List of ship launches in 1918
The list of ship launches in 1918 includes a chronological list of ships launched in 1918. In cases where no official launching ceremony was held, the date built or completed may be used instead.
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Summary
| Region | Location | Builder | Number[a] | DWT wood
|
DWT steel
|
DT military
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 West |
Puget Sound
|
Skinner & Eddy | 27 | 240,000 | ||
| Ames Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company | 12 | 105,100 | ||||
| J. F. Duthie & Company | 10 | 88,000 | ||||
Todd Dry Dock and Construction Company (new) |
8 | 60,000 | ||||
Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Company |
7 | 52,500 | ||||
| Seattle North Pacific Shipbuilding Company (new) | 3 | 28,200 | ||||
| Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company | 3 | |||||
| Seaborn Shipyards | 6 | |||||
| Wright Shipbuilding | ||||||
Columbia and Willamette Rivers |
Northwest Steel | 16 | 140,800 | |||
Columbia River Shipbuilding |
12 | 105,600 | ||||
G. M. Standifer Construction (wood) |
9 | |||||
G. M. Standifer Construction (steel) (new) |
1 | 9,400 | ||||
| Albina Engine & Machine Works | 8 | |||||
| Supple-Ballin Shipbuilding | 5 | |||||
| Foundation Company, Portland | 16 | |||||
| other North Pacific | Grays Harbor Motorship Corporation | 13 | 52,000 | |||
| Los Angeles | Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company |
14 | 123,200 | |||
Southwestern Shipbuilding (new) |
2 | 17,600 | ||||
Long Beach Shipbuilding Company (new[b] ) |
5 | 24,000 | ||||
| San Francisco Bay | Union Iron Works | 18 | ||||
Mare Island Navy Yard |
1 | |||||
Schaw-Batcher Shipbuilding Company (Western P&S) (new) |
4 | 35,200 | ||||
| Pacific Coast Shipbuilding Company (new) | 1 | 9,400 | ||||
Oakland / Alameda |
Hanlon Dry Dock and Shipbuilding | 2 | 11,000 | |||
| Moore Dry Dock Company | 14 | 132,800 | ||||
Bethlehem Alameda |
13 | |||||
| East |
Delaware River | William Cramp & Sons | 7 | |||
Sun Shipbuilding Company |
5 | 50,300 | ||||
Pusey & Jones Wilmington |
4 | 16,000 | ||||
Pusey & Jones Pennsylvania |
3 | 26,500 | ||||
New York Shipbuilding |
10 | 74,600 | ||||
| Chester Shipbuilding Company | 2 | 18,000 | ||||
| Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation (new) | 4 | 36,000 | ||||
Bethlehem Wilmington |
7 | 44,980 | ||||
American International Shipbuilding (new) |
12 | 90,000 | ||||
| New York Harbor | Staten Island Shipbuilding Company |
3 | 10,500 | |||
Submarine Boat Corporation (new) |
20 | 101,500 | ||||
Standard Shipbuilding Company |
6 | 43,800 | ||||
| Moore Plant Elizabthport | 2 | 7,000 | ||||
Federal Shipbuilding (new) |
8 | 76,800 | ||||
| Downey Shipbuilding Corporation (new) | 3 | 22,500 | ||||
| Newport News Shipbuilding | 10 | |||||
| Newburgh Shipyards (new) | 3 | 27,000 | ||||
Bethlehem Sparrows Point |
7 | 61,250 | ||||
| Baltimore Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company | 6 | 42,400 | ||||
Fore River Shipbuilding |
14 | |||||
| Bath Iron Works | 4 | |||||
| Russel Shipbuilding Company | 3 | 10,500 | ||||
| Groton Iron Works Groton yard (new) | 1 | 8,800 | ||||
| Lakes |
Lake Erie | AmShip Wyandotte | 27 | 98,150 | ||
| AmShip Lorain | 25 | 89,050 | ||||
| Great Lakes Engineering Works Ecorse | 24 | 84,800 | ||||
| AmShip Cleveland | 11 | 45,900 | ||||
| Great Lakes Engineering Works Ashtabula | 11 | 38,200 | ||||
| AmShip Buffalo | 4 | 14,200 | ||||
| Toledo Shipbuilding Company | 11 | 35,650 | ||||
| Lake Michigan | AmShip Chicago | 13 | 46,550 | |||
| Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company | ||||||
