# List of destroyers of World War II

This is a list of destroyers of the Second World War.
The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
For smaller vessels, see also list of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons. Some uncompleted Axis ships are included, out of historic interest. Ships are designated to the country under which they operated for the longest period of the Second World War, regardless of where they were built or previous service history.
Several high-speed transports are incorrectly given the type "destroyer" in the table.
List of destroyers of World War II :
| Ship | Operator | Class | Type | Displacement (tons) | First commissioned | Fate |
| Aaron Ward (DD-483) | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 4 March 1942 | sunk 7 April 1943 |
| Aaron Ward (DM-34) | United States Navy | Robert H. Smith | Destroyer minelayer | 2,200 | 28 October 1944 | decommissioned 1945, sold for scrap 1946 |
| Abbot | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 23 April 1943 | decommissioned 1965, scrapped 1975 |
| Abner Read | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 5 February 1943 | sunk 1 November 1944 |
| Acasta | Royal Navy | A | Destroyer | 1,350 | 11 February 1930 | sunk 8 June 1940 |
| Achates | Royal Navy | A | Destroyer | 1,350 | 27 March 1930 | sunk 31 December 1942 |
| Acheron | Royal Navy | A | Destroyer | 1,350 | 13 October 1931 | sunk 17 December 1940 |
| Active | Royal Navy | A | Destroyer | 1,350 | 9 February 1930 | scrapped 1947 |
| Adams | United States Navy | Robert H. Smith | Destroyer minelayer | 2,200 | 10 October 1944 | decommissioned 1946, sold for scrap 1971 |
| Adatepe | Turkish Naval Forces | Adatepe | Destroyer | 1,250 | 18 October 1931 | decommissioned February 1954 |
| Æger | Royal Norwegian Navy | Sleipner | Destroyer | 735 | 25 August 1936 | bombed and beached 9 April 1940 |
| Aetos | Royal Hellenic Navy | Aetos | Destroyer | 880 | 19 October 1912 | decommissioned 1946 |
| Afridi | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 3 May 1938 | sunk 3 May 1940 |
| Agerholm | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 20 June 1946 | decommissioned 1978, sunk as target 1982 |
| Aigle | French Navy | Aigle | Destroyer | 2,402 | 10 October 1932 | scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated 10 July 1943, sunk 24 November 1943, scrapped 1952 |
| Akatsuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akatsuki | Destroyer | 1,750 | 30 November 1932 | sunk 13 November 1942 |
| Akebono | Imperial Japanese Navy | Ayanami | Destroyer | 1,750 | 31 July 1931 | sunk 13 November 1944 |
| Akigumo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 27 September 1941 | sunk 11 April 1944 |
| Akishimo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 11 March 1944 | sunk 13 November 1944 |
| Akizuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akizuki | Destroyer | 2,700 | 11 June 1942 | sunk 25 October 1944 |
| Albatros | French Navy | Aigle | Destroyer | 2,402 | 25 December 1931 | decommissioned 9 September 1959 |
| Albert W. Grant | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 24 November 1943 | decommissioned 1971, scrapped 1972 |
| Alcalá Galiano | Spanish Navy | Churruca | Destroyer | 1,620 | 1932 | stricken 1957 |
| Aldea | Chilean Navy | Serrano | Destroyer | 1,090 | 26 July 1929 | stricken 12 February 1958 |
| Alden | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 24 November 1919 | scrapped 30 November 1945 |
| Alfred A. Cunningham | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 23 November 1944 | decommissioned 1971, sunk as target 1979 |
| Alfredo Oriani | Regia Marina | Oriani | Destroyer | 1,750 | 15 July 1937 | to France as D'Estaing 8 August 1948, decommissioned 1954 |
| Algonquin | Royal Canadian Navy | V | Destroyer | 1,777 | 28 February 1944 | paid off 1 April 1970 |
| Allen | United States Navy | Sampson | Destroyer | 1,111 | 24 January 1917 | sold for scrap 26 September 1946 |
| Allen M. Sumner | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 26 January 1944 | scrapped 1974 |
| Almirante Antequera | Spanish Navy | Churruca | Destroyer | 1,535 | 1935 | scrapped 8 October 1965 |
| Almirante Condell | Chilean Navy | Almirante Lynch | Destroyer | 1,430 | 1 January 1914 | decommissioned 1945 |
| Almirante Guise | Peruvian Navy | Izyaslav | Destroyer | 1,785 | 30 July 1917 | scrapped 1954 |
| Almirante Lynch | Chilean Navy | Almirante Lynch | Destroyer | 1,430 | 1913 | decommissioned 1945 |
| Almirante Miranda | Spanish Navy | Churruca | Destroyer | 1,535 | 1936 | scrapped 23 March 1970 |
| Almirante Valdes | Spanish Navy | Churruca | Destroyer | 1,620 | 1932 | stricken 1957 |
| Almirante Villar | Peruvian Navy | Orfey | Destroyer | 1,260 | 12 December 1917 | scrapped 1954 |
| Alpino | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 20 April 1939 | sunk by aircraft 19 April 1943 |
| Alsedo | Spanish Navy | Alsedo | Destroyer | 1,044 | 1924 | stricken 1957 |
| Alvise Da Mosto | Regia Marina | Navigatori | Destroyer | 1,900 | 15 March 1931 | sunk 1 December 1941 |
| Amagiri | Imperial Japanese Navy | Ayanami | Destroyer | 1,750 | 10 November 1930 | sunk 23 April 1944 |
| Amatsukaze | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 26 October 1940 | scuttled 10 April 1945 |
| Amazon | Royal Navy | prototype | Destroyer | 1,350 | 5 May 1927 | Scrapped 25 October 1948 |
| Ambuscade | Royal Navy | prototype | Destroyer | 1,173 | 15 March 1927 | Scrapped 1946 |
| Ammen | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 12 March 1943 | Scrapped 1960 |
| Anderson | United States Navy | Sims | Destroyer | 1,570 | 19 May 1939 | Sunk in A-bomb test 1946 |
| Annapolis | Royal Canadian Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 24 September 1940 | paid off 4 June 1945 |
| Antelope | Royal Navy | A | Destroyer | 1,350 | 20 March 1930 | Scrapped 1946 |
| Anthony | Royal Navy | A | Destroyer | 1,350 | 14 February 1930 | Scrapped 1948 |
| Anthony | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 26 February 1943 | To West Germany 1958, sunk as target 1979 |
| Antioquia | Colombian National Navy | Antioquia | Destroyer | 1,219 | 29 March 1933 | scrapped November 1961 |
| Antonio da Noli | Regia Marina | Navigatori | Destroyer | 1,900 | 29 December 1929 | sunk by mine 9 September 1943 |
| Antonio Pigafetta | Regia Marina | Navigatori | Destroyer | 1,900 | 1 May 1931 | captured by Germany as TA44 9 September 1943, sunk by aircraft 17 February 1945 |
| Antoniotto Usodimare | Regia Marina | Navigatori | Destroyer | 1,900 | 21 November 1929 | sunk 8 June 1942 |
| Aquilone | Regia Marina | Turbine | Destroyer | 1,070 | 3 December 1927 | sunk 17 September 1940 |
| Aoi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 20 December 1920 | converted to patrol boat Dai-32-Gō shōkaitei 1 April 1940, destroyed 23 December 1941 |
| Arare | Imperial Japanese Navy | Asashio | Destroyer | 2,370 | 15 April 1939 | sunk 5 July 1942 |
| Arashi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 25 November 1940 | sunk 7 August 1943 |
| Arashio | Imperial Japanese Navy | Asashio | Destroyer | 2,370 | 30 December 1937 | sunk 4 March 1943 |
| Ariake | Imperial Japanese Navy | Hatsuharu | Destroyer | 1,802 | 25 March 1935 | sunk 28 July 1943 |
| Ardent | Royal Navy | A | Destroyer | 1,350 | 14 April 1930 | Sunk 8 June 1940 |
| Armada | Royal Navy | Battle | Destroyer | 2,325 | 2 July 1945 | paid off 1960, scrapped 1965 |
| Arrow | Royal Navy | A | Destroyer | 1,350 | 14 April 1930 | Irreparably damaged, 1944 |
| Arnold J. Isbell | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 5 January 1946 | to Greece as Sachtouris 1973, scrapped 2002 |
| Artem | Soviet Navy | Orfey | Destroyer | 1,260 | 23 October 1916 | sunk 28 August 1941 |
| Artigliere | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 14 November 1938 | sunk 13 October 1940 |
| Arunta | Royal Australian Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,990 | 30 March 1942 | sold for scrap 1968, sunk while under tow 1969 |
| Asagiri | Imperial Japanese Navy | Ayanami | Destroyer | 1,750 | 30 June 1930 | sunk 28 August 1942 |
| Asagumo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Asashio | Destroyer | 2,370 | 31 March 1938 | sunk 25 October 1944 |
| Asashimo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 27 November 1943 | sunk 7 April 1945 |
| Asashio | Imperial Japanese Navy | Asashio | Destroyer | 2,370 | 31 August 1937 | sunk 3 March 1943 |
| Ascari | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 6 May 1939 | sunk by mines 24 March 1943 |
| Ashanti | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 21 December 1938 | scrapped 1949 |
| Ashi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 29 October 1921 | decommissioned 1 February 1940, converted to auxiliary ship Dai-2 Tomariura, scrapped 1947 |
| Aspis | Royal Hellenic Navy | Niki | Destroyer | 350 | 3 April 1907 | stricken 1945 and scrapped |
| Assiniboine | Royal Canadian Navy | River | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,390 | 30 May 1932 | transferred to RCN 19 October 1939, paid off 8 August 1945 |
| Athabaskan (G07) | Royal Canadian Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,927 | 3 February 1943 | sunk 29 April 1944 |
| Athabaskan (R79) | Royal Canadian Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,927 | 20 January 1948 | launched 4 May 1946, scrapped 1969 |
| Augusto Riboty | Regia Marina | Mirabello | Destroyer | 1,756 | 5 May 1917 | to USSR as war reparation, scrapped 1951 |
| Aulick | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 27 October 1942 | to Greece 1959, scrapped 1997 |
| Ault | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 31 May 1944 | scrapped 1974 |
| Aviere | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 31 August 1937 | sunk by torpedo 17 December 1942 |
| Ayanami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Ayanami | Destroyer | 1,750 | 30 April 1930 | sunk 15 November 1942 |
| Aylwin | United States Navy | Farragut | Destroyer | 1,365 | 1 March 1935 | Scrapped 1947 |
| Babbitt | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 24 October 1919 | scrapped 1946 |
| Bache | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 14 November 1942 | scrapped 1968 |
| Badger | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 29 May 1919 | scrapped 1945 |
| Bagley | United States Navy | Bagley | Destroyer | 1,500 | 12 June 1937 | scrapped 1947 |
| Bailey | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 11 May 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1969 |
| Bainbridge | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 9 February 1921 | scrapped 1945 |
| Baku | Soviet Navy | Leningrad | Destroyer flotilla leader | 2,350 | 27 December 1939 | scrapped 30 July 1963 |
| Balch | United States Navy | Porter | Destroyer | 1,850 | 20 October 1936 | scrapped 1946 |
| Balder | Royal Norwegian Navy Kriegsmarine | Sleipner | Destroyer | 735 | 26 June 1940 | captured incomplete by Germany April 1940, commissioned as Leopard 26 June 1940, returned to Norway May 1945, scrapped 1952 |
| Baldwin | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 30 April 1943 | decommissioned 1946, scuttled 1961 |
| Baleno | Regia Marina | Folgore | Destroyer | 1,220 | 15 June 1932 | ran aground and wrecked 17 April 1941 |
| Ballard | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 5 June 1919 | sold for scrap 23 May 1946 |
| Banckert | Royal Netherlands Navy | Admiralen | Destroyer | 1,316 | 14 November 1930 | scuttled 2 March 1942, captured by Japan, later returned and sunk as target ship, September 1949 |
| Bancroft | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 30 April 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1973 |
| Barfleur | Royal Navy | Battle | Destroyer | 2,325 | 14 September 1944 | paid off 1958, scrapped 1966 |
| Barker | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 17 December 1919 | scrapped 1945 |
| Barney | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 14 March 1919 | scrapped 1946 |
| Barry | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 15 November 1921 | sunk 21 June 1945 |
| Barton (DD-599) | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 29 May 1942 | sunk 13 November 1942 |
| Barton (DD-722) | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 30 December 1943 | sunk as target 1969 |
| Basilisk | Royal Navy | B | Destroyer | 1,350 | 4 March 1931 | sunk 1 June 1940 |
| Basque | French Navy Free French Naval Forces | L'Adroit | Destroyer | 1,360 | 5 March 1931 | decommissioned 1 January 1949, stricken 10 December 1952 |
| Bataan | Royal Australian Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 2,116 | 25 May 1945 | scrapped 1958 |
| Bath | Royal Navy Royal Norwegian Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 23 September 1940 | to Norway as HNoMS Bath 9 January 1941, sunk on 19 August 1941 |
| Bausell | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 7 February 1946 | decommissioned 1978, sunk as target 1987 |
| Bditelny | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 22 October 1939 | sunk 2 July 1942 |
| Beagle | Royal Navy | B | Destroyer | 1,350 | 9 April 1931 | scrapped January 1946 |
| Beale | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 23 December 1942 | sunk as target 1969 |
| Bearss | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 12 April 1944 | decommissioned 1963, scrapped 1976 |
| Beatty (DD-640) | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 7 May 1942 | sunk 6 November 1943 |
| Beatty (DD-756) | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 31 March 1945 | to Venezuela as Carabobo 1972, scrapped 1981 |
| Bedouin | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 15 March 1939 | sunk 15 June 1942 |
| Belknap | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 28 April 1919 | sold for scrap 30 November 1945 |
| Bell | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 4 March 1943 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1975 |
| Belmont | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,200 | 8 October 1940 | sunk 31 January 1942 |
| Benham (DD-397) | United States Navy | Benham | Destroyer | 1,656 | 2 February 1939 | sunk 15 November 1942 |
| Benham (DD-796) | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 20 December 1943 | to Peru 1960, scrapped 1980 |
| Benner | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 13 February 1945 | dcommissioned 1970, scrapped 1975 |
| Bennett | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 9 February 1943 | to Brazil 1959, scrapped 1978 |
| Bennion | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 14 December 1943 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1973 |
| Benson | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 25 July 1940 | transferred to Taiwan 1954, scrapped 1974 |
| Beograd | Royal Yugoslav Navy Regia Marina Kriegsmarine | Beograd | Destroyer | 1,190 | 28 April 1939 | captured by Italy as Sebenico 17 April 1941, captured by Germany as TA43 9 September 1943, scuttled 1 May 1945 |
| Bernadou | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 19 May 1919 | scrapped 1945 |
| Bersagliere | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 1 April 1939 | sunk by aircraft 7 January 1943 |
| Besposhchadny | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 2 October 1939 | sunk 6 October 1943 |
| Beverley | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,200 | 8 October 1940 | sunk 11 April 1943 |
| Bezuprechny | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 2 October 1939 | sunk 26 June 1942 |
| Biddle | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 22 April 1919 | scrapped 1946 |
| Bison | French Navy | Guépard | Destroyer | 2,398 | 10 October 1930 | sunk 3 May 1940 |
| Black | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 21 May 1943 | scrapped 1971 |
| Blakeley | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 8 May 1919 | scrapped 1945 |
| Blanche | Royal Navy | B | Destroyer | 1,350 | 14 February 1931 | sunk 13 November 1939 |
| Blue (DD-387) | United States Navy | Bagley | Destroyer | 1,500 | 14 August 1937 | sunk 22 August 1942 |
| Blue (DD-744) | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 20 March 1944 | sunk as target 1974 |
| Błyskawica | Polish Navy | Grom | Destroyer | 2,011 | 25 November 1937 | decommissioned 1 May 1976, preserved as museum ship |
| Boadicea | Royal Navy | B | Destroyer | 1,350 | 7 April 1931 | sunk 13 June 1944 |
| Bodry | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 1 March 1939 | scrapped early 1960s |
| Boggs | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,190 | 23 September 1918 | sold for scrap 27 November 1946 |
| Bombardiere | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 15 July 1942 | sunk by submarine 17 January 1943 |
| Bordelais | French Navy | L'Adroit | Destroyer | 1,360 | 8 April 1930 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
| Bordelon | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 5 June 1945 | to Iran as spare parts 1977 |
| Borea | Regia Marina | Turbine | Destroyer | 1,070 | 14 November 1927 | sunk 17 September 1940 |
| Boreas | Royal Navy Royal Hellenic Navy | B | Destroyer | 1,350 | 20 February 1931 | to Greece as Salamis 1944, scrapped 1951 |
| Borie (DD-215) | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 24 March 1920 | sank 2 November 1943 after ramming and sinking U-405 |
| Borie (DD-704) | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 21 September 1944 | to Argentina as Hipólito Bouchard 1972, scrapped 1984 |
| Boulonnais | French Navy | L'Adroit | Destroyer | 1,360 | 25 June 1929 | sunk 8 November 1942 |
| Bourrasque | French Navy | Bourrasque | Destroyer | 1,300 | 23 September 1926 | sunk 30 May 1940 |
| Boyd | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 8 May 1943 | to Turkey 1969, scrapped 1981 |
| Boyky | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 17 May 1939 | sunk as target 9 February 1962 |
| Boyle | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 15 August 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1973 |
| Bradford | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,200 | 8 October 1940 | scrapped 1946 |
| Bradford | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 12 June 1943 | to Greece 1962, scrapped 1981 |
| Braine | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 11 May 1943 | to Argentina 1971, sunk as target 1983 |
| Brazen | Royal Navy | B | Destroyer | 1,350 | 8 April 1931 | sunk 20 July 1940 |
| Breckinridge | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 27 February 1919 | scrapped 1946 |
| Breese | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer minelayer | 1,190 | 23 October 1918 | sold for scrap 16 May 1946 |
| Brestois | French Navy | L'Adroit | Destroyer | 1,360 | 15 June 1928 | sunk 8 November 1942 |
| Brighton | Royal Navy Soviet Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,200 | 23 September 1940 | to USSR as Zharky 16 July 1944 |
| Brilliant | Royal Navy | B | Destroyer | 1,350 | 21 February 1931 | scrapped August 1947 |
| Brinkley Bass | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 1 October 1945 | to Brazil as Mariz e Barros 1973, sunk as target 2000 |
| Bristol (DD-453) | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 22 October 1941 | sunk 13 October 1943 |
| Bristol (DD-857) | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 17 March 1945 | to Taiwan as Hua Yang 1969, scrapped 1994 |
| Broadwater | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,200 | 9 October 1940 | sunk 18 October 1941 |
| Broadway | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,200 | 8 October 1940 | scrapped 1947 |
| Broke | Royal Navy | Thornycroft type | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,480 | 15 April 1925 | sunk 8 November 1942 |
| Brooks | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 18 June 1920 | constructive loss 6 January 1945, scrapped |
| Broome | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,200 | 31 October 1919 | scrapped 1946 |
| Brown | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 10 July 1943 | to Greece 1962, scrapped 1981 |
| Brownson (DD-518) | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 3 February 1943 | sunk 26 December 1943 |
| Brownson (DD-868) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 17 November 1945 | decommissioned 1976, scrapped 1977 |
| Bruce | Royal Navy | Admiralty type | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,801 | 29 May 1918 | scuttled 22 November 1939 |
| Brush | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 17 April 1944 | to Taiwan as Hsiang Yang 1969, decommissioned 1984 and later scrapped |
| Bryant | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 4 December 1943 | decommissioned 1947, sunk as a target 1969 |
| Buchanan | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 21 March 1942 | to Turkey 1949, scrapped 1976 |
| Buck (DD-420) | United States Navy | Sims | Destroyer | 1,570 | 15 May 1940 | sunk 9 October 1943 |
| Buck (DD-761) | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 28 June 1946 | to Brazil as Alagoas 1973, scrapped 1995 |
| Buenos Aires | Argentine Navy | Buenos Aires | Destroyer | 1,353 | 4 April 1938 | 1971 |
| Bullard | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 9 April 1943 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1973 |
| Bulldog | Royal Navy | B | Destroyer | 1,350 | 8 April 1931 | scrapped January 1946 |
| Bulmer | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 16 August 1920 | scrapped 1947 |
| Burnham | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,200 | 8 October 1940 | scrapped 1948 |
| Burns | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 3 April 1943 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1974 |
| Burwell | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,200 | 8 October 1940 | scrapped 1947 |
| Burza | Polish Navy | Wicher | Destroyer | 1,400 | 10 July 1932 | scrapped 1977 |
| Bush | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 10 May 1943 | sunk 6 April 1945 |
| Butler | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 15 August 1942 | scrapped 1948 |
| Buxton | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,215 | 8 October 1940 | to RCN August 1942 as Buxton; paid off 1945 |
| Bystry | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 7 March 1939 | sunk September 1941 |
| Cadiz | Royal Navy | Battle | Destroyer | 2,325 | 12 April 1946 | paid off 1953 |
| Caesar | Royal Navy | C ("Ca") | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,710 | 5 October 1944 | paid off June 1965, scrapped 1967 |
| Caldas | Colombian National Navy | Antioquia | Destroyer | 1,219 | 16 May 1934 | scrapped 1961 |
| Caldwell | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 24 September 1940 | to RCN 1942, scrapped 1944 |
| Caldwell | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 10 June 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1966 |
| Callaghan | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 27 November 1943 | sunk 28 July 1945 |
| Cambrian | Royal Navy | C ("Ca") | Destroyer | 1,710 | 14 July 1944 | paid off December 1968, scrapped 1971 |
| Cameron | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 24 September 1940 | constructive loss 5 December 1940 |
| Camicia Nera | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 30 June 1938 | renamed Artigliere 30 July 1943, to Soviet Union as Lyogky 1 February 1950, struck November 1954 and expended as target |
| Campbell | Royal Navy | Admiralty type | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,580 | 21 December 1918 | paid off 18 February 1947 |
| Campbeltown | Royal Navy Royal Netherlands Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 9 September 1940 | loaned to Netherlands 28 March 1941, returned to UK September 1941, expended as demolition-ship at St Nazaire, 29 March 1942 |
| Camperdown | Royal Navy | Battle | Destroyer | 2,325 | 18 June 1945 | paid off 18 June 1945, scrapped 1970 |
| Caperton | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 30 June 1943 | decommissioned 1960, sunk as target |
| Capps | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 23 June 1943 | To Spain 1957, scrapped 1985 |
| Caprice | Royal Navy | C ("Ca") | Destroyer | 1,710 | 5 April 1944 | paid off March 1973, scrapped 1979 |
| Carabiniere | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 20 December 1938 | scrapped 1978 |
| Carlo Mirabello | Regia Marina | Mirabello | Destroyer | 1,756 | 24 August 1916 | sunk by mines 21 May 1941 |
| Carmick | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 28 December 1942 | decommissioned 1954, scrapped 1972 |
