List of ships of the Second World War (S)

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]

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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
Saguenay  Royal Canadian Navy A destroyer 1,337 21 May 1931 paid up July 1945
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[5] paid off May 1962, scrapped 1972
Sakura  Imperial Japanese Navy Matsu destroyer 1,262 25 November 1944 sunk by mine 11 July 1945
Salisbury  Royal Navy
 Royal Canadian Navy		 Town destroyer 1,190 5 December 1940 to Canada September 1942, paid off 10 December 1943, scrapped 1944
Salt Lake City  USA Pensacola class 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[6]
Samphire  Royal Navy 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  United States Navy Butler destroyer escort 1,370 28 April 1944 sunk 25 October 1944 Battle of Samar
San Diego  USA Atlanta class light cruiser 6,000 10 January 1942 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1960
San Francisco  USA New Orleans class heavy cruiser 9,950 10 February 1934 Decommissioned 10 February 1946, scrapped 1959
San Giorgio  Regia Marina San Giorgio class heavy cruiser 10,167 1 July 1910 decommissioned 22 January 1941
San Jacinto  USA Independence light aircraft carrier 11,000 15 November 1943 decommissioned 1 March 1947, scrapped 1972
San Juan  Argentina Buenos Aires destroyer 1,375 Discarded 1973
San Juan  USA Atlanta class light cruiser 6,000 28 February 1942 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1961
San Luis  Argentina Buenos Aires destroyer 1,375 Discarded 3 May 1971
Santa Cruz  Argentina Buenos Aires destroyer 1,375 Discarded 1973
Santa Fe  USA Cleveland class light cruiser 11,800 24 November 1942 scrapped 1959
São Paulo  Brazil Minas Geraes battleship 19,200 12 July 1910 Sold 1951
Saratoga  United States Navy Lexington aircraft carrier 33,000 16 November 1927 sunk as a target 1946
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
Saumarez  Royal Navy 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
Savannah  USA Brooklyn-class light cruiser 9,475 10 March 1938 scrapped 1966
Saxifrage  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 6 February 1942
Scharnhorst  Kriegsmarine Scharnhorst battleship 32,000 7 January 1939 sunk 26 December 1943
Schlesien  Kriegsmarine Deutschland battleship 14,218 5 May 1908 blown up 4 May 1945
Schleswig-Holstein  Kriegsmarine Deutschland battleship 14,218 6 July 1908 scrapped after 1946
Schubrick  United States Navy Gleaves destroyer 1,630 7 February 1943 scrapped 1947
Scipione Africano  Regia Marina Capitani Romani class light cruiser (also known as exploratori oceanici) 3,750
Scorpion  Royal Navy S destroyer 1,710 11 May 1943 paid off 16 August 1945
Scourge  Royal Navy S destroyer 1,710 14 July 1943 to Netherlands 1 February 1946
Scylla  Royal Navy Dido class anti-aircraft cruiser 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
Searcher  Royal Navy Ruler escort carrier 14,400 3 April 1943 paid off 1945, scrapped 21 April 1976
Seeadler  Kriegsmarine 1923 (Raubvogel) class torpedoboat 1,290 1 May 1927 sunk 13 May 1942
Selfridge  United States Navy Porter destroyer 1,850 25 November 1936 scrapped 1947
Semmes  United States Navy Clemson destroyer 1,250 21 February 1920 scrapped 25 November 1946
Sendai  Imperial Japanese Navy Sendai class light cruiser 5,195 29 April 1924 sunk 2 November 1943
Serapis  Royal Navy S destroyer 1,710
Serrano  Chile Serrano destroyer 1,090 Discarded 1967
Seydlitz  Kriegsmarine Enlarged Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser 14,680 not completed became Weser (Germany)
Sęp  Poland Orzeł class 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
Shangri-La  United States Navy Essex aircraft carrier 30,800 15 September 1944 decommissioned 30 July 1971, scrapped 1988
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  Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 8 July 1941 paid off 28 August 1945
Sherbrooke  Royal Canadian Navy 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
Shōhō  Imperial Japanese Navy Zuihō aircraft carrier 11,260 30 November 1941 sunk 8 May 1942
Shōkaku  Imperial Japanese Navy Shōkaku aircraft carrier 25,675 8 August 1941 sunk 19 June 1944
Sikh  Royal Navy Tribal destroyer 2,020 12 October 1938 sunk 17 January 1941
Sims  United States Navy Sims destroyer 1,570 1 August 1939 sunk 7 May 1942
Sioux  Royal Canadian Navy V destroyer 1,710 14 September 1943 paid off 30 October 1963
