List of ship launches in 1884
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The list of ship launches in 1884 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1884.
January[]
29 January[]
Imperieuse-class cruiser HMS Warspite launched at Chatham Dockyard.
February[]
28 February[]
- the Screw-steamer Trelaske launched at the shipyard of Messrs Redhead and Co of South Shields, for Messrs Hain and Son of St Ives, Cornwall.[1]
April[]
12 April[]
Gunboat USS Dolphin launched by John Roach & Sons, Chester, Pennsylvania.
May[]
7 May[]
Gor-class gunboat HNoMS Gor launched by Karljohansverns Verft, Horten.
13 May[]
- Flat-iron gunboat HMQS Gayundah launched by Sir WG Armstrong Mitchell & Company at Elswick.
June[]
23 June[]
- Calypso-class corvette HMS Calliope launched at Portsmouth Dockyard.
- Mariner-class gunvessel HMS Mariner launched at Devonport Dockyard.
25 June[]
- Ocean liner RMS Umbria launched by John Elder & Co, Glasgow
July[]
16 July[]
19 July[]
- Patrol vessel HMQS Otter launched by Ramage and Ferguson, Leith.
August[]
- Iron, four-masted, full-rigged sailing ship Belgrave built at William Hamilton and Company, Port Glasgow. At launch, the largest sailing ship in the world.[2]
6 August[]
- Mariner-class HMS Racer launched at Devonport Dockyard.[3]
9 August[]
Ruggiero di Lauria-class ironclad Ruggiero di Lauria launched by Castellammare Shipyard
September[]
- Cable layer Mackay-Bennett launched by John Elder & Co, Glasgow.[4]
October[]
8 October[]
- Admiral-class battleship HMS Rodney launched at Chatham Dockyard.
9 October[]
- Protected cruiser USS Atlanta launched by John Roach & Sons, Chester, Pennsylvania.
29 October[]
Cruiser Persepolis launched by AG Weser, Bremen, German Empire.
November[]
5 November[]
- Satellite-class sloop HMS Pylades launched at Sheerness Dockyard.
16 November[]
- Flat-iron gunboat HMAS Protector launched by Sir WG Armstrong Mitchell & Company at Elswick.
December[]
4 December[]
- Protected cruiser USS Boston launched by John Roach & Sons, Chester, Pennsylvania.
20 December[]
Coastal defence ship SMS Oldenburg launched by A.G. Vulcan, Stettin.
Unknown date[]
Tug Advance launched at Williamstown, Victoria.- Gunboat HMVS Albert launched by Sir WG Armstrong Mitchell & Company at Elswick.
- Sloop Afonso de Albuquerque launched at Thames Iron Works, Leamouth.
- Barge USS Addie and Carrie launched at City Island, New York.
- Steamship Chatham launched by the American Shipbuilding Co. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Sailing ship Dunolly launched by Charles Connell, Glasgow.
Ferry Bee launched at Newcastle, New South Wales- Lifeboat Benjamin Bond Cabbell II launched by James Beeching & Brothers, Great Yarmouth.
- Torpedo boat Childers launched by John I. Thornycroft & Company, Cheswick, Northumberland.
Full-rigged ship County of Yarmouth launched by Hilaire P. Boudreau, Belliveau's Cove, Nova Scotia.- Torpedo boat HMVS Gordon launched.
- Barquentine HMCS Karluk launched at Benicia, California.
- Maryland State Oyster Police steamer Governor R. M. McLane launched by Neafie and Levy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Train ferry Lansdowne launched by the Detroit Dry Dock Company, Detroit, Michigan.
- Paddle steamer Lucinda launched by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton.
- Whaler Patria launched by Christian Brinch Jørgensen at Svelvik.
- Schooner USS Priscilla launched by David Clark, Kennebunkport, Maine.
- Barque Terra Nova launched by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltdied Dundee.
- Flat-iron gunboat HMVS Victoria launched by Sir WG Armstrong Mitchell & Company at Elswick.
- Collier USS Zafiro launched by Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen.
- Patrol boat Susa launched by AG Weser, Bremen, German Empire.
References[]
- ^ "Launch Of A Steamer". The Cornishman. No. 295. 6 March 1884. p. 4.
- ^ "Launch Of The Largest Sailing Ship In The World". The Cornishman. No. 317. 14 August 1884. p. 7.
- ^ "HMS Racer". The Cornishman. No. 317. 14 August 1884. p. 6.
- ^ "A New Cable Steamer". The Cornishman. No. 323. 25 September 1884. p. 4.
| Ship events in 1884 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1879 | 1882 | 1884 | 1885 | 1889 | ||||||
| Ship decommissionings: | 1879 | 1882 | 1884 | 1886 | |||||||
| Shipwrecks: | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 |
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