List of ship decommissionings in 1981

The list of ship decommissionings in 1981 includes a chronological list of all ship

Ship

Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...

s decommissioned in 1981.

	Operator	Ship	Class and type	Fate	Other notes
February	Sessan Linjen	*Prinsessan Desirée*	Ferry Ferry A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services...	Transferred to Stena Sessan Line
7 March		*Norfolk* HMS Norfolk (D21) The fifth HMS Norfolk was laid down on 15 March 1966 by Swan Hunter and launched by Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk in November 1967. She was commissioned in March 1970...	County class destroyer County class destroyer The County class was a class of guided missile destroyers, the first such vessels built by the Royal Navy. Designed specifically around the Sea Slug anti-aircraft missile system, the primary role of these ships was area air-defence around the aircraft carrier task force in the nuclear-war...	Sold to Chile	Renamed Capitán Prat
March	Unknown	*Tor Scandinavia*	Cruiseferry Cruiseferry A cruiseferry is a ship that combines the features of a cruise ship with a Ro-Pax ferry. Many passengers travel with the ships for the cruise experience, staying only a few hours at the destination port or not leaving the ship at all, while others use the ships as means of...	End of charter, returned to Tor Line
April		*Bulwark* HMS Bulwark (R08) The sixth HMS Bulwark of the Royal Navy was a 22,000 tonne Centaur-class light fleet aircraft carrier.-Construction:Bulwark was laid down by the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast on 10 May 1945...	Centaur class carrier	Towed to Cairnryan Cairnryan Cairnryan is a small Scottish village in Dumfries and Galloway on the eastern shore of Loch Ryan. The village has been of vital importance in maritime history.-Ferry Port:... 10 April 1981	Scrapped in 1984
30 April	Jakob Lines Jakob Lines Jakob Lines was a ferry operator based in Jakobstad , Finland. The company was established in 1969 by the city of Jakobstad. It operated routes between Jakobstad and Kokkola in Finland, and Skellefteå, Umeå, and Örnsköldsvik in Sweden....	*Borea*	Ferry Ferry A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services...	Chartered to Folkline
April	Stena Sessan Line	*Prinsessan Desirée*	Ferry Ferry A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services...	Chartered to Bandi Line
6 May	Bandi Line	*Prinsessan Desirée*	Ferry Ferry A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services...	End of charter from Stena Sessan Line	Re-chartered to B&I Line
13 May	Folkline	*Borea*	Ferry Ferry A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services...	End of charter; returned to Jakob Lines Jakob Lines Jakob Lines was a ferry operator based in Jakobstad , Finland. The company was established in 1969 by the city of Jakobstad. It operated routes between Jakobstad and Kokkola in Finland, and Skellefteå, Umeå, and Örnsköldsvik in Sweden....
15 May	Olau Line Olau Line Olau Line was a shipping company that existed between the years 1956 and 1994. It operated a ferry service from the United Kingdom to the Netherlands from 1974 until 1994. Originally based in Denmark, the company passed under ownership of the German TT-Line in 1980.-History:Olau Line was founded in...	*Olau Finn*	Ferry Ferry A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services...	Laid up at end of charter; sold to Folkline in May 1982	Renamed Folkliner
7 June	B&I Line	*Prinsessan Desirée*	Ferry Ferry A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services...	End of charter from Stena Sessan Line	Re-chartered to Sealink Sealink Sealink was a ferry company based in the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1984, operating services to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Channel Islands, Isle of Wight and Ireland....
10 August	Sealink Sealink Sealink was a ferry company based in the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1984, operating services to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Channel Islands, Isle of Wight and Ireland....	*Prinsessan Desirée*	Ferry Ferry A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services...	End of charter from Stena Sessan Line	Returned to Stena Sessan traffic
3 October	Jakob Lines Jakob Lines Jakob Lines was a ferry operator based in Jakobstad , Finland. The company was established in 1969 by the city of Jakobstad. It operated routes between Jakobstad and Kokkola in Finland, and Skellefteå, Umeå, and Örnsköldsvik in Sweden....	*Borea*	Ferry Ferry A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services...	Chartered as a housing ship to Algeria Algeria Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...	Sold to Helsingfors Steamship Company, 1984
1 December	Tor Line	*Tor Scandinavia*	Cruiseferry Cruiseferry A cruiseferry is a ship that combines the features of a cruise ship with a Ro-Pax ferry. Many passengers travel with the ships for the cruise experience, staying only a few hours at the destination port or not leaving the ship at all, while others use the ships as means of...	Sold to DFDS Seaways DFDS Seaways DFDS Seaways is a large Danish shipping company operating passenger and freight services across Northern Europe. Following the acquisition of Norfolkline in 2010, DFDS restructured its other shipping divisions into the previously passenger only operation of DFDS Seaways.-History:The company has...
Date unknown	Polferries Polferries Polferries is the largest Polish ferry operator.The Polish Baltic Shipping Company was established on 31 January 1976 as a state-owned shipping company. Under the operating name Polferries, the company runs ferry routes across the Baltic Sea between Poland and Scandinavia.In 1996 Polferries...	*Gryf*	Ferry Ferry A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services...	Sold to Fraglines	Renamed Eolos

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