List of ships of World War II (G)

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]

Ships of World War II

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Ship Country or organization Class Type Displacement (tons) First commissioned Fate
Gabbard  Royal Navy Battle destroyer 2,325 10 December 1946[5] paid off 1953
Gadila  Netherlands Rapana merchant aircraft carrier 8,000 1944 returned to merchant service 1946; scrapped 1958
Gallant  Royal Navy G destroyer 1,335 25 February 1936 sunk as a blockship September 1943, scrapped 1953
Galt  Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 15 May 1941 paid off 21 June 1945
Gambia  Royal Navy
 Royal New Zealand Navy		 Fiji light cruiser 8,000 21 February 1942 scrapped 1968
Gambier Bay  United States Navy Casablanca escort carrier 7,800 28 December 1943 Sunk 25 October 1944
Gamble Wickes minelayer destroyer 1,090 29 November 1918 Damaged 17 February 1945, scuttled 16 July 1945.
Gansevoort Benson destroyer 1,620 25 August 1942 decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1972
Gardenia  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 24 May 1940[6] 9 November 1942[6]
Garland  Royal Navy
 Polish Navy		 G destroyer 1,335 3 March 1936 to Poland 3 May 1940, paid off 24 September 1946
Garth  Royal Navy Hunt destroyer escort 1,000 28 August 1940 scrapped 1958
Gato  United States Navy Gato submarine 1,525 surfaced 31 December 1941 Scrapped 25 July 1960
General Belgrano  Argentine Navy Giuseppe Garibaldi armored cruiser 6,100 c.1896 Stricken 8 May 1947
General Pueyrredon Giuseppe Garibaldi armored cruiser 6,100 1897 Stricken 2 August 1954
Genista  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 8 December 1941
Gentian  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 20 September 1940
George Leygues  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces		 La Galissonnière light cruiser 7,600 15 November 1937 scrapped 1959
Georgetown  Royal Navy
 Royal Canadian Navy
 Soviet Navy		 Town destroyer 1,200 23 September 1940 to Canada September 1942, to USSR as Doblestny 10 August 1944
Georgios Averof  Hellenic Navy Pisa armored cruiser 9,450 16 May 1911 Decommissioned 1952, museum ship
Geranium  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 24 June 1940[6]
Gherardi  United States Navy Gleaves destroyer 1,630 15 September 1942 decommissioned 1955, sunk as target 1973
Giffard  Royal Canadian Navy Flower modified corvette 1,015 10 November 1943 5 July 1945
Gilbert Islands  United States Navy Commencement Bay escort carrier 10,900 5 February 1945 scrapped 1 November 1979
Gillespie Benson destroyer 1,620 18 September 1942 decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1973
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere  Regia Marina Giussano light cruiser 5,200 10 February 1932 Sunk 19 July 1940
Gipsy  Royal Navy G destroyer 1,350 22 February 1936 sunk 21 November 1939
Giulio Cesare  Regia Marina Conte di Cavour dreadnought 26,140 10 May 1914 Ceded to Soviet Union 1948, renamed Novorossiysk
Giuseppe Garibaldi Duca degli Abruzzi light cruiser 9,195 1937 scrapped 1972
Giuseppe Miraglia seaplane tender 4,965 1927 decommissioned 15 July 1950
Glace Bay  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 2 September 1944 paid off 17 November 1945
Gladiolus  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 6 April 1940 sunk on 17 October 1941 by U-553[7]
Glaisdale Hunt destroyer escort 1,050 12 June 1942 to Norway after war, scrapped 1961
Gleaves  United States Navy Gleaves destroyer 1,630 14 June 1940 Sold 29 June 1972 and broken up for scrap
Glennon Gleaves destroyer 1,630 8 October 1942 sunk 10 June 1944
Gloire  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces		 La Galissonnière light cruiser 7,600 15 November 1937 scrapped 1958
