List of ship decommissionings in 2001

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The list of ship decommissionings in 2001 includes a chronological list of all ships decommissioned in 2001.

	Operator	Ship	Flag	Class and type	Fate	Other notes
17 January	Royal Navy	Coventry		Type 22 frigate	Sold to Romania in 2003[1]	Renamed Regele Ferdinand
10 May	United States Navy	L. Mendel Rivers		Sturgeon-class submarine	Submarine recycling[2]
19 July	United States Navy	Hewitt		Spruance-class destroyer	Sold for scrap[3]
15 October	United States Navy	Caron		Spruance-class destroyer	Sunk during weapons testing in 2002[4]
16 October	Brazilian Navy	Minas Gerais		Colossus-class aircraft carrier	Sold for scrap
19 October	Royal Australian Navy	Brisbane		Perth-class destroyer	Sunk as a dive wreck in 2005[5][6]
26 November	Royal Navy	Cromer		Sandown-class minehunter	Transferred to Britannia Naval College as Hindostan[7]

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