List of ship decommissionings in 1947

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The list of ship decommissionings in 1947 includes a chronological list of all ships decommissioned in 1947.

	Operator	Ship	Class and type	Fate	Other notes
January 8	United States Navy	Suwannee	Sangamon class escort carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1959
January 9	United States Navy	Bon Homme Richard	Essex class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1951
January 9	United States Navy	Essex	Essex class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1951
January 9	United States Navy	Ticonderoga	Essex class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1954
January 9	United States Navy	Yorktown	Essex class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1953
January 13	United States Navy	Belleau Wood	Independence class light aircraft carrier	Transferred to France in 1951	Renamed Bois Belleau
January 13	United States Navy	Cowpens	Independence class light aircraft carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1959
January 15	United States Navy	Hornet	Essex class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1953
May 9	United States Navy	Hollandia	Casablanca class escort carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1960
January 17	United States Navy	Windham Bay	Casablanca class escort carrier	Reserve	Transferred to Military Sea Transportation Service in 1951
January	United States Navy	Bunker Hill	Essex class aircraft carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1972
February 11	United States Navy	Bataan	Independence class light aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1950
February 11	United States Navy	Cabot	Independence class light aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1948
February 11	United States Navy	Langley	Independence class light aircraft carrier	Transferred to France in 1951	Renamed Lafayette (R96)
February 11	United States Navy	Monterey	Independence class light aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1950
February 15	United States Navy	Lake Champlain	Essex class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1952
February 17	United States Navy	Franklin	Essex class aircraft carrier	Scrapped	Stricken in 1964
February 17	United States Navy	Wasp	Essex class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1951
February 18	Royal Navy	Newark		Scrapped
February 18	Royal Navy	Newport		Scrapped
February 21	United States Navy	Mission Bay	Casablanca class escort carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1958
March 1	United States Navy	San Jacinto	Independence class light aircraft carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1970
March 9	United States Navy	Hancock	Essex class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1954
March 22	United States Navy	Intrepid	Essex class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1954
June 30	United States Navy	Point Cruz	Commencement Bay class escort carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1951
July	Royal Navy	Hospital Ship No 28	Hospital ship	Returned to Southern Railways Co	Renamed Dinard, resumed ferry service in the English Channel
August 1	United States Navy	Wyoming		Sold as scrap
September 12	United States Navy	Saidor	Commencement Bay class escort carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1970
October 4	United States Navy	Salerno Bay	Commencement Bay class escort carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1951
November 7	United States Navy	Shangri-La	Essex class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1955

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Ship launches:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949
Ship commissionings:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949
Ship decommissionings:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949
Shipwrecks:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949