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| Ship | Country | Class and type | Displacement (tons) | First commissioned | Fate |
| Valiant | UK | Queen Elizabeth class battleship | 31,000 | 13 January 1916 | scrapped 1950 |
| Van Galen | Netherlands | Admiralen class destroyer | 1,680 | 20 February 1929 | Sunk 10 May 1940 |
| Van Ghent | Netherlands | Admiralen class destroyer | 1,680 | 31 May 1928 | Ran aground and was scuttled 15 February 1942 |
| Vasilefs Georgios | Greece | modified G class destroyer | 1,350 | 15 February 1939 | captured, became ZG3 Hermes (Germany) 21 March 1942, scuttled 7 May 1943 |
| Vasilissa Olga | Greece | modified UK G class destroyer | 1,350 | Feb 1939 | sunk 26 September 1943 |
| Veinticinco de Mayo | Argentina | Veinticinco de Mayo class cruiser | 6,800 | 18 July 1931 | scrapped 1962 |
| Venerable | UK | Colossus class aircraft carrier | 13,200 | 17 January 1945 | sold to Netherlands 1 April 1948, renamed Karel Doorman |
| Vengeance | UK | Colossus class aircraft carrier | 13,200 | 15 January 1945 | loaned to Australia 13 November 1952, sold to Brazil 12 December 1956, renamed Minas Gerais |
| Venus | UK | V class destroyer | 1,710 | 28 August 1943 | scrapped 1972 |
| Verulam | UK | V class destroyer | 1,710 | 10 December 1943 | scrapped 1972 |
| Vicksburg | USA | Cleveland class light cruiser | 11,800 | 12 June 1944 | scrapped 1964 |
| Victorious | UK | Illustrious class aircraft carrier | 23,000 | 29 May 1941 | scrapped 1969 |
| Videla | Chile | Serrano class destroyer | 1,090 | Discarded 1960 | |
| Vincennes (I) | USA | New Orleans class heavy cruiser | 9,400 | 24 February 1937 | sunk 9 August 1942 |
| Vincennes (II) | USA | Cleveland class light cruiser | 11,800 | 21 January 1944 | sunk as target 1966 |
| Vindex | UK | escort aircraft carrier | 13,445 | sold 2 October 1947 & renamed Port Vindex | |
| Virago | UK | V class destroyer | 1,710 | 5 November 1943 | scrapped 1965 |
| Vittorio Veneto | Italy | Vittorio Veneto class battleship | 41,000 | 28 April 1940 | scrapped 1948 |
| Voroshilov | USSR | Kirov (Project 26) class heavy cruiser | 7,880 | 20 June 1940 | scrapped 1960s |
| Väinämöinen | Finland | coastal defence ship | 3,900 | 29 April 1932 | to Soviet Union 29 May 1947, renamed Vyborg, scrapped ca. 1968 |
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