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Ship | Country | Class and type | Displacement (tons) | First commissioned | Fate |
Kaga | Japan | aircraft carrier | 38,200 | 1 November 1929 | sunk 4 June 1942 |
Kaganovich | USSR | Maxim Gorkiy (Project 26 bis) class heavy cruiser | 8,200 | 6 December 1944 | |
Kako | Japan | Furutaka class heavy cruiser | 7,950 | 31 July 1926 | sunk 10 August 1942 |
Kaiyo | Japan | aircraft carrier | 13,600 | 23 November 1943 (former troop transport) | 10 August 1945 |
Kalinin | USSR | Maxim Gorkiy (Project 26 bis) class heavy cruiser | 8,200 | 31 December 1942 | |
Kalk | USA | Benson class destroyer | 1,620 | 17 October 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1969 |
Kanaris | Greece | Hunt (Type III) class escort destroyer | 1,050 | 10 August 1942 | Returned to Royal Navy 1959, scrapped 1960 |
Karl Galster | Germany | Type 1936 destroyer | 3,415 | 21 March 1939 | scrapped 1956 |
Karlsruhe | Germany | K class light cruiser | 6,650 | 6 November 1929 | sunk 9 April 1940 |
Kashii | Japan | Katori class light cruiser | 6,180 | 15 July 1941 | sunk 12 January 1945 |
Kashima | Japan | Katori class light cruiser | 6,180 | 31 May 1940 | struck 5 October 1945; scrapped 1947 |
Katori | Japan | Katori class light cruiser | 6,180 | 20 April 1940 | sunk 18 February 1944 |
Katsuragi | Japan | aircraft carrier | 15 October 1944 | Scrapped 1947 | |
Kearny | USA | Gleaves class destroyer | 1,630 | 13 September 1940 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1972 |
Keith | UK | B class destroyer leader | 1,350 | 20 March 1931 | sunk 1 June 1940 |
Kendrick | USA | Benson class destroyer | 1,620 | 12 September 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1966 |
Kent | UK | County class heavy cruiser | 9,750 | 25 June 1928 | scrapped Jan 1948 |
Kenya | UK | Fiji class light cruiser | 8,000 | 27 September 1940 | scrapped 1962 |
Khedive | UK | Ruler class escort aircraft carrier | 11,400 | 25 August 1943 (former USS Cordova) | Returned to USN 26 January 1946, stricken 19 July 1946, sold and renamed Rempang |
Kilkis | Greece | Kilkis class coastal defence ship | 13,000 | 17 July 1914 | sunk 24 April 1941 |
King George V | UK | King George V class battleship | 35,000 | 11 December 1940 | decommissioned 1949 and scrapped |
Kinu | Japan | Nagara class light cruiser | 5,088 | 10 November 1922 | sun by USN aircraft, Sibuyan Sea 26 October 1944 |
Kinugasa | Japan | Aoba class heavy cruiser | 9,000 | 30 September 1927 | sunk 13 November 1942 |
Kirishima | Japan | Kongō class battleship | 36,600 | 19 April 1915 | sunk 15 November 1942 |
Kirov | USSR | Kirov (Project 26) class heavy cruiser | 7,880 | 23 September 1938 | |
Kiso | Japan | Kuma class light cruiser | 5,100 | 29 January 1921 | 20 March 1944; Sunk by USN aircraft west of Cavite |
Kistna | India | Modified Black Swan class sloop | 1,350 | Scrapped 1980 | |
Kitakami | Japan | Kuma class light cruiser | 5,100 | 15 April 1921 | 30 November 1945; Scrapped |
Knapp | USA | Fletcher class destroyer | 2,500 | 16 September 1943 | Decommissioned: 4 March 1957, scrapped 1972 |
Knight | USA | Gleaves class destroyer | 1,630 | 23 June 1942 | decommissioned 1947, sunk as target 1967 |
Köln | Germany | K class light cruiser | 6,650 | January 1930 | sunk 3 March 1945 |
Komet | Germany | auxiliary cruiser | 7,500 | 2 June 1940 (former freighter Ems) | sunk 14 October 1942 |
Kondor | Germany | 1923 (Raubvogel) class torpedo boat | 1,290 | 15 July 1927 | decommissioned 28 June 1944 |
Kongō | Japan | Kongō class battleship | 36,600 | 16 August 1913 | Template:Sunk 21 November 1944 |
Königsberg | Germany | K class light cruiser | 6,650 | 17 April 1929 | sunk 10 April 1940,at Bergen, Norway |
Kormoran | Germany | auxiliary cruiser | 19,900 | 9 October 1940 (former freighter Steiermark) | 19 November 1941 |
Kortenaer | Netherlands | Admiralen class destroyer | 1,680 | 3 September 1928 | sunk 27 February 1942 |
Kountouriotis | Greece | modified Freccia class destroyer | 1,389 | 1933 | decommissioned 1946 |
Krakowiak | Poland | Hunt class destroyer | 1,050 | 28 May 1941 (laid down as HMS Silverton) | returned to RN September 1946, scrapped March 1959. |
Krasnoye Znamya | USSR | Krasnoye Znamya class gunboat | 1,735 | 1897 | Sunk on 18 November 1942, raised, decommissioned in 1960 |
Krasny Kavkaz | USSR | Kraznyi Kavkaz class cruiser | 7,560 | 25 January 1932 | Sunk as a target 1956 |
Krasnyi Krym | USSR | Krasnyi Krym class cruiser | 6,800 | 1 July 1928 | Sunk as target in 1959 |
Kriti | Greece | Hunt (Type II) class escort destroyer | 1,050 | Dec 1943 (former HMS Hursley) | Returned to the Royal Navy 12 November 1959 |
Kujawiak | Poland | Hunt class destroyer | 1,050 | 17 June 1941 | sunk 16 June 1942, off Malta |
Kuma | Japan | Kuma class light cruiser | 5,550 | 31 August 1920 | 10 March 1944; Sunk by HMS Tally-Ho west of Penang |
Kumano | Japan | Mogami class heavy cruiser | 13,440 | 31 October 1931 | sunk 15 November 1944 |
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