List of ship launches in 1906

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

Country Builder Location Ship Class Notes
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 [1]
14 February  United Kingdom William Denny & Brothers Dumbarton Rewa For British-India Steam Navigation Company
9 March  United Kingdom Charles Connell & Co Glasgow Ganges Cargo liner
22 March  German Empire Blohm + Voss Hamburg SMS Scharnhorst Scharnhorst-class cruiser For Imperial German Navy[2]
23 March  United Kingdom Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness B10 B-class submarine
9 April  Japan Kure Naval Arsenal Kure, Hiroshima Ikoma Heavy cruiser [3]
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  Russian Empire Sevastopol Shipyard Sevastapol Ioann Zlatoust Evstafi-class battleship [4]
7 May  Canada G. A. Pontbriand Temagami Belle of Temagami Steamboat
12 May  Germany Stettiner Vulkan Stettin Prinz Ludwig Ocean liner For Norddeutscher Lloyd
28 May  Germany Schichau Danzig Schlesien Deutschland-class battleship [5]
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 [6]
7 June  United Kingdom John Brown & Co. Ltd Clydebank Lusitania Ocean liner For Cunard Line
14 June  Germany Weserwerft Bremen Gneisenau Armoured cruiser [2]
23 June  United Kingdom William Beardmore and Company Dalmuir Agamemnon Lord Nelson-class battleship [7]
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
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
25 July  Canada Canadian Ship Building Company Toronto Sagamo For Muskosa Lakes Navigation and Hotel Company
4 August  Germany Germaniawerft Kiel U-1 Submarine
1 September  United States Fore River Shipbuilding Quincy, Massachusetts Cuttlefish B-class submarine [8]
4 September  United Kingdom Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Jarrow Lord Nelson Lord Nelson-class battleship Last pre-dreadnought battleship for the Royal Navy[7]
5 September  United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Govan Volturno Passenger steamer [9]
6 September  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Rohilla Cruise liner For British India Steam Navigation Company[10]
10 September  Germany AG Weser Bremen Reserve Lightship
20 September  United Kingdom Harland and Wolff Belfast Adriatic Ocean liner For White Star Line[10]
20 September  United Kingdom Ramage and Ferguson Ltd Leith Agawa Yacht [11]
20 September  United Kingdom Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Wallsend Mauretania Ocean liner For Cunard Line[10]
20 September  United Kingdom Chatham Dockyard Chatham Shannon Minotaur-class cruiser [6]
22 September  Germany Danzig Navy Yard Danzig, Germany Stuttgart Stettin-class cruiser
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 [8]
6 October  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News North Carolina Tennessee-class cruiser [12]
10 November  Russian Empire Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg Andrei Pervozvanny Evstafi-class battleship [4]
18 October  United Kingdom Hawthorn & Co Leith, Scotland Adele Yacht [13]
18 October  United Kingdom Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Dundee Lanfranc Ocean liner For Booth Line[14]
October  United States William Cramp & Sons Philadelphia Havana For Ward Line
3 November  Russian Empire Nikolayev Admiralty Shipyard, Nikolayev Evstafi Evstafi-class battleship [4]
4 November  United Kingdom Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness Rurik Armoured cruiser For Imperial Russian Navy[15]
15 November  Japan Yokosuka Naval Arsenal Yokosuka, Kanagawa Satsuma Battleship [16]
1 December  Germany AG Vulkan Stettin Kronprinzessin Cecilie Ocean Liner For Norddeutscher Lloyd
7 December  Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Schleswig-Holstein Deutschland-class battleship [5]
10 November  Russian Empire 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 [12]
15 December  United Kingdom J. Samuel White Cowes TB 5 Cricket-class coastal destroyer [17]
22 December  United Kingdom Sir J Laing & Sons Ltd Sunderland Re d'Italia Ocean liner For Lloyd Sabaudo
Exact date unknown  United States Dialogue & Company Camden, New Jersey Aurora Tugboat
Exact date unknown  United Kingdom Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness B11 B-class submarine
Exact date unknown  United States Camden, New Jersey Mariner Tugboat
Exact date unknown  United Kingdom Yarrow Shipbuilders Poplar Nafkratousa Thyella-class destroyer For Royal Hellenic Navy
Exact date unknown  United Kingdom McLearon Harwich Thalatta Thames barge
Exact date unknown  United States Toledo Shipbuilding Company Toledo, Ohio Theodore Roosevelt For Roosevelt Steamship Company
Exact date unknown  United Kingdom Richardson, Duck & Co Stockton, Great Britain Picton Steamship

References

  1. ↑ Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 21
  2. 1 2 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 256
  3. ↑ Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 233
  4. 1 2 3 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 185
  5. 1 2 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 249
  6. 1 2 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 73
  7. 1 2 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 40
  8. 1 2 Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 127
  9. ↑ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Volturno". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 October 1909. p. 101.
  10. 1 2 3 "Belfast". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 October 1909. p. 95.
  11. ↑ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Agawa". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 October 1909. pp. 101–102.
  12. 1 2 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 149
  13. ↑ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Adele". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 November 1909. p. 137.
  14. ↑ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Lanfranc". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 November 1909. p. 137.
  15. ↑ Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 191
  16. ↑ Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 228
  17. ↑ Friedman 2009, p. 305
  • Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
  • Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
  • Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.

See also

Ship events in 1906
Ship launches: 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911
Ship commissionings: 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911
Ship decommissionings: 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911
Shipwrecks: 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911
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