List of shipwrecks in 1945

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The list of shipwrecks in 1945 includes all ships sunk, floundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1945.

	Operator	Ship	Class	Cause	Location	Notes

January 5	United States Navy	Ommaney Bay	Casablanca class escort carrier	Crippled by a Japanese Kamikaze and scuttled	Pacific Ocean near the Philippine Islands
February 17	Royal Navy	Lark		Damaged beyond repair by U 968
February 21	United States Navy	Bismarck Sea	Casablanca class aircraft transport	Sunk by two Japanese Kamikaze aircraft	Pacific Ocean near Iwo Jima
February 23	United States	Henry Bacon		Sunk by Luftwaffe Ju.88 and He.111 torpedo bombers	Barents Sea
March 20	Royal Navy	Lapwing		Sunk by U 968
March 23	Kriegsmarine	Gneisenau		Sunk as a blockship	Gdynia harbor	Later refloated and scrapped
April 8	Luftwaffe	Boelcke	Karl Meyer class seaplane tender	Sunk by Soviet aircraft
April 8	Luftwaffe	Hans Albrecht Wedel	Hana Albrecht Wedel class seaplane tender	Sunk by Soviet aircraft
April 9	Kriegsmarine	Admiral Scheer	Battlecruiser	Sunk by Royal Air Force bombers	Kiel harbor
April 10	Kriegsmarine	Seydlitz	Cruiser	Scuttled	Kiel harbor
April 25	Kriegsmarine	Graf Zeppelin	Graf Zeppelin class aircraft carrier	Scuttled while incomplete	Stettin, West Pomerania	Raised and captured by the Soviet Union in 1947
April 28	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 56		Sunk by Royal Air Force aircraft	Kiel
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Admiral Hipper	Cruiser	Scuttled	Kiel harbor
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 8		Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 14		Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 60		Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 61		Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 62		Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 120		Scuttled	Bremerhaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 121		Scuttled	Bremerhaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 137		Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 139		Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 140		Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 141		Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 142		Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 146		Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 148		Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 152		Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 153		Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 3	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 57		Scuttled	Kiel
May 3	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 58		Scuttled	Kiel
May 4	Kriegsmarine	Lützow		Scuttled	Baltic Sea	Later raised by the Soviet Union
May 5	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 17		Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
July 16	United States Navy	Gamble		Sunk for disposal	Pacific Ocean outside Apra Harbor, Guam
July 25	Imperial Japanese Navy	Eian Maru		Sunk by United States aircraft	Pacific Ocean
October 9	United States Navy	Dorsey		Grounded by a typhoon	Pacific Ocean on Okinawa	Later destroyed on 1 January 1946
December 22	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 143		Sunk as part of Operation Deadlight
December 22	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 145		Sunk as part of Operation Deadlight
	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 149		Sunk as part of Operation Deadlight

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Ship launches:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949
Ship commissionings:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949
Ship decommissionings:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949
Shipwrecks:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949