List of ship commissionings in 1940

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The list of ship commissionings in 1940 includes a chronological list of all ships commissioned in 1940.

	Operator	Ship	Class and type	Pennant	Other notes

January 18	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 63	Type IIC coastal submarine	U 63
March 6	United States Navy	Tippecanoe	Patoka class fleet replenishment oiler	AO-21
April 6	Royal Navy	Gladiolus	Flower class corvette	K34
April 20	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 120	Type IIB coastal submarine	U 120
April 25	United States Navy	Wasp	Light aircraft carrier	CV-7
May 28	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 121	Type IIB coastal submarine	U 121
June 15	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 137	Type IID coastal submarine	U 137
June 27	Kriegsmarine	U 138	Type IID coastal submarine	U 138
July 24	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 139	Type IID coastal submarine	U 139
August 1	Kriegsmarine	Prinz Eugen	Modified Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser
August 7	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 140	Type IID coastal submarine	U 140
August 20	Kriegsmarine	Bismarck	Bismarck class battleship
August 21	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 141	Type IID coastal submarine
August 22	Luftwaffe	Karl Meyer	Karl Meyer class seaplane tender		Completion date
September 4	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 142	Type IID coastal submarine
September 18	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 143	Type IID coastal submarine
September 24	Royal Canadian Navy	St. Clair	Wickes class destroyer	I-65	ex-USS Williams
October 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 144	Type IID coastal submarine	U 144
October 16	Kriegsmarine	*Unterseeboot 145*	Type IID coastal submarine
October 23	Royal Navy	Lancaster	Wickes class destroyer		ex-USS Philip
October 23	Royal Navy	Mansfield	Wickes class destroyer		ex-USS Evans
October 23	Royal Navy	Montgomery	Wickes class destroyer		ex-USS Wickes
October 30	United States Navy	Santee	Cimarron class oiler	AO-29	Former merchant tanker Seakay
November 4	United States	Sangamon	Cimarron class oiler	AO-28	Former tanker Esso Trenton
October 30	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 146	Type IID coastal submarine	U 146
November 13	Kriegsmarine	U 149	Type IID coastal submarine
November 26	Royal Navy	Newark	Wickes class destroyer		ex-USS Ringgold
November 27	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 150	Type IID coastal submarine
December 5	Royal Navy	Newmarket	Wickes class destroyer		ex-USS Robinson
December 5	Royal Navy	Newport	Wickes class destroyer		ex-USS Sigourney
December 5	Royal Navy	Richmond	Wickes class destroyer		ex-USS Fairfax
December 11	Royal Navy	King George V	King George V class battleship	41
December 11	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 147	Type IID coastal submarine
December 28	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 148	Type IID coastal submarine
Uncertain	Kriegsmarine	Schwabenland	Converted merchant type seaplane tender		Former SS Schwabenland

[edit] See also

List of World War II ships

Ship launches:	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939
Ship commissionings:	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939
Ship decommissionings:	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939
Shipwrecks:	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939

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