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- Dachs: Zobel (Type 142) class fast attack craft, commissioned 1962—1983
- Dachs: Gepard class (Type 143A) fast attack craft
- Danzig: 3,300 ton Bremen class light cruiser, launched 1906
- Datteln: Frankenthal class (Type 332) minehunter
- Delphin: Barbe class (Type 520) utility landing craft, used as transport ships (decommissioned)
- Derfflinger: 27,000 ton Derfflinger class battlecruiser, launched 1913
- Detmold: Vegesack class (Type 321) minesweeper, commissioned 1960 to 1969
- Deutschland: 7,600 ton Kaiser class armored frigate, launched 1872
- Deutschland: 13,000 ton Deutschland class battleship, launched 1904
- Deutschland: 21,000 ton ocean liner converted in hospital ship, launched 1923, sunk 1945
- Deutschland: 12,000 ton Deutschland class heavy cruiser, launched 1931, renamed Lützow in 1939
- Diether von Roeder: 2,400 ton Type 1936 destroyer
- Dillingen: Frankenthal class (Type 332) minehunter
- Dommel: Jaguar (Type 140) fast attack craft, commissioned 1961—1974
- Dommel: Tiger class (Type 148) fast attack craft, decommissioned
- Donau: Rhein class (Type 401) tender
- Donau: Elbe class (Type 404) replenishment ship
- Dorsch: Barbe class (Type 520) utility landing craft, used as transport ships (decommissioned)
- Dresden: 3,700 ton Dresden class light cruiser, launched 1907
- Dresden: 5,600 ton Cöln class light cruiser, launched 1917
- Düren: Lindau class (Type 320) minesweeper, commissioned 1959 to 1979, upgraded to Type 351, recommissioned 1989 to 2000
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