HMS Rocksand was an infantry landing ship in service with the Royal Navy during the late stages of the Second World War.
She spent ten years laid up before resuming service as Hai Ya and Fu Ming before being scrapped in 1974.
HMS Rocksand was built by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Wilmington, California as the Cape Argos, and transferred under the terms of lend lease shortly after being completed in late 1943 under the name Empire Anvil.
[4] She was taken over by the Ministry of War Transport in 1944 and operated by Furness, Withy & Co. At the Normandy Landings, she and a sister ship Empire Javelin, were carrying US troops for Omaha Beach.
[6] The arrangement was subsequently cancelled due to the Communist take over[8] and also she was not paid for,[9] and by 1950 she had been renamed Empire Anvil and was laid up in the James River, Virginia.