The list of ship launches in 1907 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1907.
|
Country |
Builder |
Location |
Ship |
Class / type |
Notes |
12 January[1] |
France |
Arsenal de Rochefort |
Rochefort |
Coutelas |
Claymore-class destroyer |
Struck 1921 |
14 January[2] |
United Kingdom |
Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company |
Jarrow |
Bonetta |
Torpedo boat destroyer |
Scrapped 1920 |
15 February |
United Kingdom |
Vickers |
Barrow-in-Furness |
C7 |
C-class submarine |
Sold for scrapping, 1919 |
United Kingdom |
Vickers |
Barrow-in-Furness |
C8 |
C-class submarine |
Sold for scrapping, 1920 |
16 February |
United Kingdom |
Cammell Laird |
Birkenhead, England |
Cossack |
Tribal-class destroyer |
Scrapped 1919 |
15 March |
United Kingdom |
Vickers |
Barrow-in-Furness |
C10 |
C-class submarine |
Sold for scrapping, 1922 |
16 March |
United Kingdom |
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company |
Govan |
Indomitable |
Invincible-class battlecruiser |
Scrapped 1921 |
27 March |
United Kingdom |
Vickers |
Barrow-in-Furness |
C11 |
C-class submarine |
Sunk in collision, 1909 |
30 March |
United States |
Fore River Shipyard |
Quincy, Massachusetts |
Viper |
B-class submarine |
Sunk as a target, 1922 |
United States |
Fore River Shipyard |
Quincy, Massachusetts |
Tarantula |
B-class submarine |
Sunk as a target, 1922 |
3 April |
United Kingdom |
Vickers |
Barrow-in-Furness |
C9 |
C-class submarine |
Sold for scrapping, 1922 |
13 April |
United Kingdom |
Armstrong Whitworth |
Elswick |
Invincible |
Invincible-class battlecruiser |
Sunk 31 May 1916 |
14 April |
Empire of Japan |
Kure Naval Arsenal |
Kure, Hiroshima |
Aki |
Satsuma-class battleship |
Sunk as target, 1924 |
24 April |
United Kingdom |
Pembroke Dockyard |
Pembroke Dock |
Defence |
Minotaur-class cruiser |
Sunk 31 May 1916 |
26 April[3] |
United Kingdom |
Gourlay Brothers |
Dundee |
Atalanta |
Passenger vessel |
Sold in 1923 |
May[4] |
United Kingdom |
FJ Carver and Son |
Bridgwater, England |
Irene |
Ketch |
100-foot ketch built in Bridgwater in 1907, the last ship built in the docks and the only ketch built in the West Country still sailing |
8 May |
United Kingdom |
Armstrong Whitworth |
Elswick, England |
Afridi |
Tribal-class destroyer |
Scrapped 1919 |
29 May |
United States |
Fore River Shipyard |
Quincy, Massachusetts |
Birmingham |
Chester-class cruiser |
Sold for scrap, 1930 |
30 May[5] |
United Kingdom |
A. & J. Inglis |
Glasgow, Scotland |
Alexandra |
Royal yacht |
Sold to Norway in 1925, sunk by German bombers in 1940 |
26 June |
United Kingdom |
John Brown & Company |
Clydebank |
Inflexible |
Invincible-class battlecruiser |
Scrapped 1922 |
United States |
Bath Iron Works |
Bath, Maine |
Chester |
Chester-class cruiser |
Scrapped 1930 |
29 June[1] |
France |
Arsenal de Rochefort |
Rochefort |
Carquois |
Claymore-class destroyer |
Struck 1930 |
9 July |
United Kingdom |
D & W Henderson Ltd |
Glasgow |
California |
Passenger liner |
For Anchor Line[6] |
10 July |
United Kingdom |
Yarrow Shipbuilders |
London |
Lonchi |
Thyella-class destroyer |
[7] |
United Kingdom |
J. Samuel White |
Cowes |
TB 13 |
Cricket-class coastal destroyer |
[8] |
27 July |
United Kingdom |
Portsmouth Dockyard |
Portsmouth, England |
Bellerophon |
Bellerophon-class battleship |
Scrapped 1921 |
15 August |
Russian Empire |
Admiralty Shipyard |
Saint Petersburg |
Bayan |
Bayan-class cruiser |
Scrapped 1922 |
4 September |
Russian Empire |
Baltic Shipyard |
Saint Petersburg |
Akula |
Submarine |
Sunk 1915 |
7 September |
Russian Empire |
Baltic Shipyard |
Saint Petersburg |
Imperator Pavel I |
Andrei Pervozvanny-class battleship |
Scrapped 1923 |
9 September |
United Kingdom |
Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd |
Newcastle upon Tyne |
Tarmo |
Icebreaker |