Skagerak  Kriegsmarine Minelayer, converted former Norwegian merchant ship Skagerrak I 1,281 1940 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  Poland Hunt destroyer escort 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  Royal Navy Battle destroyer 2,325 30 September 1946[7] paid off 1953
Smilax  Royal Navy 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
Snowberry  Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 26 November 1940 paid off 8 June 1945
Snowdrop  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 30 July 1941
Snowflake  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 2 November 1941
Soemba  Royal Netherlands Navy Flores Sloop 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[8] paid off April 1962, scrapped 1967
Sollum  Egypt - Sloop 1,290
Somali  Royal Navy Tribal destroyer 2,020 12 December 1938 sunk 24 September 1942
Somali  Free French Naval Forces Cannon destroyer escort 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 class light cruiser 9,100 6 March 1937 bombed and scuttled 11 January 1941
Southdown  Royal Navy Hunt destroyer escort 1,050 8 November 1940 paid off 1946, scrapped 1956
Southwold  Royal Navy Hunt destroyer escort 1,050 9 October 1941 sunk 24 March 1942
Speaker  Royal Navy Ruler escort carrier 8,333 20 November 1943 paid off 25 September 1946, scrapped 1972
Spetsai  Hellenic Navy Freccia modified 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
Springbank  Royal Navy fighter catapult ship sunk 27 September 1941
USS Springfield (CL-66)  USA Cleveland class 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  Royal Canadian Navy Town destroyer 1,190 24 September 1940 paid off 1946
St Croix  Royal Canadian Navy Clemson destroyer 1,190 24 September 1940 sunk 22 September 1943
St Francis  Royal Canadian Navy 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[9] paid off 1957, scrapped February 1962
St. Lambert  Royal Canadian Navy Flower modified corvette 1,015 27 May 1944 20 July 1945
St Laurent  Royal Canadian Navy C destroyer 1,375 17 February 1937 paid off 10 October 1945
St. Louis  USA St. Louis class light cruiser 10,000 19 May 1939 to Brazil as Tamandare 1951, sunk under tow 1980
USS Saint Paul (CA-73)  USA Baltimore class 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  Royal Canadian Navy 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  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 26 May 1941
Statice  Royal Navy 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
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  United States Navy Benham destroyer 1,500 15 August 1939 scrapped 1947
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 escort 1,050 18 March 1943 Scrapped in 1959
Stewart  USA
 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
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  Royal Canadian Navy 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 class heavy cruiser 9,940 1 January 1930 scrapped 1974
Sullivans  United States Navy Fletcher destroyer 2,050 4 April 1943 museum ship
Sumatra  Royal Netherlands Navy Java class 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
Sunflower  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 25 January 1941
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
Suzuya  Imperial Japanese Navy Mogami class heavy cruiser 15,900 October 1937 sunk 25 October 1944
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
Swift  Royal Navy S destroyer 1,710 sunk 24 June 1944
Sydney  Royal Australian Navy modified Leander class light cruiser 6,980 24 September 1935 lost 19 November 1941

References

  1. ↑ Naval Vessel Register Index
  2. ↑ "US Navy Inactive Classification Symbols". Naval Vessel Register. NAVSEA Shipbuilding Support Office. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Index
  4. ↑ Archives, The National. "Royal Navy operations in the Second World War - The National Archives". The National Archives. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  5. ↑ Listed as active, prior to the end of the war, in the Navy List July 1945. Great Britain: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1945.
  6. ↑ HMS Salvia (K 97) (British Corvette) - Ships hit by German U-boats during WWII - uboat.net
  7. ↑ Listed as active, prior to the end of the war, in the Navy List July 1945. Great Britain: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1945.
  8. ↑ Listed as active, prior to the end of the war, in the Navy List July 1945. Great Britain: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1945.
  9. ↑ Listed as active, prior to the end of the war, in the Navy List July 1945. Great Britain: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1945.
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