List of ship decommissionings in 1981

The list of ship decommissionings in 1981 includes a chronological list of all ships decommissioned in 1981.

	Operator	Ship	Flag	Class and type	Fate	Other notes
February	Sessan Linjen	*Prinsessan Desirée*	Sweden	Ferry	Transferred to Stena Sessan Line
7 March	Royal Navy	*Norfolk*	United Kingdom	County-class destroyer	Sold to Chile	Renamed Capitán Prat
March	Unknown	*Tor Scandinavia*	Sweden	Cruiseferry	End of charter, returned to Tor Line
27 March	Royal Navy	*Bulwark*	United Kingdom	Centaur-class aircraft carrier	Towed to Cairnryan 10 April 1981	Scrapped in 1984^[1]
30 April	Jakob Lines	*Borea*	Finland	Ferry	Chartered to Folkline
April	Stena Sessan Line	*Prinsessan Desirée*	Sweden	Ferry	Chartered to Bandi Line
6 May	Bandi Line	*Prinsessan Desirée*	Sweden	Ferry	End of charter from Stena Sessan Line	Re-chartered to B&I Line
13 May	Folkline	*Borea*	Finland	Ferry	End of charter; returned to Jakob Lines
15 May	Olau Line	*Olau Finn*	Finland	Ferry	Laid up at end of charter; sold to Folkline in May 1982	Renamed Folkliner
7 June	B&I Line	*Prinsessan Desirée*	Sweden	Ferry	End of charter from Stena Sessan Line	Re-chartered to Sealink
10 August	Sealink	*Prinsessan Desirée*	Sweden	Ferry	End of charter from Stena Sessan Line	Returned to Stena Sessan traffic
3 October	Jakob Lines	*Borea*	Finland	Ferry	Chartered as a housing ship to Algeria	Sold to Helsingfors Steamship Company, 1984
1 December	Tor Line	*Tor Scandinavia*	Sweden	Cruiseferry	Sold to DFDS Seaways
Date unknown	Polferries	*Gryf*	Poland	Ferry	Sold to Fraglines	Renamed Eolos

Citations

Hobbs, David (2013). British Aircraft Carriers: Design, Development and Service Histories. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-138-0.