List of ships of the Second World War (A)
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This is a list of ships of the Second World War ships starting with A. Submarines show submerged displacement. Dates are year_month_day to allow ordering. Click on headers to sort column alphabetically. [1][2][3][4]
Ship | Country | Class | Type | Displacement (tons) | First commissioned | Fate |
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Aaron Ward (DD-483) | United States Navy | Gleaves | destroyer | 1,630 | 4 March 1942 | Sunk 7 April 1943[5] |
Aaron Ward (DM-34) | United States Navy | Smith | minelayer destroyer | 2,200 | 28 October 1944 | constructive loss 30 April 1945, scrapped 1946 |
Abbot (DD-629) | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 23 April 1943 | Decommissioned 1965, scrapped 1975[6] |
Abdiel | Royal Navy | Abdiel | minelayer | 2,650 | 15 April 1941 | Sunk 10 September 1943[7] |
Abelia | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 3 February 1941 | constructive loss 9 January 1944[8] |
Abercrombie | Royal Navy | Roberts-class monitor | 8,536 | 5 May 1943 | Scrapped 1954[9] | |
Abercrombie | United States Navy | Butler | destroyer escort | 1,350 | 1 May 1944 | Decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1968 |
Abner Read | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 5 February 1943 | Sunk 1 November 1944 |
Abukuma | Imperial Japanese Navy | Nagara-class light cruiser | 5,088 | 26 May 1925 | Sunk 26 October 1944[10] | |
Acasta | Royal Navy | A | destroyer | 1,350 | 11 February 1930 | Sunk 8 June 1940[11] |
Acavus | Royal Navy | Rapana | merchant aircraft carrier | 8,010 | October 1943 | Returned to merchant service post-war |
Achates | Royal Navy | A | destroyer | 1,350 | 27 March 1930 | Sunk 31 December 1942 |
Acheron | Royal Navy | A | destroyer | 1,350 | 13 October 1931 | Sunk 17 December 1940 |
Achilles | Royal Navy Royal New Zealand Navy |
Leander-class light cruiser | 7,270 | 6 October 1933 | sold to India 1948 | |
Aconit | French Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 23 July 1941 | 30 April 1947 |
Acree | United States Navy | Cannon | destroyer escort | 1,240 | 19 July 1943 | Decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1973 |
Action | United States Navy | Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 22 November 1942 | 6 September 1945 |
Active | Royal Navy | A | destroyer | 1,350 | 9 February 1930 | Scrapped 1947 |
Adams | United States Navy | Smith | minelayer destroyer | 2,200 | 10 October 1944 | Decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1971 |
Adelaide | Royal Australian Navy | Birmingham light cruiser | 5,550 | 5 August 1922 | Scrapped 1949 | |
Admiral Graf Spee | Kriegsmarine | Deutschland-class cruiser | 12,103 | 6 January 1936 | scuttled 17 December 1939 | |
Admiral Hipper | Kriegsmarine | Admiral Hipper-class cruiser | 14,000 | 25 April 1939 | Scuttled 2 May 1945 | |
Admiral Scheer | Kriegsmarine | Deutschland-class cruiser | 12,100 | 12 November 1934 | Sunk 9 April 1945 | |
Admiralty Islands | United States Navy | Casablanca | escort carrier | 7,800 | 13 June 1944 | Scrapped 1947 |
Adrias | Hellenic Navy | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,050 | 5 August 1942 | damaged by mine 22 October 1943, scrapped 1945 |
Adula | Royal Navy | Rapana | merchant aircraft carrier | 16,000 | February 1944 | Returned to merchant service post-war |
Aetos | Hellenic Navy | Wild Beast | destroyer | 1,030 | 19 October 1912 | Decommissioned 1946 |
Afridi | Royal Navy | Tribal | destroyer | 2,020 | 3 May 1938 | Sunk 3 May 1940 |
Agano | Imperial Japanese Navy | Agano-class light cruiser | 6,650 | 31 October 1942 | Sunk 15 February 1944 | |
