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Ship | Country | Class and type | Displacement (tons) | First commissioned | Fate |
Nabob | UK | Ruler class escort aircraft carrier | 11,400 | 7 September 1943 (former USS Edisto) | Decommissioned 30 September 1944, scrapped Dec 1977 |
Nachi | Japan | Myōkō class heavy cruiser | 13,380 | sunk 5 November 1944 | |
Nagara | Japan | Nagara class light cruiser | 5,088 | lost 7 August 1944 | |
Nagato | Japan | Nagato class battleship | 42,850 | sunk as target at Bikini, 29 July 1946 | |
Nairana | UK | escort aircraft carrier | 11,420 | 12 December 1943 | sold into mercantile service as Port Victor 28 May 1948 |
Naka | Japan | Sendai class light cruiser | 7,100 | 1925 | sunk 17 February 1944 |
Narbada | India | Black Swan class sloop | 1,250 | Transferred to Pakistan 1948, renamed Jhelum | |
Nashville | USA | Brooklyn class light cruiser | 9,475 | 6 June 1938 | sold to Chile 1951 (Capitan Prat) |
Natal | South Africa | Loch class frigate | 1,435 | 9 March 1945 | Decommissioned 1 September 1965 |
Natori | Japan | Nagara class light cruiser | 5,088 | lost 18 August 1944 | |
Natsuzuki | Japan | Akizuki class destroyer | 2,700 | 8 April 1945 | scrapped after the war |
Navarinon | Greece | E class destroyer | 1,405 | 5 April 1944, (former Echo) | Returned to Royal Navy and scrapped Apr 1956 |
Nelson | UK | Nelson class battleship | 34,000 | 10 September 1927 | decommissioned Feb 1948, scrapped Mar 1949 |
Nelson | USA | Gleaves class destroyer | 1,630 | 26 November 1942 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1969 |
Neptune | UK | Leander class light cruiser | 7,000 | 23 February 1934 | lost 19 December 1941 |
Nevada | USA | Nevada class battleship | 29,000 | 11 March 1916 | decommissioned 29 July 1946; sunk as a target 31 July 1948 |
New Jersey | USA | Iowa class battleship | 57,271 | 23 May 1943 | decommissioned 1948, recommissioned 1968, decommissioned 1969, recommissioned 1983, decommissioned 1991. museum ship Camden, New Jersey |
New Mexico | USA | New Mexico class battleship | 33,000 | 20 May 1918 | Scrapped Nov 1947 |
New Orleans | USA | New Orleans class heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 12 April 1933 | Decommissioned 10 February 1947, scrapped 1959 |
New York | USA | New York class battleship | 27,000 | 15 April 1914 | decommissioned 29 August 1946, sunk as target at Bikini 8 July 1948 |
Newark | UK | Town class destroyer | 1,060 | 26 November 1940 (former USS Ringgold) | scrapped Feb 1947 |
Newfoundland | UK | Fiji class light cruiser | 8,800 | 21 January 1943 | sold to Peru 1959, renamed Almirante Grau |
Newmarket | UK | Town class destroyer | 1,060 | 26 November 1940 (former USS Robinson) | scrapped Sep 1945 |
Newport | Norway | Town class destroyer | 1,190 | Mar 1942 (former HMS Newport) | Jun 1942, returned to RN |
Niblack | USA | Gleaves class destroyer | 1,630 | 1 August 1940 | Sold 16 August 1973 and broken up for scrap |
Nicholson | USA | Gleaves class destroyer | 1,630 | 3 June 1941 | to Italy 1951, sunk as target 1975 |
Niedersachsen | Germany | minelayer | 1,794 | 20 December 1943 (former French transport Guyane, captured by Italy as Acqui 4 December 1942) | sunk 15 February 1944 |
Nields | USA | Benson class destroyer | 1,620 | 15 January 1943 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1972 |
Niels Juel | Denmark | Niels Juel class coastal defence ship | 3,800 | captured, renamed Nordland (Germany) | sunk 3 May 1945 |
Nigeria | UK | Fiji class cruiser | 8,000 | 23 September 1940 | sold to India 29 August 1957, renamed Mysore |
Ning Hai | China | light cruiser | 2,200 | became Ioshima (Japan) | |
Niobe | Germany | anti-aircraft cruiser | 4,100 | former Dutch Gelderland | sunk Kotka 16 July 1944 |
Norge | Norway | Eidsvold class coastal defence ship | 4,230 | 7 February 1901 | sunk 9 April 1940 |
North Carolina | USA | North Carolina class battleship | 35,000 | 9 April 1941 | decommissioned 27 June 1947, museum ship Wilmington, North Carolina |
Northampton | USA | Northampton class heavy cruiser | 9,050 | 17 May 1930 | lost 1 December 1942 |
Noshiro | Japan | Agano class light cruiser | 6,650 | Sunk 26 October 1944 | |
Nubian | UK | Tribal class destroyer | 2,020 | 6 December 1938 | scrapped 1949 |
Nürnberg | Germany | light cruiser | 6,980 | 2 November 1935 | transferred to Soviet Union as Admiral Makarov, scrapped 1960 |
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