List of ships of World War II (L)

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
L23  Royal Navy L submarine 1,106 31 October 1924 paid off May 1946
L26 L submarine 1,106 11 October 1926 sunk as target 1 November 1946
L27 L training submarine 1,106 scrapped 1944
La Argentina  Argentine Navy training light cruiser 6,500 April 1939 discarded 1974
La Bastiaise  French Navy Flower corvette 925 22 June 1940 sunk 22 June 1940
La Galissonnière La Galissonnière light cruiser 7,600 1 January 1936 scuttled 27 November 1942
La Hulloise  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 6 December 1945 paid off 16 July 1965
La Malbaie Flower corvette 925 28 April 1942 paid off 28 June 1945
La Malouine  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 29 July 1940
La Rioja  Argentine Navy Mendoza destroyer 1,570 23 July 1929 30 April 1962
Lachute  Royal Canadian Navy Flower modified corvette 1,015 26 October 1944 10 July 1945
Laffey (I)  United States Navy Benson destroyer 1,620 31 March 1942 sunk 13 November 1942
Laffey (II) Sumner destroyer 2,200 8 February 1944 decommissioned 1975, memorial at Charleston, SC
Laforey  Royal Navy L destroyer 1,920 26 August 1941 sunk 30 March 1944 by U-223
Lagos Battle destroyer 2,325 2 November 1945[5] paid off 1960, scrapped 1967
Lahore  Royal Indian Navy Basset minesweeper 529 1941–1944 1941–1944
Lake Champlain  United States Navy Ticonderoga aircraft carrier 27,100 3 June 1945 decommissioned 2 May 1966, scrapped 1972
Lamberton Wickes minesweeper destroyer 1,090 22 August 1918 scrapped 9 May 1947
Lambridge  Royal Navy Special Service Ship 5,119 paid off March 1941
Lamerton Hunt destroyer 1,000 16 August 1941 scrapped 1975
Lamotte-Piquet  French Navy Duguay-Trouin light cruiser 7,249 5 March 1927 sunk 12 January 1945
Lamson  United States Navy Mahan destroyer 1,450 21 October 1936 sunk in A-bomb test, 1946
Lanark  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 6 July 1944 paid off 19 March 1965
Lance  Royal Navy L destroyer 1,920 13 May 1941 constructive loss and scrapped April 1942
Lang  United States Navy Benham destroyer 1,500 30 March 1939 scrapped 1947
Langley Seaplane carrier 11,500 7 April 1913 sunk 27 February 1942
Langley Independence light aircraft carrier 11,000 31 August 1943 decommissioned 11 February 1947, scrapped 1964
Lansdale Benson destroyer 1,620 17 September 1940 sunk 20 April 1944
Lansdowne Gleaves destroyer 1,630 29 April 1942 to Turkey 1949, scrapped 1973
Lardner Gleaves destroyer 1,630 13 May 1942 to Turkey 1949, sunk as target 1982
Larkspur  Royal Navy
 United States Navy		 Flower corvette 925 4 June 1940 to USA as Fury 17 March 1942, to UK on 22 August 1945
Lasalle  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 29 June 1944 paid off 17 December 1945
Latona  Royal Navy Abdiel minelayer 2,650 4 May 1941 lost 25 October 1941
Laub  United States Navy Benson destroyer 1,620 24 October 1942 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1975
Lauderdale  Royal Navy Hunt destroyer 1,050 August 1942 paid off 1946, scrapped 1960
Lauzon  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 30 August 1944 paid off 24 May 1963
Lavender  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 16 May 1941
Lawford Captain frigate 1,140 3 November 1943 sunk 8 June 1944
Lawrence  Royal Indian Navy sloop 1,245 27 December 1919 1947
Leamington  Royal Navy
 Royal Canadian Navy
 Soviet Navy		 Town destroyer 1,327 23 October 1940 to Canada October 1942, to USSR 16 July 1944
Leander  Royal New Zealand Navy Leander light cruiser 6,985 23 July 1931 former HMS Leander, to NZ April 1937, returned to UK May 1944, scrapped 1950
Ledbury  Royal Navy Hunt destroyer 1,050 scrapped April 1958
Leeds Town destroyer 1,125 12 January 1918 paid off April 1945
Legion L destroyer 1,920 19 December 1940 sunk 26 March 1942
Leipzig  Kriegsmarine Leipzig light cruiser 6,515 8 October 1931 scuttled 11 July 1946
Leningrad  Soviet Navy Leningrad destroyer 2,150 December 1936 scrapped in 1960
Leon  Hellenic Navy Aetos destroyer 1,030 19 October 1912 sunk 15 May 1941
Leopard  Kriegsmarine Raubtier torpedo boat 1,320 1 June 1928 sunk on 30 April 1940
Léopard  Free French Naval Forces Chacal destroyer 2,126 31 August 1940 sunk 27 May 1943
Lethbridge  Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 25 June 1941 paid off 23 July 1945
Levis (I) Flower corvette 925 16 May 1941 sunk 19 September 1941 by U-74
Levis (II) River frigate 1,445 21 July 1944 paid off 21 February 1946
Lewes  Royal Navy Town destroyer 1,125 23 October 1940 scuttled 25 May 1946
Lexington (I)  United States Navy Lexington aircraft carrier 33,000 14 December 1927 sunk 8 May 1942