Agassiz | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 23 January 1941 | paid off 14 June 1945 |
Ahrens | United States Navy | Buckley | destroyer escort | 1,400 | 12 February 1944 | Decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1967 |
Airedale | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,050 | sunk June 1942 | |
Ajax | Royal Navy | Leander-class light cruiser | 7,220 | 3 June 1935 | Scrapped 1949 | |
Akagi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Amani | aircraft carrier | 36,500 | 27 March 1927 | Sunk 5 June 1942 |
Akizuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akizuki | destroyer | 2,700 | 11 June 1942 | Sunk 25 October 1944 |
Alabama | United States Navy | South Dakota | battleship | 35,000 | 16 August 1942 | Decommissioned 9 January 1947, museum ship |
Alacrity | United States Navy | Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 10 December 1942 | 4 October 1945 |
Alaska | United States Navy | Alaska-class large cruiser | 27,500 | 17 June 1944 | Scrapped 1960 | |
Albatross | Royal Navy | seaplane carrier | 6,350 | 29 September 1938 | torpedoed 1944, not repaired, scrapped 1954 | |
Albatros | Kriegsmarine | 1923 Raubvogel-class torpedo boat | 1,290 | 5 May 1927 | Beached 10 April 1940 | |
Alberico da Barbiano | Regia Marina | Giussano-class light cruiser | 5,200 | 9 June 1931 | Sunk 13 December 1941 | |
Alberni | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 4 February 1941 | sunk on 21 August 1944 by U-480 |
Albert T. Harris | United States Navy | Butler | destroyer escort | 1,350 | 29 November 1944 | Sunk as target 1969 |
Albert W. Grant | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 24 November 1943 | Decommissioned 1971, scrapped 1972 |
Alberto di Giussano | Regia Marina | Giussano-class light cruiser | 5,200 | 1 January 1931 | Sunk 13 December 1941 | |
Albrighton | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,050 | 22 February 1942 | paid off 6 January 1956 |
Alcantara | Royal Navy | Armed merchant cruiser | 22,181 | 20 Dec 1939 | Scrapped 1958 | |
Aldea | Chilean Navy | Serrano | destroyer | 1,090 | 26 July 1929 | Discarded 1957 |
Alden | United States Navy | Clemson | destroyer | 1,250 | 24 November 1919 | Scrapped 30 November 1945 |
Aldenham | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,050 | 5 February 1942 | sunk 14 December 1944 |
Alexander J. Luke | United States Navy | Buckley | destroyer escort | 1,400 | 19 February 1944 | Decommissioned 1947, sunk as target 1970 |
Alfred A. Cunningham | United States Navy | Sumner | destroyer | 2,200 | 23 November 1944 | Decommissioned 1971, sunk as target 1979 |
Alger | United States Navy Brazilian Navy |
Cannon | destroyer escort | 1,240 | 12 November 1943 | To Brazil 10 March 1945 as Babitonga, scrapped 1964 |
Algérie | French Navy | Heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 15 September 1934 | scuttled 27 November 1942 | |
Algérien | Free French Naval Forces | Cannon | destroyer escort | 1,240 | 23 January 1944 | to France after war, scrapped November 1965 |
Algoma | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 11 July 1941 | paid off 6 July 1945 |
Algonquin | Royal Canadian Navy | V | destroyer | 2,700 | 28 February 1944 | paid off 1 April 1970 |
Alisma | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 13 February 1941 | [12] |
Allen M. Sumner | United States Navy | Sumner | destroyer | 2,200 | 26 January 1944 | Scrapped 1974 |
Almirante Brown | Argentine Navy | Veinticinco de Mayo-class cruiser | 6,800 | 11 July 1931 | Scrapped 1962 | |
Almirante Condell | Chilean Navy | Almirante Lynch | destroyer | 1,430 | January 1914 | Decommissioned 1945 |
Almirante Latorre | Chilean Navy | Almirante Latorre | super dreadnought | 28,550 | 1 August 1920 | Scrapped 1959 |
