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    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.

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    List of ships of World War II (S)
    Ship Country or organization Class Type Displacement (tons) First commissioned Fate
    Sackville  Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 30 December 1941 paid off 8 April 1946
    Safari  Royal Navy S submarine 814 14 March 1942 sank under tow 8 January 1946
    Saginaw Bay  United States Navy Casablanca escort carrier 7,800 2 March 1944 decommissioned 19 June 1946, scrapped 1960
    Saguenay  Royal Canadian Navy A destroyer 1,337 21 May 1931 paid up July 1945
    Sahib  Royal Navy S submarine 814 13 May 1942 sunk 24 April 1943
    Saint John  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 13 December 1943 paid off 27 November 1945
    Saintes  Royal Navy Battle destroyer 2,325 27 September 1946 paid off May 1962, scrapped 1972
    Sakura  Imperial Japanese Navy Matsu destroyer 1,262 25 November 1944 sunk by mine 11 July 1945
    Salamaua  United States Navy Casablanca escort carrier 7,800 26 May 1944 decommissioned 9 May 1946, scrapped 1947
    Salerno Bay Commencement Bay escort carrier 10,900 19 May 1945 scrapped October 1961
    Salisbury  Royal Navy
     Royal Canadian Navy     		Town destroyer 1,190 5 December 1940 to Canada September 1942, paid off 10 December 1943, scrapped 1944
    Salmon  Royal Navy S submarine 670 8 March 1935 sunk 9 July 1940
    Salt Lake City  United States Navy Pensacola heavy cruiser 9,100 11 December 1929 sunk as target 1948
    Salvia  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 20 September 1940 sunk on 24 December 1941 by U-568
    Samphire Flower corvette 925 30 June 1941 30 January 1943
    Sampson  United States Navy Somers destroyer 1,850 19 August 1938 scrapped 1946
    Samuel B. Roberts Butler destroyer escort 1,370 28 April 1944 sunk 25 October 1944 during the Battle off Samar
    San Diego Atlanta light cruiser 6,000 10 January 1942 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1960
    San Francisco New Orleans heavy cruiser 9,950 10 February 1934 Decommissioned 10 February 1946, scrapped 1959
    San Giorgio  Regia Marina San Giorgio heavy cruiser 10,167 1 July 1910 decommissioned 22 January 1941
    San Jacinto  United States Navy Independence light aircraft carrier 11,000 15 November 1943 decommissioned 1 March 1947, scrapped 1972
    San Juan  Argentine Navy Buenos Aires destroyer 1,375 23 March 1938 Discarded 1973
    San Juan  United States Navy Atlanta light cruiser 6,000 28 February 1942 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1961
    San Luis  Argentine Navy Buenos Aires destroyer 1,375 23 March 1938 Discarded 3 May 1971
    Sangamon  United States Navy Sangamon escort carrier 24,275 25 August 1942 decommissioned 24 October 1945, scrapped August 1960
    Santa Cruz  Argentine Navy Buenos Aires destroyer 1,375 26 September 1938 Discarded 1973
    Santa Fe  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 24 November 1942 scrapped 1959
    Santee Sangamon escort carrier 24,275 24 August 1942 decommissioned 21 October 1946, scrapped 1960
    São Paulo  Brazilian Navy Minas Geraes battleship 19,200 12 July 1910 Sold 1951
    Saracen  Royal Navy S submarine 814 27 June 1942 sunk 14 August 1943
    Saratoga  United States Navy Lexington aircraft carrier 33,000 16 November 1927 sunk as a target 1946
    Sargent Bay Casablanca escort carrier 7,800 9 March 1944 decommissioned 23 June 1946, scrapped 1959
    Saskatoon  Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 9 June 1941 paid off 25 June 1945
    Satterlee  United States Navy Gleaves destroyer 1,630 1 July 1943 Decommissioned 16 March 1946, scrapped 1972
    Satyr  Royal Navy S submarine 814 8 February 1943 to French Navy February 1952
