Training Classes. After other repairs, the ship was ready for Operation Jubilee. The ship left Portsmouth on 18 August 1942 at 20:24 pm as part of group 3 en route to Blue Beach in Dieppe. The ship led her landing crafts with Canadian troops safely down at 2:58 am on 19 August before returning to the Solent. On 10 June 1943, Prinses Astrid left Falmouth for Gibraltar and the North African ports of Oran, Algiers, Bizerta, and Philippeville, where she arrived on 7 July 1943. For Operation Husky, Prinses Astrid picked up U.S. Rangers in the Jos Attack-gebied near Licata on 10 July 1943. She joined the Northern Attack Force and left Tripoli on 6 September 1943 for Operation Avalanche for the landing near Salerno on 9 September 1943. The ship left Algiers on 27 October 1943 en route to the UK and became a Submarine Target Ship. Prinses Astrid left the Solent on 5 June 1944 as part of the Assault Convoy S7. On 6 June 1944 at 05:42 am, the ship lay off Sword beachhead in order to disembark her troops during the invasion of Normandy on D-day. Afterwards, the ship made multiple crossings with new troops for the Eastern and Western Task Force with Newhaven and Southampton as main ports. The ship returned to the Solent and followed the Calais–Southampton line on 26 December 1944. After that, she moved to the Tilbury–Ostend Force Duty. From 17 January 1945 to 12 February 1945, the ship sailed the Harwich-Calais line. Accidents Prinses Astrid was involved in a collision on 16 May 1942 with a tank landing ship. She was repaired and was at the same time modified to participate in Operation Rutter, better known as the raid on Dieppe. The raid was planned for July 1942, but was cancelled due to bad weather. On 7 July 1942 at 6:15 am, Prinses Astrid was hit by a bomb while in the Solent. The bomb hit C deck but bounced off the upper structure of a landing craft located on the side of C deck and exploded in the water. In February 1943, Prinses Astrid sailed into Dartmouth to take in new landing craft. When she sailed into the harbor, she collided with a crane arm which bent all the ship's starboard screw propellers and a cable was lodged in the port screw. The ship's starboard turbine was sabotaged in January