List of ship launches in 1939

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The list of ship launches in 1939 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 1939.

Date Country Builder Location Ship Class Service Notes
7 January  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Lützow Admiral Hipper-class cruiser Kriegsmarine
9 January  UK J. Samuel White Cowes Kingston K-class destroyer Royal Navy
17 January  France Arsenal de Brest Brest Richelieu Richelieu-class battleship French Navy
19 January  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Seydlitz Admiral Hipper-class cruiser Kriegsmarine
19 January  UK Fairfield Govan Kelvin K-class destroyer Royal Navy
19 January  UK Yarrow Shipbuilders Scotstoun Kipling K-class destroyer Royal Navy
21 January  Norway Royal Norwegian Navy Yard Horten Odin Sleipner-class destroyer Royal Norwegian Navy
24 January  UK William Denny & Brothers Dumbarton Royal Daffodil Pleasure cruise ship General Steam Navigation Co. Ltd Assisted in Operation Dynamo, 1940
6 February  UK Swan Hunter Tyne and Wear Khartoum K-class destroyer Royal Navy
6 February  UK Sunderland British Prudence Tanker Merchant For British Tanker Co Ltd.
14 February  Germany Blohm & Voss Hamburg Bismarck Bismarck-class battleship Kriegsmarine
21 February  UK Vickers-Armstrong Newcastle King George V King George V-class battleship Royal Navy
4 March  Netherlands Rotterdam Klipfontein Cargo / Passenger Liner
4 March  United States Sun Shipbuilding Chester, Pennsylvania Esso Seakay Maritime Commission Type N tanker United States Navy
7 March  UK Harland and Wolff Belfast Andes Ocean liner Merchant For Royal Mail Line
15 March  Germany Blohm+Voss Hamburg Dogu Passenger ship Merchant Requisitioned for Deutsche-Afrika Linien on completion
21 March  UK William Denny & Brothers Dumbarton Kandahar K-class destroyer Royal Navy
23 March  Germany Bremer Vulkan Vegesack Hannover Cargo liner Merchant For Norddeutscher Lloyd
March  Netherlands Van Diepen Scheepswerf Gebroeders NV Waterhuizen Herman Litmeyer Coaster Merchant For Gebr. Elfring
March  Germany DeSchiMAG Kiel Mars Cargo liner Merchant For
1 April  United States Sun Shipbuilding Chester, Pennsylvania Esso New Orleans Maritime Commission Type N tanker
1 April  Germany Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven Tirpitz Bismarck-class battleship Kriegsmarine
4 April  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Wasp Unique aircraft carrier United States Navy
4 April  UK John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston Kashmir K-class destroyer Royal Navy
18 April  UK Yarrow Shipbuilders Glasgow, Scotland Flamingo Black Swan-class sloop Royal Navy
18 April  UK J. Samuel White Cowes Shearwater Kingfisher-class sloop Royal Navy
3 May  UK Cammell Laird Birkenhead Prince of Wales King George V-class battleship Royal Navy
1 June  UK John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston Kimberley K-class destroyer Royal Navy
17 June  Sweden Öresundsvarvet Landskrona Janus ferry Jahre Line[1]
7 July  UK Yarrow Shipbuilders Glasgow, Scotland Black Swan Black Swan-class sloop Royal Navy
17 July  Brazil J. Samuel White Cowes Javary Destroyer Brazilian Navy Became HMS Havant with the Royal Navy
5 August  Norway Oslo Otra minesweeper Royal Norwegian Navy
27 August  United States New York Naval Shipyard Brooklyn, New York Helena St. Louis-class cruiser United States Navy
31 August  UK Cochrane & Sons Ltd Selby Karl Tug Merchant For Goteborgs Bogserings & Bargnings Akt, Gothenburg
7 September  Norway Fredrikstad Tor Sleipner-class destroyer Royal Norwegian Navy Captured by the Germans in 1940, renamed Tiger
8 September  Poland Gdynia Shipyard Gdynia Olza freighter/dry cargo ship Merchant Launched prematurely due to World War II
26 September  Norway Oslo Rauma minesweeper Royal Norwegian Navy
17 October  UK J. Samuel White Cowes The James Braidwood Fireboat London Fire Brigade Named for James Braidwood
4 November  United States Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Kearny, New Jersey Esso Trenton Maritime Commission Type N tanker United States Navy
4 November  Denmark Nakskov Saturnus For [2]
7 November  Germany Blohm & Voss Hamburg Herbert Norkus Gorch Fock-class sail training ship Reichsmarine
15 November  Kingdom of Italy Gio. Ansaldo & C. Genoa Impero Littorio-class battleship Regia Marina Never commissioned
12 December  UK Cammel Laird Birkenhead Atherstone Hunt-class destroyer Royal Navy
12 December  UK Swan Hunter Wallsend Hambledon Hunt-class destroyer Royal Navy
14 December  UK William Denny & Bros Ltd Dumbarton Invicta Passenger Ferry For Southern Railway
14 December  United States Sun Shipbuilding Chester, Pennsylvania Mormacland Merchant Merchant Transferred to the Royal Navy for conversion to HMS Archer
26 December  UK Hawthorn Leslie Newcastle Legion L-class destroyer Royal Navy
28 December  UK VIckers-Armstrongs River Tyne Eglinton Hunt-class destroyer Royal Navy
Unknown date  Germany Deutsche Werft Hamburg Bukarest Cargo ship Merchant For Deutsche Levant Line
Unknown date  Netherlands Van Diepen Scheepswerf Gebroeders NV Caribe I Cargo ship Merchant For S G Hallstrom, Amsterdam
Unknown date  Germany Lübecker Maschinenbau - Gesellschaft Lübeck Cressida Cargo ship Merchant
Unknown date  Germany Nobiskrug Werft Rendsburg Gunther Harmann Coaster Merchant
Unknown date  Germany Schulte & Bruns Embden Klaus Wilhelm Coaster Schulte & Bruns
Unknown date  United States Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co Newport News, Virginia Nightingale Type C2 ship Merchant For Grace Line Inc.
Unknown date  Germany F Schichau GmbH Danzig Oderbank Coastal tanker Kriegsmarine
Unknown date  Germany D W Kremer Sohn Elmshorn Trave Cargo ship Merchant For Lübeck-Wyberger Dampfschiff Gesellschaft
Unknown date  Germany Bremer Vulkan Bremen Unitas 10 Whaler Jurgens Van Den Brugh Margarine Verkaufs Union GmbH, Hamburg
Unknown date  Netherlands Gebroeders Bodewes Volharding Venus Cargo ship Merchant
Unknown date  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Wiking 6 Whaler Hamburger Walfang-Kontor GmbH
Unknown date  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Wiking 8 Whaler Hamburger Walfang-Kontor GmbH
Unknown date  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Wiking 9 Whaler Hamburger Walfang-Kontor GmbH
Unknown date  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Wiking 10 Whaler Hamburger Walfang-Kontor GmbH
Ship events in 1939
Ship launches: 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Ship commissionings: 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Ship decommissionings: 1934 1935 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Shipwrecks: 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944

References[]

  1. ^ "M/T Janus". Retrieved 2016-08-03.
  2. ^ "M/T Saturnus". Retrieved 2016-08-03.
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