    Saumarez S destroyer 1,710 1 July 1943 scrapped 1950
    Sava  Royal Yugoslav Navy Temes river monitor 440 15 April 1920 paid off 1962
    Savage  Royal Navy S destroyer 1,710 8 June 1943 scrapped 1962
    Savannah  United States Navy Brooklyn light cruiser 9,475 10 March 1938 scrapped 1966
    Savo Island Casablanca escort carrier 7,800 3 February 1944 decommissioned 12 December 1946, scrapped 1960
    Saxifrage  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 6 February 1942
    Sceptre  Royal Navy S submarine 814 April 1943 paid off February 1947
    Scharnhorst  Kriegsmarine Scharnhorst battleship 32,000 7 January 1939 sunk 26 December 1943
    Schlesien Deutschland battleship 14,218 5 May 1908 blown up 4 May 1945
    Schleswig-Holstein Deutschland battleship 14,218 6 July 1908 scrapped after 1946
    Shubrick  United States Navy Gleaves destroyer 1,630 7 February 1943 scrapped 1947
    Scipione Africano  Regia Marina Capitani Romani light cruiser (also known as exploratori oceanici) 3,750 September 1942 to France as war reparations 1947; struck 1961; scrapped 1979
    Scorpion  Royal Navy S destroyer 1,710 11 May 1943 paid off 16 August 1945
    Scourge S destroyer 1,710 14 July 1943 to Netherlands 1 February 1946
    Scylla Dido anti-aircraft cruiser 5,600 12 June 1942 declared constructive total loss 23 June 1944, scrapped May 1950
    Sea Cliff  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 26 September 1944 paid off 28 November 1945
    Seadog  Royal Navy S submarine 814 24 September 1942 paid off 24 December 1947
    Sealion S submarine 670 16 March 1934 scuttled 13 March 1945
    Sea Nymph S submarine 814 3 November 1942 paid off 1945; scrapped 1948
    Searcher Ruler escort carrier 14,400 3 April 1943 paid off 1945; sold 1952; scrapped April 1976
    Sea Rover S submarine 814 7 July 1943 paid off October 1949
    Seawolf S submarine 670 12 March 1936 scrapped 1946
    Seeadler  Kriegsmarine Raubvogel torpedo boat 1,290 1 May 1927 sunk 13 May 1942
    Selfridge  United States Navy Porter destroyer 1,850 25 November 1936 scrapped 1947
    Semmes Clemson destroyer 1,250 21 February 1920 scrapped 25 November 1946
    Sendai  Imperial Japanese Navy Sendai light cruiser 5,195 29 April 1924 sunk 2 November 1943
    Seraph  Royal Navy S submarine 814 27 June 1942 paid off 25 October 1962
    Serapis S destroyer 1,710 1943 to Netherlands in October 1943 as Piet Hein; broken up 1962
    Serrano  Chilean Navy Serrano destroyer 1,090 1928 1962
    Seydlitz  Kriegsmarine Enlarged Admiral Hipper heavy cruiser 14,680 not completed became Weser (Germany)
    Sęp  Polish Navy Orzeł submarine 1,100 16 April 1939 decommissioned 15 September 1969
    Shah  Royal Navy Ruler escort carrier 11,400 27 September 1943 paid off 7 February 1946
    Shakespeare S submarine 814 10 July 1942 paid off 14 July 1946
    Shamrock Bay  United States Navy Casablanca escort carrier 7,800 15 March 1944 decommissioned 6 July 1946, scrapped 1958
    Shangri-La Essex aircraft carrier 30,800 15 September 1944 decommissioned 30 July 1971, scrapped 1988
    Shark  Royal Navy S submarine 670 31 December 1934 sunk 6 July 1940
    Shaw  United States Navy Mahan destroyer 1,450 18 September 1936 scrapped 1946
    Shawinigan  Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 19 September 1941 sunk 25 November 1944
    Shediac Flower corvette 925 8 July 1941 paid off 28 August 1945
    Sherbrooke Flower corvette 925 5 June 1941 paid off 28 June 1945
    Shillong  Royal Indian Navy Basset minesweeper 529 1941–1944 1941–1944
    Shinano  Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier 64,800 19 November 1944 sunk 29 November 1944
    Shin'yō  Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier 17,500 15 November 1943 sunk 17 November 1944
    Shipley Bay  United States Navy Casablanca escort carrier 7,800 21 March 1944 decommissioned 28 June 1946, scrapped 1960
