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    The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945. For smaller vessels, see also list of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons. Some uncompleted Axis ships are included, out of historic interest. Ships are designated to the country under which they operated for the longest period of the Second World War, regardless of where they were built or previous service history. Submarines show submerged displacement. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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    List of ships of World War II (P)
    Ship Country or organization Class Type Displacement (tons) First commissioned Fate
    P222   Royal Navy S submarine 814 4 March 1942 sunk 12 December 1942
    Pakenham P destroyer 1,690 4 February 1942 constructive loss, scuttled 16 April 1943
    Paladin P destroyer 1,690 December 1941 paid off June 1961, scrapped 1962
    Pandora Parthian submarine 2,070 30 June 1930 sunk 1 April 1942, scrapped 1955
    Panthir   Hellenic Navy Aetos destroyer 1,030 19 October 1912 Decommissioned 1946
    Panther   Royal Navy P destroyer 1,690 12 December 1941 sunk 9 October 1943
      Argentine Navy Rosario gunboat 1,055 1909 Sold 28 August 1958
    Paris   French Navy
      Royal Navy     		Courbet dreadnought 23,475 5 June 1913 captured by Britain 3 July 1940 used as depot ship, scrapped 1956
    Parker   United States Navy Benson destroyer 1,620 31 August 1942 decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1973
    Parry Sound   Royal Canadian Navy Flower modified corvette 1,015 30 August 1944 10 July 1945
    Parthian   Royal Navy Parthian submarine 2,070 30 June 1930 sunk August 1943
    Partridge P destroyer 1,690 5 July 1941 paid off 1 January 1946
    Pasadena   United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 8 June 1944 scrapped 1970
    Pathan   Royal Indian Navy P sloop 623 5 August 1921 sunk 23 June 1940
    Pathfinder   Royal Navy P destroyer 1,690 13 April 1942 paid off 1945, scrapped 1948
    Patia fighter catapult ship 5,355 1940 sunk 27 April 1941
    Patna   Royal Indian Navy Basset minesweeper 529 1941–1944 1941–1944
    Patria   Cuba gunboat 1,200
    Patroclus   Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser 11,314 12 September 1939 sunk 4 November 1940
    Patroller Ruler escort carrier 11,400 22 October 1943 paid off 7 February 1947, scrapped February 1974
    Patterson   United States Navy Bagley destroyer 1,500 22 September 1937 scrapped 1947
    Peder Skram   Royal Danish Navy Herluf Trolle coastal defence ship 3,494 scuttled 29 August 1943
    Pegasus   Royal Navy fighter catapult ship 7,080 10 December 1914 HMS Ark Royal to 1934, paid off June 1946
    Penetang   Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 19 October 1944 paid off 2 September 1955
    Penn   Royal Navy P destroyer 1,690 10 February 1942 scrapped 30 October 1950
    Pennsylvania   United States Navy Pennsylvania super dreadnought 33,000 12 June 1916 Decommissioned 29 August 1946, sunk as target 10 February 1948
    Pennywort   Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 5 March 1942
    Pensacola   United States Navy Pensacola heavy cruiser 9,100 6 February 1930 sunk as target 1948
    Pentstemon   Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 31 July 1941
    Penylan Hunt destroyer 1,050 25 August 1942 sunk 3 December 1942
    Peony   Royal Navy
      Hellenic Navy     		Flower corvette 925 2 August 1940 to Greece as Sachtouris 1943, scrapped 1952
    Perkins   United States Navy Mahan destroyer 1,450 18 September 1936 sunk 29 November 1942
    Periwinkle   Royal Navy
    }  United States Navy     		Flower corvette 925 8 April 1940 to USA as Restless 15 March 1942, to UK 26 August 1945
    Perseus (I)   Royal Navy Colossus aircraft maintenance carrier 13,200 16 December 1944 transferred to France 6 August 1946, renamed Arromanches
    Perseus (II) Parthian submarine 2,070 15 April 1930 sunk 6 December 1941.
