List of ship launches in 1937

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The list of ship launches in 1937 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1937.

Date Country Builder Location Ship Class Service Notes
8 January  United States Brooklyn Navy Yard Brooklyn, New York Spencer Treasury-class cutter United States Coast Guard
12 January  United States Mare Island Navy Yard Vallejo, California Henley Bagley-class destroyer United States Navy
14 January  United States Charleston Navy Yard Charleston, South Carolina Bibb Treasury-class cutter United States Coast Guard
28 January  United Kingdom John Brown & Company Clydebank Ilex I-class destroyer Royal Navy
7 February  Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg Admiral Hipper Admiral Hipper-class cruiser Kriegsmarine
11 February  United Kingdom Yarrow Shipbuilders Scotstoun, Glasgow Ivanhoe I-class destroyer Royal Navy [1]
20 February  Germany seaplane tender For the Luftwaffe
1 March  United Kingdom J. Samuel White Cowes, Isle of Wight Impulsive I-class destroyer Royal Navy [2]
6 March  Netherlands Wilton-Fijenoord Schiedam Nederland Tanker Merchant For Nederlandsche Pacific Petroleum Maatschappij[3]
12 March  Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Erich Giese Type 1934A-class destroyer Kriegsmarine
13 March  United States Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company Kearny, New Jersey Somers Somers-class destroyer United States Navy
18 March  Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Erich Koellner Type 1934A-class destroyer Kriegsmarine
21 March  Germany Blohm & Voss Hamburg Friedrich Eckoldt Type 1934A-class destroyer Kriegsmarine
23 March  Germany Howaldtswerke Kiel seaplane carrier For civilian service
24 March  United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Govan, Glasgow Liverpool Town-class cruiser Royal Navy
10 April  Netherlands N.V. Rotterdam Drydock Company Rotterdam Nieuw Amsterdam Ocean liner Rotterdam-New York For Holland America Line
12 April  United Kingdom R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company Hebburn, England Manchester Town-class cruiser Royal Navy [4]
5 May  Nazi Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg Wilhelm Gustloff Hamburg Süd For Kraft durch Freude
6 May  United States Puget Sound Navy Yard Bremerton, Washington Patterson Bagley-class destroyer United States Navy
8 May  United States New York Shipbuilding Corporation Camden, New Jersey Savannah Brooklyn-class cruiser United States Navy
8 June  Germany Deutsche Werke Kiel Blücher Admiral Hipper-class cruiser Kriegsmarine
8 June  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Walker, Newcastle Afridi Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
8 June  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Walker, Newcastle Cossack Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy [5]
22 June  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Govan, Glasgow Tanker British Tanker Company [6]
7 July  United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Govan, Glasgow Gurkha Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
14 July  United Kingdom J. Samuel White Cowes, Isle of Wight Bittern Bittern-class sloop Royal Navy [7]
25 July  Kingdom of Italy Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico Trieste Vittorio Veneto Littorio-class battleship Regia Marina
14 August  United States Norfolk Naval Shipyard Portsmouth, Virginia Blue Bagley-class destroyer United States Navy
18 August  Norway Royal Norwegian Navy Shipyard Horten Nordkapp fishery protection vessel Royal Norwegian Navy
19 August  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Diether von Roeder Type 1936-class destroyer Kriegsmarine
22 August  Kingdom of Italy Gio. Ansaldo & C. Sestri Ponente, Genoa Littorio Littorio-class battleship Regia Marina
24 August  United Kingdom Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Wallsend Somali Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
26 August  United States New York Naval Yard Brooklyn, New York Honolulu Brooklyn-class cruiser United States Navy
2 September  United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Govan, Glasgow Maori Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
3 September  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Walker, Newcastle Eskimo Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
3 September  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Walker, Newcastle Mashona Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