    Shōhō  Imperial Japanese Navy Zuihō aircraft carrier 11,260 30 November 1941 sunk 8 May 1942
    Shōkaku Shōkaku aircraft carrier 25,675 8 August 1941 sunk 19 June 1944
    Siboney  United States Navy Commencement Bay escort carrier 10,900 14 May 1945 scrapped 1971
    Sibyl  Royal Navy S submarine 814 16 August 1942 scrapped 1948
    Sickle S submarine 814 1 December 1942 likely sunk June 1944
    Sikh Tribal destroyer 2,020 12 October 1938 sunk 17 January 1941
    Simoom S submarine 814 30 December 1942 sunk November 1943
    Sims  United States Navy Sims destroyer 1,570 1 August 1939 sunk 7 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea
    Sioux  Royal Canadian Navy V destroyer 1,710 14 September 1943 paid off 30 October 1963
    Sirdar  Royal Navy S submarine 814 20 September 1943 scrapped 1965
    Sirène  French Navy Sirène submarine 599 12 March 1927 Scuttled 27 November 1942
    Sitkoh Bay  United States Navy Casablanca escort carrier 7,800 28 March 1944 decommissioned 27 July 1954, scrapped 1960
    Skagerak  Kriegsmarine minelayer 1,281 1940 former Norwegian merchant ship Skagerrak I; sunk 20 January 1944 by Bristol Beaufighters of No. 489 Squadron RNZAF
    Skeena  Royal Canadian Navy A destroyer 1,350 10 June 1931 sunk 25 October 1944
    Ślązak  Polish Navy Hunt destroyer 1,050 9 May 1942 paid off 28 September 1946.
    Slinger  Royal Navy Ruler escort carrier 8,333 11 August 1943 paid off 12 April 1946, scrapped 1969/70
    Sluys Battle destroyer 2,325 30 September 1946 paid off 1953
    Smilax Flower modified corvette 1,015 21 June 1943 paid off 9 October 1945
    Smiths Falls  Royal Canadian Navy Flower modified corvette 1,015 28 November 1944 8 July 1945
    Smiter  Royal Navy Ruler escort carrier 7,800 20 January 1944 paid off 6 May 1946, scrapped 1967
    Smith  United States Navy Mahan destroyer 1,450 19 September 1936 scrapped 1946
    Snapper  Royal Navy S submarine 670 25 October 1934 sunk February 1941
    Snowberry  Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 26 November 1940 paid off 8 June 1945
    Snowdrop  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 30 July 1941 sold May 1947; scrapped September 1949
    Snowflake Flower corvette 925 2 November 1941 Sold 1947, converted to weather ship; scrapped May 1962
    Soemba  Royal Netherlands Navy Flores gunboat 1,457 12 April 1926 scrapped June/July 1985
    Soerabaja  Royal Netherlands Navy
     Imperial Japanese Navy     		De Zeven Provinciën coastal defence ship 6,530 6 October 1910 Sunk 18 February 1942, salvaged in 1942 by Imperial Japanese Navy and used as a battery ship, sunk in 1943 by Allied aircraft
    Solebay  Royal Navy Battle destroyer 2,325 25 September 1945 paid off April 1962, scrapped 1967
    Sollum  Egypt Anchusa sloop 1,290 1920
    Solomons  United States Navy Casablanca escort carrier 7,800 21 November 1943 decommissioned 15 May 1946, scrapped 1947
    Somali  Royal Navy Tribal destroyer 2,020 12 December 1938 sunk 24 September 1942
    Somali  Free French Naval Forces Cannon destroyer 1,240 9 April 1944 Disarmed 1956, used as an experimental vessel
    Somers  United States Navy Somers destroyer 1,850 1 December 1937 scrapped 1947
    Sorel  Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 19 August 1941 paid off 22 June 1945
    Sōryū  Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier 15,900 29 January 1937 sunk 4 June 1942
    South Dakota  United States Navy South Dakota battleship 35,000 20 March 1942 decommissioned 31 January 1947, scrapped 1962
    Southampton  Royal Navy Southampton light cruiser 9,100 6 March 1937 bombed and scuttled 11 January 1941
    Southdown Hunt destroyer 1,050 8 November 1940 paid off 1946, scrapped 1956
    Southwold Hunt destroyer 1,050 9 October 1941 sunk 24 March 1942
