List of ship decommissionings in 1988
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The list of ship decommissionings in 1988 includes a chronological list of all ship
s decommissioned in 1988.
Ship
Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...
s decommissioned in 1988.
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6 February | Advance HMAS Advance (P 83) HMAS Advance was an Attack class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy . Constructed during 1967 and commissioned into the RAN in 1968, Advance operated from Darwin and patrolled northern Australian waters.... |
Attack class Attack class patrol boat The Attack class patrol boats were small coastal defence vessels built for the Royal Australian Navy and operated between 1967 and 1985... patrol boat |
Museum ship | To Australian National Maritime Museum Australian National Maritime Museum The Australian National Maritime Museum is a federally-operated maritime museum located in Darling Harbour, Sydney. After consideration of the idea to establish a maritime museum, the Federal government announced that a national maritime museum would be constructed at Darling Harbour, tied into... |
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30 March | Augsburg | Wrecked at Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808... |
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17 May | Stena Line Stena Line Stena Line is one of the world's largest ferry operators, with ferry services serving Scotland, Sweden, Northern Ireland, Denmark, Norway, England, Wales, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands and Poland. Stena Line is a major unit of Stena AB, itself a part of the Stena Sphere, a grouping of Stena AB,... |
Stena Saga | Ferry Ferry A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services... |
Transferred to Lion Ferry Lion Ferry Lion Ferry was a Swedish ferry company which operated passenger and freight ferry services in Scandinavia and North America.-History:1960The Prins Bertil enters service between Halmstad and Aarhus.... |
Rebuilt into Lion Queen | |
31 May | Diomede HMS Diomede (F16) HMS Diomede was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy . She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders in Glasgow. Diomede was launched on 15 April 1969 and commissioned on 2 April 1971... |
Leander class frigate Leander class frigate The Leander class, or Type 12I frigates, comprising twenty-six vessels, was among the most numerous and long-lived classes of frigate in the Royal Navy's modern history. The class was built in three batches between 1959 and 1973... |
Decommissioned | Sold to Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan... |
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25 June | Tullibee USS Tullibee (SSN-597) USS Tullibee , a unique submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tullibee, any of several whitefishes of central and northern North America.... |
Tullibee class USS Tullibee (SSN-597) USS Tullibee , a unique submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tullibee, any of several whitefishes of central and northern North America.... submarine |
Decommissioned | Entered the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program on 5 January 1995. On 1 April 1996, the hulk ceased to exist. | ||
26 June | Bayonet HMAS Bayonet (P 101) HMAS Bayonet was an Attack class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy .-Design and construction:The Attack class was ordered in 1964 to operate in Australian waters as patrol boats HMAS Bayonet (P 101) was an Attack class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).-Design and... |
Attack class Attack class patrol boat The Attack class patrol boats were small coastal defence vessels built for the Royal Australian Navy and operated between 1967 and 1985... patrol boat |
Decommissioned | Scuttled in Bass Strait Bass Strait Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria.-Extent:The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Bass Strait as follows:... |
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31 August | Apollo HMS Apollo (F70) HMS Apollo was a Batch 3B Broadbeam Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy . She was, like the rest of the class, named after a figure of mythology. Apollo was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders of Scotstoun... |
Leander class frigate Leander class frigate The Leander class, or Type 12I frigates, comprising twenty-six vessels, was among the most numerous and long-lived classes of frigate in the Royal Navy's modern history. The class was built in three batches between 1959 and 1973... |
Decommissioned | Sold to Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan... |
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13 October | SF Line SF Line SF Line was the name of the Finnish shipping company presently known as Viking Line. The company, originally named Rederi Ab Ålandsfärjan, was one of three shipping companies that formed shipping marketing company Viking Line in 1966, the other two being Rederi Ab Vikinglinjen and Rederi AB Slite... (Viking Line Viking Line Viking Line is a Finnish shipping company that operates a fleet of ferries and cruiseferries between Finland, the Åland Islands, Sweden and Estonia. Viking Line shares are quoted on the Helsinki Stock Exchange... traffic) |
Turella | Cruiseferry Cruiseferry A cruiseferry is a ship that combines the features of a cruise ship with a Ro-Pax ferry. Many passengers travel with the ships for the cruise experience, staying only a few hours at the destination port or not leaving the ship at all, while others use the ships as means of... |
Sold to Stena Line Stena Line Stena Line is one of the world's largest ferry operators, with ferry services serving Scotland, Sweden, Northern Ireland, Denmark, Norway, England, Wales, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands and Poland. Stena Line is a major unit of Stena AB, itself a part of the Stena Sphere, a grouping of Stena AB,... |
Renamed Stena Nordica | |
1 December | Lübeck German frigate Lübeck (F224) German frigate Lübeck was a which served in the German Federal Navy from 1963 through 1988.- See also :* List of frigates* List of German Federal Navy ships* List of naval ships of Germany* List of ship commissionings in 1963... |
Decommissioned | Sold to the Turkish Navy Turkish Navy The Turkish Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the Turkish Armed Forces.- Ottoman fleet after Mudros :Following the demise of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, on November 3, 1918, the fleet commander of the Ottoman Navy, Liva Amiral Arif Pasha, ordered all flags to be... for cannibalization Cannibalization of machine parts Cannibalization of machine parts, in maintenance of mechanical or electronic systems with interchangeable parts, refers to the practice of removing parts or subsystems necessary for repair from another similar device, rather than from inventory, usually when resources become limited... |
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December | Swansea-Cork Ferries | Celtic Pride | Ferry Ferry A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services... |
End of charter, returned to Polferries Polferries Polferries is the largest Polish ferry operator.The Polish Baltic Shipping Company was established on 31 January 1976 as a state-owned shipping company. Under the operating name Polferries, the company runs ferry routes across the Baltic Sea between Poland and Scandinavia.In 1996 Polferries... |
Renamed Rogalin |