| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Landing Craft Infantry |
| Class | LCI 1 |
| Pennant | LCI(L)-276 |
| Built by | New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp. (Barber, New Jersey, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 31 Dec 1942 |
| Launched | 18 Feb 1943 |
| Commissioned | 10 Mar 1943 |
| End service | |
| History | Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on 29 September 1943Returned to the RN on 28 August 1944 |
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Notable events involving LCI(L)-276 include:
26 Nov 1943
Around 1630A/26, HMS Oribi (Lt.Cdr. J.C.A. Ingram, DSC and Bar, RN), HMS Janus (Lt.Cdr. W.B.R. Morrison, RN) and HMCS Athabaskan (Lt.Cdr. J.H. Stubbs, RCN) departed Plymouth to make rendezvous with HMS Renown (Capt. W.E. Parry, CB, RN) coming from Gibraltar.
At 0401A/26, in position 49°36'N, 07°40'W, HMS Oribi collided with HMS LCI(L)-178. This landing craft was part of 'Flight U' which had departed Gibraltar on 20 November. HMS Oribi was ordered to take the damaged landing craft in tow and return to Plymouth. The damaged landing craft was however still seaworthy and did not have to be taken in tow and was escorted by HMS Oribi to D.1 buoy after which it entered Falmouth together with HMS LCI(L)-276 which had remained in company. HMS Oribi then returned to Plymouth.
HMS Janus and HMCS Athabaskan continued on to escort HMS Renown. (1)
Sources
- ADM 199/633 + ADM 199/2284
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.