Almirante Lynch | Chilean Navy | Almirante Lynch | destroyer | 1,430 | 1913 | Decommissioned 1945 |
Almirante Simpson | Chilean Navy | Capitan O'Brien-class submarine | 2,020 | 1929 | Discarded 1957 | |
Altamaha | United States Navy | Bogue | escort carrier | 7,900 | 15 September 1942 | Scrapped 1946 |
Alvin C. Cockrell | United States Navy | Butler | destroyer escort | 1,350 | 7 October 1944 | Sunk as target 1969 |
Alysse | French Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 17 June 1941 | 9 February 1942 |
Amagi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Unryū | aircraft carrier | 17,150 | 10 August 1944 | Sunk 27 July 1945 |
Amaranthus | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 12 February 1941 | |
Amastra | Royal Navy | Rapana | merchant aircraft carrier | 16,000 | September 1943 | Returned to merchant service post-war; renamed Idas |
Amazon | Royal Navy | prototype | destroyer | 1,350 | 5 May 1927 | Scrapped 25 October 1948 |
Ambuscade | Royal Navy | prototype | destroyer | 1,173 | 15 March 1927 | Scrapped 1946 |
Ameer | Royal Navy | Ruler | escort carrier | 11,400 | 20 July 1943 | paid off 20 March 1946, scrapped 1969 |
Amesbury | United States Navy | Buckley | destroyer escort | 1,400 | 31 August 1943 | sold for scrap, sank under tow 1962 |
Amethyst | Royal Navy | Black Swan | Sloop | 1,350 | 2 November 1943 | Scrapped 19 January 1957 |
Amherst | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 5 August 1941 | paid off 16 July 1945 |
Amick | United States Navy | Cannon | destroyer escort | 1,240 | 26 July 1943 | To Japan 1955, to Philippines 1976, scrapped 1989 |
Amiral Murgescu | Romanian Naval Forces | Amiral Murgescu | minelayer | 812 | 14 June 1939 | To Romania 1939, to Soviet Union 1944, scrapped 1989 |
Ammen | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 12 March 1943 | Scrapped 1960 |
Amsterdam | United States Navy | Cleveland-class light cruiser | 11,800 | 8 January 1945 | Scrapped 1971 | |
Anchusa | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 1 March 1941 | |
Ancylus | Royal Navy | Rapana | merchant aircraft carrier | 16,000 | October 1943 | |
Andenes | Royal Norwegian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 1 October 1941 | |
Anderson | United States Navy | Sims | destroyer | 1,570 | 19 May 1939 | Sunk in A-bomb test 1946 |
Andrea Doria | Regia Marina | Andrea Dorea | battleship | 25,920 | 13 March 1916 | Scrapped 1956 |
Andres | United States Navy | Evarts | destroyer escort | 1,140 | 15 March 1943 | Scrapped 1946 |
Anemone | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 12 August 1940 | [13] |
Annan | Royal Canadian Navy | River | frigate | 1,445 | 13 January 1944 | paid off 20 June 1945 |
Annapolis | Royal Canadian Navy | Town | destroyer | 1,190 | 24 September 1940 | paid off 4 June 1945 |
Anson | Royal Navy | King George V | battleship | 35,000 | 22 June 1942 | Scrapped 1957 |
Antelope | Royal Navy | A | destroyer | 1,350 | 20 March 1930 | Scrapped 1946 |
Anthony (H40) | Royal Navy | A | destroyer | 1,350 | 14 February 1930 | Scrapped 1948 |
Anthony (DD-515) | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 26 February 1943 | To West Germany 1958, sunk as target 1979 |
Antietam | United States Navy | Ticonderoga | aircraft carrier | 30,800 | 28 January 1945 | Decommissioned 8 May 1963, scrapped 1974 |
Antigonish | Royal Canadian Navy | River | frigate | 1,445 | 4 July 1944 | paid off 30 November 1966 |
Antiquois | Colombian Navy | Guadiana | destroyer | 1,219 | former Douro (Portugal) | |
Aoba | Imperial Japanese Navy | Aoba-class heavy cruiser | 5,088 | 20 September 1927 | Sunk 28 July 1945 | |
Apollo | Royal Navy | Abdiel | minelayer | 2,650 | 9 October 1943 | Scrapped 1962 |
