List of ship launches in 1906

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The list of ship launches in 1906 includes a chronological list of ships launched in 1906.

Country Builder Location Ship Class Notes
13 January  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Heroic Ferry For Belfast Steamship Co.[1]
17 January  United Kingdom Cook, Welton & Gemmell Beverley Viola Trawler For Hellyer Steam Fishing Company
23 January  United Kingdom Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness B8 B-class submarine
24 January  United Kingdom Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness B9 B-class submarine
27 January  United Kingdom
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering
Govan Empress of Ireland Ocean liner For
Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
10 February  United Kingdom HM Dockyard, Portsmouth Portsmouth Dreadnought Dreadnought [2]
14 February  United Kingdom
William Denny & Brothers
Dumbarton Rewa For
British-India Steam Navigation Company
24 February  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Amazon Passenger ship For
Royal Mail Line
.
27 January  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Graphic Ferry For Belfast Steamship Co.[3]
9 March  United Kingdom Charles Connell & Co Glasgow Ganges Cargo liner
22 March  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Ortega Cargo ship For Pacific Steam Navigation Company.[4]
23 March  United Kingdom Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness B10 B-class submarine
23 March  Germany
Blohm + Voss
Hamburg Scharnhorst Scharnhorst-class cruiser For Imperial German Navy[5]
9 April  Japan Kure Naval Arsenal Kure, Hiroshima Ikoma Heavy cruiser [6]
10 April  United Kingdom Cook, Welton & Gemmell Beverley Earl Hereford Trawler For Earl Steam Fishing Co.
12 April  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Matheran Cargo ship For T. & J. Brocklebank.[7]
20 April  United Kingdom Robert Stephenson and Company Newcastle upon Tyne Daffodil Ferry For Wallasey Corporation
21 April  United States Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works Chester, Pennsylvania Governor Cobb Coastal passenger ship For Eastern Steamship Company
5 May  Russia Sevastopol Shipyard Sevastopol Ioann Zlatoust Evstafi-class battleship [8]
7 May Canada Canada G. A. Pontbriand Temagami Belle of Temagami Steamboat
12 May  Germany Stettiner Vulkan
Stettin
Prinz Ludwig Ocean liner For Norddeutscher Lloyd
12 May  Germany
Germaniawerft
Kiel G132 S90-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy[9]
24 May  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Oronsa Cargo ship For Pacific Steam Navigation Company.[10]
28 May  Germany Schichau
Danzig
Schlesien Deutschland-class battleship [11]
30 May  Germany Stettiner Vulkan AG
Stettin
Niki Niki-class destroyer For
Royal Hellenic Navy
6 June  United Kingdom Devonport Dockyard
Devonport
Minotaur Minotaur-class cruiser [12]
7 June  United Kingdom
John Brown & Co. Ltd
Clydebank Lusitania Ocean liner For Cunard Line
14 June  Germany Weserwerft Bremen Gneisenau Scharnhorst-class cruiser [5]
23 June  United Kingdom William Beardmore and Company Dalmuir Agamemnon Lord Nelson-class battleship [13]
23 June  United Kingdom William Gray & Co. Ltd. West Hartlepool Ravelston Cargo ship For Ravelston Shipping Co Ltd
27 June  United States Tarr and James Shipbuilders Essex, Massachusetts Esperanto Schooner
30 June  United States New York Shipbuilding Corporation Camden, New Jersey New Hampshire Connecticut-class battleship The last American
pre-dreadnought
battleship
30 June  Germany
Germaniawerft
Kiel G133 S90-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy[9]
5 July  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Salamanca Cargo ship For Hamburg America Line.[14]
10 July  United Kingdom Vickers Limited
Barrow in Furness
C1 C-class submarine
18 July  Germany Stettiner Vulkan AG
Stettin
Doxa Niki-class destroyer For
Royal Hellenic Navy
23 July  Germany
Germaniawerft
Kiel G134 S90-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy[15]
25 July Canada Canada Canadian Ship Building Company Toronto Sagamo For Muskosa Lakes Navigation and Hotel Company
4 August  Germany
Germaniawerft
Kiel U-1 Submarine
25 August  Germany
Germaniawerft
Kiel G136 S90-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy[15]
28 August  Germany Kaiserliche Werft Kiel Kiel Nürnberg Königsberg-class cruiser
1 September  United States
Fore River Shipbuilding
Quincy, Massachusetts Cuttlefish B-class submarine [16]
4 September  United Kingdom Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Jarrow Lord Nelson Lord Nelson-class battleship Last pre-dreadnought battleship for the Royal Navy.[13]
5 September  United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Govan Volturno Passenger steamer [17]
6 September  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Rohilla
Cruise liner
For British India Steam Navigation Company.[18]
7 September  Germany
Germaniawerft
Kiel G135 S90-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy[15]
10 September  Germany AG Weser Bremen Reserve
Lightship
20 September  United Kingdom
Harland and Wolff
Belfast Adriatic Ocean liner For White Star Line[18]
20 September  United Kingdom Ramage and Ferguson Ltd Leith Agawa Yacht [19]
20 September  United Kingdom Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Wallsend Mauretania Ocean liner For Cunard Line[18]
20 September  United Kingdom Chatham Dockyard Chatham Shannon Minotaur-class cruiser [12]
22 September  Germany Kaiserliche Werft Danzig
Danzig
Stuttgart Königsberg-class cruiser