| Carrista | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | Never commissioned | construction incomplete, captured by Germany after Italian armistice and later scrapped |
| Carron | Royal Navy | C ("Ca") | Destroyer | 1,710 | 6 November 1944 | paid off March 1963, scrapped 1967 |
| Carysfort | Royal Navy | C ("Ca") | Destroyer | 1,710 | 20 February 1945 | paid off February 1969, scrapped 1970 |
| Case | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 15 September 1936 | scrapped 1948 |
| Cassandra | Royal Navy | C ("Ca") | Destroyer | 1,710 | 28 July 1944 | paid off January 1966, scrapped 1967 |
| Cassard | French Navy | Vauquelin | Destroyer | 2,402 | 1 November 1932 | scuttled 27 November 1942, scrapped 1950 |
| Cassin | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 21 August 1936 | destroyed 7 December 1941 but "rebuilt," scrapped 1948 |
| Cassin Young | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 31 December 1943 | decommissioned 1960, museum ship at Boston, MA |
| Castleton | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 9 September 1940 | scrapped 1947 |
| Casque | French Navy | Le Hardi | Destroyer | 1,772 | 20 June 1940 | scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated and scrapped 1948 |
| Catamarca | Argentine Navy | Catamarca | Destroyer | 1,010 | 13 April 1912 | Sold 1959 |
| Cavalier | Royal Navy | C ("Ca") | Destroyer | 1,710 | 22 November 1944 | Paid off July 1972 museum ship |
| Cavendish | Royal Navy | C ("Ca") | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,710 | 13 December 1944 | paid off 1964, scrapped 1967 |
| Cayuga | Royal Canadian Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,927 | 20 October 1947 | built and launched during the war, paid off 27 February 1964, scrapped 1965 |
| Cervantes | Argentine Navy | Cervantes | Destroyer | 1,522 | 3 September 1927 | discarded 24 June 1961 |
| Cesare Battisti | Regia Marina | Sauro | Destroyer | 1,041 | 13 April 1927 | scuttled 3 April 1941 |
| Ceuta | Spanish Navy | Vifor | Destroyer | 1,594 | 20 January 1920 | scrapped 1948 |
| Chacal | French Navy | Chacal | Destroyer | 2,092 | 12 June 1926 | beached 24 May 1940 |
| Champlin | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 12 September 1942 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1972 |
| Chandler | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,215 | 5 September 1919 | sold for scrap 18 November 1946 |
| Chaplet | Royal Navy | C ("Ch") | Destroyer | 1,710 | 24 August 1945 | Laid up 1961. Sold for scrapping 1965. |
| Charity | Royal Navy | C ("Ch") | Destroyer | 1,710 | 19 November 1945 | paid off 16 June 1958 |
| Charles Ausburne | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 24 November 1942 | scrapped 1968 |
| Charles F. Hughes | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 5 September 1940 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1969 |
| Charles H. Roan | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 12 September 1946 | to Turkey as Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak 1973, scrapped 1995 |
| Charles J. Badger | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 23 July 1943 | decommissioned 1957, scrapped 1974 |
| Charles P. Cecil | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 29 June 1945 | to Greece as Apostolis 1980, scrapped 2003 |
| Charles R. Ware | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 21 July 1945 | decommissioned 1974, sunk as target 1981 |
| Charles S. Sperry | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 17 May 1944 | to Chile as Ministro Zenteno 1974, scrapped 1990 |
| Charlestown | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 23 September 1940 | scrapped 1947 |
| Charrette | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 18 May 1943 | to Greece 1959, museum ship at Athens |
| Chauncey | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 31 May 1943 | decommissioned 1954, scrapped 1972 |
| Chelsea | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy Soviet Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 9 September 1940 | to Canada November 1942, to USSR July 1944 as Derzky |
| Chequers | Royal Navy | C ("Ch") | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,710 | 28 September 1945 | scrapped 1966 |
| Chesterfield | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 9 September 1940 | scrapped 1947 |
| Chevalier (DD-451) | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 20 June 1942 | sunk 7 October 1943 |
| Chevalier (DD-805) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 9 January 1945 | to South Korea as Chungbuk 1977, scrapped 2000 |
| Chevalier Paul | French Navy | Vauquelin | Destroyer | 2,402 | 20 July 1934 | sunk 16 June 1941 |
| Cheviot | Royal Navy | C ("Ch") | Destroyer | 1,710 | 11 December 1945 | sold for scrap 1962 |
| Chevron | Royal Navy | C ("Ch") | Destroyer | 1,710 | 23 August 1945 | scrapped 1969 |
| Chew | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 12 December 1918 | scrapped 1946 |
| Chieftain | Royal Navy | C ("Ch") | Destroyer | 1,710 | 7 March 1946 | scrapped 1961 |
| Childers | Royal Navy | C ("Ch") | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,906 | 19 December 1945 | laid up 1958, sold for scrap 1963 |
| Childs | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 22 October 1920 | sold for scrap 23 May 1946 |
| Chivalrous | Royal Navy | C ("Ch") | Destroyer | 1,710 | 13 May 1946 | to Pakistan 29 June 1954 as Taimur, scrapped 1961 |
| Churchill | Royal Navy Soviet Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 9 September 1940 | to USSR as Deyatelny 16 July 1944, sunk 16 January 1945 |
| Churruca | Spanish Navy | Churruca | Destroyer | 1,620 | 1932 | stricken 1960s |
| Císcar | Spanish Navy | Churruca | Destroyer | 1,535 | 1937 | ran aground 17 October 1957 |
| Clare | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 9 September 1940 | scrapped 1945 |
| Clarence K. Bronson | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 11 June 1943 | to Turkey 1967, scrapped 1987 |
| Clark | United States Navy | Porter | Destroyer | 1,850 | 20 May 1936 | scrapped 1946 |
| Claxton | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 8 December 1942 | to West Germany 1959 |
| Clemson | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 29 December 1919 | decommissioned 12 October 1945 |
| Cockade | Royal Navy | C ("Co") | Destroyer | 1,885 | 29 September 1945 | Paid off 1958, scrapped 1964 |
| Codrington | Royal Navy | A | Destroyer | 1,350 | 4 June 1930 | sunk 27 July 1940 |
| Coghlan | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 10 July 1942 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1974 |
| Cogswell | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 17 August 1943 | to Turkey 1969, scrapped 1980 |
| Colahan | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 23 August 1943 | sunk as target 1966 |
| Cole | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 19 June 1919 | scrapped 1947 |
| Colhoun (DD-85) | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,060 | 13 June 1918 | sunk 30 August 1942 |
| Colhoun (DD-801) | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 8 July 1944 | Sunk 6 April 1945 |
| Collett | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 16 May 1944 | to Argentina as Piedrabuena 1974, sunk as target 1988 |
| Columbia | Royal Canadian Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,060 | 24 September 1940 | paid off August 1945 |
| Comet | Royal Navy | C ("Co") | Destroyer | 1,885 | 6 June 1945 | Paid off 1958, scrapped 1962 |
| Commandante Baroni | Regia Marina | Comandanti Medaglie d'Oro | Destroyer | 2,100 | Never commissioned | laid down 14 December 1942, 19.5% completed as of August 1943, scrapped by Germany sometime after Armistice of Cassibile |
| Commandante Borsini | Regia Marina | Comandanti Medaglie d'Oro | Destroyer | 2,100 | Never commissioned | laid down 29 April 1943, 17.5% completed as of August 1943, scrapped by Germany during the war |
| Commandante Botti | Regia Marina | Comandanti Medaglie d'Oro | Destroyer | 2,100 | Never commissioned | laid down 1 August 1943, 4% completed as of August 1943, scrapped by Germany during the war |
| Commandante Casana | Regia Marina | Comandanti Medaglie d'Oro | Destroyer | 2,100 | Never commissioned | laid down 14 February 1943, 18% completed as of August 1943, scrapped by Germany 1944 |
| Commandante De Cristofaro | Regia Marina | Comandanti Medaglie d'Oro | Destroyer | 2,100 | Never commissioned | laid down 6 March 1943, 15.5% completed as of August 1943, scrapped by Germany during the war |
| Commandante Dell'Anno | Regia Marina | Comandanti Medaglie d'Oro | Destroyer | 2,100 | Never commissioned | laid down 14 February 1943, 19% completed as of August 1943, scrapped by Germany 1944 |
| Commandante Fontana | Regia Marina | Comandanti Medaglie d'Oro | Destroyer | 2,100 | Never commissioned | laid down late 1943, 9% completed as of August 1943, scrapped |
| Commandante Margottini | Regia Marina | Comandanti Medaglie d'Oro | Destroyer | 2,100 | Never commissioned | laid down 10 March 1943, launched early 1944, 20% completed as of August 1943, sunk by aircraft 23 September 1944 |
| Commandante Ruta | Regia Marina | Comandanti Medaglie d'Oro | Destroyer | 2,100 | Never commissioned | laid down 16 August 1943, 4% completed as of August 1943, scrapped by Germany during the war |
| Commandante Toscano | Regia Marina | Comandanti Medaglie d'Oro | Destroyer | 2,100 | Never commissioned | laid down 14 December 1942, 17% completed as of August 1943, scrapped by Germany during the war |
| Compton | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 4 November 1944 | to Brazil as Mato Grosso 1972, scrapped 1990 |
| Comus | Royal Navy | C ("Co") | Destroyer | 1,885 | 8 July 1946 | sold for scrap 1958 |
| Concord | Royal Navy | C ("Co") | Destroyer | 1,885 | 20 December 1946 | sold for scrap 1962 |
| Cone | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 18 August 1945 | to Pakistan as Alamgir 1982, scrapped 1998 |
| Conner | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 8 June 1943 | to Greece 1959, scrapped 1997 |
| Consort | Royal Navy | C ("Co") | Destroyer | 1,885 | 19 March 1946 | sold for scrap 1961 |
| Constance | Royal Navy | C ("Co") | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,885 | 31 December 1945 | sold for scrap 1956 |
| Contest | Royal Navy | C ("Co") | Destroyer | 1,885 | 9 November 1945 | scrapped 1960 |
| Converse | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 20 November 1942 | to Spain 1959, scrapped 1988 |
| Conway | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 9 October 1942 | sunk as target 1970 |
| Cony | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 30 October 1942 | sunk as target 1970 |
| Conyngham | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 4 November 1936 | scuttled 1948 after A-bomb test |
| Cooper | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 27 March 1944 | sunk 3 December 1944 |
| Corazziere | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 4 March 1939 | scuttled 9 September 1943 |
| Córdoba | Argentine Navy | La Plata | Destroyer | 875 | 8 July 1912 | discarded 10 January 1956 |
| Corrientes | Argentine Navy | Buenos Aires | Destroyer | 1,353 | 1 July 1938 | sunk in collision with cruiser ARA Almirante Brown 3 October 1941 |
| Corry (DD-463) | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 18 December 1941 | sunk 6 June 1944 |
| Corry (DD-817) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 27 February 1946 | to Greece as Kriezis 1981, scrapped 2002 |
| Corsaro | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 16 May 1942 | sunk by mine 9 January 1943 |
| Cossack (F03) | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 14 June 1938 | sunk 27 October 1941 |
| Cossack (R57) | Royal Navy | C ("Co") | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,885 | 4 September 1945 | scrapped 1961 |
| Cotten | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 24 July 1943 | decommissioned 1960, scrapped 1975 |
| Cowell | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 23 August 1943 | to Argentina 1971, scrapped 1982 |
| Cowie | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 1 June 1942 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1972 |
| Crane | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 18 April 1919 | scrapped 1946 |
| Craven | United States Navy | Gridley | Destroyer | 1,590 | 2 September 1937 | scrapped 1947 |
| Creole | Royal Navy | C ("Cr") | Destroyer | 1,900 | 14 October 1946 | to Pakistan as Alamgir 20 June 1958, scrapped 1982 |
| Crescent | Royal Canadian Navy | C ("Cr") | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,900 | 21 August 1945 | delivered to Canada January 1945, scrapped 1971 |
| Crispin | Royal Navy | C ("Cr") | Destroyer | 1,900 | 10 July 1946 | to Pakistan as Jahangir 18 March 1958, scrapped 1982 |
| Cromwell | Royal Navy | C ("Cr") | Destroyer | 1,900 | 16 September 1946 | to Norway as Bergen 1946, scrapped 1967 |
| Crosby | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 24 January 1919 | scrapped 1946 |
| Crown | Royal Navy | C ("Cr") | Destroyer | 1,900 | 17 April 1947 | to Norway as Oslo 1945, scrapped 1968 |
| Croziers | Royal Canadian Navy | C ("Cr") | Destroyer | 1,900 | 30 November 1945 | to Norway 1946 |
| Crusader | Royal Canadian Navy | C ("Cr") | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,900 | 26 November 1945 | delivered to Canada January 1945, scrapped 1971 |
| Crystal | Royal Navy | C ("Cr") | Destroyer | 1,900 | 6 February 1946 | to Norway as Stavanger 1945, scrapped 1967 |
| Cummings | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 25 November 1936 | scrapped 1947 |
| Cushing (DD-376) | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 28 August 1936 | sunk 13 November 1942 |
| Cushing (DD-797) | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 17 January 1944 | to Brazil 1961, scrapped 1982 |
| Cyclone | French Navy | Bourrasque | Destroyer | 1,300 | 15 March 1927 | scuttled 18 June 1940 |
| Dahlgren | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 6 January 1920 | scrapped 1946 |
| Dainty | Royal Navy | D | Destroyer | 1,375 | 22 December 1932 | sunk 24 February 1941 |
| Dale | United States Navy | Farragut | Destroyer | 1,365 | 17 June 1935 | scrapped 1947 |
| Dallas | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 29 October 1920 | scrapped 1945 |
| Daly | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 24 October 1942 | decommissioned 1960, scrapped 1976 |
| Damato (DD-871) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 27 April 1946 | to Pakistan as Tippu Sultan 1980, scrapped 1994 |
| Daniele Manin | Regia Marina | Sauro | Destroyer | 1,041 | 1 March 1927 | sunk by aircraft 3 April 1941 |
| Dão | Portuguese Navy | Douro | Destroyer | 1,219 | 5 January 1935 | stricken 29 November 1960 |
| Dardo | Regia Marina | Dardo | Destroyer | 1,206 | 25 January 1932 | captured by Germany as TA31 September 1943, Ssunk 24 April 1945 |
| Daring | Royal Navy | D | Destroyer | 1,375 | 25 November 1932 | sunk 18 February 1940 |
| Dashiell | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 20 March 1943 | decommissioned 1960, scrapped 1975 |
| David W. Taylor | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 18 September 1943 | to Spain 1957, scrapped 1987 |
| Davis | United States Navy | Somers | Destroyer | 1,850 | 9 November 1938 | scrapped 1947 |
| Davison | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 11 September 1942 | decommissioned 1949, scrapped 1973 |
| De Haven (DD-469) | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 21 June 1942 | sunk 1 February 1943 |
| De Haven (DD-727) | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 31 March 1944 | to South Korea as Incheon 1973, scrapped 1993 |
| Decatur | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 9 August 1922 | scrapped 1945 |
| Decoy | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy | D | Destroyer | 1,375 | 4 April 1933 | to RCN 12 April 1943 as Kootenay, paid off 26 October 1945 |
| Defender | Royal Navy | D | Destroyer | 1,397 | 31 October 1932 | sunk 11 July 1941 |
| Delight | Royal Navy | D | Destroyer | 1,397 | 31 January 1933 | sunk 29 July 1940 |
| Demirhisar | Turkish Naval Forces | Demirhisar | Destroyer | 1,360 | 1942 | decommissioned 1960 |
| Dennis J. Buckley | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 2 March 1945 | decommissioned 1973, scrapped 1974 |
| Dent | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,150 | 9 September 1918 | scrapped 1946 |
| Dewey | United States Navy | Farragut | Destroyer | 1,365 | 14 October 1934 | scrapped 1946 |
| Diamond | Royal Navy | D | Destroyer | 1,375 | 3 November 1932 | sunk 27 April 1941 |
| Diana | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy | D | Destroyer | 1,375 | 21 December 1932 | to RCN 6 September 1940 as Margaree, sunk 22 October 1940 |
| Dickerson | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,150 | 3 September 1919 | sunk 4 April 1945 |
| Doran | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 4 August 1942 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1973 |
| Dorsey | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,150 | 16 September 1918 | grounded in typhoon, 9 October 1945 |
| Dortch | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 7 August 1943 | to Argentina 1961, scrapped 1977 |
| Douglas | Royal Navy | Admiralty type | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,580 | 2 September 1918 | scrapped 20 March 1945 |
| Douglas H. Fox | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 26 December 1944 | to Chile as Ministro Portales 1974, sunk as target 1998 |
| Douro | Portuguese Navy | Douro | Destroyer | 1,219 | 11 February 1936 | stricken December 1959 |
| Downes | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 15 January 1937 | destroyed 7 December 1941 but "rebuilt," scrapped 1948 |
| Doyle | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 27 January 1943 | decommissioned 1955, scrapped 1972 |
| Draug | Royal Norwegian Navy | Draug | Destroyer | 578 | 1908 | decommissioned 19 November 1943, sold for scrap 1944 |
| Drayton | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 1 September 1936 | scrapped 1947 |
| Drexler | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 14 November 1944 | sunk 28 May 1945 |
| Du Pont | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,150 | 30 April 1919 | scrapped 1947 |
| Dubrovnik | Royal Yugoslav Navy Regia Marina Kriegsmarine | | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,880 | 11 October 1931 | captured by Italy as Premuda 17 April 1941, captured by Germany as TA32 9 September 1943, scuttled 24 April 1945 |
| Duchess | Royal Navy | D | Destroyer | 1,375 | 24 January 1933 | sunk in friendly collision 12 December 1939 |
| Duncan | Royal Navy | D | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,400 | 5 April 1933 | paid off May 1945 |
| Duncan (DD-485) | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 16 April 1942 | sunk 12 October 1942 |
| Duncan (DD-874) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 25 February 1945 | decommissioned 1971, sunk as target 1980 |
| Dunlap | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 12 June 1937 | scrapped 1948 |
| Dyess | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 21 May 1945 | to Greece as spare parts 1981 |
| Dyson | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 30 December 1942 | to West Germany 1960, scrapped 1982 |
| Dzerzhinsky | Soviet Navy | Fidonisy | Destroyer | 1,460 | 30 October 1917 | sunk 13 May 1942 |
| Earle | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 1 September 1942 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1970 |
| Eaton | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 4 December 1942 | decommissioned 1969, sunk as target 1970 |
| Eberle | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 4 December 1940 | to Greece, 22 January 1951, scrapped 1972 |
| Echo | Royal Navy Royal Hellenic Navy | E | Destroyer | 1,428 | 22 October 1934 | to Greece as Navarion 5 April 1944, scrapped April 1956 |
| Eclipse | Royal Navy | E | Destroyer | 1,428 | 29 November 1934 | sunk 24 October 1943 |
| Edison | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 31 January 1941 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1966 |
| Edwards | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 18 September 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1973 |
| Edsall | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 26 November 1920 | sunk 1 March 1942 |
| Ehrensköld | Swedish Navy | Ehrensköld | Destroyer | 974 | 14 September 1927 | decommissioned 1 April 1963, scrapped 1973 |
| Electra | Royal Navy | E | Destroyer | 1,405 | 13 September 1934 | sunk 27 February 1942 |
| Ellet | United States Navy | Benham | Destroyer | 1,656 | 17 February 1939 | scrapped 1947 |
| Elliot | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,190 | 25 January 1919 | sold for scrap 29 January 1946 |
| Ellis | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 7 June 1919 | sold for scrap 17 July 1947 |
| Ellyson | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 28 November 1941 | to Japan 1954, scrapped 1970 |
| Emanuele Pessagno | Regia Marina | Navigatori | Destroyer | 1,900 | 10 March 1930 | sunk 29 May 1942 |
| Emmons | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 5 December 1941 | sunk 6 April 1945 |
| Encounter | Royal Navy | E | Destroyer | 1,405 | 2 November 1934 | sunk 1 March 1942 |
| Endicott | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 25 February 1943 | decommissioned 1955, scrapped 1970 |
| Engels | Soviet Navy | Orfey | Destroyer | 1,260 | 29 August 1916 | sunk 25 August 1941 |
| English | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 4 May 1944 | to China as Hui Yang 1970, sunk as target 2003 |
| Enoki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | 31 March 1945 | sunk 26 June 1945, raised and scrapped 1948 |
| Entre Rios | Argentine Navy | Buenos Aires | Destroyer | 1,353 | 15 May 1938 | Scrapped 1973 |
| Épée | French Navy Regia Marina | Le Hardi | Destroyer | 1,772 | 14 June 1940 | renamed as L'Adroit 29 March 1941, scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated as FR33 by Italy 20 April 1943, scrapped September 1945 |
| Épervier | French Navy | Aigle | Destroyer | 2,402 | 1 April 1934 | sunk 9 November 1942, raised and scrapped 1946 |
| Erben | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 28 May 1943 | to South Korea as Chungmu 1963, scrapped 1993 |
| Erevan | Soviet Navy | Kiev | Destroyer flotilla leader | 2,350 | Never commissioned | launched 29 June 1941, 25.4% complete, construction stopped August 1941, later used as target or scrapped |
| Ericsson | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 13 March 1941 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1970 |
| Ernest G. Small | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 21 August 1945 | to Taiwan as Fu Yang 1971, sunk as target 2003 |
| Escaño | Spanish Navy | Churruca | Destroyer | 1,535 | September 1936 | stricken 1960s |
| Escapade | Royal Navy | E | Destroyer | 1,405 | 30 August 1934 | paid off 1946 |
| Escort | Royal Navy | E | Destroyer | 1,405 | 30 October 1934 | sunk 11 July 1940 |
| Esk | Royal Navy | E | Destroyer | 1,405 | 28 September 1934 | sunk 31 August 1940 |
| Eskimo | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 30 December 1938 | sold for scrap 27 June 1949 |
| Espero | Regia Marina | Turbine | Destroyer | 1,070 | 30 April 1928 | sunk by gunfire 28 June 1940 |
| Eugene A. Greene | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 8 June 1945 | to Spain as Churruca 1972, sunk as target 1991 |
| Euro | Regia Marina | Turbine | Destroyer | 1,070 | 22 December 1927 | sunk 3 October 1943 |
| Evans | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 11 December 1943 | decommissioned 1945, scrapped 1947 |
| Everett F. Larson | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 6 April 1945 | to South Korea as Jeongbuk 1972, preserved as museum ship 1999, scrapped 2021 |
| Eversole | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 10 May 1946 | to Turkey as Gayret 1973, preserved as museum ship 1995 |
| Evertsen | Royal Netherlands Navy | Admiralen | Destroyer | 1,316 | 12 April 1928 | sunk 1 March 1942 |
| Exmouth | Royal Navy | E | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,495 | 9 November 1934 | sunk 21 January 1940 |
| Express | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy | E | Destroyer | 1,405 | 29 May 1934 | to RCN June 1943 as Gatineau, paid off 1955 |
