The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945. For smaller vessels, see also list of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons. Some uncompleted Axis ships are included, out of historic interest. Ships are designated to the country under which they operated for the longest period of the Second World War, regardless of where they were built or previous service history. Submarines show submerged displacement.[1][2][3][4]
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| Ship | Country or organization | Class | Type | Displacement (tons) | First commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H28 |  Royal Navy
|
H | submarine | 518 | 29 June 1918 | scrapped 18 August 1944 |
| H31 | H | submarine | 518 | 21 February 1919 | sunk 24 December 1941 | |
| H32 | H | submarine | 518 | 14 May 1919 | scrapped 18 October 1944 | |
| H33 | H | submarine | 518 | 17 May 1919 | scrapped 19 May 1944 | |
| H34 | H | submarine | 518 | 10 September 1919 | scrapped July 1945 | |
| H43 | H | submarine | 518 | 25 November 1919 | scrapped November 1944 | |
| H44 | H | submarine | 518 | 15 April 1920 | scrapped February 1945 | |
| H49 | H | submarine | 518 | 25 October 1919 | sunk 18 October 1940 | |
| H50 | H | submarine | 518 | 3 February 1920 | scrapped July 1945 | |
| Ha-101 |  Imperial Japanese Navy
|
Ha-101 | transport submarine | 493 | 22 November 1944 | scrapped or scuttled October 1945 |
| Ha-102 | Ha-101 | transport submarine | 493 | 6 December 1944 | scrapped or scuttled October 1945 | |
| Ha-103 | Ha-101 | transport submarine | 493 | 3 February 1945 | scuttled 1 April 1946 | |
| Ha-104 | Ha-101 | transport submarine | 493 | 1 December 1944 | scuttled October 1945 | |
| Ha-105 | Ha-101 | transport submarine | 493 | 19 February 1945 | scuttled 1 April 1946 | |
| Ha-106 | Ha-101 | transport submarine | 493 | 15 December 1944 | scuttled 1 April 1946 | |
| Ha-107 | Ha-101 | transport submarine | 493 | 7 February 1945 | scuttled 1 April 1946 | |
| Ha-108 | Ha-101 | transport submarine | 493 | 6 May 1945 | scuttled 1 April 1946 | |
| Ha-109 | Ha-101 | transport submarine | 493 | 10 March 1945 | scuttled 1 April 1946 | |
| Ha-111 | Ha-101 | transport submarine | 493 | 13 July 1945 | scuttled 1 April 1946 | |
| Ha-201 | Imperial Japanese Navy
|
Ha-201 | submarine | 440 | 31 May 1945 | scuttled 1 April 1946 |
| Ha-202 | Ha-201 | submarine | 440 | 31 May 1945 | scuttled 1 April 1946 | |
| Ha-203 | Ha-201 | submarine | 440 | 20 June 1945 | scuttled 1 April 1946 | |
| Ha-204 | Ha-201 | submarine | 440 | 25 June 1945 | wrecked 29 October 1945 | |
| Ha-205 | Ha-201 | submarine | 440 | 3 July 1945 | scuttled 9 May 1946 | |
| Ha-207 | Ha-201 | submarine | 440 | 14 August 1945 | scuttled 5 April 1946 | |
| Ha-208 | Ha-201 | submarine | 440 | 4 August 1945 | scuttled 1 April 1946 | |
| Ha-209 | Ha-201 | submarine | 440 | 4 August 1945 | wrecked 18 August 1945 | |
| Ha-210 | Ha-201 | submarine | 440 | 11 August 1945 | scuttled 5 April 1946 | |
| Ha-216 | Ha-201 | submarine | 440 | 16 August 1945 | scuttled 5 April 1946 | |
| Haguro | Imperial Japanese Navy
|
Myoko | heavy cruiser | 13,300 | 25 April 1929 | sunk 16 May 1945 |
| Hai Chao |  Republic of China Navy
|
sloop | 1,250 | |||
| Hai Chen | gunship | 2,680 | ||||
| Hai Chi | cruiser | 4,300 | ||||
| Hai Chou | gunship | 2,680 | ||||
| Hai Yung | protected cruiser | 2,680 | ||||
| Haida |  Royal Canadian Navy
|
Tribal | destroyer | 2,020 | 30 August 1943 | paid off 11 October 1963; museum ship |
| Halford |  United States Navy
|
Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 10 April 1943 | decommissioned 15 May 1946; scrapped 2 April 1970 |
| Halifax | Royal Canadian Navy
|
Flower | corvette | 925 | 26 November 1941 | paid off 12 July 1945 |
| Hallowell | River | frigate | 1,445 | 8 August 1944 | paid off 7 November 1945 | |
| Hambledon | Royal Navy
|
Hunt | destroyer | 1,000 | 8 June 1940 | paid off December 1945, scrapped 1957 |
| Hambleton | United States Navy
|
Gleaves | destroyer | 1,630 | 22 December 1941 | decommissioned 1955, scrapped 1972 |
| Hamilton | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy
|
Town | destroyer | 1,060 | 23 September 1940 | to Canada June 1941 |
