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List of ship launches in 1939

The list of ship launches in 1939 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 1939.

Date Country Builder Location Ship Class Service Notes
7 January Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Lützow Admiral Hipper-class cruiser Kriegsmarine
9 January UK J. Samuel White Cowes Kingston K-class destroyer Royal Navy
17 January France Arsenal de Brest Brest Richelieu Richelieu-class battleship French Navy
19 January Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Seydlitz Admiral Hipper-class cruiser Kriegsmarine
19 January UK Fairfield Govan Kelvin K-class destroyer Royal Navy
19 January UK Yarrow Shipbuilders Scotstoun Kipling K-class destroyer Royal Navy
21 January Norway Royal Norwegian Navy Yard Horten Odin Sleipner-class destroyer Royal Norwegian Navy
24 January UK William Denny & Brothers Dumbarton Royal Daffodil Pleasure cruise ship General Steam Navigation Co. Ltd Assisted in Operation Dynamo, 1940
6 February UK Swan Hunter Tyne and Wear Khartoum K-class destroyer Royal Navy
14 February Germany Blohm & Voss Hamburg Bismarck Bismarck-class battleship Kriegsmarine
21 February UK Vickers-Armstrong Newcastle King George V King George V-class battleship Royal Navy
4 March Netherlands Smit P Jr. Rotterdam Klipfontein Cargo / Passenger Liner
4 March United States Sun Shipbuilding Chester, Pennsylvania Esso Seakay Maritime Commission Type N tanker United States Navy
7 March UK Harland and Wolff Belfast Andes Ocean liner Merchant For Royal Mail Line
15 March Germany Blohm+Voss Hamburg Dogu Passenger ship Merchant Requisitioned for Deutsche-Afrika Linien on completion
21 March UK William Denny & Brothers Dumbarton Kandahar K-class destroyer Royal Navy
23 March Germany Bremer Vulkan Vegesack Hannover Cargo liner Merchant For Norddeutscher Lloyd
March Netherlands Van Diepen Scheepswerf Gebroeders NV Waterhuizen Herman Litmeyer Coaster Merchant For Gebr. Elfring
March Germany DeSchiMAG Kiel Mars Cargo liner Merchant For Neptun Line
1 April United States Sun Shipbuilding Chester, Pennsylvania Esso New Orleans Maritime Commission Type N tanker
1 April Germany Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven Tirpitz Bismarck-class battleship Kriegsmarine
4 April United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Wasp Unique aircraft carrier United States Navy
4 April UK John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston Kashmir K-class destroyer Royal Navy
18 April UK Yarrow Shipbuilders Glasgow, Scotland Flamingo Black Swan-class sloop Royal Navy
18 April UK J. Samuel White Cowes Shearwater Kingfisher-class sloop Royal Navy
3 May UK Cammell Laird Birkenhead Prince of Wales King George V-class battleship Royal Navy
1 June UK John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston Kimberley K-class destroyer Royal Navy
17 June Sweden Öresundsvarvet Landskrona Janus ferry Jahre Line[1]
7 July UK Yarrow Shipbuilders Glasgow, Scotland Black Swan Black Swan-class sloop Royal Navy
17 July Brazil J. Samuel White Cowes Javary Destroyer Brazilian Navy Became HMS Havant with the Royal Navy
5 August Norway Nylands Verksted Oslo Otra Otra-class minesweeper Royal Norwegian Navy
27 August United States New York Naval Shipyard Brooklyn, New York Helena St. Louis-class cruiser United States Navy
31 August UK Cochrane & Sons Ltd Selby Karl Tug Merchant For Goteborgs Bogserings & Bargnings Akt, Gothenburg
7 September Norway Fredrikstad Mekaniske Verksted Fredrikstad Tor Sleipner-class destroyer Royal Norwegian Navy Captured by the Germans in 1940, renamed Tiger
8 September Poland Gdynia Shipyard Gdynia Olza freighter/dry cargo ship Merchant Launched prematurely due to World War II
26 September Norway Nylands Verksted Oslo Rauma Otra-class minesweeper Royal Norwegian Navy
17 October UK J. Samuel White Cowes The James Braidwood Fireboat London Fire Brigade Named for James Braidwood
4 November United States Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Kearny, New Jersey Esso Trenton Maritime Commission Type N tanker United States Navy
4 November Denmark Nakskov Skibsværft Nakskov Saturnus For Ab Saturnus[2]
7 November Germany Blohm & Voss Hamburg Herbert Norkus Gorch Fock-class sail training ship Reichsmarine
15 November Kingdom of Italy Gio. Ansaldo & C. Genoa Impero Littorio-class battleship Regia Marina Never commissioned
12 December UK Cammel Laird Birkenhead Atherstone Hunt-class destroyer Royal Navy
12 December UK Swan Hunter Wallsend Hambledon Hunt-class destroyer Royal Navy
14 December UK William Denny & Bros Ltd Dumbarton Invicta Passenger Ferry For Southern Railway
14 December United States Sun Shipbuilding Chester, Pennsylvania Mormacland Merchant Merchant Transferred to the Royal Navy for conversion to HMS Archer
26 December UK Hawthorn Leslie Newcastle Legion L-class destroyer Royal Navy
28 December UK VIckers-Armstrongs River Tyne Eglinton Hunt-class destroyer Royal Navy
Unknown date UK Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd Sunderland British Prudence Tanker Merchant For British Tanker Co Ltd.
Unknown date Germany Deutsche Werft Hamburg Bukarest Cargo ship Merchant For Deutsche Levant Line
Unknown date Netherlands Van Diepen Scheepswerf Gebroeders NV Waterhuizen Caribe I Cargo ship Merchant For S G Hallstrom, Amsterdam
Unknown date Germany Lübecker Maschinenbau - Gesellschaft Lübeck Cressida Cargo ship Merchant
Unknown date Germany Nobiskrug Werft Rendsburg Gunther Harmann Coaster Merchant
Unknown date Germany Schulte & Bruns Embden Klaus Wilhelm Coaster Schulte & Bruns
Unknown date United States Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co Newport News, Virginia Nightingale Type C2 ship Merchant For Grace Line Inc.
Unknown date Germany F Schichau GmbH Danzig Oderbank Coastal tanker Kriegsmarine
Unknown date Germany D W Kremer Sohn Elmshorn Trave Cargo ship Merchant For Lübeck-Wyberger Dampfschiff Gesellschaft
Unknown date Germany Bremer Vulkan Bremen Unitas 10 Whaler Jurgens Van Den Brugh Margarine Verkaufs Union GmbH, Hamburg
Unknown date Netherlands Gebroeders Bodewes Volharding Foxhol Venus Cargo ship Merchant
Unknown date Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Wiking 6 Whaler Hamburger Walfang-Kontor GmbH
Unknown date Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Wiking 8 Whaler Hamburger Walfang-Kontor GmbH
Unknown date Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Wiking 9 Whaler Hamburger Walfang-Kontor GmbH
Unknown date Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Wiking 10 Whaler Hamburger Walfang-Kontor GmbH
Ship events in 1939
Ship launches: 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Ship commissionings: 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Ship decommissionings: 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Shipwrecks: 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944

References

  1. ^ "M/T Janus". Retrieved 2016-08-03.
  2. ^ "M/T Saturnus". Retrieved 2016-08-03.
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