| Fame | Royal Navy | F | Destroyer | 1,405 | 26 April 1935 | to Dominican Republic 4 February 1949 |
| Fanning | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 8 October 1937 | scrapped 1948 |
| Farenholt | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 2 April 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1972 |
| Farragut | United States Navy | Farragut | Destroyer | 1,365 | 18 June 1934 | scrapped 1947 |
| Faulknor | Royal Navy | F | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,475 | 24 May 1935 | paid off 25 July 1945 |
| Fearless | Royal Navy | F | Destroyer | 1,428 | 19 December 1934 | scuttled 23 July 1941 |
| Fechteler | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 2 March 1946 | decommissioned 1970, scrapped 1972 |
| Finisterre | Royal Navy | Battle | Destroyer | 2,325 | 11 September 1945 | paid off 1965, scrapped 1967 |
| Firedrake | Royal Navy | F | Destroyer | 1,405 | 30 May 1935 | sunk 17 December 1942 |
| Fiske | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 28 November 1945 | to Turkey as Piyalepasa 1980, scrapped 1999 |
| Fitch | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 3 February 1942 | decommissioned 1956, sunk as target 1973 |
| Fletcher | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 30 June 1942 | decommissioned 1 August 1969, scrapped 1972 |
| Fleuret | French Navy Regia Marina | Le Hardi | Destroyer | 1,772 | 10 May 1940 | renamed as Foudroyant 1 April 1941, scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated as FR36 by Italy 20 May 1943, scrapped 1957 |
| Floyd B. Parks | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 31 July 1945 | decommissioned 1973, scrapped 1974 |
| Flusser | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 1 October 1936 | scrapped 1948 |
| Folgore | Regia Marina | Folgore | Destroyer | 1,220 | 1 July 1932 | sunk 2 December 1942 |
| Foote | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 22 December 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1974 |
| Forbin | French Navy Free French Naval Forces | L'Adroit | Destroyer | 1,360 | 1 May 1930 | stricken 10 December 1952 |
| Foresight | Royal Navy | F | Destroyer | 1,405 | 15 May 1935 | sunk 13 August 1942 |
| Forrest | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 13 January 1942 | scrapped 1946 |
| Forrest Royal | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 29 June 1946 | to Turkey as Adatepe 1971, scrapped 1994 |
| Forester | Royal Navy | F | Destroyer | 1,405 | 29 March 1935 | paid off September 1945 |
| Fortune | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy | F | Destroyer | 1,405 | 27 April 1935 | to Canada as Saskatchewan 31 May 1943, mined 21 June 1944 |
| Foudroyant | French Navy | L'Adroit | Destroyer | 1,360 | 10 October 1930 | sunk 1 June 1940 |
| Fougueux | French Navy | L'Adroit | Destroyer | 1,360 | 15 June 1930 | sunk 8 November 1942 |
| Foxhound | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy | F | Destroyer | 1,405 | 6 June 1935 | to RCN 8 February 1944 as Qu'Appelle, paid off 26 May 1946 |
| Fox | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 17 May 1920 | sold for scrap 12 November 1946 |
| Francesco Crispi | Regia Marina | Sella | Destroyer | 950 | 29 April 1927 | captured by Germany 9 September 1943 as TA15, sunk by aircraft 8 March 1944 |
| Francesco Nullo | Regia Marina | Sauro | Destroyer | 1,041 | 15 April 1927 | destroyed by aircraft 21 October 1940 |
| Frank E. Evans | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 3 February 1945 | decommissioned 1949, sunk as target 1969 |
| Frank Knox | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 11 December 1944 | to Greece as Themistoklis 1971, sunk as target 2001 |
| Frankford | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 31 March 1943 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1973 |
| Franks | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 30 July 1943 | decommissioned 1946, sold for scrap 1973 |
| Fraser | Royal Canadian Navy | River | Destroyer | 1,375 | 17 February 1937 | sunk in a collision 25 June 1940 |
| Frazier | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 30 July 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1972 |
| Freccia | Regia Marina | Dardo | Destroyer | 1,206 | 21 October 1931 | sunk by aircraft 8 August 1943 |
| Fred T. Berry | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 12 May 1945 | decommissioned 1970, sunk as artificial reef 1972 |
| Frondeur | French Navy | L'Adroit | Destroyer | 1,360 | 20 October 1931 | sunk 8 November 1942 |
| Frunze | Soviet Navy | Derzky | Destroyer | 1,100 | 18 April 1915 | sunk by aircraft 21 September 1941 |
| Fubuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Fubuki | Destroyer | 1,750 | 10 August 1928 | sunk 11 October 1942 |
| Fuciliere | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 10 January 1939 | to Soviet Union as Lyogky 31 January 1950, retired 1960 |
| Fulmine | Regia Marina | Folgore | Destroyer | 1,220 | 14 September 1932 | sunk 9 November 1941 |
| Fullam | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 2 March 1943 | decommissioned 1947, sunk as target 1962 |
| Fuji | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 31 May 1921 | converted to patrol boat Dai-36-Gō shōkaitei 1 April 1940, scrapped 10 August 1946 |
| Fujinami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 31 July 1943 | sunk 10 January 1945 |
| Fumizuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mutsuki | Destroyer | 1,315 | 3 July 1926 | sunk 18 February 1944 |
| Furse | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 10 July 1945 | to Spain as Gravina 1972, scrapped 1991 |
| Fury | Royal Navy | F | Destroyer | 1,405 | 10 September 1934 | mined 21 June 1944, not repaired |
| Fuyutsuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akizuki | Destroyer | 2,700 | 25 May 1944 | scrapped and converted to breakwater 1948 |
| Gabbard | Royal Navy | Battle | Destroyer | 2,325 | 10 December 1946 | paid off 1953 |
| Gallant | Royal Navy | G | Destroyer | 1,350 | 25 February 1936 | sunk as a blockship September 1943, scrapped 1953 |
| Gainard | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 23 November 1944 | decommissioned 1971, sold for scrap 1974 |
| Gamble | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer minelayer | 1,190 | 29 November 1918 | scuttled 16 July 1945 |
| Gansevoort | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 25 August 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1972 |
| Garland | Royal Navy Polish Navy | G | Destroyer | 1,350 | 3 March 1936 | to Poland 3 May 1940, paid off 24 September 1946 |
| Garm | Royal Norwegian Navy | Draug | Destroyer | 578 | 6 July 1914 | sunk 26 April 1940 |
| Gatling | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 19 August 1943 | decommissioned 1960, sold for scrap 1977 |
| Gävle | Swedish Navy | Göteborg | Destroyer | 1,020 | 3 June 1941 | decommissioned 6 December 1968, used as generator at the Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant, scrapped 1972 |
| Gearing | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 3 May 1945 | decommissioned 1973, scrapped 1974 |
| Geniere | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 14 December 1938 | sunk by aircraft 1 March 1943 |
| George E. Badger | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 28 July 1920 | scrapped 3 June 1946 |
| George K. MacKenzie | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 13 July 1945 | decommissioned 1976, sunk as target 1976 |
| Georgetown | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy Soviet Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,200 | 23 September 1940 | to Canada Sept 1942, to USSR as Doblestny 10 August 1944 |
| Gerfaut | French Navy | Aigle | Destroyer | 2,402 | 30 January 1932 | scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated 1 June 1943, sunk 7 March 1944, scrapped 1948 |
| Gherardi | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 15 September 1942 | decommissioned 1955, sunk as target 1973 |
| Gillespie | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 18 September 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1973 |
| Gillis | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 24 September 1919 | sold for scrap 29 January 1946 |
| Gilmer | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 30 April 1920 | sold for scrap 3 December 1946 |
| Giosuè Carducci | Regia Marina | Oriani | Destroyer | 1,750 | 1 November 1937 | Sunk 28 March 1941 |
| Giovanni da Verrazzano | Regia Marina | Navigatori | Destroyer | 1,900 | 25 September 1930 | sunk 19 August 1942 |
| Gipsy | Royal Navy | G | Destroyer | 1,350 | 22 February 1936 | sunk 21 November 1939 |
| Gleaves | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 14 June 1940 | Sold 29 June 1972 and broken up for scrap |
| Glennon (DD-620) | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 8 October 1942 | sunk 10 June 1944 |
| Glennon (DD-840) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 4 October 1945 | decommissioned 1976, sunk as target 1981 |
| Glowworm | Royal Navy | G | Destroyer | 1,350 | 22 January 1936 | sunk 8 April 1940 |
| Gnevny | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 23 December 1938 | sunk 26 June 1941 |
| Goff | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 19 January 1921 | sold for scrap 30 November 1945 |
| Goldsborough | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 26 January 1920 | decommissioned 11 October 1945 |
| Goodrich | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 24 April 1945 | decommissioned 1969, scrapped 1977 |
| Gordy | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 23 December 1938 | sunk 14 November 1941 |
| Göteborg | Swedish Navy | Göteborg | Destroyer | 1,020 | 30 October 1936 | decommissioned 15 August 1958, sunk as target 14 August 1962 |
| Grafton | Royal Navy | G | Destroyer | 1,350 | 20 March 1936 | scuttled after torpedo attack by U-62 on 29 May 1940 |
| Granatiere | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 1 February 1939 | scrapped 1958 |
| Gravelines | Royal Navy | Battle | Destroyer | 2,325 | 14 June 1946 | paid off March 1953 |
| Gravina | Spanish Navy | Churruca | Destroyer | 1,535 | September 1936 | stricken 1960s |
| Grayson | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 14 February 1941 | Decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1974 |
| Grecale | Regia Marina | Maestrale | Destroyer | 1,640 | 15 November 1934 | scrapped 1965 |
| Greene | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,215 | 9 May 1919 | wrecked 9 October 1945, wreck destroyed 11 February 1946 |
| Greenhalgh | Brazilian Navy | Marcílio Dias | Destroyer | 1,500 | 29 November 1943 | decommissioned 1966 |
| Greer | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 31 December 1918 | sold for scrap 30 November 1945 |
| Gregory (DD-82) | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 1 June 1918 | sunk 5 September 1942 |
| Gregory (DD-802) | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 29 July 1944 | decommissioned 1964, sunk as target 1971 |
| Gremyashchy | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 28 August 1938 | scuttled after a nuclear test October 1957 |
| Grenade | Royal Navy | G | Destroyer | 1,350 | 28 March 1936 | sunk 29 May 1940 |
| Grenville (H03) | Royal Navy | G | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,478 | 1 July 1936 | sunk 19 January 1940 |
| Grenville (R97) | Royal Navy | U | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,777 | 27 May 1943 | paid off 1974, scrapped 1983 |
| Greyhound | Royal Navy | G | Destroyer | 1,350 | 1 February 1936 | sunk 22 May 1941 |
| Gridley | United States Navy | Gridley | Destroyer | 1,590 | 24 June 1937 | scrapped 1947 |
| Griffin | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy | G | Destroyer | 1,350 | 6 June 1936 | to Canada 1 March 1943 as HMCS Ottawa, paid off May 1945 |
| Grom | Polish Navy | Grom | Destroyer | 2,011 | 11 May 1937 | sunk 4 May 1940 |
| Gromky | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 31 December 1938 | sunk after a nuclear test 10 October 1957 |
| Grozny | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 9 December 1938 | scrapped 1960 |
| Grozyashchy | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 17 September 1939 | scrapped 1950s |
| Guépard | French Navy | Guépard | Destroyer | 2,398 | 13 August 1929 | scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated 4 September 1943, sunk March 1944, refloated 1947 and broken up |
| Guest | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 15 December 1942 | to Brazil as Para 1959, sunk as target 1983 |
| Gurke | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 12 May 1945 | to Greece as Tombazis 1977, laid up 1998 |
| Gurkha (F20) | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 21 October 1938 | sunk 9 April 1940 |
| Gurkha (G63) | Royal Navy | L | Destroyer | 1,920 | 18 February 1941 | sunk 17 January 1942 |
| Gwin (DD-433) | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 15 January 1941 | sunk 13 July 1943 |
| Gwin (DM-33) | United States Navy | Robert H. Smith | Destroyer minelayer | 2,200 | 30 September 1944 | to Turkey as Muavenet 1971, crippled by friendly fire 1992, scrapped 1993 |
| Gyatt | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 2 July 1945 | decommissioned 1969, sunk as target 1970 |
| Gyller | Royal Norwegian Navy Kriegsmarine | Sleipner | Destroyer | 735 | 7 July 1938 | captured by Germany as Löwe 9 April 1940, returned to Norway May 1945, sold for scrap 1959 |
| Haggard | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 31 August 1943 | decommissioned 1945, sold for scrap 1946 |
| Hagi (1920) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 20 April 1921 | converted to patrol boat Dai-33-Gō shōkaitei 1 April 1940, destroyed 23 December 1941 |
| Hagi (1944) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | 1 March 1945 | to United Kingdom 16 July 1947, scrapped |
| Hagikaze | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 31 March 1941 | sunk 7 August 1943 |
| Hai Sui | Republic of China-Nanjing Navy | Chang Feng | Destroyer | 384 | 7 November 1912 | returned to Republic of China 1945, stricken July 1947 |
| Hai Wei | Manchukuo Imperial Navy Imperial Japanese Navy | Momo | Destroyer | 835 | 31 March 1917 | returned to Japan as Kaii 6 June 1942, sunk 10 October 1944 |
| Haida | Royal Canadian Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,927 | 30 August 1943 | paid off 11 October 1963, preserved as museum ship |
| Hailey | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 30 September 1943 | to Brazil as Pernambuco 1961, sunk as target 1982 |
| Hale | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 15 June 1943 | to Colombia as Antioquia 1961, sold for scrap 1973 |
| Halford | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 10 April 1943 | decommissioned 15 May 1946; scrapped 2 April 1970 |
| Hall | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 6 July 1943 | to Greece as Lonchi 1960, sold for scrap 1997 |
| Halligan | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 19 August 1943 | lost 26 March 1945 |
| Halsey Powell | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 25 October 1943 | to South Korea as Seoul 1968, sold for scrap 1982 |
| Hälsingborg | Swedish Navy | Visby | Destroyer | 1,135 | 30 November 1943 | decommissioned 1 July 1978, scrapped 1979 |
| Hamakaze | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 30 June 1941 | sunk 7 April 1945 |
| Hamanami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 15 October 1943 | sunk 11 November 1944 |
| Hambleton | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 22 December 1941 | decommissioned 1955, scrapped 1972 |
| Hamilton | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,190 | 7 November 1919 | sold for scrap 21 November 1946 |
| Hamilton | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,060 | 23 September 1940 | to Canada June 1941 |
| Hammann | United States Navy | Sims | Destroyer | 1,570 | 11 August 1939 | sunk 6 June 1942 |
| Hamner | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 12 July 1946 | to Taiwan as Yun Yang 1980, sunk as target 2005 |
| Hanazuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akizuki | Destroyer | 2,700 | 26 December 1944 | to United States as DD-934 29 August 1947, sunk as target 3 February 1948 |
| Hank | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 28 August 1944 | to Argentina as Segui 1972, scrapped 1983 |
| Hanson | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 11 May 1945 | to Taiwan as Liao Yang 1973, sunk as target 2006 |
| Haraden | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 16 September 1943 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1973 |
| Harding | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 25 May 1943 | scrapped 1947 |
| Hardy (H87) | Royal Navy | H | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,455 | 11 December 1936 | beached and capsized under attack 10 April 1940 |
| Hardy (R08) | Royal Navy | V | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,777 | 14 August 1943 | sunk 30 January 1944 |
| Harlan R. Dickson | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 17 February 1945 | decommissioned 1972, sold for scrap 1973 |
| Harold J. Ellison | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 23 June 1945 | to Pakistan as Shah Jahan 1983, sunk as target 1994 |
| Harrison | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 25 January 1943 | to Mexico as Cuauhtémoc 1970, decommissioned 1982 and scrapped |
| Harry E. Hubbard | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 22 July 1944 | decommissioned 1947, sold for scrap 1970 |
| Harry F. Bauer | United States Navy | Robert H. Smith | Destroyer minelayer | 2,200 | 22 September 1944 | decommissioned 1956, sold for scrap 1974 |
| Hart | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 4 November 1944 | decommissioned 1946, sold for scrap 1973 |
| Harusame | Imperial Japanese Navy | Shiratsuyu | Destroyer | 1,685 | 26 August 1937 | sunk 8 June 1944 |
| Harutsuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akizuki | Destroyer | 2,700 | 28 December 1944 | to Soviet Union as Vnezapny 28 August 1947, struck 4 June 1969 and scrapped |
| Harvester | Royal Navy | Havant | Destroyer | 1,350 | 23 May 1940 | sunk 11 March 1943 |
| Harwood | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 28 September 1945 | to Turkey as Kocatepe 1971, sunk by friendly fire 1974 |
| Hasty | Royal Navy | H | Destroyer | 1,350 | 11 November 1936 | sunk 15 June 1942. |
| Hasu | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 31 July 1922 | decommissioned 12 October 1945, scuttled as breakwater 1946 |
| Hatfield | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,190 | 16 April 1920 | sold for scrap 9 May 1947 |
| Hatsuharu | Imperial Japanese Navy | Hatsuharu | Destroyer | 1,802 | 30 September 1933 | sunk 13 November 1944 |
| Hatsukaze | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 15 February 1940 | sunk 2 November 1943 |
| Hatsushimo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Hatsuharu | Destroyer | 1,802 | 27 September 1934 | damaged by mine and run aground 30 July 1945, scrapped 1948–1949 |
| Hatsuume | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | 18 June 1945 | to Republic of China as Xin Yang 6 July 1947, scrapped 1960s |
| Hatsuyuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Fubuki | Destroyer | 1,750 | 30 March 1929 | sunk 17 July 1943 |
| Hatsuzakura | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | 18 May 1945 | to USSR as Vyrazitelny 2 October 1947, scrapped 19 February 1959 |
| Hatsuzuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akizuki | Destroyer | 2,700 | 29 December 1942 | sunk 25 October 1944 |
| Havant | Royal Navy | Havant | Destroyer | 1,350 | 19 December 1939 | scuttled 1 June 1940 |
| Havelock | Royal Navy | Havant | Destroyer | 1,350 | 10 February 1940 | scrapped October 1946 |
| Havock | Royal Navy | H | Destroyer | 1,350 | 16 January 1937 | ran aground 6 April 1942 |
| Hawkins | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 10 February 1945 | to Taiwan as Tzi Yang 1979, scrapped late 1990s, superstructure preserved |
| Hayanami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 31 July 1943 | sunk 7 June 1944 |
| Hayashimo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 20 February 1944 | sunk 26 October 1944 |
| Hayashio | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 31 August 1940 | sunk 24 November 1942 |
| Haynsworth | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 22 June 1944 | to China as Yue Yang 1970, sunk as artificial reef 2001 |
| Hazelwood | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 18 June 1943 | decommissioned 1965, sold for scrap 1976 |
| Healy | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 3 September 1943 | decommissioned 1958, sold for scrap 1976 |
| Heermann | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 6 July 1943 | transfer to Argentina 1961, scrapped 1982 |
| Helm | United States Navy | Bagley | Destroyer | 1,500 | 16 October 1937 | scrapped 1947 |
| Henderson | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 4 August 1945 | to Pakistan as Tughril 1980, renamed as Nazim 1998, decommissioned 2001 |
| Henley (DD-391) | United States Navy | Bagley | Destroyer | 1,500 | 14 August 1937 | sunk 3 October 1943 |
| Henley (DD-762) | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 8 October 1946 | decommissioned 1950, sold for scrap 1974 |
| Henry A. Wiley | United States Navy | Robert H. Smith | Destroyer minelayer | 2,200 | 31 August 1944 | decommissioned 1947, sold for scrap 1972 |
| Henry W. Tucker | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 12 March 1945 | to Brazil as Marcilio Dias 1973, sunk as target 1996 |
| Herbert | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 21 November 1919 | sold for scrap 23 May 1946 |
| Herbert J. Thomas | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 29 May 1945 | to Taiwan as Han Yang 1974, decommissioned 1999 and sunk as artificial reef |
| Hereward | Royal Navy | H | Destroyer | 1,350 | 9 December 1936 | sunk 29 May 1941 |
| Herndon | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 20 December 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1973 |
| Hero | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy | H | Destroyer | 1,350 | 23 October 1936 | to Canada 15 November 1943 as HMCS Chaudièrepaid off 19 March 1946 |
| Hesperus | Royal Navy | Havant | Destroyer | 1,350 | 22 January 1940 | scrapped November 1946 |
| Heywood L. Edwards | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 26 January 1944 | to Japan as Ariake 1959, scrapped 1976 |
| Hibiki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akatsuki | Destroyer | 1,750 | 31 March 1933 | to USSR as Verny 5 April 1947, sunk as target 1970s |
| Hickox | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 10 September 1943 | to South Korea as Busan 1968, scrapped 1989 |
| Higbee | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 27 January 1945 | decommissioned 1979, sunk as target 1986 |
| Highlander | Royal Navy | Havant | Destroyer | 1,350 | 18 March 1940 | scrapped May 1946 |
| Hilary P. Jones | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 6 September 1940 | to Taiwan 1954, scrapped 1974 |
| Hinoki (1916) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momo | Destroyer | 835 | 31 March 1917 | decommissioned 1 April 1940, scrapped |
| Hinoki (1944) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 30 September 1944 | sunk 7 January 1945 |
| Hishi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 23 March 1922 | converted to patrol boat Dai-37-Gō shōkaitei 1 April 1940, sunk 24 January 1942 |
| Hobby | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 18 November 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1972 |
| Hobson | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 22 January 1942 | sunk in collision 1952 |
| Hoel | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,100 | 19 July 1943 | sunk 25 October 1944, Battle off Samar |
| Hogan | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,190 | 1 October 1919 | sunk as target 8 November 1945 |
| Hogue | Royal Navy | Battle | Destroyer | 2,325 | 24 July 1945 | constructive loss 25 August 1962 |
| Holder | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 18 May 1946 | to Ecuador as Presidente Eloy Alfaro 1977, scrapped 1991 |
| Hollister | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 29 March 1946 | to Taiwan as Shao Yang 1983, sunk as artificial reef 2006 |
