List of ships of World War II (T)
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]
Click on headers to sort column alphabetically.
Ship | Country or organization | Class | Type | Displacement (tons) | First commissioned | Fate |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
T13 | ![]() |
Type 37 | torpedo boat | 1,098 | 31 May 1941 | sunk in the Skagerrak by RAF bombers, 10 April 1945 |
T14 | Type 37 | torpedo boat | 1,098 | 14 June 1941 | to France as Dompaire 1947; struck November 1951 and scrapped | |
T15 | Type 37 | torpedo boat | 1,098 | 26 June 1941 | Sunk in air raid at Kiel, 13 December 1943 | |
T16 | Type 37 | torpedo boat | 1,098 | 24 July 1941 | Damaged beyond repair 13 April 1945; scrapped September 1946 | |
T17 | Type 37 | torpedo boat | 1,098 | 18 August 1941 | To USSR as destroyer Poryvisty 1946; struck December 1959 | |
T18 | Type 37 | torpedo boat | 1,098 | 22 November 1941 | Sunk by Soviet rocket attack off the Åland Islands, 17 September 1944 | |
T19 | Type 37 | torpedo boat | 1,098 | 18 December 1941 | to USA 1945; sold to Denmark 1947; scrapped 1951 | |
T20 | Type 37 | torpedo boat | 1,098 | 5 June 1942 | to France as Baccarat 1946; struck October 1951 and scrapped | |
T21 | Type 37 | torpedo boat | 1,098 | 11 July 1942 | to USA 1945; scuttled in Skagerrak, 1946 | |
Taihō | ![]() |
Taihō | aircraft carrier | 29,300 | 7 March 1944 | Sunk 19 June 1944 |
Taiyō | Taiyō | escort carrier | 18,116 | 2 September 1941 | sunk 18 August 1944 | |
Takanis Bay | ![]() |
Casablanca | escort carrier | 7,800 | 15 April 1944 | scrapped 29 June 1960 |
Takao | ![]() |
Takao | heavy cruiser | 13,160 | 31 May 1932 | sunk 31 July 1945 |
Talybont | ![]() |
Hunt | destroyer | 1,050 | 19 May 1943 | paid off 1947; sold for scrap 1961 |
Tama | ![]() |
Kuma | light cruiser | 5,100 | 29 January 1921 | sunk 20 October 1944 |
Tamarisk | ![]() ![]() |
Flower | corvette | 925 | November 1943 | to Greece as Tombazis November 1943; scrapped 1952 |
Tanatside | ![]() |
Hunt | destroyer | 1,050 | August 1942 | paid off 1946; scrapped 1964 |
Tannenberg | ![]() |
minelayer | 1,098 | 2 September 1939 | 9 July 1941 | |
Tapperheten | ![]() |
Äran | coastal defence ship | 3,650 | April 1903 | paid off June 1947, scrapped 1952 |
Taranto | ![]() |
Magdeburg | light cruiser | 3,184 | 1925 | former German Strassburg; scuttled 23 September 1943 |
Tarmo | ![]() |
escort and icebreaker | 2,300 | 4 January 1908 | 29 May 1969; museum ship from May 1992 | |
Tartar | ![]() |
Tribal | destroyer | 2,020 | 10 March 1939 | Scrapped 22 February 1948 |
Tasajera | Maracaibo | landing ship, tank | 4,193 | December 1941 | paid off 1945 | |
Tatsuta | ![]() |
Tenryu | light cruiser | 4,350 | 31 May 1919 | Sunk 13 March 1944 |
Tattnall | ![]() |
Wickes | destroyer | 1,060 | 26 June 1919 | Decommissioned 17 December 1945 |
Taylor | Fletcher | destroyer | 2,050 | 28 August 1942 | Decommissioned 31 May 1946 | |
Teazer | ![]() |
T | destroyer | 1,710 | 13 September 1943 | Scrapped 7 August 1965 |
Tegualda | ![]() |
H | submarine | 441 | 1917 | scrapped 1945 |
Teme | ![]() |
River | frigate | 1,445 | 28 February 1944 | Torpedoed 29 March 1945, constructive total loss |
Tenacious | ![]() |
T | destroyer | 1,710 | 30 October 1943 | scrapped June 1965 |
Tennessee | ![]() |
Tennessee | battleship | 33,190 | 3 June 1920 | Decommissioned 14 February 1947, scrapped 1959 |
Tenryū | ![]() |
Tenryū | light cruiser | 4,350 | 20 November 1919 | Sunk 18 December 1942 |
