List of major World War II warships built by minor powers
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This is a list of major World War II surface warships built by the belligerent minor powers. Each entry into this list is a purpose-built naval ship with a displacement greater than 1,000 tons. If her full displacement exceeds 1,000 tons but the standard displacement is below this number, the warship is marked with an asterisk at the end of her name. Only vessels in commission by the end of the war qualify for this list.
A minor power in the context of the Second World War is any country that was not one of the era's Great Powers. A major warship of the Second World War is any naval vessel with a displacement greater than 1,000 tons, as opposed to minor warships.
Allies
[edit]Brazil
[edit]Class | Picture | Type | Ships | Displacement (Standard/Full) | Note |
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Marcílio Dias class | Destroyer | Marcilio Dias Mariz e Barros Greenhalgh |
1,500/2,200 tons | Last ship of the class stricken 1972. |
Denmark
[edit]Class | Picture | Type | Ships | Displacement (Standard/Full) | Note |
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Herluf Trolle class | Coastal defence ship | Peder Skram | 3,500/- tons | Scuttled in August 1943[1] | |
Niels Juel class | Coastal defence ship | Niels Juel | 3,800/- tons | After refit her standard displacement increased by 400 tons; scuttled in August 1943[2] | |
Hekla class | Protected cruiser | Hekla | 1,322/- tons | Survived the war, decommissioned in 1954[3] | |
Hvidbjørnen class* | Fishery protection vessel | Hvidbjørnen | 914/1,050 tons | Scuttled in August 1943 | |
Ingolf class | Fishery protection vessel | Ingolf | 1,180/1,357 tons | Captured by Germany in August 1943 and renamed Sleipner |
Netherlands
[edit]Class | Picture | Type | Ships | Displacement (Standard/Full) | Note |
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Jacob van Heemskerck class | Coastal defence ship | Jacob van Heemskerck | 4,920/- tons | Survived the war, decommissioned in 1974 and subsequently scrapped | |
De Zeven Provinciën class | Coastal defence ship | De Zeven Provinciën | 6,530/- tons | Captured by Japan in 1942, sunk by Allied aircraft in 1943 | |
Koningin Regentes class | Coastal defence ship | Hertog Hendrik | 5,002/- tons | Survived the war, decommissioned in 1968 and subsequently scrapped | |
Java class | Light cruiser | Java Sumatra |
6,670/8,087 tons | Neither survived the war, Java was sunk during the Battle of the Java Sea while Sumatra was scuttled in June 1944 | |
De Ruyter class | Light cruiser | De Ruyter | 6,650/- | Sunk during the Battle of the Java Sea | |
Tromp class | Light cruiser | Tromp Jacob van Heemskerck |
3,404/- | Both survived the war and were decommissioned in the late 1960s | |
Admiralen class | Destroyer | Van Ghent Evertsen Kortenaer Piet Hein Van Galen Witte de With Banckert Van Nes |
1,316/1,640 | All eight were sunk during the war | |
Gerard Callenburgh class | Destroyer | Gerard Callenburgh Isaac Sweers |
1,604/2,228 | Both were sunk during the war | |
Van Kinsbergen class | Sloop | Van Kinsbergen | 1,760/2,388 | Scrapped in 1974 | |
Johan Maurits van Nassau class | Gunboat | Johan Maurits van Nassau | 1,457/1,793 | Sunk in May 1940 | |
K class | Sloop | K1 K2 K3 |
1,200/1,420 | K1 was sunk near the end of the war, the other two were scrapped after the war | |
Flores class | Gunboat | Flores Soemba |
1,480/1,822 | Both survived the war and were decommissioned in 1968 and 1985 respectively | |
Prins van Oranje class | Minelayer | Prins van Oranje Gouden Leeuw |
1,291/- tons | Both were sunk in 1942 | |
Willem van der Zaan class | Minelayer | Willem van der Zaan | 1,422/- tons | Survived the war, scrapped in late 1970 | |
Arend class* | Patrol ship | Arend Valk |
748/1,011 tons | Seaplane-carrying patrol vessels, both scuttled in March 1942 | |
Krakatau class* | Minelayer | Krakatau | 982/1,160 tons | Scuttled in March 1942 | |
Rigel class | Minelayer | Rigel | 1,378/1,631 tons | Scuttled in March 1942 |
Norway
[edit]Class | Picture | Type | Ships | Displacement (Standard/Full) | Note |
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Olav Tryggvason class | Minelayer | Olav Tryggvason | 1,596/- tons | Captured by Germany in April 1940 and renamed Albatros II, wrecked on dry dock by the Royal Air Force in April 1945 | |
Fridtjof Nansen class | Fishery protection vessel | Fridtjof Nansen | 1,219/1,563 tons | Wrecked on rocks in November 1940 |
Yugoslavia
[edit]Class | Picture | Type | Ships | Displacement (Standard/Full) | Note |
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Beograd class | Destroyer | Ljubljana Zagreb |
1,210/1,655 tons | Ljubljana was captured by Italy in April 1941 and lost off the Tunisian coast in April 1943; Zagreb was scuttled in April 1941 |
Axis
[edit]Finland
[edit]Class | Picture | Type | Ships | Displacement (Standard/Full) | Note |
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Väinämöinen class | Coastal defence ship | Väinämöinen Ilmarinen |
3,900/- tons | Ilmarinen was mined and sunk in 1941 during Operation Nordwind |
Romania
[edit]Class | Picture | Type | Ships | Displacement (Standard/Full) | Note |
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Amiral Murgescu class* | Minelayer | Amiral Murgescu | 812/1,068 tons | First sea-going warship built by Romania, survived the war and was scrapped in 1988 |
References
[edit]- ^ Sir John Alexander Hammerton Amalgamated Press, The War Illustrated, Volume 7, Issues 156-180, 1943, p. 230
- ^ Sir John Alexander Hammerton Amalgamated Press, The War Illustrated, Volume 7, Issues 156-180, 1943, p. 230
- ^ "HEKLA (1891-1954)". Archived from the original on 2009-03-15. Retrieved 2018-05-19.