Aquila | Regia Marina | aircraft carrier | 23,500 | not completed | Scrapped 1952 | |
Arabis (I) | Royal Navy United States Navy |
Flower | corvette | 925 | 5 April 1940 | to USA 30 April 1942, to UK 26 August 1945 |
Arabis (II) | Royal New Zealand Navy | Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 16 March 1944 | paid off 1948 |
Arbiter | Royal Navy | Ruler | escort carrier | 7,800 | 31 December 1943 | paid off 12 April 1946, scrapped 1972 |
Arbutus (I) | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 12 October 1940 | sunk on 5 February 1942 by U-136[13] |
Arbutus (II) | Royal New Zealand Navy | Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 5 July 1944 | paid off 1948 |
Archer | Royal Navy | Avenger | escort carrier | 8,200 | 17 November 1941 | paid off 6 November 1943, scrapped 1962 |
Arcona | Kriegsmarine | Floating anti-aircraft battery (former light cruiser) | 2,657 | 18 May 1901 | Scrapped 1948/1949 | |
Ardent | Royal Navy | A | destroyer | 1,350 | 14 April 1930 | Sunk 8 June 1940[11] |
Argus | Royal Navy | aircraft carrier | 14,860 | September 1918 | Scrapped 1946 | |
Ariadne | Royal Navy | Abdiel | minelayer | 2,650 | 12 February 1944 | Scrapped 1965 |
Ariguani (F105) | Royal Navy | fighter catapult ship | 1940 | 1943 | ||
Arizona | United States Navy | Pennsylvania | super dreadnought | 32,600 | 17 October 1916 | Sunk 7 December 1941, war memorial |
Arkansas | United States Navy | Wyoming | battleship | 26,100 | 17 September 1912 | Sunk 25 July 1946 in A-bomb test |
Ark Royal | Royal Navy | aircraft carrier | 22,000 | 16 December 1938 | Sunk 14 November 1941 | |
Armada | Royal Navy | Battle | destroyer | 2,325 | 2 July 1945 | paid off 1960, scrapped 1965 |
Armando Diaz | Regia Marina | Luigi Cadorna-class light cruiser | 5,316 | 29 April 1933 | Sunk 25 February 1941 | |
Armeria | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 28 March 1941 | |
Arrow | Royal Navy | A | destroyer | 1,350 | 14 April 1930 | Irreparably damaged, 1944 |
Arrowhead | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy |
Flower | corvette | 925 | 22 November 1940 | to Canada 15 May 1941, paid off 27 June 1945 |
Arteveld | Belgian Navy | patrol boat | 1,640 | Commissioned as Lorelei (Germany) | ||
Arunta | Royal Australian Navy | Tribal | destroyer | 2,020 | 30 March 1942 | Scrapped 1968 |
Arvida | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 22 May 1941 | paid off 14 June 1945 |
Asbestos | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 16 June 1944 | 8 July 1945 |
Ashanti | Royal Navy | Tribal | destroyer | 2,020 | 21 December 1938 | Scrapped 1949 |
Ashigara | Imperial Japanese Navy | Myoko-class heavy cruiser | 13,300 | 20 August 1929 | Sunk 8 June 1945 | |
Asphodel | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 11 September 1940[13] | sunk 10 March 1944 by U-575 de:U 575 [14] |
Assiniboine | Royal Canadian Navy | C | destroyer | 1,390 | 30 May 1932 | transferred to RCN 19 October 1939, paid off 8 August 1945 |
Aster | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 9 April 1941 | |
Astoria (CA-34) | United States Navy | New Orleans-class | heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 28 April 1934 | Sunk 9 August 1942 Battle of Savo Island |
Astoria (CL-90) | United States Navy | Cleveland-class | light cruiser | 11,800 | 17 May 1944 | Scrapped 1971 |
Atago | Imperial Japanese Navy | Takao-class heavy cruiser | 14,616 | 30 March 1932 | Sunk 23 October 1944 | |
Athabaskan | Royal Canadian Navy | Tribal | destroyer | 2,020 | 3 February 1943 | Sunk 29 April 1944 |
Atheling | Royal Navy | Ruler | escort carrier | 7,800 | 28 October 1943 | paid off 6 December 1946, scrapped 1967 |
