# List of ships of World War II (P)

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. Submarines show submerged displacement.
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List of ships of World War II (P) :
| Ship | Country or organization | Class | Type | Displacement (tons) | First commissioned | Fate |
| P222 | Royal Navy | S | submarine | 814 | 4 March 1942 | sunk 12 December 1942 |
| Pakenham | Royal Navy | P | destroyer | 1,690 | 4 February 1942 | constructive loss, scuttled 16 April 1943 |
| Paladin | Royal Navy | P | destroyer | 1,690 | December 1941 | paid off June 1961, scrapped 1962 |
| Pandora | Royal Navy | Parthian | submarine | 2,070 | 30 June 1930 | sunk 1 April 1942, scrapped 1955 |
| Panthir | Hellenic Navy | Aetos | destroyer | 1,030 | 19 October 1912 | Decommissioned 1946 |
| Panther | Royal Navy | P | destroyer | 1,690 | 12 December 1941 | sunk 9 October 1943 |
| | Argentine Navy | Rosario | gunboat | 1,055 | 1909 | Sold 28 August 1958 |
| Paris | French Navy Royal Navy | Courbet | dreadnought | 23,475 | 5 June 1913 | captured by Britain 3 July 1940 used as depot ship, scrapped 1956 |
| Parker | United States Navy | Benson | destroyer | 1,620 | 31 August 1942 | decommissioned 1947, scrapped 1973 |
| Parry Sound | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 30 August 1944 | 10 July 1945 |
| Parthian | Royal Navy | Parthian | submarine | 2,070 | 30 June 1930 | sunk August 1943 |
| Partridge | Royal Navy | P | destroyer | 1,690 | 5 July 1941 | paid off 1 January 1946 |
| Pasadena | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 8 June 1944 | scrapped 1970 |
| Pathan | Royal Indian Navy | P | sloop | 623 | 5 August 1921 | sunk 23 June 1940 |
| Pathfinder | Royal Navy | P | destroyer | 1,690 | 13 April 1942 | paid off 1945, scrapped 1948 |
| Patia | Royal Navy | | fighter catapult ship | 5,355 | 1940 | sunk 27 April 1941 |
| Patna | Royal Indian Navy | Basset | minesweeper | 529 | 1941–1944 | 1941–1944 |
| Patria | Cuba | | gunboat | 1,200 | | |
| Patroclus | Royal Navy | | armed merchant cruiser | 11,314 | 12 September 1939 | sunk 4 November 1940 |
| Patroller | Royal Navy | Ruler | escort carrier | 11,400 | 22 October 1943 | paid off 7 February 1947, scrapped February 1974 |
| Patterson | United States Navy | Bagley | destroyer | 1,500 | 22 September 1937 | scrapped 1947 |
| Peder Skram | Royal Danish Navy | Herluf Trolle | coastal defence ship | 3,494 | | scuttled 29 August 1943 |
| Pegasus | Royal Navy | | fighter catapult ship | 7,080 | 10 December 1914 | HMS Ark Royal to 1934, paid off June 1946 |
| Penetang | Royal Canadian Navy | River | frigate | 1,445 | 19 October 1944 | paid off 2 September 1955 |
| Penn | Royal Navy | P | destroyer | 1,690 | 10 February 1942 | scrapped 30 October 1950 |
| Pennsylvania | United States Navy | Pennsylvania | super dreadnought | 33,000 | 12 June 1916 | Decommissioned 29 August 1946, sunk as target 10 February 1948 |
| Pennywort | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 5 March 1942 | |
| Pensacola | United States Navy | Pensacola | heavy cruiser | 9,100 | 6 February 1930 | sunk as target 1948 |
| Pentstemon | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 31 July 1941 | |
| Penylan | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer | 1,050 | 25 August 1942 | sunk 3 December 1942 |
| Peony | Royal Navy Hellenic Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 2 August 1940 | to Greece as Sachtouris 1943, scrapped 1952 |
| Perkins | United States Navy | Mahan | destroyer | 1,450 | 18 September 1936 | sunk 29 November 1942 |
| Periwinkle | Royal Navy } United States Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 8 April 1940 | to USA as Restless 15 March 1942, to UK 26 August 1945 |
| Perseus (I) | Royal Navy | Colossus | aircraft maintenance carrier | 13,200 | 16 December 1944 | transferred to France 6 August 1946, renamed Arromanches |