| Hopewell | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 30 September 1943 | decommissioned 1970, sunk as target 1972 |
| Hopkins | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,190 | 21 March 1921 | sold for scrap 8 November 1946 |
| Hostile | Royal Navy | H | Destroyer | 1,350 | 10 September 1936 | scuttled 23 August 1940 |
| Hotspur | Royal Navy | H | Destroyer | 1,350 | 29 December 1936 | to Dominican Republic after war |
| Hovey | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,190 | 24 September 1919 | sunk 7 January 1945 |
| Howard | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,190 | 29 January 1920 | sold for scrap 14 June 1946 |
| Howorth | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 3 April 1944 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1962 |
| Hudson | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 13 April 1943 | decommissioned 1946, sold for scrap 1973 |
| Huesca | Spanish Navy | Alessandro Poerio | Destroyer | 845 | 25 May 1915 | decommissioned and scrapped 1953 |
| Hugh Purvis | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 1 March 1945 | to Turkey as Zafer 1972, scrapped 1994 |
| Hugh W. Hadley | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 25 November 1944 | decommissioned 1945, sold for scrap 1947 |
| Hughes | United States Navy | Sims | Destroyer | 1,570 | 21 September 1939 | scuttled after A-bomb test 1948 |
| Hugin | Swedish Navy | Hugin | Destroyer | 350 | 20 June 1911 | decommissioned 13 June 1947, sold for scrap 1949 |
| Hulbert | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,190 | 27 October 1920 | sold for scrap 31 October 1946 |
| Hull | United States Navy | Farragut | Destroyer | 1,365 | 11 January 1935 | foundered in typhoon 18 December 1944 |
| Humphreys | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,190 | 21 July 1920 | sold for scrap 26 August 1946 |
| Hunt | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 22 September 1943 | decommissioned 1963, sold for scrap 1975 |
| Hunter | Royal Navy | H | Destroyer | 1,350 | 30 September 1936 | sunk 10 April 1940 |
| Huron | Royal Canadian Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,927 | 28 July 1943 | scrapped 1965 |
| Hurricane | Royal Navy | Havant | Destroyer | 1,350 | 21 June 1940 | sunk 24 December 1943 |
| Hutchins | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 17 November 1942 | decommissioned 1945, sold for scrap 1948 |
| Hyatt | Chilean Navy | Serrano | Destroyer | 1,090 | 15 April 1929 | stricken 30 January 1963 |
| Hydra | Royal Hellenic Navy | Kountouriotis | Destroyer | 1,389 | 1 November 1932 | sunk 22 April 1941 |
| Hyman | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 16 June 1944 | decommissioned 1969, sold for scrap 1970 |
| Hyperion | Royal Navy | H | Destroyer | 1,350 | 3 December 1936 | sunk 22 December 1940 |
| Icarus | Royal Navy | I | Destroyer | 1,370 | 3 May 1937 | scrapped 29 October 1946 |
| Ierax | Royal Hellenic Navy | Aetos | Destroyer | 880 | 19 October 1912 | Decommissioned 1946 |
| Ikazuchi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akatsuki | Destroyer | 1,750 | 15 August 1932 | sunk 13 April 1944 |
| Ilex | Royal Navy | I | Destroyer | 1,370 | 7 July 1937 | scrapped 1948. |
| Imogen | Royal Navy | I | Destroyer | 1,370 | 2 June 1937 | sunk in collision 16 July 1940 |
| Imperial | Royal Navy | I | Destroyer | 1,370 | 30 June 1937 | scuttled 29 May 1941 |
| Impulsive | Royal Navy | I | Destroyer | 1,370 | 29 January 1938 | scrapped 22 January 1946 |
| Inazuma | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akatsuki | Destroyer | 1,750 | 15 November 1932 | sunk 14 May 1944 |
| Inconstant | Royal Navy | I | Destroyer | 1,370 | 24 January 1942 | returned to Turkey as Muavenet 9 March 1946, scrapped 1960 |
| Inglefield | Royal Navy | I | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,544 | 25 June 1937 | sunk 25 February 1944 |
| Ingersoll | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 31 August 1943 | decommissioned 1970, sunk as target 1974 |
| Ingraham (DD-444) | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 19 July 1941 | sunk 22 August 1942 |
| Ingraham (DD-694) | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 10 March 1944 | to Greece as Miaoulis 1971, sunk as target 2001 |
| Intrepid | Royal Navy | I | Destroyer | 1,370 | 29 July 1937 | sunk 26 September 1943 |
| Iroquois | Royal Canadian Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,927 | 30 November 1942 | paid off 24 October 1962, scrapped 1966 |
| Irwin | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 14 February 1944 | to Brazil as Santa Catarina 1968, sunk as target 1990 |
| Isaac Sweers | Royal Netherlands Navy | Gerard Callenburgh | Destroyer | 1,604 | 29 May 1941 | sunk 13 November 1942 |
| Isherwood | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 12 April 1943 | to Peru as Almirante Guise 1961, scrapped 1981 |
| Isis | Royal Navy | I | Destroyer | 1,370 | 2 June 1937 | sunk 20 July 1944. |
| Isokaze | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 30 November 1940 | scuttled 7 April 1945 |
| Isonami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Fubuki | Destroyer | 1,750 | 30 June 1928 | sunk 9 April 1943 |
| Ithuriel | Royal Navy | I | Destroyer | 1,370 | 3 March 1942 | constructive loss 28 November 1942, scrapped 25 August 1945 |
| Ivanhoe | Royal Navy | I | Destroyer | 1,370 | 24 August 1937 | sunk 1 September 1940 |
| Izard | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 15 May 1943 | decommissioned 1946, sold for scrap 1970 |
| J. Fred Talbott | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 30 June 1919 | sold for scrap 22 December 1946 |
| J. William Ditter | United States Navy | Robert H. Smith | Destroyer minelayer | 2,200 | 28 October 1944 | decommissioned 1945, sold for scrap 1946 |
| Jackal | Royal Navy | J | Destroyer | 1,690 | 31 March 1939 | scuttled 11 May 1942 |
| Jacob Jones | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 20 October 1919 | sunk 28 February 1942 |
| Jaguar | French Navy | Chacal | Destroyer | 2,092 | 24 July 1926 | beached and wrecked 23 May 1940 |
| Jaguar | Royal Navy | J | Destroyer | 1,690 | 12 September 1939 | sunk 26 March 1942 by U-652 |
| Janus | Royal Navy | J | Destroyer | 1,690 | 5 August 1939 | sunk 23 January 1944 |
| James C. Owens | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 17 February 1945 | to Brazil as Sergipe 1973, scrapped 1995 |
| James E. Kyes | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 8 February 1946 | to Taiwan as Chien Yang 1973, decommissioned 2004, scrapped 2013 |
| Jarvis (DD-393) | United States Navy | Bagley | Destroyer | 1,500 | 27 October 1937 | sunk 9 August 1942 |
| Jarvis (DD-799) | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 3 June 1944 | to Spain as Alcalá Galiano 1960, scrapped 1988 |
| Javelin | Royal Navy | J | Destroyer | 1,690 | 10 June 1939 | scrapped 1949 |
| Jeffers | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 5 November 1942 | decommissioned 1955, scrapped 1973 |
| Jenkins | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 31 July 1942 | decommissioned 1969, sold for scrap 1971 |
| Jersey | Royal Navy | J | Destroyer | 1,690 | 28 April 1939 | sank 4 May 1941 |
| Jervis | Royal Navy | J | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,690 | 12 May 1939 | scrapped 1949 |
| John A. Bole | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 3 March 1945 | to Taiwan 6 May 1974, scrapped for spare parts |
| John D. Edwards | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 6 April 1920 | sold for scrap 30 November 1945 |
| John D. Ford | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,190 | 30 December 1920 | sold for scrap 5 October 1947 |
| John D. Henley | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 2 February 1944 | decommissioned 1946, sold for scrap 1970 |
| John Hood | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 7 June 1944 | decommissioned 1964, sold for scrap 1976 |
| John Rodgers | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 9 February 1943 | to Mexico as Cuitláhuac 1970, scrapped 2011 |
| John R. Craig | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 20 August 1945 | decommissioned 1979, sunk as target 1980 |
| John R. Pierce | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 30 December 1944 | decommissioned 1947, sold for scrap 1974 |
| John W. Thomason | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 11 October 1945 | to Taiwan as Nan Yang 1974, sunk as target 2006 |
| John W. Weeks | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 21 July 1944 | decommissioned 1950, sunk as target 1970 |
| Johnston (DD-557) | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 27 October 1943 | sunk 25 October 1944 during Battle off Samar |
| Johnston (DD-821) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 23 August 1946 | to Taiwan as Chen Yang 1981, decommissioned 2003, sunk as target 2006 |
| Jorge Juan | Spanish Navy | Churruca | Destroyer | 1,535 | 1937 | stricken 1959 |
| José Luis Díez | Spanish Navy | Churruca | Destroyer | 1,620 | 1929 | scrapped 1965 |
| Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 15 December 1945 | decommissioned 1973, preserved as museum ship |
| Jouett | United States Navy | Somers | Destroyer | 1,850 | 25 January 1939 | scrapped 1946 |
| Juan De Garray | Argentine Navy | Cervantes | Destroyer | 1,522 | 3 September 1927 | scrapped 25 March 1960 |
| Jujuy | Argentine Navy | Catamarca | Destroyer | 1,010 | 15 April 1912 | Sold 10 January 1957 |
| Juno | Royal Navy | J | Destroyer | 1,690 | 25 August 1939 | sunk 21 May 1941 |
| Jupiter | Royal Navy | J | Destroyer | 1,690 | 25 June 1939 | sank 28 February 1942 |
| Kaba | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | 29 May 1945 | to United States 4 August 1947, scrapped 1 March 1948 |
| Kaede | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 30 October 1944 | to Republic of China as Heng Yang 6 July 1947, scrapped 1962 |
| Kagerō | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 6 November 1939 | sunk 8 May 1943 |
| Kaki (1919) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 2 August 1920 | decommissioned 1 April 1940, converted to auxiliary ship as Ōsu, scrapped 1948 |
| Kaki (1944) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | 5 March 1945 | to United States 4 July 1947, sunk as target 19 August 1947 |
| Kalinin | Soviet Navy | Izyaslav | Destroyer | 1,350 | 20 July 1927 | sunk 28 August 1941 |
| Kalk | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 17 October 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1969 |
| Kalmar | Swedish Navy | Visby | Destroyer | 1,135 | 3 February 1944 | decommissioned 1 July 1978, scrapped 1979 |
| Kandahar | Royal Navy | K | Destroyer | 1,690 | 10 October 1939 | sunk 20 December 1941 |
| Kane | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 11 June 1920 | sold for scrap 21 June 1946 |
| Karl Liebknecht | Soviet Navy | Orfey | Destroyer | 1,260 | 3 August 1928 | scrapped 1950s |
| Karl Marx | Soviet Navy | Izyaslav | Destroyer | 1,350 | 16 June 1917 | sunk 8 August 1941 |
| Karlskrona | Swedish Navy | Göteborg | Destroyer | 1,020 | 12 September 1940 | decommissioned 1 July 1974, scrapped 1979 |
| Kashi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 30 September 1944 | to United States 7 August 1947, scrapped 20 March 1948 |
| Kashmir | Royal Navy | K | Destroyer | 1,690 | 26 October 1939 | sunk 23 May 1941 |
| Kasumi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Asashio | Destroyer | 2,370 | 24 June 1939 | sunk 7 April 1945 |
| Katsura | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | Never commissioned | launched 23 June 1945, converted to breakwater |
| Kawakaze | Imperial Japanese Navy | Shiratsuyu | Destroyer | 1,685 | 30 April 1937 | sunk 6 August 1943 |
| Kaya (1919) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 28 March 1920 | decommissioned 1 February 1940, scrapped |
| Kaya (1944) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 30 September 1944 | to USSR as Volevoy 5 July 1947, scrapped 2 September 1959 |
| Kazagumo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 28 March 1942 | sunk 8 June 1944 |
| Kearny | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 13 September 1940 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1972 |
| Keith | Royal Navy | B | Destroyer | 1,350 | 20 March 1931 | sunk 1 June 1940 |
| Kelly | Royal Navy | K | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,690 | 23 August 1939 | sunk 23 May 1941 |
| Kelvin | Royal Navy | K | Destroyer | 1,690 | 27 November 1939 | scrapped 1949 |
| Kempenfelt | Royal Navy | W | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,710 | 25 October 1943 | paid off January 1946 |
| Kendrick | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 12 September 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1966 |
| Kenneth D. Bailey | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 31 July 1945 | decommissioned 1970, to Iran as spare parts 1975 |
| Kennison | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 2 April 1919 | sold for scrap 18 November 1946 |
| Keppel | Royal Navy | Thornycroft type | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,480 | 15 April 1925 | scrapped 1945 |
| Keppler | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 23 May 1947 | to Turkey as Tınaztepe 1972, scrapped 1984 |
| Kersaint | French Navy | Vauquelin | Destroyer | 2,402 | 20 September 1933 | scuttled 27 November 1942, scrapped 1950 |
| Keyaki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 15 December 1944 | to United States 5 July 1947, sunk as target 29 October 1947 |
| Kharkov | Soviet Navy | Leningrad | Destroyer flotilla leader | 2,150 | 19 November 1938 | sunk 6 October 1943 |
| Khartoum | Royal Navy | K | Destroyer | 1,690 | 6 November 1939 | sunk 23 June 1940 |
| Kidd | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 23 April 1943 | decommissioned 1964, museum ship at Baton Rouge, LA |
| Kiev | Soviet Navy | Kiev | Destroyer flotilla leader | 2,350 | Never commissioned | launched 12 December 1940, 48.9% complete, construction stopped August 1941, later used as target or scrapped |
| Kiku | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 10 December 1920 | converted to patrol boat Dai-31-Gō shōkaitei 1 April 1940, sunk 31 March 1944 |
| Kikuzuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mutsuki | Destroyer | 1,315 | 20 November 1926 | sunk 5 May 1942, salvaged by US 6 October 1943, wreck still present in Nggela Sule Island |
| Killen | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 4 May 1944 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1975 |
| Kilty | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 17 December 1918 | sold for scrap 26 August 1946 |
| Kimberley | Royal Navy | K | Destroyer | 1,690 | 21 February 1940 | scrapped 1949 |
| Kimberly | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 22 May 1943 | to Taiwan as An Yang 1967, sunk as target 2003 |
| King | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,190 | 16 December 1920 | sold for scrap 29 September 1946 |
| Kingston | Royal Navy | K | Destroyer | 1,690 | 14 September 1939 | constructive total loss 11 April 1942 |
| Kipling | Royal Navy | K | Destroyer | 1,690 | 22 December 1939 | sunk 11 May 1942 |
| Kiri | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 14 August 1944 | to USSR as Vozrozhdionny 29 July 1947, scrapped 1969 |
| Kisaragi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mutsuki | Destroyer | 1,315 | 21 December 1925 | sunk 11 December 1941 |
| Kishinami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 3 December 1943 | sunk 4 December 1944 |
| Kiyonami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 25 January 1943 | sunk 20 July 1943 |
| Kiyoshimo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 15 May 1944 | sunk 26 December 1944 |
| Klas Horn | Swedish Navy | Klas | Destroyer | 1,020 | 16 September 1932 | stricken 15 August 1958 |
| Klas Uggla | Swedish Navy | Klas | Destroyer | 1,020 | 27 September 1932 | sunk 17 September 1941 |
| Knapp | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 16 September 1943 | Decommissioned: 4 March 1957, scrapped 1972 |
| Knight | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 23 June 1942 | decommissioned 1947, sunk as target 1967 |
| Kocatepe | Turkish Naval Forces | Adatepe | Destroyer | 1,250 | 18 October 1931 | decommissioned February 1954 |
| Kortenaer | Royal Netherlands Navy | Admiralen | Destroyer | 1,316 | 3 September 1928 | sunk 27 February 1942 |
| Kountouriotis | Royal Hellenic Navy | Kountouriotis | Destroyer | 1,389 | 1 November 1932 | decommissioned 1946 |
| Kuroshio | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 27 January 1940 | sunk 8 May 1943 |
| Kuri | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 30 April 1920 | sunk by mine 8 October 1945 |
| Kusunoki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | 28 April 1945 | to United Kingdom 16 July 1947, scrapped |
| Kuwa | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 15 July 1944 | sunk 3 December 1944 |
| L'Adroit | French Navy | L'Adroit | Destroyer | 1,360 | 1 July 1929 | sunk 21 May 1940 |
| L'Alcyon | French Navy Free French Naval Forces | L'Adroit | Destroyer | 1,360 | 15 July 1929 | stricken 10 November 1952 |
| L'Audacieux | French Navy Kriegsmarine | Le Fantasque | Destroyer | 2,528 | 1 August 1935 | captured by Germany as ZF5 8 December 1942, sunk 7 May 1943, refloated 14 December 1943, scrapped August 1947 |
| L'Indomptable | French Navy Kriegsmarine | Le Fantasque | Destroyer | 2,528 | 15 November 1935 | scuttled 27 November 1942, captured by Germany as SG9, scrapped 1950 |
| La Palme | French Navy | L'Adroit | Destroyer | 1,360 | 6 February 1928 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
| La Railleuse | French Navy | L'Adroit | Destroyer | 1,360 | 15 March 1928 | destroyed 23 March 1940, the hulk sold for scrap April 1942 |
| La Plata | Argentine Navy | La Plata | Destroyer | 875 | 30 March 1912 | discarded 10 January 1957 |
| La Rioja | Argentine Navy | Mendoza | Destroyer | 1,570 | 23 July 1929 | discarded 30 April 1962 |
| La Vallette | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 12 August 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sold to Peru as spare parts 1974 and scrapped |
| Laffey (DD-459) | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 31 March 1942 | sunk 13 November 1942 |
| Laffey (DD-724) | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 8 February 1944 | decommissioned 1975, memorial at Charleston, SC |
| Laforey | Royal Navy | L | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,920 | 26 August 1941 | sunk 30 March 1944 by U-223 |
| Lagos | Royal Navy | Battle | Destroyer | 2,325 | 2 November 1945 | paid off 1960, scrapped 1967 |
| Lamberton | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,190 | 22 August 1918 | sold for scrap 9 May 1947 |
| Lamson | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 21 October 1936 | sunk in A-bomb test, 1946 |
| Lampo | Regia Marina | Folgore | Destroyer | 1,220 | 13 August 1932 | sunk 30 April 1943 |
| Lancaster | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 24 August 1918 | scrapped 1947 |
| Lance | Royal Navy | L | Destroyer | 1,920 | 13 May 1941 | constructive loss and scrapped April 1942 |
| Lanciere | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 25 March 1939 | sunk 23 March 1942 |
| Lang | United States Navy | Benham | Destroyer | 1,656 | 30 March 1939 | scrapped 1947 |
| Lansdale | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 17 September 1940 | sunk 20 April 1944 |
| Lansdowne | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 29 April 1942 | to Turkey 1949, scrapped 1973 |
| Lansquenet | French Navy Regia Marina Kriegsmarine | Le Hardi | Destroyer | 1,772 | Never commissioned | scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated as FR34 by Italy 24 April 1943, captured by Germany as TA34 September 1943, scrapped 1958 |
| Lanzerotto Malocello | Regia Marina | Navigatori | Destroyer | 1,900 | 18 January 1930 | sunk 24 March 1943 |
| Lardner | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 13 May 1942 | to Turkey 1949, sunk as target 1982 |
| Laub | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 24 October 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1975 |
| Lawrence | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,190 | 18 April 1921 | sold for scrap 1 October 1946 |
| Laws | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 18 November 1943 | decommissioned 1964, sold for scrap 1973 |
| Lazaga | Spanish Navy | Alsedo | Destroyer | 1,044 | 1925 | stricken 1961 |
| Le Corsaire | French Navy Regia Marina | Le Hardi | Destroyer | 1,772 | 1 July 1941 | renamed as Siroco 1 April 1941, scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated as FR32 by Italy 16 April 1943, scuttled 20 October 1944 and later scrapped |
| Le Fantasque | French Navy Free French Naval Forces | Le Fantasque | Destroyer | 2,528 | 15 November 1935 | stricken 1953, scrapped 1958 |
| Le Fortuné | French Navy Free French Naval Forces | L'Adroit | Destroyer | 1,360 | 1 February 1928 | scrapped 1950 |
| Le Flibustier | French Navy Regia Marina | Le Hardi | Destroyer | 1,772 | Never commissioned | renamed as Bison 1 April 1941, captured 27 November 1942, to Italy as FR35, scrapped 1945 |
| Le Hardi | French Navy Regia Marina | Le Hardi | Destroyer | 1,772 | 1 December 1939 | scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated as FR37 by Italy 12 June 1943, scuttled 20 April 1945 |
| Le Mars | French Navy | L'Adroit | Destroyer | 1,360 | 20 January 1928 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
| Le Malin | French Navy Free French Naval Forces | Le Fantasque | Destroyer | 2,528 | 20 December 1935 | stricken 3 February 1964, scrapped 1977 |
| Le Terrible | French Navy Free French Naval Forces | Le Fantasque | Destroyer | 2,528 | 15 April 1935 | stricken 29 June 1962, scrapped 1963 |
| Le Triomphant | French Navy Free French Naval Forces | Le Fantasque | Destroyer | 2,528 | 31 December 1935 | sold for scrap December 1957 |
| Lea | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 2 October 1918 | sold for scrap 30 November 1946 |
| Leamington | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy Soviet Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,327 | 23 October 1940 | to Canada October 1942, to USSR as Zhguchy 16 July 1944 |
| Leary (DD-158) | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 5 December 1919 | sunk 24 December 1943 |
| Leary (DD-879) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 7 May 1945 | to Spain as Langara 1978, scrapped 1994 |
| Leeds | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,125 | 12 January 1918 | paid off April 1945 |
| Legion | Royal Navy | L | Destroyer | 1,920 | 19 December 1940 | sunk 26 March 1942 |
| Legionario | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 1 March 1942 | to France as Duchaffault 15 August 1948, struck 12 June 1954 |
| Lenin | Soviet Navy | Orfey | Destroyer | 1,260 | 10 July 1916 | scuttled 24 June 1941 |
| Leningrad | Soviet Navy | Leningrad | Destroyer flotilla leader | 2,150 | 5 December 1936 | sunk as target ship, May 1963 |
| Leon | Royal Hellenic Navy | Aetos | Destroyer | 880 | 19 October 1912 | sunk 15 May 1941 |
| Leonard F. Mason | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 28 June 1946 | to Taiwan as Lai Yang 1978, sunk as artificial reef 2003 |
| Leone | Regia Marina | Leone | Destroyer | 2,195 | 1 July 1924 | foundered 1 April 1941 |
| Leone Pancaldo | Regia Marina | Navigatori | Destroyer | 1,900 | 30 November 1929 | sunk 30 April 1943 |
| Léopard | French Navy Free French Naval Forces | Chacal | Destroyer | 2,092 | 10 October 1927 | ran aground and wrecked 27 May 1943 |
| Lepanto | Spanish Navy | Churruca | Destroyer | 1,620 | 1930 | scrapped 1958 |
| Leutze | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 4 March 1944 | decommissioned 1945, sold for scrap 1947 |
| Lewes | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,125 | 23 October 1940 | scuttled 25 May 1946 |
| Lewis Hancock | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 29 September 1943 | to Brazil as Piaui 1967, scrapped 1989 |
| Libeccio | Regia Marina | Maestrale | Destroyer | 1,640 | 23 November 1934 | sunk 9 November 1941 |
| Lightning | Royal Navy | L | Destroyer | 1,920 | 28 May 1941 | sunk 12 March 1943 |
| Lima | Portuguese Navy | Douro | Destroyer | 1,219 | 12 October 1933 | discarded 16 October 1965 |