Termagant | ![]() |
T | destroyer | 1,710 | 8 October 1943 | paid off 1960, scrapped 5 November 1965 |
Terpsichore | T | destroyer | 1,710 | 20 January 1944 | scrapped 17 May 1966 | |
Teruzuki | ![]() |
Akizuki | destroyer | 2,700 | 11 June 1942 | sunk 12 December 1942 |
Terror | ![]() |
Erebus | monitor | 8,000 | 6 August 1916 | Sunk 24 February 1941 |
Tetcott | Hunt | destroyer | 1,050 | 2 December 1941 | scrapped 1956 | |
Teviot | ![]() ![]() |
River | frigate | 1,370 | 30 January 1943 | to South Africa 10 June 1945, scrapped March 1955 |
Texas | ![]() |
New York | battleship | 27,000 | 12 March 1914 | Decommissioned 21 April 1948; museum ship |
Thane | ![]() |
Ruler | escort carrier | 7,800 | 19 November 1943 | paid off October 1945, scrapped 1946 |
The Pas | ![]() |
Flower | corvette | 925 | 21 October 1941 | paid off 24 July 1945 |
Thetford Mines | River | frigate | 1,445 | 24 May 1944 | paid off 18 November 1945 | |
Thetis | ![]() |
Tordenskjold | coastal defence ship | 3,858 | 21 March 1898 | ex-HNoMS Harald Haarfagre, captured by Germany 9 April 1940, scrapped 1948 |
Thetis Bay | ![]() |
Casablanca | escort carrier | 7,800 | 12 April 1944 | scrapped December 1964 |
Thompson | Gleaves | destroyer | 1,630 | 10 July 1943 | decommissioned 1954, scrapped 1972 | |
Thonburi | ![]() |
Thonburi | coastal defence ship | 2,265 | 31 January 1938 | wrecked 17 January 1941, refitted, struck 19 June 1959 |
Thor | ![]() |
auxiliary cruiser | 9,200 | 15 March 1940 | accidentally burnt 30 November 1942 | |
Thorlock | ![]() |
Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 13 November 1944 | 15 July 1945 |
Thorn | ![]() |
Gleaves | destroyer | 1,630 | 1 April 1943 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1974 |
Thyme | ![]() |
Flower | corvette | 925 | 23 October 1941 | |
Ticonderoga | ![]() |
Essex | aircraft carrier | 30,800 | 8 May 1944 | decommissioned 1 September 1973, scrapped 1975 |
Tiger | ![]() |
Raubtier | torpedo boat | 1,320 | 15 January 1929 | wrecked in collision with the Z3 Max Schultz 25 August 1939 |
Tillman | ![]() |
Gleaves | destroyer | 1,630 | 4 June 1942 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1972 |
Timmins | ![]() |
Flower | corvette | 925 | 10 February 1942 | paid off 15 July 1945 |
Tirpitz | ![]() |
Bismarck | battleship | 42,900 | 25 February 1941 | sunk 12 November 1944 |
Tjerk Hiddes | ![]() |
N | destroyer | 1,760 | 27 May 1942 | Transferred to Indonesia 1 March 1951, renamed Gadja Mada. Scrapped 1961 |
Togo | ![]() |
Night fighter direction vessel | 12,700 | 13 August 1938 | post-war troop transport, sold into merchant service November 1956; ran aground off Mexico 21 November 1984 | |
Tokiwa | ![]() |
Asama | armored cruiser | 9,700 | 18 May 1899 | Sunk 9 August 1945 |
Tone | Tone | heavy cruiser | 15,200 | 30 November 1938 | Sunk 14 July 1945 | |
Topeka | ![]() |
Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 23 December 1944 | converted to missile cruiser 1960, scrapped 1975 |
Toronto | ![]() |
River | frigate | 1,445 | 6 May 1944 | paid off 14 April 1956 |
Torridge | ![]() ![]() |
River | frigate | 1,370 | 1944 | to Free French 1944 as Surprise |
Tourville | ![]() ![]() |
Duquesne | heavy cruiser | 10,000 | 1 December 1928 | condemned 1962 |
Tracker | ![]() |
Ruler | escort carrier | 14,400 | 31 January 1943 | paid off 2 November 1946, scrapped 1964 |
Trafalgar | Battle | destroyer | 2,325 | 23 July 1945 | paid off 1963, scrapped 1970 | |
Trail | ![]() |