| Perseus (II) | Royal Navy | Parthian | submarine | 2,070 | 15 April 1930 | sunk 6 December 1941. |
| Pert | United States Navy | Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 23 July 1943 | 3 October 1945 |
| Perth | Royal Australian Navy | modified Leander | light cruiser | 6,980 | 29 June 1939 (former HMS Amphion) | sunk 1 March 1942 |
| Peshawar | Royal Indian Navy | Basset | minesweeper | 529 | 1941–1944 | 1941–1944 |
| Petard | Royal Navy | P | destroyer | 1,690 | 15 June 1942 | scrapped June 1967 |
| Peterborough | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 1 June 1944 | 19 July 1945 |
| Petrof Bay | United States Navy | Casablanca | escort carrier | 7,800 | 18 February 1944 | decommissioned 31 July 1955, scrapped 1959 |
| Petropavlovsk | Soviet Navy | Admiral Hipper | heavy cruiser | 14,680 | | fought incomplete in siege of Leningrad, and as Tallinn |
| Petunia | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 13 January 1941 | |
| Phelps | United States Navy | Porter | destroyer | 1,850 | 26 February 1936 | scrapped 1947 |
| Philadelphia | United States Navy | Brooklyn | light cruiser | 10,200 | 23 September 1937 | transferred to Brazil as Almirante Barroso 1951, scrapped 1973 |
| Phlox | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | May 1942 | |
| Phoenix | United States Navy | Brooklyn | light cruiser | 10,200 | 3 October 1938 | transferred to Argentina as General Belgrano 1951, sunk by HMS Conqueror in Falklands War on 2 May 1982 |
| Phoenix | Royal Navy | Parthian | submarine | 2,070 | 3 February 1931 | sunk 16 July 1940 |
| Picotee | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 5 September 1940 | sunk on 12 August 1941 by U-568 |
| Pictou | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 29 April 1941 | paid off 12 July 1945 |
| Piet Hein | Royal Netherlands Navy | Admiralen | destroyer | 1,337 | 25 January 1929 | Sunk 19 February 1942 |
| Pimpernel | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 9 January 1941 | |
| Pindos | Hellenic Navy | Hunt | destroyer | 1,050 | 27 June 1942 | paid off 1959, scrapped 1960 |
| Ping Hai | Republic of China Navy | | light cruiser | 2,200 | 1936 | became Yasoshima (Japan) 1944 |
| Pinguin | Kriegsmarine | | Auxiliary cruiser | 17,600 | 6 February 1940 | sunk 8 May 1941 |
| Pink | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 2 July 1942 | declared total loss after 27 June 1944 in attack by U-988 |
| Pioneer | Royal Navy | Colossus | aircraft maintenance carrier | 13,200 | 8 February 1945 | scrapped September 1954 |
| Piorun | Polish Navy | N | destroyer | 1,690 | 4 November 1940 | to Poland October 1940, to UK August 1946, scrapped 1955 |
| Pittsburgh | United States Navy | Baltimore | heavy cruiser | 17,200 | 10 October 1944 | decommissioned 1956, scrapped 1974 |
| Plunkett | United States Navy | Gleaves | destroyer | 1,630 | 17 July 1940 | to Taiwan 1959, scrapped 1975 |
| Pluton | French Navy | | minelayer light cruiser | 4,773 | 10 April 1931 | lost 13 September 1939 |
| Pola | Regia Marina | Zara | heavy cruiser | 11,730 | 1932 | sunk 28 March 1941 |
| Polyanthus | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 24 April 1941 | sunk on 21 September 1943 by U-952 |
| Pompeo Magno | Regia Marina | Capitani Romani | light cruiser (also known as exploratori oceanici) | 3,750 | | |
| Poona | Royal Indian Navy | Basset | minesweeper | 529 | 1941–1944 | 1941–1944 |
| Poppy | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 12 May 1942 | |
| Porcupine | Royal Navy | P | destroyer | 1,690 | 31 August 1942 | Strangest vessel of the war? Torpedoed, 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. |
| Port Arthur | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 26 May 1942 | paid off 11 July 1945 |
| Port Colborne | Royal Canadian Navy | River | frigate | 1,445 | 15 November 1943 | paid off 7 November 1945 |
| Porter | United States Navy | Porter | destroyer | 1,850 | 25 August 1936 | sunk 26 October 1942 |