    Speaker Ruler escort carrier 8,333 20 November 1943 paid off 25 September 1946, scrapped 1972
    Spearfish S submarine 670 11 December 1936 sunk 1 August 1940
    Spetsai  Hellenic Navy Kountouriotis destroyer 1,350 1933 decommissioned 1946
    Spikenard  Royal Navy
     Royal Canadian Navy     		Flower corvette 925 6 December 1940 to Canada 15 May 1941, sunk on 11 February 1942 by U-136
    Spiraea  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 27 February 1941 Sold to Greece as Thessaloniki. August 1945
    Spiteful S submarine 814 6 October 1943 scrapped 1963
    Splendid S submarine 814 8 August 1942 scuttled 21 April 1943
    Sportsman S submarine 814 21 December 1942 to the French Navy on 8 July 1952
    Springbank Pegasus fighter catapult ship 5,155 1940 sunk 27 September 1941
    Springfield  United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 10,160 9 September 1944 converted to Providence-class guided missile cruiser 1960, decommissioned 1974, scrapped 1980
    Springhill  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 21 March 1944 paid off 1 December 1945
    Sri Ayudhya  Royal Thai Navy Thonburi coastal defence ship 2,350 19 July 1938 sunk 1 July 1951
    St Albans  Royal Navy
     Royal Norwegian Navy
     Soviet Navy     		Town destroyer 1,190 23 September 1940 to Norway 14 April 1941, to USSR 16 July 1944, scrapped 1949
    St. Catharines  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 31 July 1943 paid off 14 December 1945
    St. Clair Town destroyer 1,190 24 September 1940 paid off 1946
    St. Croix Clemson destroyer 1,190 24 September 1940 sunk 22 September 1943
    St. Francis Clemson destroyer 1,216 24 September 1940 paid off 1945, sank under tow July 1945
    St. Kitts  Royal Navy Battle destroyer 2,325 21 January 1946 paid off 1957, scrapped February 1962
    St. Lambert  Royal Canadian Navy Flower modified corvette 1,015 27 May 1944 20 July 1945
    St. Laurent C destroyer 1,375 17 February 1937 paid off 10 October 1945
    St. Lo  United States Navy Casablanca escort carrier 7,800 23 October 1943 ex-Midway; lost in action 25 October 1944
    St. Louis St. Louis light cruiser 10,000 19 May 1939 to Brazil as Tamandare 1951, sunk under tow 1980
    Saint Paul Baltimore heavy cruiser 17,200 17 February 1945 decommissioned 1971, scrapped 1980
    St. Pierre  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 28 August 1944 paid off 22 November 1945
    St. Stephen River frigate 1,445 28 July 1944 paid off 30 January 1946
    Stack  United States Navy Benham destroyer 1,500 20 November 1939 scuttled after A-bomb test 1948
    Stalker  Royal Navy Attacker escort carrier 14,400 21 December 1942 paid off 29 December 1945, sold into merchant service as Riouw
    Starwort Flower corvette 925 26 May 1941
    Statice Flower modified corvette 1,015 20 September 1943 paid off May 1947
    Ste. Therese  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 28 May 1944 paid off 30 January 1967
    Steamer Bay  United States Navy Casablanca escort carrier 7,800 4 April 1944 decommissioned January 1947, scrapped 1959
    Stellarton  Royal Canadian Navy Flower modified corvette 1,015 29 September 1944 1 July 1945
    Stembel  United States Navy Fletcher destroyer 2,050 16 July 1943 loaned to Argentina as Rosales 1961, scrapped 1982
    Sterett Benham destroyer 1,500 15 August 1939 scrapped 1947
    Sterlet  Royal Navy S submarine 670 6 April 1938 sunk 18 April 1940
    Stettler  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 7 May 1944 paid off 31 August 1966
    Stevenson  United States Navy Gleaves destroyer 1,630 15 December 1942 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1970
    Stevenstone  Royal Navy Hunt destroyer 1,050 18 March 1943 Scrapped in 1959
    Stewart  United States Navy
