List of ship launches in 1907

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The list of ship launches in 1907 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1907.

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Date 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
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
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
21 April  Kingdom of 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[3]  United Kingdom Gourlay Brothers Dundee Atalanta Passenger vessel Sold in 1923
May[4]  United Kingdom 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
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[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
24 August  United Kingdom HM Dockyard Devonport Temeraire Bellerophon-class battleship Sold for scrap 1921
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  Kingdom of Italy Cantiere Navale di Riva Trigoso Riva Trigoso Principessa Jolanda Ocean liner Capsized on launch
5 October  Germany Blohm & Voss Hamburg Dresden Dresden-class 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
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 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  Sweden Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad Gothenburg Wasa Merchant ship Sold to Norway in 1925

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Couhat 1974, p. 90
  2. ^ Lyon 2001, p. 37
  3. ^ "Important Dundee Launch". Dundee Courier. Dundee. 27 April 1907. Retrieved 13 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ Schäuffelen, Otmar (2005). Chapman Great Sailing Ships of the World. Hearst Books. p. 146. ISBN 1-58816-384-9.
  5. ^ "Launches—Scotch: Alexandra". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. July 1907. p. 460.
  6. ^ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches – Scotch: California". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 30. 1 August 1907. p. 36.
  7. ^ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches:English: Lonhi". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 30. 1 August 1907. p. 35.
  8. ^ Friedman 2009, p. 305
  9. ^ Couhat 1974, p. 62.
  10. ^ a b c Couhat 1974, p. 94.
  11. ^ a b Jentschura, Jung & Michel 1977, p. 78.
  12. ^ Jentschura, Jung & Michel 1977, pp. 103–104.
  • Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. Shepperton, UK: Ian Allan. 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.
Ship events in 1907
Ship launches: 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
Ship commissionings: 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
Ship decommissionings: 1902 1904 1905 1906 1908 1910 1912
Shipwrecks: 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
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