| Hammann | United States Navy
|
Sims | destroyer | 1,570 | 11 August 1939 | sunk 6 June 1942 |
| Hancock | Ticonderoga | aircraft carrier | 27,100 | 15 April 1944 | 30 January 1976 | |
| Hansa |  Nazi Germany
|
auxiliary cruiser | 9,138 | 2 February 1944 | scrapped 1971 | |
| Harder | United States Navy
|
Gato | submarine | 1,525 surfaced | 2 December 1942 | Sunk 24 August 1944 |
| Harding | Gleaves | destroyer | 1,630 | 25 May 1943 | scrapped 1947 | |
| Hardy (I) | Royal Navy
|
H | destroyer | 1,455 | 11 December 1936 | beached and capsized under attack 10 April 1940 |
| Hardy (II) | V | destroyer | 1,710 | August 1943 | sunk 30 January 1944 | |
| Harebell | Flower | corvette | 925 | |||
| Haruna | Imperial Japanese Navy
|
Kongō | battlecruiser | 31,660 | sunk 28 July 1945 | |
| Harvester | Royal Navy
|
Havant | destroyer | 1,340 | 23 May 1940 | sunk 11 March 1943 |
| Haste | United States Navy
|
Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 6 April 1943 | paid off 3 October 1945 |
| Hasty | Royal Navy
|
H | destroyer | 1,350 | 11 November 1936 | sunk 15 June 1942. |
| Havant | Havant | destroyer | 1,340 | 19 December 1939 | scuttled 1 June 1940 | |
| Havelock | Havant | destroyer | 1,340 | 10 February 1940 | scrapped October 1946 | |
| Havock | H | destroyer | 1,350 | 16 January 1937 | ran aground 6 April 1942 | |
| Hawkesbury | Royal Canadian Navy
|
Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 14 June 1944 | 10 July 1945 |
| Haydon | Royal Navy
|
Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,050 | 24 October 1942 | paid off and scrapped 1958 |
| Heartsease | Royal Navy United States Navy
|
Flower | corvette | 925 | 4 June 1940 | to USA 3 April 1942 as Courage, to UK 23 August 1945 |
| Heather | Royal Navy
|
Flower | corvette | 925 | 1 November 1940 | |
| Heermann | United States Navy
|
Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 6 July 1943 | transferred to Argentina 1961, scrapped 1982 |
| Hekla |  Royal Danish Navy
|
light cruiser hulk | 1,322 | |||
| Helena | United States Navy
|
St. Louis | light cruiser | 10,000 | 18 September 1939 | sunk 6 July 1943 |
| Heliotrope | Royal Navy United States Navy
|
Flower | corvette | 925 | 12 September 1940 | to USA as Surprise 24 March 1942, to UK 26 August 1945 |
| Helm | United States Navy
|
Bagley | destroyer | 1,500 | 16 October 1937 | scrapped 1947 |
| Hemlock | Royal Navy
|
Flower | corvette | 925 | ||
| Henley | United States Navy
|
Bagley | destroyer | 1,500 | 14 August 1937 | sunk 3 October 1943 |
| Hepatica | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy
|
Flower | corvette | 925 | 12 November 1940 | to Canada 15 May 1941, paid off 27 June 1945 |
| Hereward | Royal Navy
|
H | destroyer | 1,350 | 9 December 1936 | sunk 29 May 1941 |
| Hermes | aircraft carrier | 10,850 | 7 July 1923 | sunk 9 April 1942 | ||
| Herndon | United States Navy
|
Gleaves | destroyer | 1,630 | 20 December 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1973 |
| Hero | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy
|
H | destroyer | 1,350 | 23 October 1936 | to Canada 15 November 1943 as Chaudière, paid off 19 March 1946 |
| Hesperus | Royal Navy
|
Havant | destroyer | 1,340 | 22 January 1940 | scrapped November 1946 |
| Heythrop | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,050 | sunk 20 March 1942 | ||
| Hibiscus | Royal Navy United States Navy
|
Flower | corvette | 925 | 21 May 1940 | to USA as Spry 2 May 1942, to UK 26 August 1945 |
| Highlander | Royal Navy
|
Havant | destroyer | 1,340 | 18 March 1940 | scrapped May 1946 |
| Hindustan | Royal Indian Navy
|
Folkestone | sloop | 1,045 | 10 October 1930 | Transferred to Pakistan 1948, renamed Karsaz |
| Hiei | Imperial Japanese Navy
|
Kongō | battlecruiser | 36,600 | 1914 | sunk 14 November 1942 |
| Hilary P. Jones | United States Navy
|
Benson | destroyer | 1,620 | 6 September 1940 | to Taiwan 1954, scrapped 1974 |
| Hiryū | Imperial Japanese Navy
|
Sōryū | aircraft carrier | 17,300 | 5 July 1939 | sunk 5 June 1942 |
| Hiyō | Hiyō | aircraft carrier | 24,140 | 31 July 1942 | sunk 20 June 1944 | |
| Hobart |  Royal Australian Navy
|
modified Leander | light cruiser | 6,980 | 28 September 1938 | scrapped 1962 |
| Hobby | United States Navy
