| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Tank landing ship |
| Class | LST (Mk 1) |
| Pennant | F 121 |
| Built by | Harland & Wolff (Belfast, Northern Ireland) |
| Ordered | 6 Mar 1941 |
| Laid down | |
| Launched | 12 Dec 1942 |
| Commissioned | 10 Apr 1943 |
| End service | |
| History | Became a fighter direction ship in 1944. Became a radar training ship in 1947. Sold to be broken up for scrap 1 December 1958. Arrived at Barrow to be scrapped on 5 December 1958. |
Commands listed for HMS Boxer (F 121)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Lt.Cdr. Gilliat Benfield Herbert-Jones, RD, RNR | 18 Mar 1943 | Jan 1945 |
| 2 | Cdr. Roderick Cosmo Gordon, DSO, RN | Jan 1945 | 21 Mar 1946 |
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Notable events involving Boxer include:
13 Dec 1943
Convoy AB 24.
This convoy departed Aden on 13 December 1943.
[The exact composition of this convoy is not clear to us for the moment and will require furter research.]
The repair ship HMS Resource (Capt.(Retd.) D.B. O’Connell, RN), tank landing ship Boxer (Lt.Cdr. G.B Herbert-Jones, RNR) and the tug HMS Aimwell were also part of this convoy.
On departure from Aden this convoy was escorted by the destroyers HMS Roebuck (Cdr. J.T. Lean, DSO, RN), HMAS Quiberon (Cdr. G.S. Stewart, RAN), HMS Quality (Lt.Cdr. G.L. Farnfield, DSO, RN) and the frigates HMS Derg (Lt. E.J. Binfield, DSC, RNR) and HMS Kale (Lt.Cdr. G.W. Houchen, OBE, RD, RNR).
Around 1200DE/15, the destroyer HMAS Nepal (Cdr. F.B. Morris, RAN) joined and commenced fuelling from HMS Recource.
Around 1700DE/15, the escort carrier HMS Battler (A/Capt. F.M.R. Stephenson, RN), destroyers HMS Rotherham (Capt. F.S.W. de Winton, RN), HMS Rapid (Lt.Cdr. M.W. Tomkinson, DSC and Bar, RN) and frigate HMS Plym (T/A/Lt.Cdr. A. Foxall, RNR) made rendezvous with the convoy. They came from Bombay which they had departed, together with HMAS Nepal around 1500FG/12. HMS Rapid had joined the Battler group around 1415DE/15 having departed Colombo on 12 December 1943. HMS Plym actually did not join the convoy but proceeded independently to Aden where she arrived on 17 December 1943. HMAS Nepal proceeded to Kilindini where she arrived on 19 December 1943 escorting the troop transport Arundel Castle (British, 19118 GRT, built 1921) which she must have picked up at some point. HMS Battler, HMS Rotherham, HMS Rapid, HMS Roebuck, HMS Derg and HMS Kale arrived at Bombay with part of the convoy on 19 December 1943.
Around 1715DE/15, HMS Rescourse and the transport City of Lincoln (British, 8039 GRT, built 1938) and the destroyers HMAS Quiberon and HMS Quality parted company with the convoy. The City of Lincoln parted company with these ships around 1400FG/20 to proceed to Colombo where she arrived on 21 December 1943. HMS Rescource, HMAS Quiberon and HMS Quality arrived at Trincomalee around 1200FG/22.