23 September  United Kingdom Alexander Stephen and Sons Govan, Glasgow Zulu Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy [8]
2 October  United States New York Shipbuilding Corporation Camden, New Jersey Nashville Brooklyn-class cruiser United States Navy
5 October  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Barrow-in-Furness, England Undine U-class submarine Royal Navy [9]
6 October  United Kingdom Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Greenock, Scotland Matabele Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
9 October  United States Bethlehem Steel Company Sparrows Point, Maryland Gulfwave Oil tanker Gulf Oil Corporation
15 October  United Kingdom John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston, Hampshire Mohawk Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
19 October  United Kingdom Devonport Dockyard Devonport, England Gloucester Town-class cruiser Royal Navy [10]
21 October  United Kingdom Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Wallsend Tartar Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
30 October  Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg Albert Leo Schlageter Gorch Fock-class Sail training ship Kriegsmarine
5 November  United Kingdom William Denny and Brothers Dunbarton, Scotland Ashanti Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
16 November  United States Philadelphia Navy Yard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wichita Unique cruiser United States Navy
1 December  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Hans Lüdemann Type 1936-class destroyer Kriegsmarine
2 December  United Kingdom Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Greenock, Scotland Cachalot Grampus-class submarine Royal Navy [11]
17 December  United Kingdom Alexander Stephen & Sons Linthouse Sikh Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
18 December  United Kingdom Alexander Stephen & Sons Linthouse Punjabi Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
21 December  United Kingdom William Denny and Brothers Dunbarton, Scotland Bedouin Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy [12]
21 December  United Kingdom John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston, Hampshire Nubian Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
22 December  United Kingdom Ailsa Shipbuilding Company Troon, Ayrshire Franklin Halcyon-class minesweeper Royal Navy
22 December  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Hermann Künne Type 1936-class destroyer Kriegsmarine
Unknown date  Germany Deutsche Werft AG Hamburg Algol Coastal tanker Merchant For Trelleborgs Angfabrik Nya A/B
Unknown date  Germany F Schichau GmbH Elbing Gabelsflach Coastal tanker Kriegsmarine
Unknown date  United Kingdom Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Newcastle upon Tyne Inkosi Refrigerated cargo liner Merchant For Charente Steamship Co Ltd
Unknown date  Germany Lübecker Flender-Werke AG Lübeck Marie Fisser Cargo ship Merchant For Fisser & van Doornum
Unknown date  Germany Neptun AG Rostock Messina Cargo ship Merchant For Robert Miles Sloman Jr
Unknown date  Germany Stettiner Oderwerke AG Stettin Saar Cargo ship Merchant For R C Gribel
Unknown date  Germany Bremer Vulkan Schiff- und Mashcinenbau Bremen Unitas 4 Whaler Jurgens Van Den Brugh Margarine Verkaufs Union GmbH, Hamburg
Unknown date  Germany Bremer Vulkan Schiff- und Mashcinenbau Bremen Unitas 5 Whaler Jurgens Van Den Brugh Margarine Verkaufs Union GmbH, Hamburg
Unknown date  Germany Bremer Vulkan Schiff- und Mashcinenbau Bremen Unitas 8 Whaler Jurgens Van Den Brugh Margarine Verkaufs Union GmbH, Hamburg

Notes[]

  1. ^ Colledge (2003), p170
  2. ^ Colledge (2003), p166
  3. ^ "Motortankschip Nederland te water gelaten". De Maasbode. 7 March 1937.
  4. ^ Colledge (2003), p205
  5. ^ Colledge (2003), p85
  6. ^ "Mails and Shipping". The Times. No. 47726. London. 26 June 1937. col G, p. 26.
  7. ^ Colledge (2003), p51
  8. ^ Colledge (2003), p367
  9. ^ Colledge (2003), P338
  10. ^ Colledge (2003), p140
  11. ^ Colledge (2003), p64
  12. ^ Colledge (2003), p47

References[]

  • Colledge, J.J. & Warlow, Ben (2003), Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill ISBN 1-85367-566-0
Ship events in 1937
Ship launches: 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
Ship commissionings: 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
Ship decommissionings: 1932 1933 1934 1935 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
Shipwrecks: 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
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