| Lincoln | Royal Navy Royal Norwegian Navy Royal Canadian Navy Soviet Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 20 October 1940 | to Norway February 1942, to Canada July 1942 - Dec 1943, to USSR as Druzhny 26 August 1944, returned to UK for scrapping 23 August 1952 |
| Lindsey | United States Navy | Robert H. Smith | Destroyer minelayer | 2,200 | 20 August 1944 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1972 |
| Lion | French Navy Regia Marina | Guépard | Destroyer | 2,398 | 21 January 1931 | scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated and repaired, to Italy as FR 21, scuttled 9 September 1943 |
| Litchfield | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 12 May 1920 | sold for scrap 29 March 1946 |
| Little (DD-79) | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 6 April 1918 | sunk 5 September 1942 |
| Little (DD-803) | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 19 August 1944 | sunk 3 May 1945 |
| Lively | Royal Navy | L | Destroyer | 1,920 | 20 July 1941 | sunk 11 May 1942 |
| Livermore | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 7 October 1940 | Sold 3 March 1961 for scrapping |
| Ljubljana | Royal Yugoslav Navy Regia Marina | Beograd | Destroyer | 1,190 | December 1939 | captured by Italy as Lubiana 17 April 1941, sunk or stranded off the Tunisian coast 1 April 1943 |
| Lloyd Thomas | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 21 March 1947 | to Taiwan as Dang Yang 1972, sunk as artificial reef 2002 |
| Lofberg | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 26 April 1945 | to Taiwan 6 May 1974, scrapped for spare parts |
| Long | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,190 | 20 October 1919 | sunk 6 January 1945 |
| Longshaw | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 4 December 1943 | ran aground and scuttled 18 May 1945 |
| Lowry | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 23 July 1944 | to Brazil as Espirito Santo 1973, scrapped 1996 |
| Lookout | Royal Navy | L | Destroyer | 1,920 | 30 January 1942 | paid off 19 October 1945, scrapped February 1948 |
| Loyal | Royal Navy | L | Destroyer | 1,920 | 31 October 1942 | constructive loss 12 October 1944, scrapped 1948 |
| Luca Tarigo | Regia Marina | Navigatori | Destroyer | 1,900 | 16 November 1929 | sunk 16 April 1941 |
| Luce | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 21 June 1943 | sunk 4 May 1945 |
| Ludlow | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 26 November 1917 | beached 15 July 1945, destroyed as target ship |
| Ludlow | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 5 March 1941 | to Greece 1951, scrapped 1972 |
| Lyman K. Swenson | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 2 May 1944 | To Taiwan 6 May 1974, scrapped for parts |
| Lynx | French Navy | Chacal | Destroyer | 2,092 | 10 October 1927 | scuttled 27 November 1942 |
| Macdonough | United States Navy | Farragut | Destroyer | 1,365 | 15 March 1935 | scrapped 1947 |
| Mackay | Royal Navy | Admiralty type | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,801 | 1919 | paid off 18 February 1947 |
| MacKenzie | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 21 November 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1974 |
| MacLeish | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,190 | 2 August 1920 | sold for scrap 18 December 1946 |
| Macomb | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 26 January 1942 | to Japan 1954, to Taiwan 1970, scrapped 1980 |
| Maddox (DD-622) | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 31 October 1942 | sunk 10 July 1943 |
| Maddox (DD-731) | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 2 June 1944 | to China as Po Yang 1972, sold for scrap 1985 |
| Madison | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 6 August 1940 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1969 |
| Maestrale | Regia Marina | Maestrale | Destroyer | 1,640 | 2 September 1934 | scuttled 9 September 1943 |
| Magne | Swedish Navy | Mode | Destroyer | 740 | 26 November 1942 | decommissioned 1 January 1966, scrapped 1973 |
| Mahan | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 18 September 1936 | sunk 7 December 1944 |
| Mahratta | Royal Navy | M | Destroyer | 1,920 | 28 July 1942 | sunk 25 February 1944 |
| Maillé Brézé | French Navy | Vauquelin | Destroyer | 2,402 | 31 December 1932 | lost 30 April 1940, scrapped 15 September 1954 |
| Maikaze | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 15 July 1941 | sunk 17 February 1944 |
| Maki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 10 August 1944 | to United Kingdom 14 August 1947, scrapped |
| Makigumo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 14 March 1942 | sunk 1 February 1943 |
| Makinami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 8 August 1942 | sunk 25 November 1943 |
| Malcolm | Royal Navy | Admiralty type | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,530 | 14 December 1919 | scrapped 25 July 1945 |
| Malmö | Swedish Navy | Göteborg | Destroyer | 1,020 | 15 August 1939 | decommissioned 1 February 1965 and scrapped |
| Mameluk | French Navy | Le Hardi | Destroyer | 1,772 | 17 June 1940 | scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated and scrapped 1947 |
| Manley | United States Navy | Caldwell | Destroyer | 1,020 | 15 October 1917 | sold for scrap 26 November 1946 |
| Mannert L. Abele | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 4 July 1944 | sunk 12 April 1945 |
| Mansfield | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 14 April 1944 | to Argentina 4 June 1974, scrapped for spare parts |
| Mansfield | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 23 October 1940 | paid off 22 June 1944 |
| Maori | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 5 December 1938 | sunk 12 February 1942 |
| Maranhão | Brazilian Navy | Acasta | Destroyer | 934 | 9 December 1922 | discarded 13 September 1946 |
| Mărășești | Royal Romanian Navy | Vifor | Destroyer | 1,594 | 15 May 1918 | to Soviet Navy as Lyogky 5 September 1944, returned to Romania 12 October 1945, scrapped April 1961 |
| Mărăști | Royal Romanian Navy | Vifor | Destroyer | 1,594 | 15 July 1917 | to Soviet Navy as Lovky 5 September 1944, returned to Romania 12 October 1945, scrapped April 1961 |
| Marcílio Dias | Brazilian Navy | Marcílio Dias | Destroyer | 1,500 | 29 November 1943 | decommissioned 22 August 1972 |
| Mariz e Barros | Brazilian Navy | Marcílio Dias | Destroyer | 1,500 | 29 November 1943 | decommissioned 22 August 1972 |
| Marshall | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 16 October 1943 | decommissioned 1969, sold for scrap 1970 |
| Massey | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 24 November 1944 | decommissioned 1973, sold for scrap 1974 |
| Marne | Royal Navy | M | Destroyer | 1,920 | 2 December 1941 | scrapped 1970 |
| Martin | Royal Navy | M | Destroyer | 1,920 | February 1942 | sunk 10 November 1942 |
| Mashona | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 30 March 1939 | sunk 28 May 1941 |
| Matabele | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 25 January 1939 | sunk 17 January 1941 |
| Matchless | Royal Navy | M | Destroyer | 1,920 | 12 February 1942 | paid off 12 February 1942 |
| Mato Grosso | Brazilian Navy | Pará | Destroyer | 560 | 5 May 1909 | decommissioned 1946 |
| Matsu | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 28 April 1944 | sunk 4 August 1944 |
| Maury | United States Navy | Gridley | Destroyer | 1,590 | 5 August 1938 | scrapped 1946 |
| Mayo | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 18 September 1940 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1972 |
| Mayrant | United States Navy | Benham | Destroyer | 1,656 | 13 September 1939 | Scuttled off Kwajalein 4 April 1948 |
| McCaffery | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 26 July 1945 | decommissioned 1973, scrapped 1974 |
| McCall | United States Navy | Gridley | Destroyer | 1,590 | 22 June 1938 | scrapped 1947 |
| McCalla | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 27 May 1942 | to Turkey 1949, scrapped 1973 |
| McCook | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 15 March 1943 | decommissioned 1949, scrapped 1973 |
| McCord | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 19 August 1943 | decommissioned 1954, sold for scrap 1974 |
| McCormick | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,190 | 30 August 1920 | sold for scrap 15 December 1946 |
| McDermut | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 19 November 1943 | decommissioned 1963, sold for scrap 1966 |
| McDougal | United States Navy | Porter | Destroyer | 1,850 | 23 December 1936 | scrapped 1949 |
| McFarland | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,190 | 30 September 1920 | sold for scrap 29 October 1946 |
| McGowan | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 20 December 1943 | to Spain as Jorge Juan 1960, scrapped 1988 |
| McKean (DD-90) | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 25 February 1919 | sunk 17 November 1943 |
| McKean (DD-784) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 9 June 1945 | to Turkey as spare parts 1982, sunk as target 1987 |
| McKee | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 31 March 1943 | decommissioned 1946, sold for scrap 1974 |
| McLanahan | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 19 December 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1974 |
| McNair | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 30 December 1943 | decommissioned 1963, sold for scrap 1976 |
| Meade | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 22 June 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1973 |
| Melilla | Spanish Navy | Vifor | Destroyer | 1,594 | 8 February 1917 | scrapped 1950 |
| Melvin | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 24 November 1943 | Decommissioned 13 January 1954, scrapped 1975 |
| Mendoza | Argentine Navy | Mendoza | Destroyer | 1,570 | 23 July 1929 | discarded 30 April 1962 |
| Meredith (DD-434) | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 1 March 1941 | sunk 15 October 1942 |
| Meredith (DD-726) | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 14 March 1944 | sunk 9 June 1944, wreck sold and scrapped 5 August 1960 |
| Meredith (DD-890) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 31 December 1945 | to Turkey as Savaştepe 1979, scrapped 1995 |
| Mertz | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 19 November 1943 | decommissioned 1946, sold for scrap 1971 |
| Mervine | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 17 June 1942 | decommissioned 1949, scrapped 1969 |
| Metcalf | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 18 November 1944 | decommissioned 1946, sold for scrap 1972 |
| Meteor | Royal Navy | M | Destroyer | 1,920 | 12 August 1942 | sold to the Turkish Navy on 29 June 1959, renamed Piyale Pasha |
| Michishio | Imperial Japanese Navy | Asashio | Destroyer | 2,370 | 31 October 1937 | sunk 25 October 1944 |
| Michitsuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akizuki | Destroyer | 2,700 | Never commissioned | 16% complete, construction stopped 17 April 1945, scrapped 28 February 1948 |
| Micmac | Royal Canadian Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,927 | 18 September 1945 | built and launched during war, paid off 31 March 1964, scrapped 1965 |
| Mikazuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mutsuki | Destroyer | 1,315 | 5 May 1927 | sunk 29 July 1943 |
| Milan | French Navy | Aigle | Destroyer | 2,402 | 20 April 1934 | run aground 8 November 1942, wreck scrapped post-war |
| Miller | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 31 August 1943 | decommissioned 1964, sold for scrap 1975 |
| Milne | Royal Navy | M | Destroyer | 1,920 | 6 August 1942 | sold to Turkish Navy on 27 April 1959, renamed Alp Arslam |
| Minazuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mutsuki | Destroyer | 1,315 | 22 March 1927 | sunk 6 June 1944 |
| Minegumo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Asashio | Destroyer | 2,370 | 4 April 1938 | sunk 5 March 1943 |
| Minsk | Soviet Navy | Leningrad | Destroyer flotilla leader | 2,350 | 15 February 1939 | sunk 23 September 1941. Salvaged, and sunk as a target, 1958 |
| Misiones | Argentine Navy | Buenos Aires | Destroyer | 1,353 | 5 September 1938 | discarded 3 May 1971 |
| Mistral | French Navy Free French Naval Forces | Bourrasque | Destroyer | 1,300 | 5 April 1927 | constructive total loss 10 June 1944 |
| Mitragliere | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 1 February 1942 | to France as Jurien de la Gravière 8 August 1948, struck 12 June 1954 |
| Mjölner | Swedish Navy | Mode | Destroyer | 740 | 12 November 1942 | decommissioned 1 April 1966, sold for scrap 3 November 1969 |
| Moale | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 28 February 1944 | decommissioned 1973, sold for scrap |
| Mochizuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mutsuki | Destroyer | 1,315 | 31 October 1927 | sunk 24 October 1943 |
| Mode | Swedish Navy | Mode | Destroyer | 740 | 12 November 1942 | decommissioned 1 July 1970, scrapped 1978 |
| Moffett | United States Navy | Porter | Destroyer | 1,850 | 28 August 1936 | scrapped 1947 |
| Mogador | French Navy | Mogador | Destroyer | 2,950 | 8 April 1939 | scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated by Italy 5 April 1943, scrapped 1949 |
| Mohawk | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 9 September 1938 | sunk 16 April 1941 |
| Momi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 3 September 1944 | sunk 5 January 1945 |
| Momo (1916) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momo | Destroyer | 835 | 23 December 1916 | decommissioned 1 April 1940, scrapped |
| Momo (1944) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 10 June 1944 | sunk 15 December 1944 |
| Monaghan | United States Navy | Farragut | Destroyer | 1,365 | 18 April 1935 | foundered in typhoon 18 December 1944 |
| Monssen (DD-436) | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 14 March 1941 | sunk 13 November 1942 |
| Monssen (DD-798) | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 14 February 1944 | decommissioned 1957, sold for scrap 1963 |
| Montgomery | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer minelayer | 1,190 | 30 September 1918 | sold for scrap 11 March 1946 |
| Montgomery | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,247 | 23 October 1940 | to Canada 1942, paid off 22 June 1944 |
| Montrose | Royal Navy | Admiralty type | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,530 | 14 September 1918 | scrapped January 1946 |
| Morris | United States Navy | Sims | Destroyer | 1,570 | 5 March 1940 | scrapped 1947 |
| Morrison | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 18 December 1943 | Sunk by kamikazes, 4 May 1945 |
| Moskva | Soviet Navy | Leningrad | Destroyer flotilla leader | 2,150 | 10 August 1938 | sunk 26 June 1941 |
| Mugford | United States Navy | Bagley | Destroyer | 1,500 | 16 August 1937 | scuttled after A-bomb test 1948 |
| Mullany | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 23 April 1943 | to Taiwan as Chin Yang 1971, sunk as artificial reef 2001 |
| Munin (8) | Swedish Navy | Hugin | Destroyer | 350 | 10 January 1913 | decommissioned 18 October 1940, sunk as target 1946 |
| Munin (31) | Swedish Navy | Mode | Destroyer | 740 | 3 January 1943 | decommissioned 6 December 1968, scrapped 1969 |
| Murakumo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Fubuki | Destroyer | 1,750 | 10 May 1929 | sunk 12 October 1942 |
| Murasame | Imperial Japanese Navy | Shiratsuyu | Destroyer | 1,685 | 7 January 1937 | sunk 6 March 1943 |
| Murphy | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 25 July 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1972 |
| Murray | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 20 April 1943 | decommissioned 1965, sold for scrap 1966 |
| Musketeer | Royal Navy | M | Destroyer | 1,920 | 18 September 1942 | scrapped 1955 |
| Mustin | United States Navy | Sims | Destroyer | 1,570 | 15 September 1939 | scuttled after A-bomb test 1948 |
| Mutsuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mutsuki | Destroyer | 1,315 | 25 March 1926 | sunk 25 August 1942 |
| Myles C. Fox | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 20 March 1945 | to Greece as spare parts 1980, scrapped 2003 |
| Myngs | Royal Navy | Z | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,710 | 23 June 1944 | to Egypt as El Qaher 1955, sunk 16 May 1970 |
| Myrmidon | Royal Navy Polish Navy | M | Destroyer | 1,920 | 18 November 1942 | to Poland as ORP Orkan 18 November 1942; sunk 8 October 1943 |
| Naganami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 30 June 1942 | sunk 11 November 1944 |
| Nagatsuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mutsuki | Destroyer | 1,315 | 30 April 1927 | sunk 6 July 1943 |
| Napier | Royal Australian Navy | N | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,773 | 28 November 1940 | 25 October 1945 |
| Nara | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 26 November 1944 | scrapped 1 July 1948 |
| Nashi (1919) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 10 December 1919 | decommissioned 1 February 1940, scrapped |
| Nashi (1945) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | 15 March 1945 | sunk 28 July 1945, salvaged 30 September 1954, to JSDF as JDS Wakaba 31 May 1956, scrapped 1972 |
| Natsugumo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Asashio | Destroyer | 2,370 | 10 February 1938 | sunk 15 October 1942 |
| Natsushio | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 31 August 1940 | sunk 9 February 1942 |
| Natsuzuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akizuki | Destroyer | 2,700 | 8 April 1945 | ceded to United Kingdom 25 August 1947, scrapped September 1947-March 1948 |
| Nazario Sauro | Regia Marina | Sauro | Destroyer | 1,041 | 23 September 1926 | sunk by aircraft 3 April 1941 |
| Nelson | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 26 November 1942 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1969 |
| Nembo | Regia Marina | Turbine | Destroyer | 1,070 | 24 October 1927 | sunk 20 July 1940 |
| Nenohi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Hatsuharu | Destroyer | 1,802 | 30 September 1933 | sunk 4 July 1942 |
| Nepal | Royal Australian Navy | N | Destroyer | 1,773 | 29 May 1942 | paid off 22 October 1945, sold for scrap 1955 |
| Nestor | Royal Australian Navy | N | Destroyer | 1,773 | 12 February 1941 | scuttled 15 June 1942 |
| New | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 5 April 1946 | to South Korea as Taejon 1977, scrapped 2001 |
| Newark | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,060 | 26 November 1940 | scrapped February 1947 |
| Newcomb | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 10 November 1943 | decommissioned 1945, scrapped 1947 |
| Newman K. Perry | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 26 July 1945 | to South Korea as Gyeonggi 1981, scrapped 1999 |
| Newmarket | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,060 | 26 November 1940 | scrapped September 1945 |
| Newport | Royal Norwegian Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 15 May 1918 | June 1942, returned to RN |
| Nezamozhnik | Soviet Navy | Fidonisy | Destroyer | 1,350 | 7 November 1923 | sunk as target ship early 1950s |
| Niagara | Royal Canadian Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 24 September 1940 | paid off 27 May 1946 |
| Niblack | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 1 August 1940 | Sold 16 August 1973 and broken up for scrap |
| Nicholas | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 4 June 1942 | decommissioned and sold for scrap 1970 |
| Nicholson | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 3 June 1941 | to Italy 1951, sunk as target 1975 |
| Nicoloso da Recco | Regia Marina | Navigatori | Destroyer | 1,900 | 20 May 1930 | struck 15 July 1954, scrapped |
| Nicolò Zeno | Regia Marina | Navigatori | Destroyer | 1,900 | 27 May 1930 | scuttled 9 September 1943 |
| Nields | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 15 January 1943 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1972 |
| Niki | Royal Hellenic Navy | Niki | Destroyer | 350 | 30 May 1906 | stricken 1945 and scrapped |
| Niizuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akizuki | Destroyer | 2,700 | 31 March 1943 | sunk 6 July 1943 |
| Nire (1919) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 31 March 1920 | decommissioned 1 February 1940, converted to auxiliary ship Dai-1 Tomariura, scrapped 15 August 1948 |
| Nire (1944) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | 31 January 1945 | scrapped 20 April 1948 |
| Nizam | Royal Australian Navy | N | Destroyer | 1,773 | 19 December 1940 | paid off 17 October 1945, sold for scrap 1955 |
| Noa (DD-343) | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,190 | 15 February 1921 | sunk 12 September 1944 |
| Noa (DD-841) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 2 November 1945 | to Spain as Blas de Lezo 1973, scrapped 1991 |
| Nootka | Royal Canadian Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,927 | 9 August 1946 | built and launched during war, paid off 6 February 1964, scrapped 1965 |
| Norman | Royal Australian Navy | N | Destroyer | 1,773 | 29 September 1941 | paid off October 1945, sold for scrap 1958 |
| Norman Scott | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 5 November 1943 | decommissioned 1946, sold for scrap 1973 |
| Nordenskjöld | Swedish Navy | Ehrensköld | Destroyer | 974 | 27 September 1927 | decommissioned 1 April 1963, scrapped 1964 |
| Norrköping | Swedish Navy | Göteborg | Destroyer | 1,020 | 9 April 1941 | decommissioned 1 February 1965, sunk as target 26 May 1977 |
| Norris | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 9 June 1945 | to Turkey as Kocatepe 1974, scrapped 1994 |
| Nowaki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 28 April 1941 | sunk 26 October 1944 |
| Nubian | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 1 December 1938 | scrapped 1949 |
| O'Bannon | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 26 June 1942 | decommissioned and sold for scrap 1970 |
| O'Brien (DD-415) | United States Navy | Sims | Destroyer | 1,570 | 2 March 1940 | sunk 19 October 1942 |
| O'Brien (DD-725) | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 25 February 1944 | decommissioned 1947, sunk as target 1972 |
| O'Hare | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 29 November 1945 | to Spain as Méndez Núñez 1973, scrapped 1992 |
| Obdurate | Royal Navy | O | Destroyer | 1,540 | 3 September 1942 | sold for scrap 1964 |
| Obedient | Royal Navy | O | Destroyer | 1,540 | 30 October 1942 | sold for scrap 1964 |
| Oboro | Imperial Japanese Navy | Ayanami | Destroyer | 1,750 | 31 October 1931 | sunk 16 October 1942 |
| Odake | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | 15 May 1945 | to United States 14 July 1947, sunk as target 17 September 1947 |
| Odin | Royal Norwegian Navy Kriegsmarine | Sleipner | Destroyer | 735 | 24 January 1939 | captured by Germany as Panther 9 April 1940, returned to Norway May 1945, sold for scrap 1959 |
| Offa | Royal Navy | O | Destroyer | 1,610 | 20 September 1941 | to Pakistan as Tariq 30 November 1949, scrapped 1959 |
| Ognevoy | Soviet Navy | Ognevoy | Destroyer | 2,091 | 22 March 1945 | stricken 1960s |
| Okinami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 10 December 1943 | sunk 13 November 1944 |
| Ōnami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 29 December 1942 | sunk 25 November 1943 |
| Onslaught | Royal Navy | O | Destroyer | 1,610 | 19 June 1942 | to Pakistan as Tughril 6 March 1951, scrapped 1977 |
| Onslow | Royal Navy | O | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,610 | 8 October 1941 | to Pakistan 30 September 1948 as Tippu Sultan, decommissioned 1980 |
| Opportune | Royal Navy | O | Destroyer | 1,540 | 14 August 1942 | sold for scrap 1955 |
| Opytny | Soviet Navy | prototype | Destroyer | 1,707 | 28 September 1941 | scrapped 1955-1956 |
| Orage | French Navy | Bourrasque | Destroyer | 1,300 | 1 September 1926 | sunk 23 May 1940 |
| Ordronaux | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 13 February 1943 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1973 |
| Orella | Chilean Navy | Serrano | Destroyer | 1,090 | 18 December 1928 | stricken 29 September 1966 |
| Orleck | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 15 September 1945 | to Turkey as Yücetepe 1982, museum ship 2000 |
| Oribi | Royal Navy | O | Destroyer | 1,610 | 5 July 1941 | to Turkey as Gayret 1946, scrapped 1965 |
| Orwell | Royal Navy | O | Destroyer | 1,540 | 17 October 1942 | sold for scrap 1965 |