Flower | corvette | 925 | 30 April 1941 | paid off 17 July 1945 |
Transylvania | ![]() |
armed merchant cruiser | 16,923 | 5 October 1939 | sunk 10 August 1940 | |
Transvaal | ![]() |
Loch | frigate | 1,435 | 21 May 1945 | Decommissioned 14 August 1964, and sunk as artificial reef |
Travancore | ![]() |
Basset | minesweeper | 529 | 1941–1944 | 1941–1944 |
Trento | ![]() |
Trento | heavy cruiser | 10,511 | 1929 | sunk 14 June 1942 |
Trentonian | ![]() |
Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 1 December 1943 | sunk 22 February 1945 by U-1004 |
Trenton | ![]() |
Omaha | light cruiser | 7,050 | 19 April 1924 | scrapped 1946 |
Trieste | ![]() |
Trento | heavy cruiser | 10,511 | 1928 | sunk 1943 |
Trillium | ![]() |
Flower | corvette | 925 | 31 October 1940 | paid off 27 June 1945 |
Trinidad | ![]() |
Fiji | light cruiser | 8,000 | 14 October 1941 | sunk 15 May 1942 |
Tripoli | ![]() |
Casablanca | escort carrier | 7,800 | 31 October 1943 | scrapped 1960 |
Trippe | Benham | destroyer | 1,500 | 1 November 1939 | scuttled after A-bomb test 1948 | |
Tromp | ![]() |
Tromp | light cruiser/flotilla leader | 3,455 | 18 August 1938 | decommissioned 1955 |
Troubridge | ![]() |
T | destroyer | 1,710 | 8 March 1943 | paid off 27 March 1969, scrapped 1970 |
Trouncer | Ruler | escort carrier | 7,800 | 31 January 1944 | paid off 12 April 1946, scrapped 1973 | |
Trumpeter | Ruler | escort carrier | 7,800 | 4 August 1943 | paid off 19 June 1946, scrapped 1971 | |
Tucker | ![]() |
Mahan | destroyer | 1,450 | 23 July 1936 | sunk 4 August 1942 |
Tucuman | ![]() |
Mendoza | destroyer | 1,570 | 3 May 1929 | Discarded 30 April 1962 |
Tucson | ![]() |
Atlanta | light cruiser | 6,000 | 3 February 1945 | scrapped 1971 |
Tulagi | Casablanca | escort carrier | 7,800 | 21 December 1943 | decommissioned 30 April 1946 | |
Tulip | ![]() |
Flower | corvette | 925 | 18 November 1940 | sold 1947 as whaling ship; laid up 1962; scrapped 1965 |
Tumult | T | destroyer | 1,710 | 2 April 1943 | Scrapped 25 October 1965 | |
Turner | ![]() |
Gleaves | destroyer | 1,630 | 15 April 1943 | exploded 3 January 1944 |
Tuscaloosa | New Orleans | heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 17 August 1934 | Decommissioned 13 February 1946, scrapped 1959 | |
Tuscan | ![]() |
T | destroyer | 1,710 | 11 March 1943 | Scrapped 26 May 1966 |
Tsingtau | ![]() |
Supply escort and Schnellboot tender | 2,490 | 24 September 1934 | February 1950 | |
Tung Chi | ![]() |
Fu An | gunship | 1,900 | 1895 | Sunk 11 August 1937 |
Tunisien | ![]() |
Cannon | destroyer escort | 1,240 | 11 February 1944 | Decommissioned May 1964 |
Tunsberg Castle | ![]() |
Castle-class corvette | corvette | 1,010 | 17 April 1944 | former HMS Shrewsbury Castle; sunk 12 December 1944 |
Tynedale | ![]() |
Hunt | destroyer | 1,050 | 2 December 1940 | sunk 12 December 1943 |
Tyrian | T | destroyer | 1,710 | 8 April 1943 | scrapped 9 March 1965 |
References
- ^ "Hulls Listed by Name". Naval Vessel Register. Archived from the original on 30 June 2007.
- ^ "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.
Bibliography
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- "NavSource Naval History".
- Whitley, M. J. (2000). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.
- Whitley, M. J. (1995). Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 1-85409-225-1.
- Helgason, Guðmundur (1995–2007). "Allied Warships". Uboat.net.
- "Battleships-Cruisers.co.uk". Cranston Fine Arts. 2001–2007.