| Lake Huron | Saginaw Shipbuilding Company (new) | 4 | 14,000 | |||
| Lake Superior | AmShip Superior | 9 | 32,800 | |||
Globe Shipbuilding Company
| ||||||
| McDougall Duluth Shipbuilding Company | ||||||
| UK | Craig, Taylor & Co, Ltd. | 7 | ||||
| Irvine's Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co, Ltd. | 6 | |||||
| Richardson, Duck and Company | 5 | |||||
| Ropner & Sons | 6 | |||||
| Sir Raylton Dixon & Co | 5 |
| Month | Req. Steel | Req S. dwt | CS | CSt | CW | CWt | CComp | CCompt | CC | CCt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15 | 103,700 | 1 | 8,800 | ||||||
| February | 23 | 132,400 | 3 | 21,150 | 5 | 19,500 | ||||
| March | 27 | 168,766 | 6 | 51,650 | 11 | 42,000 | ||||
| April | 22 | 119,880 | 7 | 45,850 | 17 | 64,000 | ||||
| May | 28 | 166,130 | 14 | 85,025 | 31 | 115,700 | 1 | 3,500 | ||
| June | 13 | 77,050 | 13 | 74,300 | 22 | 80,200 | 1 | 3,500 | ||
| July | 33 | 218,925 | 35 | 218,725 | 54 | 195,750 | 2 | 7,000 | ||
| August | 17 | 120,730 | 29 | 174,650 | 34 | 115,950 | 3 | 10,500 | ||
| September | 19 | 146,295 | 40 | 215,525 | 31 | 111,400 | 3 | 10,500 | ||
| October | 6 | 54,475 | 41 | 244,700 | 33 | 106,300 | ||||
| November | 10 | 85,300 | 39 | 230,200 | 31 | 111,450 | 3 | 10,500 | ||
| December | 8 | 59,825 | 51 | 327,525 | 29 | 81,800 | 1 | 3,000 | ||
| Total | 221 | 1,453,476 | 279 | 1,698,100 | 298 | 1,044,050 | 13 | 45,500 | 1 | 3,000 |
| Country | Ships | Tons | Ships | Tons | Ships | Tons |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 1917 | 1916 | ||||
| United States | 929 | 3,033,030 | 326 | 997,919 | 211 | 504,217 |
| United Kingdom | 301 | 1,348,120 | 286 | 1,162,896 | 306 | 608,235 |
| Dominions | 206 | 279,904 | 105 | 94,471 | 40 | 31,571 |
| Japan | 198 | 489,924 | 104 | 350,141 | 55 | 145,624 |
| Holland | 74 | 74,026 | 146 | 148,779 | 201 | 180,197 |
| Norway | 51 | 47,723 | 44 | 46,103 | 52 | 42,458 |
| Sweden | 36 | 39,583 | 34 | 26,760 | 34 | 26,769 |
| Italy | 15 | 60,791 | 11 | 38,906 | 10 | 56,654 |
| Denmark | 13 | 26,150 | 23 | 20,445 | 28 | 35,277 |
| France | 3 | 13,715 | 6 | 18,828 | 9 | 42,752 |
| Austria-Hungary | no data | |||||
| Germany | ||||||
| Others (approx) | 40 | 34,478 | 27 | 32,538 | 18 | 14,296 |
| Total (approx) | 1,866 | 5,447,444 | 1112 | 2,937,786 | 964 | 1,688,080 |
| Region | S/S | GT | W/S | GT | W/Sail | GT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US East[a] | 152 | 734,587 | 86 | 185,769 | 31 | 31,787 |
| US Gulf | 3 | 4,110 | 56 | 124,702 | 7 | 5,225 |
| US West | 160 | 922,949 | 237 | 575,747 | 8 | 15,600 |
| US Lakes | 187 | 428,494 | 1 | 2,383 | ||
| Can. Lakes | 18 | 40,216 | 4 | 9,174 | ||
| Can. Coast | 19 | 72,398 | 52 | 100,178 | 84 | 36,225 |
| B. Dominions, other | 6 | 10,882 | 7 | 6,395 | 16 | 4,436 |
| Japan | 157 | 458,731 | 41 | 31,193 | ||
| Holland | 74 | 74,026 | ||||
| Italy | 11 | 59,391 | 3 | 950 | 1 | 450 |
| Norway | 44 | 45,832 | 7 | 1,891 | ||
| Sweden | 22 | 35,331 | 11 | 3,617 | 3 | 635 |
| Spain | 12 | 16,074 | 4 | 815 | 2 | 500 |
| France | 3 | 13,715 | ||||
| China | 8 | 10,988 | 1 | 790 | ||
| Portugal | 13 | 5,311 |
- ^ additionally, one steel sailing vessel of 1,677gt
| District | Steamers | GT |
|---|---|---|
| Barrow, Maryport, Workington | 3 | 11,004 |
| Belfast, Londonderry | 23 | 148,259 |
| Dundee | 8 | 23,860 |
| Clyde / Glasgow | 41 | 188,736 |
| Clyde / Greenock | 31 | 160,024 |
| Hartlepool | 25 | 100,413 |
| Hull | 5 | 25,480 |
| Leith[a] | 10 | 16,576 |
| Liverpool | 4 | 12,486 |
| Middlesbrough, Stockton, Whitby | 24 | 109,298 |
| Newcastle | 55 | 266,594 |
| Sunderland | 58 | 260,553 |
- ^ additionally, 1 sailing vessel of 3,845gt
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