    Pert   United States Navy Flower modified corvette 1,015 23 July 1943 3 October 1945
    Perth   Royal Australian Navy modified Leander light cruiser 6,980 29 June 1939 (former HMS Amphion) sunk 1 March 1942
    Peshawar   Royal Indian Navy Basset minesweeper 529 1941–1944 1941–1944
    Petard   Royal Navy P destroyer 1,690 15 June 1942 scrapped June 1967
    Peterborough   Royal Canadian Navy Flower modified corvette 1,015 1 June 1944 19 July 1945
    Petrof Bay   United States Navy Casablanca escort carrier 7,800 18 February 1944 decommissioned 31 July 1955, scrapped 1959
    Petropavlovsk   Soviet Navy Admiral Hipper heavy cruiser 14,680 fought incomplete in siege of Leningrad, and as Tallinn
    Petunia   Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 13 January 1941
    Phelps   United States Navy Porter destroyer 1,850 26 February 1936 scrapped 1947
    Philadelphia Brooklyn light cruiser 10,200 23 September 1937 transferred to Brazil as Almirante Barroso 1951, scrapped 1973
    Phlox   Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 May 1942
    Phoenix   United States Navy Brooklyn light cruiser 10,200 3 October 1938 transferred to Argentina as General Belgrano 1951, sunk by HMS Conqueror in Falklands War on 2 May 1982
    Phoenix   Royal Navy Parthian submarine 2,070 3 February 1931 sunk 16 July 1940
    Picotee Flower corvette 925 5 September 1940 sunk on 12 August 1941 by U-568 [5]
    Pictou   Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 29 April 1941 paid off 12 July 1945
    Piet Hein   Royal Netherlands Navy Admiralen destroyer 1,337 25 January 1929 Sunk 19 February 1942
    Pimpernel   Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 9 January 1941
    Pindos   Hellenic Navy Hunt destroyer 1,050 27 June 1942 paid off 1959, scrapped 1960
    Ping Hai   Republic of China Navy light cruiser 2,200 1936 became Yasoshima (Japan) 1944
    Pinguin   Kriegsmarine Auxiliary cruiser 17,600 6 February 1940 sunk 8 May 1941
    Pink   Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 2 July 1942 declared total loss after 27 June 1944 in attack by U-988 [6]
    Pioneer Colossus aircraft maintenance carrier 13,200 8 February 1945 scrapped September 1954
    Piorun   Polish Navy N destroyer 1,690 4 November 1940 to Poland October 1940, to UK August 1946, scrapped 1955
    Pittsburgh   United States Navy Baltimore heavy cruiser 17,200 10 October 1944 decommissioned 1956, scrapped 1974
    Plunkett Gleaves destroyer 1,630 17 July 1940 to Taiwan 1959, scrapped 1975
    Pluton   French Navy minelayer light cruiser 4,773 10 April 1931 lost 13 September 1939
    Pola   Regia Marina Zara heavy cruiser 11,730 1932 sunk 28 March 1941
    Polyanthus   Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 24 April 1941 sunk on 21 September 1943 by U-952 [7]
    Pompeo Magno   Regia Marina Capitani Romani light cruiser (also known as exploratori oceanici) 3,750
    Poona   Royal Indian Navy Basset minesweeper 529 1941–1944 1941–1944
    Poppy   Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 12 May 1942
    Porcupine P destroyer 1,690 31 August 1942 Strangest vessel of the war? Torpedoed, split almost in half, declared constructive loss March 1943. Towed to harbour, cut into two, rebuilt, and each half was re-commissioned into the Royal Navy; as HMS Pork, and HMS Pine. Paid off 31 August 1946.
