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 Stena Saga  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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