| Ōshio | Imperial Japanese Navy | Asashio | Destroyer | 2,370 | 31 October 1937 | sunk 20 February 1943 |
| Osmond Ingram | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 28 June 1919 | sold for scrapping 17 June 1946 |
| Ostro | Regia Marina | Turbine | Destroyer | 1,070 | 9 October 1928 | sunk 20 July 1940 |
| Ottawa | Royal Canadian Navy | River | Destroyer | 1,375 | 15 June 1938 | sunk 14 September 1942 by U-91 |
| Ouragan | French Navy Polish Navy Free French Naval Forces | Bourrasque | Destroyer | 1,300 | 19 January 1927 | to Poland 17 July 1940; to Free French 30 April 1941; scrapped 7 April 1949 |
| Overton | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,308 | 30 June 1920 | sold for scrap 30 November 1945 |
| Owen | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 20 September 1943 | decommissioned 1958, sold for scrap 1973 |
| Oyashio | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 20 August 1940 | sunk 8 May 1943 |
| Ozbourn | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 5 March 1946 | decommissioned and sold for scrap 1975 |
| Pakenham | Royal Navy | P | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,690 | 4 February 1942 | constructive loss, scuttled 16 April 1943 |
| Paladin | Royal Navy | P | Destroyer | 1,690 | 1 December 1941 | paid off June 1961, scrapped 1962 |
| Palmer | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,190 | 22 November 1918 | sunk 7 January 1945 |
| Pantera | Regia Marina | Leone | Destroyer | 2,195 | 28 October 1924 | scuttled 3 / 4 April 1941 |
| Panther | Royal Navy | P | Destroyer | 1,690 | 12 December 1941 | sunk 9 October 1943 |
| Panthère | French Navy Regia Marina | Chacal | Destroyer | 2,092 | 10 October 1926 | to Italy as FR 22 14 December 1942, scuttled 9 September 1943 |
| Panthir | Royal Hellenic Navy | Aetos | Destroyer | 880 | 19 October 1912 | Decommissioned 1946 |
| Paraíba | Brazilian Navy | Pará | Destroyer | 560 | 1909 | decommissioned 1944 |
| Parker | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 31 August 1942 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1973 |
| Parrott | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,190 | 11 May 1920 | sold for scrap 5 April 1947 |
| Partridge | Royal Navy | P | Destroyer | 1,690 | 5 July 1941 | paid off 1 January 1946 |
| Pathfinder | Royal Navy | P | Destroyer | 1,690 | 13 April 1942 | paid off 1945, scrapped 1948 |
| Patterson | United States Navy | Bagley | Destroyer | 1,500 | 22 September 1937 | scrapped 1947 |
| Paul Hamilton | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 25 October 1943 | decommissioned 1945, sold for scrap 1970 |
| Paul Jones | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 19 April 1921 | sold for scrap 5 October 1947 |
| Peary | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,190 | 22 October 1920 | sunk 19 February 1942 |
| Penn | Royal Navy | P | Destroyer | 1,690 | 10 February 1942 | scrapped 30 October 1950 |
| Perkins (DD-377) | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 18 September 1936 | sunk 29 November 1942 |
| Perkins (DD-877) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 4 April 1945 | to Argentina as Comodoro Py 1973, sunk as target 1987 |
| Perry (DD-340) | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,190 | 7 August 1922 | sunk 13 September 1944 |
| Perry (DD-844) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 17 January 1946 | decommissioned 1973, sold for scrap 1974 |
| Petard | Royal Navy | P | Destroyer | 1,690 | 15 June 1942 | scrapped June 1967 |
| Phelps | United States Navy | Porter | Destroyer | 1,850 | 26 February 1936 | scrapped 1947 |
| Philip | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 21 November 1942 | decommissioned 1968, sank in storm 2 February 1972 |
| Philips van Almonde | Royal Netherlands Navy | Gerard Callenburgh | Destroyer | 1,604 | Never commissioned | construction incomplete, demolished on the slipway 17 May 1940, later scrapped by Germany |
| Phra Ruang | Royal Thai Navy | R (Thornycroft) | Destroyer | 1,035 | February 1917 | stricken 1959 |
| Piauí | Brazilian Navy | Pará | Destroyer | 560 | 21 December 1908 | decommissioned 1944 |
| Picking | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 21 September 1943 | decommissioned 1969, sunk as target 1997 |
| Piet Hein | Royal Netherlands Navy | Admiralen | Destroyer | 1,316 | 25 January 1928 | sunk 19 February 1942 |
| Pillsbury | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,190 | 15 December 1920 | sunk 2 March 1942 |
| Piorun | Polish Navy | N | Destroyer | 1,773 | 4 November 1940 | to Poland October 1940, to UK August 1946, scrapped 1955 |
| Plunkett | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 17 July 1940 | to Taiwan 1959, scrapped 1975 |
| Pope | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,190 | 27 October 1920 | sunk 1 March 1942 |
| Porcupine | Royal Navy | P | Destroyer | 1,690 | 31 August 1942 | torpedoed and split almost in half, declared constructive loss March 1943. Towed to harbour, cut into two, rebuilt, and each half was re-commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Pork and HMS Pine. Paid off 31 August 1946. |
| Porter (DD-356) | United States Navy | Porter | Destroyer | 1,850 | 25 August 1936 | sunk 26 October 1942 |
| Porter (DD-800) | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 24 June 1944 | decommissioned 1953, sold for scrap 1974 |
| Porterfield | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 30 October 1943 | decommissioned 1969, sunk as target 1982 |
| Power | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 13 September 1945 | to Taiwan as Shen Yang 1977, scrapped 2013 |
| Preble | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer minelayer | 1,190 | 19 March 1920 | sold for scrap 26 October 1946 |
| Preston (DD-379) | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 27 October 1936 | sunk 14 November 1942 |
| Preston (DD-795) | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 20 March 1944 | to Turkey as İçel 1969, scrapped 1981 |
| Prichett | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 15 January 1944 | to Italy as Geniere 1970, scrapped 1975 |
| Pringle | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 15 September 1942 | sunk 16 April 1945 |
| Pruitt | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer minelayer | 1,190 | 9 June 1920 | decommissioned 16 November 1945 |
| Psara | Royal Hellenic Navy | Kountouriotis | Destroyer | 1,389 | 1 May 1933 | sunk 20 April 1941 |
| Psilander | Swedish Navy | Psilander | Destroyer | 950 | 8 January 1927 | acquired from Italy 1940, commissioned 27 March 1940, scrapped 1949 |
| Puke | Swedish Navy | Psilander | Destroyer | 950 | 11 December 1926 | acquired from Italy 1940, commissioned 27 March 1940, scrapped 1949 |
| Punjabi | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 29 March 1939 | sunk 1 May 1942 |
| Purdy | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 18 July 1944 | decommissioned 1973, sold for scrap 1974 |
| Putnam | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 12 October 1944 | decommissioned 1950, sold for scrap 1974 |
| Quadrant | Royal Navy Royal Australian Navy | Q | Destroyer | 1,692 | 26 November 1942 | sold for scrap 1962 |
| Quail | Royal Navy | Q | Destroyer | 1,692 | 7 January 1943 | damaged by mine 15 November 1943, sunk under tow 18 May 1944 |
| Quality | Royal Navy Royal Australian Navy | Q | Destroyer | 1,692 | 7 September 1942 | sold for scrap 1958 |
| Queenborough | Royal Navy Royal Australian Navy | Q | Destroyer | 1,692 | 15 September 1942 | sold for scrap 1975 |
| Quentin | Royal Navy | Q | Destroyer | 1,692 | 15 April 1942 | sunk 2 December 1942 |
| Quiberon | Royal Navy Royal Australian Navy | Q | Destroyer | 1,692 | 6 July 1942 | sold for scrap 15 February 1972 |
| Quick | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 3 July 1942 | decommissioned 1949, scrapped 1973 |
| Quickmatch | Royal Navy | Q | Destroyer | 1,692 | 14 September 1942 | sold for scrap 1972 |
| Quilliam | Royal Navy | Q | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,692 | 22 October 1942 | to Netherlands as Banckert 21 November 1945, sold for scrap 1 February 1957 |
| Quintino Sella | Regia Marina | Sella | Destroyer | 950 | 25 March 1926 | sunk 11 September 1943 |
| Racehorse | Royal Navy | R | Destroyer | 1,705 | 16 November 1942 | scrapped 8 December 1949 |
| Radford | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 22 July 1942 | decommissioned 1969, sold for scrap 1970 |
| Raider | Royal Navy | R | Destroyer | 1,705 | 16 November 1942 | to India as Rana 1949, scrapped 1979 |
| Ralph Talbot | United States Navy | Bagley | Destroyer | 1,500 | 14 October 1937 | scuttled after A-bomb test, 1948 |
| Ramsay | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer minelayer | 1,190 | 15 February 1919 | sold for scrap 21 November 1946 |
| Ramsey | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 8 September 1919 | sold for scrap 18 February 1947 |
| Rapid | Royal Navy | R | Destroyer | 1,705 | 20 February 1943 | sunk as target 13 September 1981 |
| Rathburne | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 24 June 1918 | sold for scrap November 1946 |
| Rastoropny | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 5 January 1940 | sold for scrap 27 April 1965 |
| Razumny | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 7 November 1941 | sold for scrap 4 May 1963 |
| Razyaryonny | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 14 December 1941 | sunk after a nuclear test 10 October 1957 |
| Razyashchy | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 20 December 1940 | sunk as a target 9 July 1961 |
| Redky | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 29 November 1942 | sold for scrap 26 February 1962 |
| Reading | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 27 June 1919 | sold for scrap July 1945 |
| Redoubt | Royal Navy | R | Destroyer | 1,705 | 1 October 1942 | to the India as Ranjit 1949, scrapped 1979 |
| Regele Ferdinand | Royal Romanian Navy | Regele Ferdinand | Destroyer | 1,400 | 7 September 1930 | to Soviet Navy as Likhoy 5 September 1944, returned to Romania 24 June 1951, scrapped 1961 |
| Regina Maria | Royal Romanian Navy | Regele Ferdinand | Destroyer | 1,400 | 7 September 1930 | to Soviet Navy as Letuchy 5 September 1944, returned to Romania 24 June 1951, scrapped 1961 |
| Reid | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 2 November 1936 | sunk 11 December 1944 |
| Rekordny | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 9 January 1941 | to People's Republic of China as Anshan 6 July 1955, preserved as museum ship |
| Relentless | Royal Navy | R | Destroyer | 1,705 | 30 November 1942 | sold for scrap 1971 |
| Remey | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 30 September 1943 | decommissioned 1963, sold for scrap 1976 |
| Remus | Swedish Navy | Romulus | Destroyer | 870 | 30 May 1935 | acquired from Italy in 1940, stricken 1958 |
| Renshaw | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 5 December 1942 | decommissioned and sold for scrap 1970 |
| Reshitelny | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 5 September 1941 | to People's Republic of China as Changchun 14 January 1955, preserved as museum ship |
| Restigouche | Royal Canadian Navy | River | Destroyer | 1,375 | 15 June 1938 | paid off 6 October 1945 |
| Retivy | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 10 October 1941 | to People's Republic of China as Jilin 14 January 1955, preserved as museum ship |
| Reuben James | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 24 September 1920 | sunk by U-552, 31 October 1941 |
| Revnostny | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 14 December 1941 | sold for scrap 28 December 1962 |
| Rezky | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 16 August 1942 | to People's Republic of China as Fushun 6 July 1955, scrapped late 1980s |
| Rezvy | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 24 January 1940 | sold for scrap 3 April 1958 |
| Rhind | United States Navy | Benham | Destroyer | 1,656 | 10 November 1939 | scuttled after A-bomb test 1948 |
| Rich | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 3 July 1946 | decommissioned 1977, scrapped 1979 |
| Richard B. Anderson | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 26 October 1945 | to Taiwan as Kai Yang 1977, sunk as artificial reef 1999 |
| Richard E. Kraus | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 23 May 1946 | to South Korea as Gwangju 1977, scrapped 2000 |
| Richard P. Leary | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 23 February 1944 | to Japan as Yūgure 1959, returned to US 1974, sold for scrap 1976 |
| Richmond | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy Soviet Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,060 | 26 November 1940 | to Canada 1942, to USSR 16 July 1944 as Zhivuchy |
| Ringgold | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 30 December 1942 | to West Germany as Zerstörer 2 1959, to Greece as Kimon 1981, scrapped 1993 |
| Rio Grande do Norte | Brazilian Navy | Pará | Destroyer | 560 | 1909 | decommissioned 1944 |
| Ripley | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 3 July 1919 | sold for scrap 20 March 1945 |
| Riquelme | Chilean Navy | Serrano | Destroyer | 1,090 | 15 April 1929 | stricken 30 January 1963 |
| Robert H. McCard | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 23 October 1946 | to Turkey as Kılıçalipaşa 1980, scrapped 2000 |
| Robert H. Smith | United States Navy | Robert H. Smith | Destroyer minelayer | 2,200 | 4 August 1944 | decommissioned 1947, stricken 1971 |
| Robert K. Huntington | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 3 March 1945 | to Venezuela as Falcon 1973, scrapped 1981 |
| Robert L. Wilson | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 28 March 1946 | decommissioned 1974, sunk as target 1980 |
| Robinson | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 31 January 1944 | decommissioned 1964, sunk as target 1982 |
| Rocket | Royal Navy | R | Destroyer | 1,705 | 4 August 1943 | decommissioned 11 May 1962, scrapped March 1967 |
| Rockingham | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 8 August 1919 | sunk 27 September 1944 |
| Rodman | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 29 April 1942 | to Taiwan 1955, damaged and struck 1969, destroyed for motion picture 1976 |
| Roe | United States Navy | Sims | Destroyer | 1,570 | 5 January 1940 | scrapped 1947 |
| Roebuck | Royal Navy | R | Destroyer | 1,705 | 10 June 1943 | sold for scrap 1968 |
| Rogers | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 26 March 1945 | to South Korea as Jeongju 1981, museum ship 1999 |
| Romulus | Swedish Navy | Romulus | Destroyer | 870 | 30 May 1935 | acquired from Italy 1940, stricken 1958 |
| Rooks | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 2 September 1944 | to Chile as Cochrane 1962, scrapped 1983 |
| Roper | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 15 February 1919 | sold for scrap 31 March 1946 |
| Ross | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 21 February 1944 | decommissioned 1959, sunk as target 1978 |
| Rotherham | Royal Navy | R | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,705 | 1 August 1942 | to India as Rajput 1949, scrapped 1976 |
| Rowan (DD-405) | United States Navy | Benham | Destroyer | 1,656 | 23 September 1939 | sunk 11 September 1943 |
| Rowan (DD-782) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 31 March 1945 | to Taiwan as Chao Yang 1977, wrecked 1977 |
| Rowe | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 13 March 1944 | decommissioned 1959, sunk as target 1978 |
| Roxborough | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy Soviet Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,060 | 23 September 1940 | to Canada 1942, to USSR 1 August 1944 as Zhyostky |
| Rupertus | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 8 March 1946 | to Greece as Kountouriotis 1973, decommissioned 1994 |
| Russell | United States Navy | Sims | Destroyer | 1,570 | 3 November 1939 | scrapped 1947 |
| Ryany | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 11 August 1939 | sunk as a target 8 January 1961 |
| Sabre | Royal Navy | S (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,075 | 1919 | scrapped 1946 |
| Saetta | Regia Marina | Dardo | Destroyer | 1,206 | 10 May 1932 | sunk 3 February 1943 |
| Sagiri | Imperial Japanese Navy | Ayanami | Destroyer | 1,750 | 30 January 1931 | sunk 24 December 1941 |
| Saguenay | Royal Canadian Navy | River | Destroyer | 1,337 | 21 May 1931 | paid up July 1945 |
| Saintes | Royal Navy | Battle | Destroyer | 2,325 | 27 September 1946 | paid off May 1962, scrapped 1972 |
| Sakura | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 25 November 1944 | sunk by mine 11 July 1945 |
| Saladin | Royal Navy | S (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,075 | 11 April 1919 | scrapped November 1945 |
| Salisbury | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 5 December 1940 | to Canada September 1942, paid off 10 December 1943, scrapped 1944 |
| Samidare | Imperial Japanese Navy | Shiratsuyu | Destroyer | 1,685 | 29 January 1937 | sunk 25 August 1944 |
| Sampson | United States Navy | Somers | Destroyer | 1,850 | 19 August 1938 | scrapped 1946 |
| Samuel B. Roberts | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 22 December 1946 | decommissioned 1970, sunk as target 1971 |
| Samuel N. Moore | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 24 June 1944 | to China as Heng Yang 1969, sunk as target 1995 |
| San Juan | Argentine Navy | Buenos Aires | Destroyer | 1,353 | 23 March 1938 | Discarded 1973 |
| San Luis | Argentine Navy | Buenos Aires | Destroyer | 1,375 | 23 March 1938 | Discarded 3 May 1971 |
| Sánchez Barcáiztegui | Spanish Navy | Churruca | Destroyer | 1,620 | 1928 | scrapped 1965 |
| Sands | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,190 | 10 November 1920 | sold for scrap 23 May 1946 |
| Santa Catarina | Brazilian Navy | Pará | Destroyer | 560 | 1910 | decommissioned 1944 |
| Santa Cruz | Argentine Navy | Buenos Aires | Destroyer | 1,353 | 26 September 1938 | Discarded 1973 |
| Sardonyx | Royal Navy | S (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,075 | 12 July 1919 | scrapped October 1945 |
| Sarsfield | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 31 July 1945 | to Taiwan as Te Yang 1977, museum ship 2009 |
| Satsuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mutsuki | Destroyer | 1,315 | 15 November 1925 | sunk 21 September 1944 |
| Satterlee | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 1 July 1943 | Decommissioned 16 March 1946, scrapped 1972 |
| Saufley | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 29 August 1942 | decommissioned 1965, sunk as target 1968 |
| Saumarez | Royal Navy | S | Destroyer | 1,710 | 1 July 1943 | scrapped 1950 |
| Savage | Royal Navy | S | Destroyer | 1,710 | 8 June 1943 | scrapped 11 April 1960 |
| Sazanami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Ayanami | Destroyer | 1,750 | 19 May 1932 | sunk 14 January 1944 |
| Schenck | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 30 October 1919 | sold for scrap 25 November 1946 |
| Schley | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 20 September 1918 | scrapped 29 March 1946 |
| Schroeder | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 1 January 1943 | decommissioned 1946, sold for scrap 1974 |
| Scimitar | Royal Navy | S (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,075 | 13 April 1918 | scrapped 29 June 1947 |
| Scirocco | Regia Marina | Maestrale | Destroyer | 1,640 | 21 October 1934 | sunk 23 March 1942 |
| Scorpion | Royal Navy | S | Destroyer | 1,710 | 11 May 1943 | paid off 16 August 1945 |
| Scourge | Royal Navy | S | Destroyer | 1,710 | 14 July 1943 | to Netherlands 1 February 1946 |
| Scout | Royal Navy | S (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,075 | 15 June 1918 | scrapped 2 March 1946 |
| Selfridge | United States Navy | Porter | Destroyer | 1,850 | 25 November 1936 | scrapped 1947 |
| Semmes | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 21 February 1920 | scrapped 25 November 1946 |
| Serapis | Royal Navy | S | Destroyer | 1,710 | 23 December 1943 | to Netherlands as Piet Hein September 1945, scrapped 30 May 1962 |
| Serdity | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 15 October 1940 | sunk 19 July 1941 |
| Sergipe | Brazilian Navy | Pará | Destroyer | 560 | 1910 | decommissioned 1944 |
| Serrano | Chilean Navy | Serrano | Destroyer | 1,090 | 18 December 1928 | stricken 29 September 1966 |
| Sfendoni | Royal Hellenic Navy | Thyella | Destroyer | 350 | 1907 | decommissioned post-war |
| Shannon | United States Navy | Robert H. Smith | Destroyer minelayer | 2,200 | 8 September 1944 | decommissioned 1955, sold for scrap 1973 |
| Shark | Royal Norwegian Navy | S | Destroyer | 1,710 | 11 March 1944 | sunk 6 June 1944 |
| Shaumyan | Soviet Navy | Fidonisy | Destroyer | 1,460 | 10 December 1925 | ran aground 3 April 1942 and later destroyed, scrapped post-war |
| Shaw | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 18 September 1936 | scrapped 1946 |
| Shea | United States Navy | Robert H. Smith | Destroyer minelayer | 2,200 | 30 September 1944 | decommissioned 1958, sold for scrap 1974 |
| Shelton | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 21 June 1946 | to Taiwan as Lai Yang 1973, sunk as artificial reef 2002 |
| Sherwood | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 22 July 1919 | scrapped 1945 |
| Shields | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 8 February 1945 | to Brazil as Maranhão 1972, scrapped 1990 |
| Shigure | Imperial Japanese Navy | Shiratsuyu | Destroyer | 1,685 | 7 September 1936 | sunk 24 January 1945 |
| Shii | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | 13 March 1945 | to USSR as Volny 22 July 1947, scrapped 8 August 1960 |
| Shikari | Royal Navy | S (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,075 | April 1924 | scrapped 4 November 1945 |
| Shikinami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Ayanami | Destroyer | 1,750 | 24 December 1929 | sunk 12 September 1944 |
| Shimakaze | Imperial Japanese Navy | prototype | Destroyer | 2,570 | 10 May 1943 | sunk 11 November 1944 |
| Shimotsuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akizuki | Destroyer | 2,700 | 31 March 1944 | sunk 25 November 1944 |
| Shinonome | Imperial Japanese Navy | Fubuki | Destroyer | 1,750 | 25 July 1928 | sunk 17 December 1941 |
| Shirakumo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Fubuki | Destroyer | 1,750 | 28 July 1928 | sunk 16 March 1944 |
| Shiranui | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 20 December 1939 | sunk 27 October 1944 |
| Shiratsuyu | Imperial Japanese Navy | Shiratsuyu | Destroyer | 1,685 | 20 August 1936 | sunk in collision 15 June 1944 |
| Shirayuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Fubuki | Destroyer | 1,750 | 18 December 1928 | sunk 3 March 1943 |
| Shubrick | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 7 February 1943 | scrapped 1947 |
| Sicard | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer minelayer | 1,215 | 9 June 1920 | sold for scrap 22 June 1946 |
| Sigourney | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 29 June 1943 | decommissioned 1960, sold for scrap 1975 |
| Sigsbee | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 23 January 1943 | decommissioned 1947, sold for scrap 1975 |
| Sikh | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 12 October 1938 | sunk 14 September 1942 |
| Silny | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 31 October 1940 | scrapped 21 January 1960 |
| Simoun | French Navy | Bourrasque | Destroyer | 1,300 | 1 January 1926 | scrapped 1950 |
| Simpson | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 3 November 1920 | sold for scrap 21 November 1946 |
| Sims | United States Navy | Sims | Destroyer | 1,570 | 1 August 1939 | sunk 7 May 1942 |
| Sioux | Royal Canadian Navy | V | Destroyer | 1,777 | 14 September 1943 | paid off 30 October 1963 |
| Siroco | French Navy | Bourrasque | Destroyer | 1,300 | 1 July 1927 | sunk 31 May 1940 |
| Skate | Royal Navy | R (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 900 | 19 February 1917 | sold for scrap 1947 |
| Skeena | Royal Canadian Navy | River | Destroyer | 1,350 | 10 June 1931 | sunk 25 October 1944 |
| Skory | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 18 July 1941 | sunk by naval mine 28 August 1941 |
| Slavny | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 31 May 1941 | scrapped 1964-1965 |
