List of ship decommissionings in 2005

The list of ship decommissionings in 2005 includes a chronological list of all ships decommissioned in 2005.

	Operator	Ship	Flag	Class and type	Fate	Other notes
17 February	United States Navy	Detroit		Template:Sclass-	Scrapped in 2006
15 March	United States Navy	Seattle		Template:Sclass-	Scrapped in 2006
23 March	United States Navy	Spruance		Template:Sclass-	Sunk as target
31 March	Royal Navy	Norfolk		Type 23 frigate	Sold to Chile
31 March	Royal Canadian Navy	Huron		Template:Sclass-	Sunk as target
29 June	United States Navy	Vincennes		Template:Sclass-	Mothballed	Possible future target ship
8 July	Royal Navy	Marlborough		Type 23 frigate	Sold to Chile
14 July	Royal Navy	Cardiff		Type 42 destroyer (Batch 1)	Scrapped
3 August	Royal Navy	Invincible		Template:Sclass-	Scrapped
3 August	Royal Norwegian Navy	Bergen		Template:Sclass-	In use as office facility
8 August	Royal Navy	Leeds Castle		Template:Sclass2-	Sold to Bangladesh
19 August	United States Navy	O'Bannon		Template:Sclass-	Transferred to reserve	Stored at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
15 September	United States Navy	Cushing		Template:Sclass-
27 September	Royal Navy	Brecon		Template:Sclass2-	Static training ship
27 September	Royal Navy	Cottesmore		Template:Sclass2-	Sold to Lithuania
27 September	Royal Navy	Dulverton		Template:Sclass2-	Sold to Lithuania
13 October	United States Navy	Duluth		Template:Sclass-
14 October	United States Navy	Camden		Template:Sclass-	Undergoing scrapping
28 October	United States Navy	Belleau Wood		Template:Sclass-	Sunk as a target ship in 2006
12 November	Royal Australian Navy	Canberra		Template:Sclass-	Awaiting conversion to dive wreck
13 November	Royal New Zealand Navy	Wellington		Template:Sclass-	Sunk as dive wreck, was decommissioned 1999	formerly HMS Bacchante
14 December	United States Navy	Thomas S. Gates		Template:Sclass-