Museum ship in Kotka, Finland |
United Kingdom |
Vickers |
Barrow-in-Furness |
C12 |
C-class submarine |
Sold for scrapping, 1920 |
19 September |
France |
Arsenal de Toulon |
Toulon |
Circé |
Circé-class submarine |
Sunk by U-boat, 1918 |
21 September |
France |
Brest Dockyard |
Brest |
Edgar Quinet |
Edgar Quinet-class cruiser |
[9] |
22 September |
Italy |
Cantiere Navale di Riva Trigoso |
Riva Trigoso |
Principessa Jolanda |
Ocean liner |
Capsized on launch |
5 October |
Germany |
Blohm & Voss |
Hamburg |
Dresden |
Light cruiser |
Sunk on 14 March 1915 at Mas a Tierra |
8 October[10] |
France |
Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand |
Le Havre |
Branlebas |
Branlebas-class destroyer |
Sunk on 30 September 1915 |
21 October |
Japan |
Yokosuka Naval Arsenal |
Yokosuka |
Kurama |
Ibuki-class cruiser. |
[11] |
22 October |
France |
Arsenal de Toulon |
Toulon |
Calypso |
Circé-class submarine |
Sunk in collision, 1914 |
United Kingdom |
John Brown & Company |
Clydebank |
Copenhagen |
Passenger vessel |
Sunk, 1917 |
23 October |
Germany |
AG Weser |
Bremen |
Albatross |
Nautilus-class minelayer |
Broken up, 1921 |
9 November |
United Kingdom |
Vickers |
Barrow-in-Furness |
C13 |
C-class submarine |
Sold for scrapping, 1920 |
16 November |
Germany |
Blohm & Voss |
|
Santa Elena |
Merchant ship |
Converted as a seaplane carrier in World War I |
18 November |
Japan |
Kawasaki |
Kobe |
Yodo |
Yodo-class cruiser |
[12] |
21 November |
Japan |
Kure Naval Arsenal |
Kure, Hiroshima |
Ibuki |
Ibuki-class cruiser. |
[11] |
26 November[1] |
France |
Arsenal de Toulon |
Toulon |
Cognée |
Claymore-class destroyer |
Struck 1921 |
7 December |
United Kingdom |
Vickers |
Barrow-in-Furness |
C14 |
C-class submarine |
Sold for scrapping, 1921 |
14 December[1] |
France |
Arsenal de Rochefort |
Rochefort |
Fleuret |
Claymore-class destroyer |
Struck 1920 |
19 December[10] |
France |
Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand |
Le Havre |
Fanfare |
Branlebas-class destroyer |
Struck 1925 |
21 December[10] |
France |
Ateliers et Chantiers de Penhoët |
Rouen |
Gabion |
Branlebas-class destroyer |
Struck 1921 |
Exact date unknown |
United States |
William Cramp & Sons |
Philadelphia |
Antilles |
Passenger-cargo ship |
Sunk 17 October 1917 |
Exact date unknown |
Sweden |
Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad |
Gothenburg |
Wasa |
Merchant ship |
Sold to Norway in 1925 |
References
- 1 2 3 4 Couhat 1974, p. 90.
- ↑ Lyon 2001, p. 37
- ↑ "Important Dundee Launch". Dundee Courier. Dundee. 27 April 1907. Retrieved 13 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Schäuffelen, Otmar (2005). Chapman Great Sailing Ships of the World. Hearst Books. p. 146. ISBN 1-58816-384-9.
- ↑ "Launches—Scotch: Alexandra". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. July 1907. p. 460.
- ↑ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches – Scotch: California". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 30. 1 August 1907. p. 36.
- ↑ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches:English: Lonhi". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 30. 1 August 1907. p. 35.
- ↑ Friedman 2009, p. 305
- ↑ Couhat 1974, p. 62.
- 1 2 3 Couhat 1974, p. 94.
- 1 2 Jentschura, Jung & Michel 1977, p. 78.
- ↑ Jentschura, Jung & Michel 1977, pp. 103–104.
- Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. Shepperton, UK: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
- Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
- Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter; Mikel, Peter (1977). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. Annapolis, Maryland, USA: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
- Lyon, David (2001). The First Destroyers. London: Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-3648.