Several ships have been named Nara (楢 / なら, "oak") :

• Japanese destroyer Nara (1918), the lead ship of her class of the Imperial Japanese Navy; renamed W-9 and re-rated as a minesweeper in June 1930; demilitarized in November 1940
• Japanese destroyer Nara (1944), a Matsu-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II
• JDS Nara (PF-2, PF-282), a Kusu-class patrol frigate of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, formerly USS Machias (PF-53)

• Nara (disambiguation)

List of ships with the same or similar names

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