List of ship launches in 1930

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The list of ship launches in 1930 includes a chronological list of notable ships launched in 1930.

Country Builder Location Ship Class Notes
11 January  Sweden Öresundsvarvet Landskrona Belgia Passenger ship For F Sternhagen – "Gotha Line"
12 February  Royal Navy Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Co Ltd Wallsend Folkestone Hastings-class sloop For Royal Navy[1]
01 March  United Kingdom Cargo ship For Union Steamship Company of New Zealand Ltd. Wellington
14 March  Royal Navy Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd Wallsend Scarborough Hastings-class sloop For Royal Navy[1]
18 March  Royal Navy John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston, Hampshire Acheron A-class destroyer For Royal Navy[2]
19 March  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Aras Yacht
March  United States New York Shipbuilding Corporation New York City Santa Clara Passenger ship For Grace Steamship Company
10 April  United States Navy Mare Island Naval Shipyard Vallejo, California Chicago Northampton-class cruiser For United States Navy
10 April  Royal Navy Devonport Dockyard Plymouth Hastings Hastings-class sloop For Royal Navy[1]
10 April  Royal Navy Devonport Dockyard Plymouth Penzance Hastings-class sloop For Royal Navy[1]
15 April  United Kingdom Lithgows Port Glasgow Atheltemplar Tanker For United Molasses Co Ltd
27 April  Regia Marina Alberto da Giussano Condottieri-class cruiser For Regia Marina
27 April  Regia Marina O.T.O. La Spezia Zara Zara-class cruiser For Regia Marina
12 May  Imperial Japanese Navy Yokosuka Navy Yard Yokosuka Takao Takao-class cruiser For Imperial Japanese Navy
12 May  Imperial Japanese Navy Maizuru Naval Arsenal Maizuru, Kyoto Yūgiri Fubuki-class destroyer For Imperial Japanese Navy
12 May  Royal Indian Navy Swan Hunter Wallsend Hindustan Hastings-class sloop For Royal Indian Marine[3]
15 May  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Oriente Ocean liner For New York and Cuba Mail and Steamship Co
29 May  Royal Navy Hawthorn Leslie Hebburn Blanche B-class destroyer
5 June  United Kingdom Furness Shipbuilding Haverton Hill-on-Tees Edenhurst cargo ship For Hartlepool Steamship Co
12 June  United Kingdom Harland and Wolff Belfast Foylebank cargo ship
16 June  Imperial Japanese Navy Yokosuka Navy Yard Yokosuka Atago Takao-class cruiser For Imperial Japanese Navy
2 July  Finnish Navy Sandvikens Skeppsdocka och Mekaniska Verkstad Helsinki Saukko Submarine For Suomen Merivoimat
10 July  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Barrow-in-Furness Keith B-class destroyer flotilla leader [4]
11 July  Royal Canadian Navy John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston, Hampshire Saguenay Canadian River-class destroyer For Royal Canadian Navy
18 July  Royal Navy Palmer's Jarrow Boreas B-class destroyer
25 July  Royal Navy Palmer's Hebburn Brazen B-class destroyer
26 July  Germany Nobiskrug Rendsburg Wilfred Cargo schooner
30 July  United Kingdom Smiths Dock Co Ltd Middlesbrough Svana Trawler For Christian Salvesen & Co Ltd, Leith
6 August  Royal Navy John Brown & Company Clydebank Basilisk B-class destroyer For Royal Navy[4]
23 August  Regia Marina Alberico da Barbiano Condottieri-class cruiser For Regia Marina
23 August  United Kingdom Cook, Welton & Gemmell Beverley Firefly Trawler For St Andrews Steam Fishing Co Ltd
26 August  United Kingdom Cammell Laird Birkenhead For United Molasses Co. Ltd. Liverpool
1 September  United States Navy Puget Sound Navy Yard Bremerton, Washington Louisville Northampton-class cruiser For United States Navy
17 September  Germany Blohm & Voss Hamburg Monte Pascoal ocean liner For Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft
23 September  Royal Navy Hawthorn Leslie Hebburn Boadicea B-class destroyer
24 September  United Kingdom Cammell Laird Birkenhead For United Molasses Co. Ltd. Liverpool
29 September  Royal Navy John Brown & Company Clydebank Beagle B-class destroyer
9 October  Royal Navy Swan Hunter Tyne and Wear Brilliant B-class destroyer
9 October  French Navy Arsenal de Brest Brest Dupleix Suffren-class cruiser For Marine Nationale
10 October  Royal Canadian Navy John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston, Hampshire Skeena Canadian River-class destroyer For Royal Canadian Navy
18 October  United States Navy Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Trudione Yacht
4 November  Royal Navy Devonport Dockyard Plymouth Fowey Shoreham-class sloop For Royal Navy[5]
6 November  France Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire St Nazaire Georges Philippar Ocean liner For Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes
8 November  Imperial Japanese Navy Sasebo Naval Arsenal Sasebo, Nagasaki Oboro Fubuki-class destroyer For Imperial Japanese Navy
22 November  Royal Navy Chatham Dockyard Chatham Shoreham Shoreham-class sloop For Royal Navy[5]
4 December  Germany Blohm & Voss Hamburg Monte Rosa ocean liner For Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft
6 December  Royal Navy Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd Wallsend Bulldog B-class destroyer For Royal Navy[4]
Date unknown  United States Mathis Yacht Building Company Camden, New Jersey Armina Yacht
Date unknown  Germany Schiffswerft J. Frerichs & Co Einswarden August Wriedt Fishing trawler For Nordsee Deutsche Hochseefisherei
Date unknown  United States Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp New York City Elda Yacht
Date unknown  Germany Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft Kiel Etak Schooner
Date unknown  Germany Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Wesermünde Fritz Homann Fishing trawler For Grundmann & Gröschel
Date unknown  Regia Marina Gorizia Zara-class cruiser For Regia Marina
Date unknown  Germany Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Wesermünde Hinrich Freese Fishing trawler For Hanseatische Hochseefisherei AG
Date unknown  United States Herreshoff Manufacturing Co Bristol, Rhode Island Katoura Yacht
Date unknown  United Kingdom Saunders-Roe Cowes Miss England II Racing monohull hydroplane For Kaye Don
Date unknown  Germany Howaldtswerke Kiel Neumark Cargo ship For Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt Actien Gesellschaft
Date unknown  Canada Cammell Laird Birkenhead Prince David ocean liner For Canadian National Railway
Date unknown  United States Navy General Engineering and Dry Dock Sebago Banff-class sloop For United States Navy
Date unknown  United Kingdom William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd Sunderland, Co Durham Stakesby Cargo ship For Rowland & Marwood Steamship Co Ltd
Date unknown  Norway Oslo Suderøy V Whaler
Date unknown  United States Veedol II Tanker For Tidewater Oil Co
Date unknown  United States Al Larson Los Angeles Vindicator Purse seiner
Date unknown  United States Nunes Brothers Sausalito Zaca Yacht

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Hague 1993, p. 26
  2. ^ Whitley 2000, p. 97
  3. ^ Hague 1993, p. 31
  4. ^ a b c Whitley 2000, p. 99
  5. ^ a b Hague 1993, p. 32
  • Hague, Arnold (1993). Sloops: A History of the 71 Sloops Built in Britain and Australia for the British, Australian and Indian Navies 1926–1946. Kendal, England: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-67-3.
  • Whitley, M. J. (2000). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.
Ship events in 1930
Ship launches: 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
Ship commissionings: 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
Ship decommissionings: 1926 1927 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
Shipwrecks: 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
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