Gloriosa  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 Cancelled, 23 January 1941
Glorious Glorious aircraft carrier 22,500 20 April 1916 sunk 8 June 1940[8]
Glory Colossus aircraft carrier 13,200 2 April 1945 scrapped August 1961
Gloucester Town light cruiser 9,400 31 January 1939 Sunk on 22 May 1941 during the Battle of Crete[9]
Glowworm G destroyer 1,350 22 January 1936 sunk 8 April 1940
Gloxinia Flower corvette 925 22 August 1940
Gneisenau  Kriegsmarine Scharnhorst battleship 32,000 21 May 1938 sunk as block ship March 1945
Goathland  Royal Navy Hunt destroyer escort 1,050 constructive loss July 1944
Godavari  Royal Indian Navy Black Swan sloop 1,350 28 June 1943 1948
Godetia (I)  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 15 July 1940 sunk in collision 6 September 1940
Godetia (II) Flower corvette 925 23 February 1942
Goldsborough  United States Navy Clemson destroyer 1,250 26 January 1920 Decommissioned 11 October 1945
Good Hope  South African Navy Loch frigate 1,435 1 December 1944 scrapped June 1978
Goodall  Royal Navy Captain frigate 1,150 4 October 1943 sunk 29 April 1945
Gorizia  Regia Marina Zara heavy cruiser 11,900 1931 sunk 1943
Gouden Leeuw  Royal Netherlands Navy Prins van Oranje minelayer 1,291 24 February 1932 scuttled 7 March 1942
Graf Zeppelin  Kriegsmarine Graf Zeppelin aircraft carrier 23,200 launched 8 December 1938, not completed, scuttled 16 August 1947[10]
Grafton  Royal Navy G destroyer 1,350 20 March 1936 scuttled after torpedo attack by U-62 on 29 May 1940
Graph  Kriegsmarine
 Royal Navy		 Type VIIC submarine 769 launched 15 April 1941 German U-boat, captured by the British, 27 August 1941.
Ran aground September 1944
Gravelines  Royal Navy Battle destroyer 2,325 14 June 1946[11] paid off March 1953
Grayson  United States Navy Gleaves destroyer 1,630 14 February 1941 decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1974
Greenhalgh  Brazilian Navy Marcílio Dias destroyer 1,500 29 November 1943 decommissioned 1966
Greif  Kriegsmarine Raubvogel torpedo boat 1,290 15 March 1927 sunk 23 May 1944
Grenade  Royal Navy G destroyer 1,350 28 March 1936 sunk 29 May 1940
Grenville (I) G destroyer 1,350 1 July 1936 sunk 19 January 1940
Grenville (II) U destroyer 1,777 27 May 1943 paid off 1974, scrapped 1983
Greyhound G destroyer 1,350 1 February 1936 sunk 22 May 1941
Gridley  United States Navy Gridley destroyer 1,590 24 June 1937 scrapped 1947
Griffin  Royal Navy
 Royal Canadian Navy		 G destroyer 1,350 6 June 1936 to Canada 1 March 1943 as Ottawa, paid off May 1945
Grom  Polish Navy Grom destroyer 1,975 11 May 1937 sunk 4 May 1940
Grou  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 4 December 1943 paid off 25 December 1946
Grove  Royal Navy Hunt destroyer escort 1,050 5 February 1942 sunk 12 June 1942
Gryf  Polish Navy Gryf minelayer 2,085 27 February 1938 sunk 3 September 1939
Guacolda  Chilean Navy H submarine 441 1917 scrapped 1949
Guadalcanal  United States Navy Casablanca escort carrier 7,800 25 September 1943 decommissioned 15 July 1946, scrapped 1959
Guale  Chilean Navy H submarine 441 1917 scrapped 1945
Guam  United States Navy Alaska battlecruiser ("large cruiser") 27,500 17 September 1944 scrapped August 1961
Guelph  Royal Canadian Navy Flower modified corvette 1,015 9 May 1944 27 June 1945
Gurkha (I)  Royal Navy Tribal destroyer 2,020 21 October 1938 sunk 9 April 1940
Gurkha (II) L destroyer 1,920 18 February 1941 sunk 17 January 1942
Gustav V  Swedish Navy Sverige coastal defence ship 7,125 12 December 1922 paid off 22 March 1957, scrapped 1970
Gwin  United States Navy Gleaves destroyer 1,630 15 January 1941 sunk 13 July 1943

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  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.
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