffersGross Tonnage7,177

  At the latter part of the Second World War  H.M.S. EMPIRE GAUNTLET was a Troop Landing ship managed by Ellerman’s City Line of Glasgow.

   This is a report of the ship’s part in Operation Neptune, the naval side of the D-Day landings in France.