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
7 January	United States Navy	Colorado	Colorado-class battleship	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1959
8 January	United States Navy	Suwannee	Sangamon-class escort carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1959
9 January	United States Navy	Bon Homme Richard	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1951
9 January	United States Navy	Essex	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1951
9 January	United States Navy	Ticonderoga	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1954
9 January	United States Navy	Yorktown	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1953
13 January	United States Navy	Belleau Wood	Independence-class light aircraft carrier	Transferred to France in 1951	Renamed Bois Belleau
13 January	United States Navy	Cowpens	Independence-class light aircraft carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1959
15 January	United States Navy	Hornet	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1953
17 January	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
11 February	United States Navy	Bataan	Independence-class light aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1950
11 February	United States Navy	Cabot	Independence-class light aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1948
11 February	United States Navy	Langley	Independence-class light aircraft carrier	Transferred to France in 1951	Renamed Lafayette (R96)
11 February	United States Navy	Monterey	Independence-class light aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1950
14 February	United States Navy	Tennessee	Tennessee-class battleship	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1959
14 February	United States Navy	California	Tennessee-class battleship	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1959
15 February	United States Navy	Lake Champlain	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1952
17 February	United States Navy	Franklin	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Scrapped	Stricken in 1964
17 February	United States Navy	Wasp	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1951
18 February	Royal Navy	Newark	Town-class destroyer	Scrapped
18 February	Royal Navy	Newport	Town-class destroyer	Scrapped
21 February	United States Navy	Mission Bay	Casablanca-class escort carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1958
1 March	United States Navy	San Jacinto	Independence-class light aircraft carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1970
9 March	United States Navy	Hancock	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1954
22 March	United States Navy	Intrepid	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1954
9 May	United States Navy	Hollandia	Casablanca-class escort carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1960
30 June	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 Railway Co	Renamed Dinard, resumed ferry service in the English Channel
1 August	United States Navy	Wyoming	Wyoming-class battleship	Scrapped
12 September	United States Navy	Saidor	Commencement Bay-class escort carrier	Scrapped	Reserve until stricken in 1970
4 October	United States Navy	Salerno Bay	Commencement Bay-class escort carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1951
7 November	United States Navy	Shangri-La	Essex-class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Recommissioned in 1955