List of ship launches in 1907
The list of ship launches in 1907 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1907.
Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class / type | Notes |
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12 January | France | Arsenal de Rochefort | Rochefort | Coutelas | Claymore-class destroyer | Struck 1921.[1] |
14 January | United Kingdom | Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company | Jarrow | Bonetta | Torpedo boat destroyer | Scrapped 1920.[2] |
31 January | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Fulani | Cargo ship | For Elder Dempster..[3] |
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 |
2 March | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Avon | Passenger ship | For Royal Mail Lines.[4] |
7 March | Germany | AG Vulcan Stettin | Stettin | Stettin | Königsberg-class cruiser | |
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 |
29 March | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Prashu | Cargo ship | For Elder Dempster.[5] |
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 |
6 April | Germany | Schichau-Werke | Elbing | S143 | S138-class torpedo boat | For Imperial German Navy[6] |
13 April | United Kingdom | Armstrong Whitworth | Elswick | Invincible | Invincible-class battlecruiser | Sunk 31 May 1916 |
14 April | Japan | Kure Naval Arsenal | Kure, Hiroshima | Aki | Satsuma-class battleship | Sunk as target, 1924 |
21 April | Italy | La Spezia Naval Base | La Spezia | Roma | Regina Elena-class battleship | |
24 April | United Kingdom | Pembroke Dockyard | Pembroke Dock | Defence | Minotaur-class cruiser | Sunk 31 May 1916 |
26 April[7] | United Kingdom | Gourlay Brothers | Dundee | Atalanta | Passenger vessel | Sold in 1923 |
May | 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] |
8 May | United Kingdom | Armstrong Whitworth | Elswick, England | Afridi | Tribal-class destroyer | Scrapped 1919 |
28 May | France | Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde | Lormont | Vérité | Liberté-class battleship | |
29 May | United States | Fore River Shipyard | Quincy, Massachusetts | Birmingham | Chester-class cruiser | Sold for scrap, 1930 |
30 May[9] | 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 | |
27 June | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Iroquois | Tanker | For Anglo-American Oil Company.[10] |
29 June | France | Arsenal de Rochefort | Rochefort | Carquois | Claymore-class destroyer | Struck 1930.[1] |
29 June | United States | W. A. Boole & Son | Oakland, California | Sibyl Marston | schooner | |
9 July | United Kingdom | D & W Henderson Ltd | Glasgow | California | Passenger liner | For Anchor Line[11] |
10 July | United Kingdom | Yarrow Shipbuilders | London | Lonchi | Thyella-class destroyer | [12] |
United Kingdom | J. Samuel White | Cowes | TB 13 | Cricket-class coastal destroyer | [13] | |
27 July | United Kingdom | Portsmouth Dockyard | Portsmouth, England | Bellerophon | Bellerophon-class battleship | Scrapped 1921 |
15 August | Russia | Admiralty Shipyard | Saint Petersburg | Bayan | Bayan-class cruiser | Scrapped 1922 |
24 August | United Kingdom | HM Dockyard | Devonport | Temeraire | Bellerophon-class battleship | Sold for scrap 1921 |
4 September | Russia | Baltic Shipyard | Saint Petersburg | Akula | Submarine | Sunk 1915 |
7 September | Russia | 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 | [14] |
22 September | Italy | Cantiere Navale di Riva Trigoso | Riva Trigoso | Principessa Jolanda | Ocean liner | Capsized on launch |
26 September | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Asturias | Passenger ship | For Royal Mail Lines.[15] |
5 October | Germany | Blohm & Voss | Hamburg | Dresden | Dresden-class cruiser | Sunk on 14 March 1915 at Mas a Tierra |
8 October | France | Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand | Le Havre | Branlebas | Branlebas-class destroyer | Sunk on 30 September 1915.[16] |
10 October | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Navahoe | Schooner oil barge | For Anglo-American Oil Company.[17] |
21 October | Japan | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal | Yokosuka | Kurama | Ibuki-class armored cruiser | [18] |
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 |
7 November | United Kingdom | Armstrong Whitworth | Elswick, England | Superb | Bellerophon-class battleship | Sold for scrap 1922 |
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 | [19] |
21 November | Japan | Kure Naval Arsenal | Kure, Hiroshima | Ibuki | Ibuki-class armored cruiser | [18] |
26 November | France | Arsenal de Toulon | Toulon | Cognée | Claymore-class destroyer | Struck 1921.[1] |
5 December | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Median | Cargo ship | For F. Leyland & Co..[20] |
7 December | United Kingdom | Vickers | Barrow-in-Furness | C14 | C-class submarine | Sold for scrapping, 1921 |
14 December | France | Arsenal de Rochefort | Rochefort | Fleuret | Claymore-class destroyer | Struck 1920.[1] |
19 December | France | Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand | Le Havre | Fanfare | Branlebas-class destroyer | Struck 1925.[16] |
21 December | France | Ateliers et Chantiers de Penhoët | Rouen | Gabion | Branlebas-class destroyer | Struck 1921.[16] |
United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Pericles | Passenger ship | For Aberdeen Line. | |
Unknown date | United Kingdom | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. | Glasgow | City of Paris | Ocean liner | For Ellerman Lines.[21] |
Unknown date | United Kingdom | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. | Glasgow | Corsican | Ocean liner | For Allan Line.[21] |
Unknown date | United Kingdom | Workman, Clark & Co. Ltd. | Belfast | Kia Ora | Cargo ship | For private owner.[22] |
Unknown date | Sweden | Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad | Gothenburg | Wasa | Merchant ship | Sold to Norway in 1925 |
References
- ^ a b c d Couhat 1974, p. 90.
- ^ Lyon 2001, p. 37.
- ^ "Fulani". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ "Avon". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ "Prashu". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 47.
- ^ "Important Dundee Launch". Dundee Courier. Dundee. 27 April 1907. Retrieved 13 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Schäuffelen 2005, p. 146.
- ^ "Launches—Scotch: Alexandra". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. July 1907. p. 460.
- ^ "Iroquois". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Asturias". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ a b c Couhat 1974, p. 94.
- ^ "Navahoe". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ a b Jentschura, Jung & Mikel 1977, p. 78.
- ^ Jentschura, Jung & Mikel 1977, pp. 103–104.
- ^ "Median". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ a b Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 21.
- ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 441.
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- Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
- Gröner, Erich; Jung, Dieter; Maass, Martin (1983). Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815–1945: Band 2: Torpedoboote, Zerstörer, Schnellboote, Minensuchboote, Minenräumboote (in German). Koblenz: Bernard & Graef Verlag. ISBN 3-7637-4801-6.
- 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.
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