| Sleipner | Royal Norwegian Navy | Sleipner | Destroyer | 735 | 7 May 1936 | decommissioned 10 March 1944, converted to frigate and recommissioned 1948, sold for scrap 1959 |
| Sluys | Royal Navy | Battle | Destroyer | 2,325 | 30 September 1946 | paid off 1953 |
| Smalley | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 31 March 1944 | decommissioned 1957, sold for scrap 1966 |
| Smely | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 31 May 1941 | scuttled 27 July 1941 |
| Smetlivy | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 6 November 1938 | sunk 4 November 1941 |
| Smith | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 19 September 1936 | scrapped 1946 |
| Smyshlyony | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 10 November 1940 | sunk 8 March 1942 |
| Sokrushitelny | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 13 August 1939 | sunk in a storm 22 November 1942 |
| Soley | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 7 December 1944 | decommissioned 1970, sunk as target 1970 |
| Solebay | Royal Navy | Battle | Destroyer | 2,325 | 25 September 1945 | paid off April 1962, scrapped 1967 |
| Somali | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 12 December 1938 | sunk 24 September 1942 |
| Somers | United States Navy | Somers | Destroyer | 1,850 | 1 December 1937 | scrapped 1947 |
| Soobrazitelny | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 7 June 1941 | scrapped 1966 |
| Southard | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,215 | 24 September 1919 | wrecked 9 October 1945, wreck destroyed 14 January 1946 |
| Southerland | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 22 December 1944 | decommissioned 1981, sunk as target 1997 |
| Sovershenny | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 30 September 1941 | sunk 8 June 1942 |
| Spence | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 8 January 1943 | foundered 18 December 1944 |
| Spetsai | Royal Hellenic Navy | Kountouriotis | Destroyer | 1,389 | 1933 | decommissioned 1946 |
| Split | Royal Yugoslav Navy Regia Marina | | Destroyer | 2,362 | 4 July 1958 | captured incomplete by Italy as Spalato 14 April 1941, launched 18 July 1943, scuttled 24 September 1943, re-launched by SFR Yugoslavia as Split March 1950, commissioned 4 July 1958, scrapped 1986 |
| Sposobny | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 24 June 1941 | sunk 6 October 1943 |
| Sproston | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 19 May 1943 | decommissioned 1968, sold for scrap 1971 |
| Squadrista | Regia Marina Kriegsmarine | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | Never commissioned | launched 12 September 1942, captured by Germany September 1943 and completed as TA33, sunk 4 September 1944 |
| St Albans | Royal Navy Royal Norwegian Navy Soviet Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 23 September 1940 | to Norway 14 April 1941, to USSR as Dostoyny 16 July 1944, scrapped 1949 |
| St. Clair | Royal Canadian Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 24 September 1940 | paid off 1946 |
| St. Croix | Royal Canadian Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,215 | 24 September 1940 | sunk 22 September 1943 |
| St. Francis | Royal Canadian Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,215 | 24 September 1940 | paid off 1945, sank under tow July 1945 |
| St. Kitts | Royal Navy | Battle | Destroyer | 2,325 | 21 January 1946 | paid off 1957, scrapped February 1962 |
| St. Laurent | Royal Canadian Navy | River | Destroyer | 1,375 | 17 February 1937 | paid off 10 October 1945 |
| St. Mary's | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 27 August 1919 | paid off February 1944, scrapped 1945 |
| Stack | United States Navy | Benham | Destroyer | 1,656 | 20 November 1939 | scuttled after A-bomb test 1948 |
| Stanley | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,060 | 19 May 1919 | sunk 19 December 1941 |
| Stanly | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 15 October 1942 | decommissioned 1946, sold for scrap 1971 |
| Stansbury | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,190 | 8 January 1920 | sold for scrap 26 October 1946 |
| Stalin | Soviet Navy | Orfey | Destroyer | 1,260 | 21 November 1916 | scrapped 1953 |
| Statny | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 9 July 1941 | sank in a storm 23 August 1941 |
| Steinaker | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 26 May 1945 | to Mexico as Netzahualcóyotl 1982, decommissioned 2014 |
| Stembel | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 16 July 1943 | loaned to Argentina as Rosales 1961, scrapped 1982 |
| Stephen Potter | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 21 October 1943 | decommissioned 1958, sold for scrap 1973 |
| Steregushchy | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 30 October 1939 | sunk 21 September 1941, salvaged 1944, returned to service 1948, scrapped 1959 |
| Sterett | United States Navy | Benham | Destroyer | 1,656 | 15 August 1939 | scrapped 1947 |
| Stevens | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 1 February 1943 | decommissioned 1946, sold for scrap 1973 |
| Stevenson | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 15 December 1942 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1970 |
| Stewart | United States Navy Imperial Japanese Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,085 | 15 September 1920 | scuttled 2 March 1942, raised by Japan and recommissioned as Dai-102-Gō shōkaitei September 1943, returned to US as DD-224 29 October 1945, sunk as target 24 May 1946 |
| Stickell | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 31 October 1945 | to Greece as Kanaris 1972, scrapped 2002 |
| Stockholm | Swedish Navy | Göteborg | Destroyer | 1,020 | 24 November 1937 | decommissioned 1 January 1964 and scrapped |
| Stockham | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 11 February 1944 | decommissioned 1957, sunk as target 1977 |
| Stockton | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 11 January 1943 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1973 |
| Stoddard | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 15 April 1944 | decommissioned 1969, sunk as target 1997 |
| Stord | Royal Norwegian Navy | S | Destroyer | 1,710 | 29 September 1943 | scrapped 1959 |
| Stormes | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 27 January 1945 | to Iran as Palang 1972, decommissioned 1994 |
| Storozhevoy | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 6 October 1940 | scrapped 1958-1959 |
| Stoyky | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 18 October 1940 | sank in storm 2 July 1960 |
| Strale | Regia Marina | Dardo | Destroyer | 1,206 | 6 February 1932 | ran aground 21 March 1942, destroyed 6 August 1942 |
| Strashny | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 22 June 1941 | scrapped 12 January 1960 |
| Stremitelny | Soviet Navy | Gnevny | Destroyer | 1,587 | 18 November 1938 | sunk 20 July 1941 |
| Stribling | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 29 September 1945 | decommissioned 1976, sunk as target 1980 |
| Stringham | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 2 July 1918 | scrapped March 1946 |
| Strogy | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 22 September 1941 | scrapped 26 June 1964 |
| Strong (DD-467) | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 7 August 1942 | sunk 5 July 1943 |
| Strong (DD-758) | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 8 March 1945 | to Brazil as Rio Grande do Norte 1973, sunk 1997 |
| Stronghold | Royal Navy | S (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,075 | 2 July 1919 | sunk 4 March 1942 |
| Stroyny | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 22 September 1941 | scrapped 1965-1966 |
| Stuart | Royal Australian Navy | Admiralty type | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,530 | 14 December 1919 | paid off 27 April 1946 |
| Sturdy | Royal Navy | S (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,075 | October 1919 | constructive loss 30 October 1940 |
| Sturtevant | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 21 September 1920 | sunk 26 April 1942 |
| Sugi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 25 August 1944 | to Republic of China as Hui Yang 31 July 1947, struck 11 November 1954, scrapped 1954 |
| Sultanhisar | Turkish Naval Forces | Demirhisar | Destroyer | 1,360 | 28 June 1941 | decommissioned 1960 |
| Sumire (1921) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 31 March 1923 | decommissioned 1 February 1940, converted to auxiliary ship Mitaka, scrapped 1948 |
| Sumire (1944) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | 26 March 1945 | to United Kingdom 23 August 1947, sunk as target 1947 |
| Sundsvall | Swedish Navy | Visby | Destroyer | 1,135 | 17 September 1943 | decommissioned 1 July 1982, scrapped 1984 |
| Surovy | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 31 May 1941 | scuttled 13 November 1941 |
| Susuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 5 May 1921 | converted to patrol boat Dai-34-Gō shōkaitei 1 April 1940, sunk 3 July 1944 |
| Suzukaze | Imperial Japanese Navy | Shiratsuyu | Destroyer | 1,685 | 31 August 1937 | sunk 25 January 1944 |
| Suzunami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 27 July 1943 | sunk 11 November 1943 |
| Suzutsuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akizuki | Destroyer | 2,700 | 29 December 1942 | converted to breakwater July 1948 |
| Svirepy | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 22 June 1941 | scrapped 28 January 1958 |
| Svobodny | Soviet Navy | Storozhevoy | Destroyer | 1,700 | 2 January 1942 | sunk 10 June 1942 |
| Swanson | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 29 May 1941 | decommissioned 1945, scrapped 1972 |
| Swift | Royal Navy | S | Destroyer | 1,710 | 12 December 1943 | sunk 24 June 1944 |
| Tachibana | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | 20 January 1945 | sunk 14 July 1945 |
| Tade | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 31 July 1922 | converted to patrol boat Dai-39-Gō shōkaitei 1 April 1940, sunk 23 April 1943 |
| Takanami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 31 August 1942 | sunk 30 November 1942 |
| Take (1919) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 25 December 1919 | decommissioned 1 February 1940, converted to training ship, scuttled as breakwater 1948 |
| Take (1944) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 16 June 1944 | to United Kingdom 16 July 1947, scrapped |
| Talbot | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 20 July 1918 | sold for scrap 30 January 1946 |
| Tamanami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 30 April 1943 | sunk 7 July 1944 |
| Tâmega | Portuguese Navy | Guadiana | Destroyer | 700 | 19 August 1924 | discarded 2 September 1942 |
| Tanikaze | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 25 April 1941 | sunk 9 June 1944 |
| Tarbell | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 27 November 1918 | sold for scrap 30 November 1945 |
| Tartar | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 10 March 1939 | scrapped 22 February 1948 |
| Tartu | French Navy | Vauquelin | Destroyer | 2,402 | 31 December 1932 | scuttled 27 November 1942, scrapped 1956 |
| Tashkent | Soviet Navy | Tashkent | Destroyer flotilla leader | 2,840 | 22 October 1940 | sunk 2 July 1942, raised 30 August 1944, scrapped post-war |
| Tattnall | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,060 | 26 June 1919 | Decommissioned 17 December 1945 |
| Taussig | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 20 May 1944 | to China as Lo Yang 1974, sold for scrap 2013 |
| Taylor | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 28 August 1942 | to Italy as Lanciere 1969, cannibalized for spare parts 1971 |
| Tbilisi | Soviet Navy | Leningrad | Destroyer flotilla leader | 2,350 | 11 December 1940 | scrapped 31 January 1964 |
| Teazer | Royal Navy | T | Destroyer | 1,710 | 13 September 1943 | Scrapped 7 August 1965 |
| Tejo | Portuguese Navy | Douro | Destroyer | 1,219 | 12 October 1935 | stricken 9 February 1965 |
| Tempête | French Navy | Bourrasque | Destroyer | 1,300 | 20 July 1926 | scrapped 1950 |
| Tenacious | Royal Navy | T | Destroyer | 1,710 | 30 October 1943 | scrapped June 1965 |
| Tenedos | Royal Navy | S (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,075 | 1919 | sunk 5 April 1942 |
| Teniente Rodríguez | Peruvian Navy | Chasseur | Destroyer | 443 | 1911 | hulked 1939 |
| Termagant | Royal Navy | T | Destroyer | 1,710 | 8 October 1943 | paid off 1960, scrapped 5 November 1965 |
| Terpsichore | Royal Navy | T | Destroyer | 1,710 | 20 January 1944 | scrapped 17 May 1966 |
| Terry | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 26 January 1943 | decommissioned 1947, to Peru as spare parts 1974 |
| Teruel | Spanish Navy | Alessandro Poerio | Destroyer | 845 | 20 August 1915 | decommissioned and scrapped 1948 |
| Teruzuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akizuki | Destroyer | 2,700 | 31 August 1942 | sunk 12 December 1942 |
| Thanet | Royal Navy | S (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,075 | 3 August 1919 | sunk 27 January 1942 |
| Thatcher | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 10 February 1943 | decommissioned 1945, sold for scrap 1948 |
| The Sullivans | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 4 April 1943 | museum ship since 1977 |
| Theodore E. Chandler | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 22 March 1946 | decommissioned and scrapped 1975 |
| Thomas E. Fraser | United States Navy | Robert H. Smith | Destroyer minelayer | 2,200 | 22 August 1944 | decommissioned 1955, sold for scrap 1974 |
| Thompson | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 10 July 1943 | decommissioned 1954, scrapped 1972 |
| Thorn | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 1 April 1943 | decommissioned 1946, sunk as target 1974 |
| Thornton | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 15 July 1919 | beached and decommissioned 2 May 1945, hull abandoned and donated to the government of the Ryukyu Islands July 1957 |
| Thracian | Royal Navy Imperial Japanese Navy | S (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,075 | 1 April 1922 | grounded 17 December 1941, raised by Japan 24 December 1941, recommissioned as Dai-102-Gō shōkaitei 1 October 1942, returned to UK October 1945, scrapped February 1946 |
| Thyella | Royal Hellenic Navy | Thyella | Destroyer | 350 | 1907 | sunk 21 April 1941 |
| Tigre | Regia Marina | Leone | Destroyer | 2,195 | 10 October 1924 | scuttled 3 / 4 April 1941 |
| Tigre | French Navy Regia Marina Free French Naval Forces | Chacal | Destroyer | 2,092 | 10 October 1926 | to Italy as FR 23 14 December 1942, to Free France as Tigre 28 October 1943, scrapped 1955 |
| Tillman | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 4 June 1942 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1972 |
| Tinaztepe | Turkish Naval Forces | Tinaztepe | Destroyer | 1,206 | 6 June 1932 | decommissioned February 1954 |
| Tingey | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 25 November 1943 | decommissioned 1963, sunk as target 1966 |
| Tjerk Hiddes | Royal Netherlands Navy | Gerard Callenburgh | Destroyer | 1,604 | Never commissioned | construction incomplete, scuttled 15 May 1940, later salvaged and scrapped by Germany |
| Tjerk Hiddes (G16) | Royal Netherlands Navy | N | Destroyer | 1,773 | 30 October 1942 | to Indonesia as Gadjah Mada 1 March 1951, scrapped 1961 |
| Tochi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | Never commissioned | construction discontinued 18 May 1945, launched 28 May 1945, converted to breakwater |
| Tokitsukaze | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 15 December 1940 | sunk 3 March 1943 |
| Tolman | United States Navy | Robert H. Smith | Destroyer minelayer | 2,200 | 27 October 1944 | decommissioned 1947, sunk as target 1997 |
| Tor | Royal Norwegian Navy Kriegsmarine | Sleipner | Destroyer | 735 | 13 June 1940 | trials and shakedown cruise 9 April 1940, scuttled 9 April 1940, raised by Germany 16 April 1940, commissioned as Tiger 13 June 1940, returned to Norway May 1945, sold for scrap 1959 |
| Tornade | French Navy | Bourrasque | Destroyer | 1,300 | 1 October 1927 | sunk 8 November 1942 |
| Tracy | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer minelayer | 1,215 | 9 March 1920 | sold for scrap 16 May 1946 |
| Trafalgar | Royal Navy | Battle | Destroyer | 2,325 | 23 July 1945 | paid off 1963, scrapped 1970 |
| Tramontane | French Navy | Bourrasque | Destroyer | 1,300 | 15 May 1927 | sunk 8 November 1942 |
| Trathen | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 28 May 1943 | decommissioned 1965, used as target hulk 1973 |
| Trever | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,215 | 3 August 1922 | sold for scrap 12 November 1946 |
| Trippe | United States Navy | Benham | Destroyer | 1,656 | 1 November 1939 | scuttled after A-bomb test 1948 |
| Troll | Royal Norwegian Navy Kriegsmarine | Draug | Destroyer | 578 | 13 March 1912 | abandoned 4 May 1940, captured by Germany 18 May 1940, returned to Norway May 1945, scrapped 1949 |
| Trombe | French Navy Free French Naval Forces | Bourrasque | Destroyer | 1,300 | 1 June 1927 | scuttled 27 November 1942, salvaged and repaired by Italians, to Free France 28 October 1943, scrapped 1950 |
| Troubridge | Royal Navy | T | Destroyer | 1,710 | 8 March 1943 | paid off 27 March 1969, scrapped 1970 |
| Truxtun | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 30 December 1920 | ran aground and sunk 18 February 1942 |
| Tsubaki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 30 November 1944 | scrapped 28 July 1948 |
| Tsuga | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 20 July 1920 | sunk 15 January 1945 |
| Tsuta (1921) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 30 June 1921 | converted to patrol boat Dai-35-Gō shōkaitei 1 April 1940, sunk 2 September 1942 |
| Tsuta (1944) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | 8 February 1945 | to Republic of China as Hua Yang 31 July 1947, ran aground 1949, struck 1954 |
| Tucker | United States Navy | Mahan | Destroyer | 1,450 | 23 July 1936 | sunk 4 August 1942 |
| Tucuman | Argentine Navy | Mendoza | Destroyer | 1,570 | 3 May 1929 | discarded 30 April 1962 |
| Tumult | Royal Navy | T | Destroyer | 1,710 | 2 April 1943 | scrapped 25 October 1965 |
| Tung Chun | Republic of China-Nanjing Navy | Chang Feng | Destroyer | 384 | 7 November 1912 | abandoned 1944 |
| Turbine | Regia Marina Kriegsmarine | Turbine | Destroyer | 1,070 | 27 August 1927 | captured by Germany as TA14 9 September 1943, sunk 16 September 1944 |
| Turner (DD-648) | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 15 April 1943 | exploded 3 January 1944 |
| Turner (DD-834) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 12 June 1945 | decommissioned 1969, scrapped 1970 |
| Tuscan | Royal Navy | T | Destroyer | 1,710 | 11 March 1943 | scrapped 26 May 1966 |
| Twiggs | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 4 November 1943 | sunk 16 June 1945 |
| Twining | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 1 December 1943 | to Taiwan as Kwei Yang 1971, sunk as target 1999 |
| Typhon | French Navy Free French Naval Forces | Bourrasque | Destroyer | 1,300 | 15 February 1928 | scuttled 10 November 1942 |
| Tyrian | Royal Navy | T | Destroyer | 1,710 | 8 April 1943 | scrapped 9 March 1965 |
| Ugolino Vivaldi | Regia Marina | Navigatori | Destroyer | 1,900 | 6 March 1930 | scuttled 10 September 1943 |
| Uhlmann | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 22 November 1943 | decommissioned 1972, sold for scrap 1974 |
| Ulloa | Spanish Navy | Churruca | Destroyer | 1,535 | 1937 | stricken 1960s |
| Ulster | Royal Navy | U | Destroyer | 1,777 | 30 June 1943 | paid off 1977, scrapped 1980 |
| Ulysses | Royal Navy | U | Destroyer | 1,777 | 23 December 1943 | paid off 1963, scrapped 1970 |
| Ume | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 28 June 1944 | sunk 31 January 1945 |
| Umikaze | Imperial Japanese Navy | Shiratsuyu | Destroyer | 1,685 | 31 May 1937 | sunk 1 February 1944 |
| Undaunted | Royal Navy | U | Destroyer | 1,777 | 3 March 1944 | paid off 1974, sunk as target 1978 |
| Undine | Royal Navy | U | Destroyer | 1,777 | 23 December 1943 | scrapped November 1965 |
| Upshur | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 23 December 1918 | sold for scrap 26 September 1947 |
| Urakaze | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 15 December 1940 | sunk 21 November 1944 |
| Uranami | Imperial Japanese Navy | Fubuki | Destroyer | 1,750 | 30 June 1929 | sunk 26 October 1944 |
| Urania | Royal Navy | U | Destroyer | 1,777 | 18 January 1944 | scrapped 1971 |
| Urchin | Royal Navy | U | Destroyer | 1,777 | 24 September 1943 | paid off 1964, scrapped 1967 |
| Uritsky | Soviet Navy | Orfey | Destroyer | 1,260 | 9 November 1915 | sunk as target in nuclear test 21 September 1955 |
| Ursa | Royal Navy | U | Destroyer | 1,777 | 23 December 1943 | paid off November 1966 |
| Ushio | Imperial Japanese Navy | Ayanami | Destroyer | 1,750 | 14 November 1931 | surrendered 15 August 1945, scrapped 1948 |
| Usugumo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Fubuki | Destroyer | 1,750 | 26 July 1928 | sunk 7 July 1944 |
| Uzuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mutsuki | Destroyer | 1,315 | 14 September 1926 | sunk 12 December 1944 |
| Valentine | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty leader) | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,188 | 27 June 1917 | constructive loss 15 May 1940 |
| Valerian Kuybyshev | Soviet Navy | Orfey | Destroyer | 1,260 | 15 October 1927 | scrapped 1957 |
| Valmy | French Navy Regia Marina Kriegsmarine | Guépard | Destroyer | 2,398 | 1 January 1930 | scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated 15 March 1943 and repaired, to Italy as FR 24, captured by Germany September 1943, scrapped 1945 |
| Valorous | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty leader) | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,316 | 21 August 1917 | paid off 15 August 1945, sold for scrap 4 March 1947 |
| Vampire | Royal Australian Navy | V (Admiralty leader) | Destroyer flotilla leader | 1,188 | 22 September 1917 | sunk 9 April 1942 |
| Van Galen | Royal Netherlands Navy | Admiralen | Destroyer | 1,316 | 22 October 1929 | sunk 10 May 1940, raised 23 October 1941 and scrapped |
| Van Galen (G84) | Royal Netherlands Navy | N | Destroyer | 1,773 | 20 February 1942 | scrapped February 1957 |
| Van Ghent | Royal Netherlands Navy | Admiralen | Destroyer | 1,316 | 31 May 1928 | ran aground and scuttled 15 February 1942 |
| Van Nes | Royal Netherlands Navy | Admiralen | Destroyer | 1,316 | 12 March 1931 | sunk 17 February 1942 |
| Van Valkenburgh | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 2 August 1944 | to Turkey as İzmir 1972, sold for scrap 1987 |
| Vanessa | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 21 June 1918 | paid off 1945, scrapped 4 March 1947 |
| Vanity | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 21 June 1918 | paid off 1945, scrapped 4 March 1947 |
| Vanoc | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 15 August 1917 | scrapped in July 1945 |
| Vanquisher | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 2 October 1917 | paid off June 1945, scrapped 4 May 1947 |
| Vansittart | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,140 | 5 November 1919 | scrapped 25 February 1946 |
| Vasilefs Georgios | Royal Hellenic Navy Kriegsmarine | G | Destroyer | 1,350 | 15 February 1939 | captured by Germany as ZG3 Hermes 21 March 1942, scuttled 7 May 1943 |
| Vasilissa Olga | Royal Hellenic Navy | G | Destroyer | 1,350 | 4 February 1939 | sunk 26 September 1943 |
| Vauban | French Navy | Guépard | Destroyer | 2,398 | 9 January 1931 | scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated 12 May 1947 and broken up |
| Vautour | French Navy | Aigle | Destroyer | 2,402 | 2 May 1932 | scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated 17 January 1943, sunk 4 February 1944, scrapped 1951 |
| Vauquelin | French Navy | Vauquelin | Destroyer | 2,402 | 1 June 1933 | scuttled 27 November 1942, scrapped 1951 |
| Vega | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 14 December 1917 | paid off 1945, scrapped 4 March 1947 |
| Velasco | Spanish Navy | Alsedo | Destroyer | 1,044 | 1925 | stricken 1957 |
| Velite | Regia Marina | Soldati | Destroyer | 1,850 | 31 August 1942 | to France as Duperré 24 July 1948, struck 1961 |
