List of ship decommissionings in 1997

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The list of ship decommissionings in 1997 includes a chronological list of all ships decommissioned in 1997.

Operator Ship Flag Class and type Fate Other notes
17 July  Russian Navy Bodryy Project 1135 guard ship Scrapped Kaliningrad
1 August  Royal Navy Peacock Peacock-class patrol vessel Transferred to Philippine Navy
1 August  Royal Navy Plover Peacock-class patrol vessel Transferred to Philippine Navy
1 August  Royal Navy Starling Peacock-class patrol vessel Transferred to Philippine Navy
1 October  French Navy Clemenceau Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier Scrapped Hartlepool 2009-10
23 October  United States Navy New Orleans Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship Sunk as target, 2010 [1]

Citations[edit]

  1. ^ Friedman, p. 478

Bibliography[edit]

  • Friedman, Norman (2022) [1983]. U. S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History (Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-68247-762-5.