     Imperial Japanese Navy     		Clemson destroyer 1,200 15 September 1920 scuttled 2 March 1942, raised by IJN and recommissioned September 1943
    Stier  Kriegsmarine auxiliary cruiser 11,000 25 November 1939 sunk 27 September 1942
    Stockton  United States Navy Gleaves destroyer 1,630 11 January 1943 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1973
    Stone Town  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 21 July 1944 paid off 13 November 1945
    Stonecrop  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 30 July 1941 sold into merchant service May 1947
    Stord  Royal Norwegian Navy S destroyer 2,400 29 September 1943 scrapped 1959
    Strathadam  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 29 September 1944 paid off 7 November 1945
    Strathroy Flower modified corvette 1,015 20 November 1944 12 July 1945
    Strasbourg  French Navy Dunkerque battleship 26,500 February 1939 scuttled 27 November 1942
    Stockton  United States Navy Gleaves destroyer 1,630 11 January 1943 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1973
    Stord  Royal Norwegian Navy S destroyer 2,400 29 September 1943 scrapped 1959
    Stormont  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 27 November 1943 paid off 9 November 1945
    Striker  Royal Navy Attacker escort carrier 10,000 29 April 1943 paid off 12 February 1946, scrapped 1948
    Strule  Royal Navy
     Free French Naval Forces     		River frigate 1,370 to Free French 25 September 1944 as Croix de Lorraine; decommissioned 1961
    Sudbury  Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 15 October 1941 paid off 28 August 1945
    Suffren  French Navy
     Free French Naval Forces     		Suffren heavy cruiser 9,940 1 January 1930 scrapped 1974
    The Sullivans  United States Navy Fletcher destroyer 2,050 4 April 1943 museum ship
    Sumatra  Royal Netherlands Navy Java light cruiser 6,670 26 May 1926 scuttled off the coast of Normandy on 9 June 1944 at Ouistreham as part of a "gooseberry" pier to protect an artificial Allied Mulberry harbour built as part of Operation Overlord.
    Summerside  Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 11 September 1941 paid off 6 July 1945
    Sundew  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 19 September 1941 to Free French as Roselys; scrapped 1948
    Sunfish S submarine 670 2 July 1937 sunk 27 July 1944
    Sunflower Flower corvette 925 25 January 1941 Scrapped September 1947
    Sussexvale  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 29 November 1944 paid off 30 November 1966
    Sutlej  Royal Indian Navy Black Swan Sloop 1,250 23 April 1941 to Indian Navy as INS Sutlej 1947; converted to survey ship 1955; decommissioned 1978; scrapped 1979
    Suwannee  United States Navy Sangamon escort carrier 24,275 24 September 1942 decommissioned 8 January 1947; scrapped 1960
    Suzuya  Imperial Japanese Navy Mogami heavy cruiser 15,900 October 1937 sunk 25 October 1944 during the Battle off Samar
    Svenner  Royal Norwegian Navy S destroyer 1,710 11 March 1944 sunk 6 June 1944
    Sverige  Swedish Navy Sverige coastal defence ship 6,852 14 May 1917 paid off 30 January 1953, scrapped 1958
    Swale  Royal Navy
     South African Navy     		Loch frigate 1,370 to South Africa 29 July 1945; scrapped February 1955
    Swansea  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 4 October 1943 paid off 14 October 1966
    Swanson  United States Navy Gleaves destroyer 1,630 29 May 1941 decommissioned 1945, scrapped 1972
    Sweetbriar  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 8 September 1941 Sold July 1946; whale catcher Star IX June 1949; scrapped April 1966
    Swift S destroyer 1,710 12 December 1943 sunk by mine 24 June 1944
    Sydney  Royal Australian Navy modified Leander light cruiser 6,980 24 September 1935 lost 19 November 1941

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