List of ship decommissionings in 1988

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The list of ship decommissionings in 1988 includes a chronological list of all ships decommissioned in 1988.

	Operator	Ship	Flag	Class and type	Fate	Other notes
6 February	Royal Australian Navy	Advance		Attack-class patrol boat	Museum ship	To Australian National Maritime Museum
30 March	German Navy	Augsburg		Köln-class frigate	Wrecked at Hamburg
17 May	Stena Line		Sweden	Ferry	Transferred to Lion Ferry	Rebuilt into Lion Queen
31 May	Royal Navy	Diomede		Leander-class frigate	Decommissioned	Sold to Pakistan, renamed PNS Shamsheer
25 June	United States Navy	Tullibee		Unique submarine	Decommissioned	Entered the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program on 5 January 1995. On 1 April 1996, the hulk ceased to exist.
26 June	Royal Australian Navy	Bayonet		Attack-class patrol boat	Decommissioned	Scuttled in Bass Strait
31 August	Royal Navy	Apollo		Leander-class frigate	Decommissioned	Sold to Pakistan, renamed PNS Zulfiqar
13 October	SF Line (Viking Line traffic)	Turella	Finland	Cruiseferry	Sold to Stena Line	Renamed Stena Nordica
1 December	German Navy	Lübeck		Köln-class frigate	Decommissioned	Sold to the Turkish Navy for cannibalization
December	Swansea-Cork Ferries	Celtic Pride	Poland	Ferry	End of charter, returned to Polferries	Renamed Rogalin

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