List of ship commissionings in 2008

The list of ship commissionings in 2008 includes a chronological list of all ships commissioned in 2008.

	Operator	Ship	Flag	Class and type	Pennant	Other notes
22 February	Royal Australian Navy	Glenelg		Template:Sclass-	ACPB 96
27 March	Italian Navy	Cavour		Aircraft carrier	550
4 April	Latvian Naval Forces	Tālivaldis		Template:Sclass-	M-06	former HNLMS Dordrecht
8 April	Belgian Navy	Louise-Marie		Template:Sclass-	F931	former HNLMS Willem van der Zaan
3 May	United States Navy	North Carolina		Template:Sclass-	SSN-777	commissioned at Wilmington, North Carolina
6 June	United States Navy	Sterett		Template:Sclass-	DDG-104
4 August	United States Navy	Bertholf		Template:Sclass2-	WMSL-750	First in class
19 August	Royal Thai Navy	Pharuehatsabodi			813
5 September	Republic of Korea Navy	Choe Yeong		Template:Sclass-	DDH-981
22 September	German Navy	Magdeburg		Template:Sclass-	F261
18 October	Indonesian Navy	Sultan Iskandar Muda		Template:Sclass2-	367
15 October	Ecuadorian Navy	Comandante Rafael Morán Valverde			FM-02
22 October	Latvian Naval Forces	Visvaldis		Template:Sclass-	M-07	former HNLMS Delfzijl
23 October	People's Liberation Army Navy	Daishandao		Template:Sclass-	866	First in class
25 October	United States Navy	New Hampshire		Template:Sclass-	SSN-778
7 November	Chilean Navy	4201			4201
8 November	United States Navy	Freedom		Template:Sclass-	LCS-1	First in class
2 December	United States Navy	Crocodile		Template:Sclass2-	WPB-87369
10 December	Chilean Navy	Almirante Condell		Type 23 frigate	FF-06	Formerly HMS Marlborough (F233)
10 December	Russian Navy	Vitse-Admiral Zakharin			611