List_of_ship_decommissionings_in_1947 Knowpia

The list of ship decommissionings in 1947 includes a chronological list of all ships decommissioned in 1947.^[1]

	Operator	Ship	Class and type	Fate	Other notes
7 January	United States Navy	*Colorado*	Colorado-class battleship	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1959
8 January	United States Navy	*Suwannee*	Sangamon-class escort carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1959
9 January	United States Navy	*Bon Homme Richard*	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1951
9 January	United States Navy	*Essex*	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1951
9 January	United States Navy	*Ticonderoga*	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1954
9 January	United States Navy	*Yorktown*	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1953
13 January	United States Navy	*Belleau Wood*	Independence-class light aircraft carrier	Transferred to France in 1951	Renamed Bois Belleau
13 January	United States Navy	*Cowpens*	Independence-class light aircraft carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1959
15 January	United States Navy	*Hornet*	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1953
17 January	United States Navy	*Windham Bay*	Casablanca-class escort carrier	Reserve	Transferred to Military Sea Transportation Service in 1951
January	United States Navy	*Bunker Hill*	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1972
11 February	United States Navy	*Bataan*	Independence-class light aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1950
11 February	United States Navy	*Cabot*	Independence-class light aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1948
11 February	United States Navy	*Langley*	Independence-class light aircraft carrier	Transferred to France in 1951	Renamed Lafayette (R96)
11 February	United States Navy	*Monterey*	Independence-class light aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1950
14 February	United States Navy	*Tennessee*	Tennessee-class battleship	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1959
14 February	United States Navy	*California*	Tennessee-class battleship	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1959
15 February	United States Navy	*Lake Champlain*	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1952
17 February	United States Navy	*Franklin*	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Scrapped	Stricken in 1964
17 February	United States Navy	*Wasp*	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1951
18 February	Royal Navy	*Newark*	Town-class destroyer	Scrapped
18 February	Royal Navy	*Newport*	Town-class destroyer	Scrapped
21 February	United States Navy	*Mission Bay*	Casablanca-class escort carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1958
1 March	United States Navy	*San Jacinto*	Independence-class light aircraft carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1970
9 March	United States Navy	*Hancock*	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1954
22 March	United States Navy	*Intrepid*	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1954
9 May	United States Navy	*Hollandia*	Casablanca-class escort carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1960
30 June	United States Navy	*Point Cruz*	Commencement Bay-class escort carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1951
July	Royal Navy	*Hospital Ship No 28*	Hospital ship	Returned to Southern Railway Co	Renamed Dinard, resumed ferry service in the English Channel
1 August	United States Navy	*Wyoming*	Wyoming-class battleship	Scrapped
12 September	United States Navy	*Saidor*	Commencement Bay-class escort carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1970
4 October	United States Navy	*Salerno Bay*	Commencement Bay-class escort carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1951
7 November	United States Navy	*Shangri-La*	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1955

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^ Petty, Dan. "The US Navy Battleship List". www.navy.mil. U.S. Navy. Retrieved 29 May 2017.

[1] Petty, Dan. "The US Navy Battleship List". www.navy.mil. U.S. Navy. Retrieved 29 May 2017.

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