Atherstone | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,000 | 23 March 1940 | paid off 23 September 1945, scrapped 1957 |
Atherton | United States Navy | Cannon | destroyer escort | 1,240 | 29 August 1943 | To Japan 1955, to Philippines 1976, active as of 2012 |
Atholl | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 14 October 1943 | 17 July 1945 |
Atlanta (CL-51) | United States Navy | Atlanta-class light cruiser | 6,000 | 24 December 1941 | Sunk 13 November 1942 Guadalcanal | |
Atlanta (CL-104) | United States Navy | Cleveland-class light cruiser | 11,800 | 3 December 1944 | Sunk as target 1970 | |
Atlantis | Kriegsmarine | auxiliary cruiser | 7,862 | 19 December 1939 | Sunk 21 November 1941 | |
Attacker | Royal Navy | Attacker | escort carrier | 11,400 | 30 September 1942 | paid off 5 January 1946, scrapped 24 May 1980 |
Attilio Regolo | Regia Marina | Capitani Romani-class light cruiser (also known as exploratori oceanici) | 3,750 | August 1942 | ceded to France 1948 | |
Attu | United States Navy | Casablanca | escort carrier | 7,800 | 30 June 1944 | Scrapped 1947 |
Aubretia | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 23 December 1940 | [13] |
Augusta | United States Navy | Northampton-class heavy cruiser | 9,200 | 30 January 1931 | Scrapped 1960 | |
Aulick (DD-569) | United States Navy | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 27 October 1942 | To Greece 1959, scrapped 1997 |
Ault | United States Navy | Sumner | destroyer | 2,200 | 31 May 1944 | Scrapped 1974 |
Auricula | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 5 March 1941 | 6 May 1942[13] |
Aurora | Soviet Navy | Protected cruiser | 6,731 | 29 July 1903 | In 1957 became a museum ship. | |
Austin | United States Navy | Evarts | destroyer escort | 1,140 | 13 February 1943 | Scrapped 1947 |
Australia | Royal Australian Navy | County-class heavy cruiser | 9,850 | 24 April 1928 | Scrapped 1955 | |
Avenger | Royal Navy | Avenger | escort carrier | 8,200 | 2 March 1942 | Sunk 15 November 1942 |
Avon Vale | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer escort | 1,050 | 17 February 1941 | scrapped 1958 |
Ayanami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Fubuki | destroyer | 2,090 | 30 April 1930 | Sunk 15 November 1942 |
Aylwin | United States Navy | Farragut | destroyer | 1,365 | 1 March 1935 | Scrapped 1947 |
Azalea | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 27 January 1941 |
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- ↑ "US Navy Inactive Classification Symbols". Naval Vessel Register. NAVSEA Shipbuilding Support Office. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ↑ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Index
- ↑ Archives, The National. "Royal Navy operations in the Second World War - The National Archives". The National Archives. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
- ↑ "USS Aaron Ward DD-483". Destroyer History Foundation. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ↑ "United States Ship Abbot (DD 629), 1943-74". Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ↑ Mason, Geoffrey B. "HMS ABDIEL - Abdiel-class Fast Cruiser Minelayer". naval-history.net. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ↑ HMS Arbutus (K 86) (British Corvette) - Ships hit by German U-boats during WWII - uboat.net
- ↑ Mason, Geoffrey B. "HMS ABERCROMBIE - Roberts-class 15in gun Monitor". naval-history.net. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ↑ Hackett, Bob; Kingsepp, Sander. "HIJMS ABUKUMA: Tabular Record of Movement". combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
- 1 2 Asmussen, John. "Scharnhorst - The History; Operation "Juno"". Retrieved 19 October 2012.
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