| Portland | United States Navy | Portland | heavy cruiser | 9,950 | 23 February 1933 | decommissioned 1946, scrapped 1959 |
| Portsmouth | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 20 September 1944 | scrapped 1974 |
| Poseidon | Royal Navy | Parthian | submarine | 2,070 | 5 May 1930 | sunk in accidental collision with a merchant 9 June 1931 |
| Potentilla | Royal Navy Royal Norwegian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 16 January 1942 | to Norway 16 January 1942, to RN 13 March 1944 |
| Poundmaker | Royal Canadian Navy | River | frigate | 1,445 | 17 September 1944 | paid off 25 November 1945 |
| Premier | Royal Navy | Ruler | escort carrier | 11,400 | 3 November 1943 | paid off 21 May 1946, scrapped 1976 |
| Prescott | Royal Canadian Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 26 June 1941 | paid off 20 July 1945 |
| Preston | United States Navy | Mahan | destroyer | 1,450 | 27 October 1936 | sunk 14 November 1942 |
| Prestonian | Royal Canadian Navy | River | frigate | 1,445 | 13 September 1944 | paid off 24 April 1956 |
| Pretoria Castle | Royal Navy | | armed merchant cruiser | 23,450 | 28 November 1939 | training merchant aircraft carrier from July 1943, reconverted to passenger liner |
| Primauguet | French Navy | Duguay-Trouin | light cruiser | 7,249 | 1 April 1927 | scuttled 8 November 1942 |
| Primrose | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 15 July 1940 | |
| Primula | Royal Navy | Flower | corvette | 925 | 27 August 1940 | |
| Prudent | United States Navy | Flower modified | corvette | 1,015 | 16 August 1943 | 11 October 1945 |
| Prince David | Royal Canadian Navy | | armed merchant cruiser | 5,736 | 28 December 1940 | Broken up 1951 |
| Prince Henry | Royal Canadian Navy | | armed merchant cruiser | 6,893 | 3 November 1940 | paid off July 1946 |
| Prince of Wales | Royal Navy | King George V | battleship | 35,000 | 31 March 1941 | sunk 10 December 1941 |
| Prince Robert | Royal Canadian Navy | | armed merchant cruiser | 6,892 | December 1940 | paid off 10 December 1945 |
| Prince Rupert | Royal Canadian Navy | River | frigate | 1,445 | 30 August 1943 | paid off 15 January 1946 |
| Princeton | United States Navy | Independence | light aircraft carrier | 11,000 | 25 February 1943 | sunk 24 October 1944 |
| Prins van Oranje | Royal Netherlands Navy | Prins van Oranje | minelayer | 1,291 | 2 February 1932 | sunk 12 January 1942 |
| Prinz Eugen | Kriegsmarine | enlarged Admiral Hipper | heavy cruiser | 14,680 | 1 August 1940 | sunk after A-bomb test at Bikini in 1946 |
| Proteus | Royal Navy | Parthian | submarine | 2,070 | 5 May 1930 | Scrapped in March 1946 at Troon |
| Provence | French Navy | Bretagne | super dreadnought | 22,200 | 1 March 1916 | scuttled 27 November 1942, |
| Providence | United States Navy | Cleveland | light cruiser | 11,800 | 15 May 1945 | converted to missile cruiser 1959, scrapped 1980 |
| Prunella | Royal Navy | | Special Service Ship | 4,443 | | sunk 21 June 1940 |
| Psara | Hellenic Navy | Kountouriotis | destroyer | 1,350 | 1933 | sunk 20 April 1941 |
| Puckeridge | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer | 1,000 | | sunk 6 September 1943 by U-617 |
| Puget Sound | United States Navy | Commencement Bay | escort carrier | 10,900 | 18 June 1945 | scrapped January 1962 |
| Puncher | Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy | Ruler | escort carrier | 11,400 | 5 February 1944 | Crewed by RCN, paid off 16 February 1946, scrapped 1973 |
| Punjab | Royal Indian Navy | Bathurst | corvette | 1,025 | 20 March 1942 | Decommissioned 1949 |
| Punjabi | Royal Navy | Tribal | destroyer | 2,020 | 29 March 1939 | sunk 1 May 1942 |
| Pursuer | Royal Navy | Attacker | escort carrier | 11,400 | 14 June 1943 | Returned to USN 12 February 1946, sold for scrap May 1946 |
| Pytchley | Royal Navy | Hunt | destroyer | 1,050 | 23 October 1940 | paid off 1946, scrapped 1956 |