22 September  Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S138 S138-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy[20]
22 September  Netherlands Rijkswerf Amsterdam Jacob van Heemskerck Coastal defence ship For Royal Netherlands Navy
4 October  United States
Fore River Shipbuilding
Quincy, Massachusetts Octopus C-class submarine [16]
6 October  United States Newport News Shipbuilding
Newport News
North Carolina Tennessee-class cruiser [21]
18 October  United Kingdom
Hawthorn & Co
Leith, Scotland Adele Yacht [22]
18 October  United Kingdom Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Dundee Lanfranc Ocean liner For
Booth Line[23]
18 October  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Aburi
Cargo Ship
For African Steamship Company.[24][25]
30 October  United Kingdom J. Samuel White Cowes TB 4 Cricket-class coastal destroyer [26]
October  United States William Cramp & Sons Philadelphia Havana For Ward Line
3 November  Russia Nikolayev Admiralty Shipyard, Nikolayev Evstafi Evstafi-class battleship [8]
4 November  United Kingdom Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness Rurik
Armoured cruiser
For Imperial Russian Navy.[27]
10 November  Russia
Admiralty Shipyard
,
Saint Petersburg Andrei Pervozvanny Evstafi-class battleship [8]
12 November  Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S139 S138-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy[20]
15 November  Japan Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Yokosuka, Kanagawa
Satsuma Battleship [28]
15 November  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Sierra Leone Cargo ship For Elder Dempster.[29]
1 December  Germany
AG Vulkan
Stettin
Kronprinzessin Cecilie
Ocean Liner
For Norddeutscher Lloyd
3 December  United States William Cramp & Sons Philadelphia Antilles
Passenger-cargo ship
[30]
7 December  Germany
Germaniawerft
Kiel Schleswig-Holstein Deutschland-class battleship [11]
10 November  Russia
Admiralty Shipyard
Saint Petersburg Pallada Bayan-class cruiser
15 December  United States
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Newport News, Virginia Montana Tennessee-class cruiser [21]
15 December  United Kingdom J. Samuel White Cowes TB 5 Cricket-class coastal destroyer [26]
22 December  United Kingdom Sir J Laing & Sons Ltd
Sunderland
Re d'Italia Ocean liner For Lloyd Sabaudo
Date unknown  United States Dialogue & Company Camden, New Jersey Aurora Tugboat
Date unknown  United Kingdom Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness B11 B-class submarine
Date unknown  Netherlands Bonn & Mees Rotterdam Goëland Fishing vessel For F. Courtois & F. Hovelaque
Date unknown  United States Camden, New Jersey Mariner Tugboat
Date unknown  United Kingdom Yarrow Shipbuilders Poplar Nafkratousa Thyella-class destroyer For
Royal Hellenic Navy
Date unknown  United Kingdom McLearon Harwich Thalatta Thames barge
Date unknown  United States Toledo Shipbuilding Company Toledo, Ohio Theodore Roosevelt For Roosevelt Steamship Company
Date unknown  United Kingdom Richardson, Duck & Co Stockton, Great Britain Picton Steamship
Date unknown  United Kingdom Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd. Strathearn Cargo ship For private owner.[31]

References

  1. ^ "Heroic". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  2. ^ Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 21.
  3. ^ "Graphic". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Ortega". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  5. ^ a b Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 256.
  6. ^ Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 233.
  7. ^ "Matheran". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  8. ^ a b c Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 185.
  9. ^ a b Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 44.
  10. ^ "Oronsa". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  11. ^ a b Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 249.
  12. ^ a b Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 73.
  13. ^ a b Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 40.
  14. ^ "Salamanca". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  15. ^ a b c Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 45.
  16. ^ a b Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 127.
  17. ^ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Volturno". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 October 1909. p. 101.
  18. ^ a b c "Belfast". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 October 1909. p. 95.
  19. ^ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Agawa". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 October 1909. pp. 101–102.
  20. ^ a b Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 47.
  21. ^ a b Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 149.
  22. ^ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Adele". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 November 1909. p. 137.
  23. ^ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Lanfranc". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 November 1909. p. 137.
  24. ^ Haws 1990, p. not cited.
  25. ^ "Aburi". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  26. ^ a b Friedman 2009, p. 305.
  27. ^ Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 191.
  28. ^ Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 228.
  29. ^ "Sierra Leone". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  30. ^ "Antilles (2204018)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  31. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 437.
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