    Port Arthur   Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 26 May 1942 paid off 11 July 1945
    Port Colborne River frigate 1,445 15 November 1943 paid off 7 November 1945
    Porter   United States Navy Porter destroyer 1,850 25 August 1936 sunk 26 October 1942
    Portland Portland heavy cruiser 9,950 23 February 1933 decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1959
    Portsmouth Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 20 September 1944 scrapped 1974
    Poseidon   Royal Navy Parthian submarine 2,070 5 May 1930 sunk in accidental collision with a merchant 9 June 1931
    Potentilla   Royal Navy
      Royal Norwegian Navy     		Flower corvette 925 16 January 1942 to Norway 16 January 1942, to RN 13 March 1944
    Poundmaker   Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 17 September 1944 paid off 25 November 1945
    Premier   Royal Navy Ruler escort carrier 11,400 3 November 1943 paid off 21 May 1946, scrapped 1976
    Prescott   Royal Canadian Navy Flower corvette 925 26 June 1941 paid off 20 July 1945
    Preston   United States Navy Mahan destroyer 1,450 27 October 1936 sunk 14 November 1942
    Prestonian   Royal Canadian Navy River frigate 1,445 13 September 1944 paid off 24 April 1956
    Pretoria Castle   Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser 23,450 28 November 1939 training merchant aircraft carrier from July 1943, reconverted to passenger liner
    Primauguet   French Navy Duguay-Trouin light cruiser 7,249 1 April 1927 scuttled 8 November 1942
    Primrose   Royal Navy Flower corvette 925 15 July 1940
    Primula Flower corvette 925 27 August 1940
    Prudent   United States Navy Flower modified corvette 1,015 16 August 1943 11 October 1945
    Prince David   Royal Canadian Navy armed merchant cruiser 5,736 28 December 1940 Broken up 1951
    Prince Henry armed merchant cruiser 6,893 3 November 1940 paid off July 1946
    Prince of Wales   Royal Navy King George V battleship 35,000 31 March 1941 sunk 10 December 1941
    Prince Robert   Royal Canadian Navy armed merchant cruiser 6,892 December 1940 paid off 10 December 1945
    Prince Rupert River frigate 1,445 30 August 1943 paid off 15 January 1946
    Princeton   United States Navy Independence light aircraft carrier 11,000 25 February 1943 sunk 24 October 1944
    Prins van Oranje   Royal Netherlands Navy Prins van Oranje minelayer 1,291 2 February 1932 sunk 12 January 1942
    Prinz Eugen   Kriegsmarine enlarged Admiral Hipper heavy cruiser 14,680 1 August 1940 sunk after A-bomb test at Bikini in 1946
    Proteus   Royal Navy Parthian submarine 2,070 5 May 1930 Scrapped in March 1946 at Troon
    Provence   French Navy Bretagne super dreadnought 22,200 1 March 1916 scuttled 27 November 1942,
    Providence   United States Navy Cleveland light cruiser 11,800 15 May 1945 converted to missile cruiser 1959, scrapped 1980
    Prunella   Royal Navy Special Service Ship 4,443 sunk 21 June 1940
    Psara   Hellenic Navy Kountouriotis destroyer 1,350 1933 sunk 20 April 1941
    Puckeridge   Royal Navy Hunt destroyer 1,000 sunk 6 September 1943 by U-617
    Puget Sound   United States Navy Commencement Bay escort carrier 10,900 18 June 1945 scrapped January 1962
    Puncher   Royal Navy
      Royal Canadian Navy     		Ruler escort carrier 11,400 5 February 1944 Crewed by RCN, paid off 16 February 1946, scrapped 1973
    Punjab   Royal Indian Navy Bathurst corvette 1,025 20 March 1942 Decommissioned 1949
    Punjabi   Royal Navy Tribal destroyer 2,020 29 March 1939 sunk 1 May 1942
    Pursuer Attacker escort carrier 11,400 14 June 1943 Returned to USN 12 February 1946, sold for scrap May 1946
    Pytchley Hunt destroyer 1,050 23 October 1940 paid off 1946, scrapped 1956

    References

    1. ^ "Hulls Listed by Name". Naval Vessel Register. Archived from the original on 30 June 2007.
    2. ^ "US Navy Inactive Classification Symbols". Naval Vessel Register. NAVSEA Shipbuilding Support Office. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
    3. ^ "Index". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
    4. ^ "Royal Navy operations in the Second World War". The National Archives. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
    5. ^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "HMS Picotee (K 63) (British Corvette)". Uboat.net.
    6. ^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "HMS Pink (K 137) (British Corvette)". Uboat.net.
    7. ^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "HMS Polyanthus (K 47) (British Corvette)". Uboat.net.

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