Lexington (II) Essex aircraft carrier 27,100 17 February 1943 decommissioned 8 November 1991; museum ship
ARA Libertad  Argentine Navy Libertad riverine battleship 2,336 26 November 1892 paid off 1947
Liddesdale  Royal Navy Hunt destroyer 1,000 28 February 1941 Scrapped 1948
Lightning L destroyer 1,920 28 May 1941 sunk 12 March 1943
Limbourne Hunt destroyer 1,050 24 October 1942 sunk 23 October 1943
Linaria Flower modified corvette 1,015 19 June 1943 paid off 15 January 1948
Lincoln  Royal Navy
 Royal Norwegian Navy
 Royal Canadian Navy
 Soviet Navy		 Town destroyer 1,190 20 October 1940 to Norway February 1942, Canada July 1942-December 1943, Soviet Union August 1944, scrapped 1952
Lindsay  Royal Canadian Navy Flower modified corvette 1,015 15 November 1943 18 July 1945
Ling  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 cancelled 23 January 1941
Liscome Bay  United States Navy Casablanca escort carrier 7,800 7 August 1943 lost in action 24 November 1943
Littorio  Regia Marina Littorio battleship 43,835 6 May 1940 renamed Italia, scrapped 1948
Lively  Royal Navy L destroyer 1,920 20 July 1941 sunk 11 May 1942
Livermore  United States Navy Gleaves destroyer 1,630 7 October 1940 Sold 3 March 1961 for scrapping
Lobelia  Free French Naval Forces Flower corvette 925 16 July 1941 April 1947
Loch Achanalt  Royal Canadian Navy Loch frigate 1,435 31 July 1944 paid off July 1945, transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy in 1945, scrapped in 1965
Loch Alvie Loch frigate 1,435 10 August 1944 paid off June 1945, transferred to the Royal Navy in 1945, scrapped in 1965
Loch Insh  Royal Navy Loch frigate 1,435 20 October 1944 scrapped in 1977
Loch Morlich  Royal Canadian Navy Loch frigate 1,435 17 July 1944 paid off June 1945, scrapped in 1966
London  Royal Navy County heavy cruiser 9,850 31 January 1929 scrapped 1950
Long Branch  Royal Canadian Navy Flower modified corvette 1,015 5 January 1944 17 June 1945
Long Island  United States Navy Long Island escort carrier 13,500 2 June 1941 decommissioned 26 March 1946
Longueuil  Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 18 May 1944 paid off 31 December 1946
Looe  Royal Navy Special Service Ship 1,030 paid off March 1941
Lookout L destroyer 1,920 30 January 1942 paid off 19 October 1945, scrapped February 1948
Loosestrife Flower corvette 925 25 November 1941 Sold, 7 October 1946
Lorelei  Kriegsmarine patrol boat 1,640 25 April 1943 former Artevelde (Belgium), later K4, scrapped 1954
Lorraine  French Navy
 Free French Naval Forces		 Bretagne super dreadnought 22,200 27 July 1916 Decommissioned 17 February 1953
Los Angeles  United States Navy Baltimore heavy cruiser 17,200 22 July 1945 scrapped 1974
Lothringen  Kriegsmarine minelayer 1,975 December 1941 sold to merchant service post-war
Lotus  Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 23 May 1942
Louisburg (I)  Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 2 October 1941 sunk on 6 February 1943 by Luftwaffe aircraft
Louisburg (II)  Royal Canadian Navy Flower modified corvette 1,015 13 December 1943 25 June 1945
Louisville  United States Navy Northampton heavy cruiser 9,200 15 January 1931 scrapped 1959
Loyal  Royal Navy L destroyer 1,920 31 October 1942 constructive loss 12 October 1944, scrapped 1948
Luchs  Kriegsmarine Raubtier torpedo boat 1,320 15 April 1929 sunk 26 July 1940
Lucknow  Royal Indian Navy Basset minesweeper 529 1941–1944 1941–1944
Ludlow  United States Navy Gleaves destroyer 1,630 5 March 1941 to Greece 1951, scrapped 1972
Luigi Cadorna  Regia Marina Cadorna light cruiser 5,316 11 August 1933 scrapped 1951
Luigi Di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi Duca degli Abruzzi light cruiser 9,952 1 December 1937 scrapped 1972
Lunenburg  Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 4 December 1941 paid off 23 July 1945
Lunga Point  United States Navy Casablanca escort carrier 7,800 14 May 1944 decommissioned 24 October 1946, scrapped 1960
Lützow  Kriegsmarine enlarged Admiral Hipper heavy cruiser 14,680 not completed sold to USSR 1940 became Petropavlovsk, then Tallinn

References
  1. "Hulls Listed by Name". Naval Vessel Register. Archived from the original on 30 June 2007.
  2. "US Navy Inactive Classification Symbols". Naval Vessel Register. NAVSEA Shipbuilding Support Office. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  3. "Index". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
  4. "Royal Navy operations in the Second World War". The National Archives. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  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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