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List of ship launches in 1979

The list of ship launches in 1979 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 1979.


Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes
20 January United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Deyo Spruance-class destroyer
27 January United States National Steel & Shipbuilding San Diego, California Yellowstone Yellowstone-class destroyer tender
3 February United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Thorn Spruance-class destroyer
16 February United Kingdom Brooke Marine Lowestoft, Suffolk Fremantle Fremantle-class patrol boat for Royal Australian Navy
10 March United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Ingersoll Spruance-class destroyer
20 March Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel Pontos Type 209 submarine For Hellenic Navy
24 March United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Clark Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
25 March Soviet Union Yantar Kaliningrad Zadornyy Project 1135 large anti-submarine ship
27 March United States Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle, Washington Antrim Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
27 March Japan Yūshio Yūshio-class submarine
31 March West Germany Meyer Werft Papenburg Diana II Roll-on/roll-off passenger car ferry For Rederi AB Slite for Viking Line traffic
7 April United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Ohio Ohio-class submarine
21 April SUN Zelenodolsk Shipyard Zelenodolsk Sokol Koni-class frigate For Soviet Navy
25 April Denmark Frederikshavn Vaerft Frederikshavn Mercandian Carrier type FV 610 RoRo-ship For Merc-Scandia KS[1]
28 April United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Dallas Los Angeles-class submarine
28 April United States Avondale Shipyard Avondale, Louisiana Cimarron Cimarron-class fleet replenishment oiler
1 May United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Fife Spruance-class destroyer
19 May United States Todd Pacific Shipyards San Pedro, California Sides Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
16 June United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Fletcher Spruance-class destroyer
29 June United Kingdom Vosper Thornycroft Southampton, England Southampton Type 42 destroyer
14 July United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Samuel Eliot Morison Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
28 July United States National Steel & Shipbuilding San Diego, California Acadia Yellowstone-class destroyer tender
20 July Turkey Marinewerft Gölcük Yıldıray Type 209 submarine For Turkish Naval Forces
11 August United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Kidd Kidd-class destroyer
11 August United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut La Jolla Los Angeles-class submarine
14 August Finland Wärtsilä Turku Shipyard Turku Rosella Cruiseferry For SF Line for Viking Line traffic
18 August Denmark Frederikshavn Vaerft Frederikshavn Mercandian Exporter II type FV 610 RoRo-ship For Per Henriksen[2]
24 August United States Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle, Washington Fahrion Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
30 August Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel Casma Type 209 submarine For Peruvian Navy
11 September West Germany Meyer Werft Papenburg Viking Sally Roll-on/roll-off passenger car ferry Originally ordered by an unknown Norwegian company. Contract transferred to Rederi Ab Sally.
20 September Japan Kurama Shirane-class destroyer
21 September France Chantiers de l'Atlantique Saint-Nazaire, France Prairial Batillus-class supertanker
24 September West Germany Bremer Vulkan Bremen-Vegesack New Zealand Caribbean container ship For Shipping Corporation of New Zealand Ltd.
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27 September Germany Bremer Vulkan Bremen-Vegesack Bremen Bremen-class frigate For German Navy
5 October United Kingdom Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Splendid Swiftsure-class submarine
20 October United States Todd Pacific Shipyards San Pedro, California John A. Moore Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
27 October United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia San Francisco Los Angeles-class submarine
3 November United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Estocin Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
4 November Japan Onomichi Zosen Onomichi Ever Light Ever Level-class container ship For Evergreen Marine[3]
10 November Poland Stocznia Szczecinska im Adolfa Warskiego Warskiego Szczecin Georg Ots Dmitriy Shostakovich-class ferry For Black Sea Shipping Company[4]
1 December United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Callaghan Kidd-class destroyer
8 December United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Phoenix Los Angeles-class submarine
19 December Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel Antofagasta Type 209 submarine For Peruvian Navy
29 December Poland Stocznia Szczecinska im Adolfa Warskiego Warskiego Szczecin Dmitriy Shostakovich Dmitriy Shostakovich-class ferry For Black Sea Shipping Company[5]

See also

Ship events in 1979
Ship launches: 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
Ship commissionings: 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
Ship decommissionings: 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
Shipwrecks: 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984

References

  1. ^ "M/S MERCANDIAN CARRIER". Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  2. ^ "M/S MERCANDIAN EXPORTER II". Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  3. ^ Schiffsdaten im Miramar Ship Index (englisch, online nicht verfügbar) ID=7900819 at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
  4. ^ "M/S GEORG OTS". Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  5. ^ "M/S DMITRIY SHOSTAKOVICH". Retrieved 2016-10-16.
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