List of ship decommissionings in 1993

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The list of ship decommissionings in 1993 includes a chronological list of all ships decommissioned in 1993.

	Operator	Ship	Class and type	Fate	Other notes
February 27	Royal Navy	Sirius	Leander class frigate	Sunk as target in 1998
March 31	Royal Navy	Argonaut	Leander class frigate	Sold as scrap
April 23	Sweden, Viking Line (Rederi Ab Slite)	Olympia	cruiseferry	Chartered to P&O European Ferries as Pride of Bilbao	Sold to Irish Ferries in October 1993.
March 31	Estonia, EstLine	Nord Estonia	ferry	Chartered to Larvik Line as Thor Heyerdahl
June	Royal Navy	Andromeda	Leander class frigate	Sold to India in 1995
July 10	United States Navy	Ranger	Forrestal class aircraft carrier	Reserve	Bremerton, Washington
July 31	United States	Iwo Jima	Iwo Jima class amphibious assault ship	Scrapped
August 16	Sweden, Viking Line (Rederi Ab Slite)	Athena	cruiseferry	Sold to Star Cruises in an auction, renamed Lankapuri Star Aquarius
August	Norway, Larvik Line	Thor Heyerdahl	ferry	Laid up, sold to Inreko in 1994 as Vana Tallinn
September 10	United States Navy	Forrestal	Forrestal class aircraft carrier	Stored	Newport, Rhode Island
December	Royal Navy	Scylla	Leander class frigate	Sunk as artificial reef in 2004
Date uncertain	Pakistani Navy	Babur	County class destroyer	Scrapped

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Ship launches:	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Ship commissionings:	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Ship decommissionings:	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Shipwrecks:	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999