| Velox | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 1 April 1918 | scrapped 1947 |
| Vendetta | Royal Australian Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 17 October 1917 | scuttled 2 July 1948 |
| Venetia | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 19 December 1917 | sunk 19 October 1940 |
| Venomous | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,140 | 24 August 1919 | scrapped 4 March 1947 |
| Venus | Royal Navy | V | Destroyer | 1,777 | 28 August 1943 | scrapped 1972 |
| Verdun | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 3 November 1917 | scrapped April 1946 |
| Verdun | French Navy | Guépard | Destroyer | 2,398 | 1 April 1930 | scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated 29 September 1943, sunk 1944, refloated 1948 and broken up |
| Verity | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,140 | 17 September 1919 | scrapped 4 March 1947 |
| Versatile | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 11 February 1918 | scrapped 7 May 1947 |
| Verulam | Royal Navy | V | Destroyer | 1,777 | 10 December 1943 | scrapped 1972 |
| Vesole | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 23 April 1945 | decommissioned 1976, sunk as target 1983 |
| Vesper | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 20 February 1918 | scrapped 7 March 1947 |
| Veteran | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,140 | 13 November 1919 | sunk 26 September 1942 |
| Viceroy | Royal Navy | V (Thornycroft) | Destroyer | 1,120 | 18 January 1918 | paid off 15 May 1947 |
| Videla | Chilean Navy | Serrano | Destroyer | 1,090 | 26 July 1929 | stricken 12 February 1958 |
| Vidette | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 27 April 1918 | scrapped 1947 |
| Vigilant | Royal Navy | V | Destroyer | 1,777 | 22 December 1942 | paid off 1963, scrapped 6 June 1965 |
| Vimiera | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 19 September 1918 | sunk 9 January 1942 |
| Vimy | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 28 December 1917 | paid off March 1947 |
| Vincenzo Gioberti | Regia Marina | Oriani | Destroyer | 1,750 | 27 October 1937 | sunk 9 August 1943 |
| Virago | Royal Navy | V | Destroyer | 1,777 | 5 November 1943 | scrapped 1965 |
| Visby | Swedish Navy | Visby | Destroyer | 1,135 | 10 August 1943 | decommissioned 1 July 1982, scrapped 1984 |
| Viscount | Royal Navy | V (Thornycroft) | Destroyer | 1,120 | 4 March 1918 | scrapped 20 March 1945 |
| Vittorio Alfieri | Regia Marina | Oriani | Destroyer | 1,750 | 1 December 1937 | sunk 28 March 1941 |
| Vivacious | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 29 December 1917 | scrapped 7 May 1947 |
| Vivien | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,207 | 28 May 1918 | scrapped 18 February 1948 |
| Vogelgesang | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 28 April 1945 | to Mexico as Quetzalcoatl 1982, sunk as artificial reef 2006 |
| Volage | Royal Navy | V | Destroyer | 1,777 | 26 May 1944 | scrapped 1977 |
| Volodarsky | Soviet Navy | Orfey | Destroyer | 1,260 | 6 November 1915 | sunk 28 August 1941 |
| Volta | French Navy | Mogador | Destroyer | 2,950 | 6 March 1939 | scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated by Italy 20 May 1943, scrapped 1948 |
| Volunteer | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,140 | 7 November 1919 | scrapped 4 March 1947 |
| Vortigern | Royal Navy | V (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,272 | 21 January 1918 | sunk 15 March 1942 |
| Vouga | Portuguese Navy | Douro | Destroyer | 1,219 | 24 June 1933 | discarded 3 June 1967 |
| Voyager | Royal Australian Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 15 May 1918 | scuttled 23 September 1942 |
| Voykov | Soviet Navy | Orfey | Destroyer | 1,260 | 30 November 1916 | scrapped 28 August 1956 |
| Wachtmeister | Swedish Navy | Wrangel | Destroyer | 465 | 19 October 1918 | paid off 13 June 1947, sold for scrap 1950 |
| Wadleigh | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 19 October 1943 | to Chile as Blanco Encalada 1972, sunk as target 1991 |
| Wadsworth | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 16 March 1943 | to West Germany as Zerstörer 3 1959, to Greece as Nearchos 1980, scrapped 1991 |
| Wager | Royal Navy | W | Destroyer | 1,710 | 14 April 1944 | paid off January 1946 |
| Wainwright | United States Navy | Sims | Destroyer | 1,570 | 15 April 1940 | scuttled after A-bomb test 1948 |
| Wakaba | Imperial Japanese Navy | Hatsuharu | Destroyer | 1,802 | 31 October 1934 | sunk 24 October 1944 |
| Wakatsuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akizuki | Destroyer | 2,700 | 31 May 1943 | sunk 11 November 1944 |
| Wakeful (H88) | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 16 December 1917 | sunk 29 May 1940 |
| Wakeful (R59) | Royal Navy | W | Destroyer | 1,730 | 17 February 1944 | scrapped 10 June 1971 |
| Wale | Swedish Navy | | Destroyer | 350 | 11 April 1908 | sunk as target 26 September 1946 |
| Waldron | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 7 June 1944 | to Colombia as Santander 1973, sold for scrap 1986 |
| Walke (DD-416) | United States Navy | Sims | Destroyer | 1,570 | 27 April 1940 | sunk 15 November 1942 |
| Walke (DD-723) | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 21 January 1944 | decommissioned 1947, sold for scrap 1975 |
| Walker | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 3 April 1943 | to Italy as Fante 1969, scrapped 1977 |
| Walker | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 12 February 1918 | scrapped 15 March 1946 |
| Wallace | Royal Navy | Thornycroft type | AA escort flotilla leader | 1,480 | 14 February 1919 | scrapped 20 March 1945s |
| Wallace L. Lind | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 8 September 1944 | to South Korea as Daegu 1973, scrapped 1994 |
| Waller | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 1 October 1942 | decommissioned 1969, sunk as target 1970 |
| Walpole | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 7 August 1918 | constructive loss 6 January 1945 |
| Wanderer | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,140 | 18 September 1919 | scrapped 31 January 1946 |
| Ward | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 24 July 1918 | Sunk 7 December 1944 |
| Warramunga | Royal Australian Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 2,031 | 23 November 1942 | sold for scrap 15 February 1963 |
| Warrington (DD-383) | United States Navy | Somers | Destroyer | 1,850 | 9 February 1938 | foundered in hurricane 13 September 1944 |
| Warrington (DD-843) | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 20 December 1945 | to Taiwan as spare parts 1973 |
| Warwick | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 18 March 1918 | sunk 20 February 1944 |
| Wasmuth | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,215 | 16 December 1921 | sank during a storm 29 December 1942 |
| Watchman | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 26 January 1918 | scrapped 23 July 1945 |
| Waterhen | Royal Australian Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | July 1918 | sunk 30 June 1941 |
| Waters | United States Navy | Wickes | Destroyer | 1,190 | 8 August 1918 | sold for scrap 10 May 1946 |
| Watts | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 29 April 1944 | decommissioned 1969, sold for scrap 1974 |
| Wedderburn | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 9 March 1944 | decommissioned 1969, sold for scrap 1972 |
| Welles | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 16 August 1943 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1969 |
| Wells | Royal Navy | Town | Destroyer | 1,190 | 10 April 1921 | scrapped 24 July 1945 |
| Wessex (D43) | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 11 May 1918 | sunk 24 May 1940 |
| Wessex (R78) | Royal Navy | W | Destroyer | 1,710 | 11 May 1944 | paid off January 1946 |
| Westcott | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 12 April 1918 | paid off June 1945 |
| Westminster | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 18 April 1918 | scrapped 4 March 1947 |
| Whelp | Royal Navy | W | Destroyer | 1,710 | 25 April 1944 | paid off January 1946 |
| Whipple | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 23 April 1920 | sold for scrap 30 September 1947 |
| Whirlwind (D30) | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 15 December 1917 | sunk 5 July 1940 |
| Whirlwind (R87) | Royal Navy | W | Destroyer | 1,710 | 30 August 1943 | foundered 29 October 1974 |
| Whitehall | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,140 | 9 July 1924 | paid off May 1945 |
| Whitley | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 14 October 1918 | scuttled 19 May 1940 |
| Whitshed | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,140 | 11 July 1919 | scrapped April 1948 |
| Wicher | Polish Navy | Wicher | Destroyer | 1,400 | 13 July 1930 | sunk 3 September 1939 |
| Wickes | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 16 June 1943 | decommissioned 1945, sunk as target 1974 |
| Wild Swan | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,140 | 14 November 1919 | sunk 17 June 1942 |
| Wiley | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 22 February 1945 | decommissioned 1946, sold for scrap 1970 |
| Wilkes | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 22 April 1941 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1972 |
| Willard Keith | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 27 December 1944 | to Colombia as Caldas 1972, scrapped 1977 |
| William B. Preston | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 23 August 1920 | sold for scrap 6 November 1946 |
| William C. Lawe | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 18 December 1946 | decommissioned 1983, sunk as target 1999 |
| William D. Porter | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 6 July 1943 | sunk 10 June 1945 |
| William M. Wood | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 24 November 1945 | decommissioned 1976, sunk as target 1983 |
| William R. Rush | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 21 September 1945 | to South Korea as Gangwon 1978, museum ship 2000, scrapped 2016 |
| Williamson | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer | 1,215 | 29 October 1920 | sold for scrap 30 October 1946 |
| Wilson | United States Navy | Benham | Destroyer | 1,656 | 5 July 1939 | scuttled after A-bomb test 1948 |
| Wiltsie | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 12 January 1946 | to Pakistan as Tariq 1977, renamed as Nazim 1990, extant as of 2018 |
| Winchelsea | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 15 December 1917 | scrapped August 1945 |
| Winchester | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 29 April 1918 | scrapped March 1946 |
| Windsor | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 28 August 1918 | paid off 1945 |
| Winslow | United States Navy | Porter | Destroyer | 1,850 | 17 February 1937 | scrapped 1959 |
| Wishart | Royal Navy | W (Thornycroft) | Destroyer | 1,140 | June 1920 | scrapped 20 March 1945 |
| Witch | Royal Navy | W (Thornycroft) | Destroyer | 1,140 | March 1924 | scrapped 12 July 1946 |
| Witherington | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,140 | 10 October 1919 | scrapped 20 March 1947 |
| Witek | United States Navy | Gearing | Destroyer | 2,616 | 23 April 1946 | decommissioned 1968, sunk as target 1969 |
| Witte de With | Royal Netherlands Navy | Admiralen | Destroyer | 1,316 | 20 February 1930 | scuttled 2 March 1942 |
| Wivern | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,140 | 23 December 1919 | scrapped 18 February 1947 |
| Wizard | Royal Navy | W | Destroyer | 1,710 | 30 March 1944 | scrapped 1967 |
| Wolfhound | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 27 April 1918 | scrapped February 1948 |
| Wolsey | Royal Navy | W (Thornycroft) | Destroyer | 1,120 | 14 May 1918 | scrapped 4 March 1947 |
| Wolverine | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,140 | 27 February 1920 | scrapped September 1946 |
| Woodworth | United States Navy | Benson | Destroyer | 1,620 | 30 April 1942 | to Italy 1951, scrapped 1971 |
| Woolsey | United States Navy | Gleaves | Destroyer | 1,630 | 7 May 1941 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1974 |
| Woolston | Royal Navy | W (Thornycroft) | Destroyer | 1,120 | 28 June 1918 | scrapped 18 February 1947 |
| Worden | United States Navy | Farragut | Destroyer | 1,365 | 15 January 1935 | sunk 12 January 1943 |
| Wrangel | Swedish Navy | Wrangel | Destroyer | 465 | 4 May 1918 | paid off 13 June 1947, sunk 1960 |
| Wrangler | Royal Navy | W | Destroyer | 1,710 | 14 July 1944 | to South Africa after war |
| Wren | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 20 May 1944 | decommissioned 1963, sold for scrap 1975 |
| Wren | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,140 | 23 January 1923 | sunk 27 July 1940 |
| Wrestler | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 15 May 1918 | mined 6 June 1944, scrapped July 1944 |
| Wryneck | Royal Navy | W (Admiralty) | Destroyer | 1,100 | 11 November 1918 | sunk 27 April 1941 |
| Yadake | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | Never commissioned | construction stopped 17 April 1945, launched 1 May 1945, converted to breakwater 1948 |
| Yaezakura | Imperial Japanese Navy | Tachibana | Destroyer | 1,288 | Never commissioned | launched 17 March 1945, sunk 18 July 1945 |
| Yakov Sverdlov | Soviet Navy | Novik | Destroyer | 1,260 | 9 September 1913 | sunk 28 August 1941 |
| Yamagumo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Asashio | Destroyer | 2,370 | 15 January 1938 | sunk 25 October 1944 |
| Yamakaze | Imperial Japanese Navy | Shiratsuyu | Destroyer | 1,685 | 30 June 1937 | sunk 25 June 1942 |
| Yanagi (1917) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momo | Destroyer | 835 | 5 May 1917 | decommissioned 1 April 1940 and converted to training hulk, scrapped 1947 |
| Yanagi (1944) | Imperial Japanese Navy | Matsu | Destroyer | 1,262 | 8 January 1945 | ran aground 14 July 1945, scrapped 1 April 1947 |
| Yarnall | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 30 December 1943 | to Taiwan as Kun Yang 1968, sunk as target 1999 |
| Yayoi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mutsuki | Destroyer | 1,315 | 28 August 1926 | sunk 11 September 1942 |
| Yoizuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Akizuki | Destroyer | 2,700 | 31 January 1945 | to Republic of China as Fen Yang 29 August 1947, scrapped 1963 |
| Yomogi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Momi | Destroyer | 850 | 19 August 1922 | converted to patrol boat Dai-38-Gō shōkaitei 1 April 1940, sunk 25 November 1944 |
| Young | United States Navy | Fletcher | Destroyer | 2,050 | 31 July 1943 | decommissioned 1947, sunk as target 1970 |
| Yūdachi | Imperial Japanese Navy | Shiratsuyu | Destroyer | 1,685 | 7 January 1937 | sunk 13 November 1942 |
| Yūgiri | Imperial Japanese Navy | Ayanami | Destroyer | 1,750 | 3 December 1930 | sunk 25 November 1943 |
| Yūgumo | Imperial Japanese Navy | Yūgumo | Destroyer | 2,077 | 5 December 1941 | sunk 6 October 1943 |
| Yūgure | Imperial Japanese Navy | Hatsuharu | Destroyer | 1,802 | 30 March 1935 | sunk 20 July 1943 |
| Yukikaze | Imperial Japanese Navy | Kagerō | Destroyer | 2,032 | 20 January 1940 | to Republic of China 6 July 1947 as Tan Yang, scrapped 1970 |
| Yūzuki | Imperial Japanese Navy | Mutsuki | Destroyer | 1,315 | 25 July 1927 | sunk 12 December 1944 |
| Z1 Leberecht Maass | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934 | Destroyer | 2,223 | 14 January 1937 | sunk 22 February 1940 |
| Z2 Georg Thiele | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934 | Destroyer | 2,223 | 27 February 1937 | sunk 13 April 1940 |
| Z3 Max Schultz | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934 | Destroyer | 2,223 | 8 April 1937 | sunk 22 February 1940 |
| Z4 Richard Beitzen | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934 | Destroyer | 2,223 | 13 May 1937 | ceded to UK 14 May 1945, scrapped 10 January 1949 |
| Z5 Paul Jacobi | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934A | Destroyer | 2,171 | 29 June 1937 | ceded to UK May 1945, to France as Desaix 4 February 1946, sold for scrap June 1954 |
| Z6 Theodor Riedel | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934A | Destroyer | 2,171 | 2 July 1937 | ceded to UK late 1945, to France as Kleber 4 February 1946, scrapped 1958 |
| Z7 Hermann Schoemann | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934A | Destroyer | 2,171 | 9 September 1937 | sunk 2 May 1942 |
| Z8 Bruno Heinemann | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934A | Destroyer | 2,171 | 8 January 1938 | sunk 25 January 1942 |
| Z9 Wolfgang Zenker | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934A | Destroyer | 2,171 | 2 July 1938 | scuttled 13 April 1940 |
| Z10 Hans Lody | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934A | Destroyer | 2,171 | 13 September 1938 | ceded to UK late 1945, scrapped 17 July 1949 |
| Z11 Bernd von Arnim | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934A | Destroyer | 2,171 | 6 December 1938 | scuttled 13 April 1940 |
| Z12 Erich Giese | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934A | Destroyer | 2,171 | 4 March 1939 | sunk 13 April 1940 |
| Z13 Erich Koellner | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934A | Destroyer | 2,171 | 28 March 1939 | sunk 13 April 1940 |
| Z14 Friedrich Ihn | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934A | Destroyer | 2,239 | 9 April 1938 | to USSR as Prytky November 1945, scrapped 1952 |
| Z15 Erich Steinbrinck | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934A | Destroyer | 2,239 | 8 June 1938 | to USSR as Pylky 5 November 1945, scrapped 1958 |
| Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt | Kriegsmarine | Type 1934A | Destroyer | 2,239 | 28 July 1938 | sunk 31 December 1942 |
| Z17 Diether von Roeder | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936 | Destroyer | 2,411 | 29 August 1938 | sunk 13 April 1940 |
| Z18 Hans Lüdemann | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936 | Destroyer | 2,411 | 8 October 1938 | sunk 13 April 1940 |
| Z19 Hermann Künne | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936 | Destroyer | 2,411 | 12 January 1939 | sunk 13 April 1940 |
| Z20 Karl Galster | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936 | Destroyer | 2,411 | 21 March 1939 | to USSR as Prochny 6 February 1946, scrapped 1958 |
| Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936 | Destroyer | 2,411 | 20 June 1939 | sunk 10 April 1940 |
| Z22 Anton Schmitt | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936 | Destroyer | 2,411 | 24 September 1939 | sunk 10 April 1940 |
| Z23 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936A ("Narvik") | Destroyer | 2,603 | 15 September 1940 | scuttled 21 August 1944, raised by France 1945, scrapped 1951 |
| Z24 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936A ("Narvik") | Destroyer | 2,603 | 26 October 1940 | sunk 25 August 1944 |
| Z25 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936A ("Narvik") | Destroyer | 2,543 | 30 November 1940 | ceded to UK late 1945, to France as Hoche 4 February 1946, scrapped 1961 |
| Z26 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936A ("Narvik") | Destroyer | 2,543 | 11 January 1941 | sunk 29 March 1942 |
| Z27 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936A ("Narvik") | Destroyer | 2,543 | 26 February 1941 | sunk 28 December 1943 |
| Z28 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936A ("Narvik") | Destroyer | 2,596 | 9 August 1941 | sunk 6 March 1945 |
| Z29 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936A ("Narvik") | Destroyer | 2,657 | 25 June 1941 | to United States late 1945, scuttled 10 June 1946 |
| Z30 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936A ("Narvik") | Destroyer | 2,657 | 15 November 1941 | to Norway 15 July 1945, ceded to UK late 1945, sold for scrap 9 September 1948 |
| Z31 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936A Mob | Destroyer | 2,603 | 11 April 1942 | to France 2 February 1946 as Marceau, scrapped early 1960s |
| Z32 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936A Mob | Destroyer | 2,645 | 15 September 1942 | destroyed 9 June 1944 |
| Z33 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936A Mob | Destroyer | 2,657 | 6 February 1943 | to USSR 2 January 1946 as Provorny, scrapped 1962 |
| Z34 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936A Mob | Destroyer | 2,657 | 5 June 1943 | to United States late 1945, scuttled 26 March 1946 |
| Z35 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936B | Destroyer | 2,519 | 22 September 1943 | sunk 12 December 1944 |
| Z36 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936B | Destroyer | 2,519 | 19 February 1944 | sunk 12 December 1944 |
| Z37 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936A Mob | Destroyer | 2,657 | 16 July 1943 | scuttled 24 August 1944, scrapped 1949 |
| Z38 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936A Mob | Destroyer | 3,083 | 20 March 1943 | to United Kingdom as Nonsuch September 1945, sold for scrap 8 November 1949 |
| Z39 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936A Mob | Destroyer | 2,519 | 21 August 1943 | to United States as DD-939 14 September 1945, to France as Q-128 January 1948, scrapped 1964 |
| Z43 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936B | Destroyer | 2,519 | 31 May 1944 | severely damaged by mine 10 April 1945, scuttled 3 May 1945 |
| Z44 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936B | Destroyer | 2,519 | Never commissioned | launched 20 January 1944, sunk by air attack 29 July 1944, shortly before the planned commission; scrapped April 1948-February 1949 |
| Z45 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936B | Destroyer | 2,519 | Never commissioned | construction incomplete, scrapped 1946 |
| Z46 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936C | Destroyer | 2,594 | Never commissioned | construction incomplete, blown up 1945 |
| Z47 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1936C | Destroyer | 2,594 | Never commissioned | construction incomplete, blown up 1945 |
| Z51 | Kriegsmarine | Type 1942 | Destroyer | 1,982 | Never commissioned | launched 2 October 1944, sunk 21 March 1945, scrapped 17 February 1948 |
| Zafer | Turkish Naval Forces | Tinaztepe | Destroyer | 1,206 | 6 June 1932 | decommissioned February 1954 |
| Zagreb | Royal Yugoslav Navy | Beograd | Destroyer | 1,190 | August 1939 | scuttled 17 April 1941 |
| Zane | United States Navy | Clemson | Destroyer minesweeper | 1,215 | 15 February 1921 | sold for scrap 3 March 1947 |
| Zambesi | Royal Navy | Z | Destroyer | 1,710 | 18 July 1944 | scrapped 12 February 1959 |
| Zealous | Royal Navy | Z | Destroyer | 1,710 | 9 October 1944 | to Israel as INS Eilat 15 July 1955, sunk 21 October 1967 |
| Zebra | Royal Navy | Z | Destroyer | 1,710 | 13 October 1944 | scrapped 1954 |
| Zeffiro | Regia Marina | Turbine | Destroyer | 1,070 | 15 May 1928 | sunk 5 July 1940 |
| Zellars | United States Navy | Allen M. Sumner | Destroyer | 2,200 | 25 October 1944 | to Iran as Babr 1973, decommissioned 1994 |
| Zenith | Royal Navy | Z | Destroyer | 1,710 | 22 December 1944 | to Egypt as El Fateh 1955, as of September 2017 still used as training vessel |
| Zephyr | Royal Navy | Z | Destroyer | 1,710 | 6 September 1944 | paid off 1954, scrapped 12 February 1959 |
| Zest | Royal Navy | Z | Destroyer | 1,710 | 12 July 1944 | paid off July 1968, scrapped 1970 |
| ZH1 | Kriegsmarine | Gerard Callenburgh | Destroyer | 1,604 | 11 October 1942 | scuttled 9 June 1944 |
| Zheleznyakov | Soviet Navy | Fidonisy | Destroyer | 1,460 | 10 June 1925 | to Bulgaria 18 December 1947, returned to Soviet Union 15 September 1949, scrapped 1957 |
| ZN4 | Kriegsmarine | Ålesund | Destroyer | 1,220 | Never commissioned | laid down April 1939 as an unnamed Norwegian destroyer, renamed as TA7 1941, launched 29 May 1941, wrecked by sabotage 27 September 1944 |
| ZN5 | Kriegsmarine | Ålesund | Destroyer | 1,220 | Never commissioned | laid down April 1939 as an unnamed Norwegian destroyer, renamed as TA8 1941, launched 30 June 1943, sunk 23 February 1945, raised post-war by Norway, renamed as Ålesund, scrapped 1956 |
| Zodiac | Royal Navy | Z | Destroyer | 1,710 | 23 October 1944 | to Israel as INS Yaffo 15 July 1955, paid off 1972 and scrapped |
| Zulu | Royal Navy | Tribal | Destroyer | 1,891 | 6 September 1938 | sunk 14 September 1942 |