L.C.I. 121 was less fortunate. She was about half a mile off shore, charging at full speed towards the beach when a wave threw her starboard ramp clear of the ship and with it tossed her First Lieutenant overboard. He was almost caught by an inhaul wire which looped around his neck but he managed to free himself before he disappeared under the bow of the ship. Keeping his head he swam underwater until he was clear of the propellers and emerged unscathed astern. He was soon picked up by an L.C.A. and eventually returned to his ship. After avoiding several mined obstacles, L.C.I.121 struck one at 0910 and was stopped from going further onto the beach. Both her forward troop spaces were holed on the starboard side and quickly flooded to a depth of about four feet. Five or six soldiers, it was impossible to be certain, were killed in the troop space; three more were too seriously wounded to leave the ship, and one of these died before he could be transferred to a destroyer. There were no Naval casualties, The hole, about ten feet by five feet, was much larger than that usually made by the fused shells widely used as obstacle mines, and was probably made by the larger teller mine. At all events, the remainder of the troops were disembarked safely over the port ramp in four feet of water.

On "Nan White" beach, to the westward, 301 and 249 beached a few minutes after 298 and 121. L.C.I. 301, like 299, escaped serious damage but had many an anxious moment from enemy mortar fire during the twenty-three minutes that it took to disembark her British and Canadian Pioneers and Engineers with a great deal of heavy and awkward gear.

L.C.I. 249 was damaged as badly as 121. On her run in she struck a mined obstacle at 0905 and ground to a stop with a broad hole in her port bow. As she beached the ramps fell down and stopped the craft from riding up on the sand. Her 192 troops had therefore to disembark in quite deep water and many of them were engineers and demolition squads with heavy equipment. With the assistance of the seamen all the troops got ashore without casualties, though a tank was turned over by mortar shell only fifty feet off the L.C.I.'s bows. The beach was a mass of smashed vehicles and craft and "PRINCE DAVID'S" L.C.A. wrecks were nearby.

L.C.I.'s 249 and 121 were now left on the beach. Enemy fire from the neighbouring fields was quite heavy and appeared to be getting closer to the L.C.I.'s which were the biggest targets left on the beach. L.C.I. 121 especially and 249 to a lesser extent had to consider whether they-should remain on the beach, for there was every likelihood that if 121 got off she would quickly sink, but as the mortar and machine-gun fire grew hotter both Commanding Officers soon made up their minds to get off the beach if possible. L.C.I. 249 came off under her own power at 0950 but in doing so struck one or two more mines which brought the total number of holes in the craft to nine. Three of the holes were in the engine room where the water soon got ahead of the bucket brigade and kept rising in spite of the use of mattresses and a collision mat. Before very long the engine gave out and 299 had to take 249 in tows L.C.I. 121 stayed on the beach while her wounded troops were attended, for two and a half hours but when the enemy's fire showed no sign of diminishing she kedged off at 1145 after stuffing as much gear as could bound into the hole through the troop spaces, trimming the ship by shifting upper deck gear, and pumping out the forward ballast tanks. L.C.I. 301 had gone on ahead at 1300 and returned to the Solent passing Spithead Gate at 2140.