|
Benson | destroyer | 1,620 | 18 November 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1972 |
| Hobson | Gleaves | destroyer | 1,630 | 22 January 1942 | sunk in collision 1952 | |
| Hoel | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,100 | 19 July 1943 | sunk 25 October 1944, Battle off Samar | |
| Hoggatt Bay | Casablanca | escort carrier | 7,800 | 11 January 1944 | decommissioned 20 July 1946, scrapped 1960 | |
| Holderness | Royal Navy
|
Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,000 | 10 August 1940 | paid off 1956, scrapped 1956 |
| Hollandia | United States Navy
|
Casablanca | escort carrier | 7,800 | 1 June 1944 | decommissioned 17 January 1947, scrapped 1961 |
| Hollyhock | Royal Navy
|
Flower | corvette | 925 | 19 November 1940 | 9 April 1942 |
| Honesty | Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 28 May 1943 | scrapped 1961 | |
| Honeysuckle | Flower | corvette | 925 | 14 September 1940 | ||
| Honolulu | United States Navy
|
Brooklyn | light cruiser | 9,650 | 15 June 1938 | scrapped 1959 |
| Hood | Royal Navy
|
Admiral | battlecruiser | 42,100 | 5 March 1920 | sunk 24 May 1941 |
| Hornet (I) | United States Navy
|
Yorktown | aircraft carrier | 26,500 | 25 October 1941 | sunk 27 October 1942 |
| Hornet (II) | Essex | aircraft carrier | 27,100 | 29 November 1943 | decommissioned 26 June 1970; museum ship | |
| Hōshō | Imperial Japanese Navy
|
aircraft carrier | 7,470 | 27 December 1922 | scrapped 1947 | |
| Hostile | Royal Navy
|
H | destroyer | 1,350 | 10 September 1936 | scuttled 23 August 1940 |
| Hotspur | H | destroyer | 1,350 | 29 December 1936 | to Dominican Republic after war | |
| Hogue | Battle | destroyer | 2,325 | 24 July 1945 | constructive loss 25 August 1962 | |
| Houston (I) | United States Navy
|
Northampton | heavy cruiser | 9,200 | 17 June 1930 | sunk 1 March 1942 |
| Houston (II) | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 20 December 1943 | scrapped 1959 | |
| Hova |  Free French Naval Forces
|
Cannon | destroyer escort | 1,240 | 18 March 1944 | Decommissioned May 1964 |
| Howe | Royal Navy
|
King George V | battleship | 35,000 | 28 September 1942 | scrapped 1958 |
| Huáscar |  Chilean Navy
|
ironclad | 1,870 | 1866 | Museum ship | |
| Hughes | United States Navy
|
Sims | destroyer | 1,570 | 21 September 1939 | scuttled after A-bomb test 1948 |
| Hull | Farragut | destroyer | 1,365 | 11 January 1935 | foundered in typhoon 18 December 1944 | |
| Humaytá |  Brazil
|
Humaytá | submarine | 1,440 | 20 July 1929 | Decommissioned 25 November 1950 |
| Hunter | Royal Navy
|
H | destroyer | 1,350 | 30 September 1936 | sunk 10 April 1940 |
| Huron | Royal Canadian Navy
|
Tribal | destroyer | 1,927 | 19 July 1943 | scrapped 1965 |
| Hurricane | Royal Navy
|
Havant | destroyer | 1,340 | 21 June 1940 | sunk 24 December 1943 |
| Hursley | Royal Navy Hellenic Navy
|
Hunt | destroyer | 1,050 | 2 April 1942 | to Greece 2 November 1943 as Kriti, scrapped April 1960 |
| Hurworth | Royal Navy
|
Hunt | destroyer | 1,050 | 5 October 1941 | sunk 22 October 1943 |
| Hvidbjørnen | Royal Danish Navy
|
patrol boat | 1,050 | |||
| Hyacinth | Royal Navy Hellenic Navy
|
Flower | corvette | 925 | 2 October 1940 | to Greece as Apostolis 24 October 1943, out of service 1952 |
| Hyatt | Chilean Navy
|
Serrano | destroyer | 1,090 | Discarded 1963 | |
| Hyderabad | Royal Navy
|
Flower | corvette | 925 | 23 February 1942 | |
| Hydra | Hellenic Navy
|
Kountouriotis | destroyer | 1,350 | 1933 | sunk 22 April 1941 |
| Hydrangea | Royal Navy
|
Flower | corvette | 925 | 3 January 1941 | |
| Hyperion | H | destroyer | 1,350 | 3 December 1936 | sunk 22 December 1940 | |
| Hyūga | Imperial Japanese Navy
|
Ise | battleship | 36,000 | 11 April 1913 | sunk 27 July 1945 |
References
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- ^ "US Navy Inactive Classification Symbols". Naval Vessel Register. NAVSEA Shipbuilding Support Office. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ^ "Index". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
- ^ "Royal Navy operations in the Second World War". The National Archives. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
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