List of World War II Ships - L

L

Ship Country Class and type Displacement (tons) First commissioned Fate
La Argentina Argentina training light cruiser 6,500 discarded 1974
La Galissonnière France La Galissonnière class light cruiser 7,600 1 January 1936 scuttled 27 November 1942
La Rioja Argentina destroyer 1,570
Laffey (I) USA Benson class destroyer 1,620 31 March 1942 sunk 13 November 1942
Laffey (II) USA Sumner class destroyer 2,200 8 February 1944 decommissioned 1975, memorial at Charleston, SC
Lake Champlain USA Ticonderoga class fleet carrier 27,100 3 June 1945 decommissioned 2 May 1966, sold for scrapping on 28 April 1972
Lamberton USA Wickes class high speed minesweeper 1,090 22 August 1918 scrapped 9 May 1947
Lamotte-Piquet France Duguay-Trouin class light cruiser 7,249 5 March 1927 sunk 12 January 1945
Lamson USA Mahan class destroyer 1,450 21 October 1936 sunk in A-bomb test, 1946
Lang USA Benham class destroyer 1,500 30 March 1939 scrapped 1947
Langley CV-1 USA light aircraft carrier and seaplane tender 11,500 7 April 1913 sunk 27 February 1942
Langley CVL-27 USA Independence class light carrier 11,000 31 August 1943 decommissioned 11 February 1947, later La Fayette (France), scrapped 1964
Lansdale USA Benson class destroyer 1,620 17 September 1940 sunk 20 April 1944
Lansdowne USA Gleaves class destroyer 1,630 29 April 1942 to Turkey 1949, scrapped 1973
Lardner USA Gleaves class destroyer 1,630 13 May 1942 to Turkey 1949, sunk as target 1982
Latona UK Abdiel class minelayer 2,650 4 May 1941 lost 25 October 1941
Laub USA Benson class destroyer 1,620 24 October 1942 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1975
Lawford UK Captain class frigate 1,140 3 November 1943 sunk 8 June 1944
Lawrence India 24 class sloop 1,748 27 December 1919 Scrapped 1947
Leander New Zealand Leander class light cruiser 6,985 23 July 1931 (former Leander (UK)) returned to UK 8 May 1944, scrapped 1950
Leberecht Maass Germany Type 1934 destroyer 2,230 14 January 1937 sunk 22 February 1940
Leipzig Germany Leipzig class light cruiser 6,515 8 October 1931 scuttled 11 July 1946
Lemnos Greece Kilkis class coastal defence ship 13,000 30 July 1914 sunk 24 April 1941
Leningrad Soviet Union Leningrad class destroyer 2,150 December 1936 (completed) scrapped in 1960
Leon Greece Wild Beast class destroyer 1,030 19 October 1912 sunk 15 May 1941
Leopard Germany 1924 Raubtier class torpedo boat 1,320 1 June 1928 sunk on 30 April 1940
Léopard Free French Chacal class destroyer 2,126 31 August 1940 sunk 27 May 1943
Lexington CV-2 USA Lexington class fleet carrier 33,000 14 December 1927 sunk 8 May 1942
Lexington CV-16 USA Essex class fleet carrier 27,100 17 February 1943 decommissioned 8 November 1991; museum Corpus Christi, Texas
Libertad Argentina coastal defense ship 2,336
Lincoln Norway Town class destroyer 1,190 Feb 1942 (former HMS Lincoln) July 1942 (transferred to Canada)
Lightning UK L class destroyer 1,920 28 May 1941 sunk 12 March 1943
Littorio Italy Vittorio Veneto class battleship 43,835 6 May 1940 renamed Italia, scrapped 1948
Livermore USA Gleaves class destroyer 1,630 7 October 1940 Sold 3 March 1961 for scrapping
Loch Insh UK Loch class frigate 1,435 20 October 1944 transferred to the Royal Malaysian Navy in 1964 and renamed KD Hang Tuah, scrapped in 1977
London UK County class heavy cruiser 9,850 31 January 1929 scrapped 1950
Long Island USA Long Island class escort aircraft carrier 13,500 2 June 1941 decommissioned 26 March 1946
Lorelei Germany patrol boat 1,640 ex-Artevelde (Belgium) became K4, scrapped 1954
Lorraine France
Free French		 Bretagne class battleship 22,200 27 July 1916 Decommissioned 17 February 1953
Los Angeles USA Baltimore class heavy cruiser 17,200 22 July 1945 scrapped 1974
Lothringen Germany minelayer 1,975 Dec 1941 sold to merchant service post-war
Houston USA Northampton class heavy cruiser 9,200 15 January 1931 scrapped 1959
Luigi Di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi Italy Duca degli Abruzzi class light cruiser 9,952 1 December 1937 scrapped 1972
Luchs Germany Raubtier class torpedo boat 1,320 15 April 1929 sunk 26 July 1940
Ludlow USA Gleaves class destroyer 1,630 5 March 1941 to Greece 1951, scrapped 1972
Luigi Cadorna Italy Cadorna class light cruiser 5,316 11 August 1933 scrapped 1951
Lützow Germany enlarged Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser 14,680 not completed sold to USSR 1940 became Petropavlovsk, then Tallinn
Lützow Germany Deutschland class heavy cruiser or "pocket battleship" 12,100 former Deutschland scuttled 4 May 1945

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