List of ship launches in 1979

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by with reliable sources.

The list of ship launches in 1979 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 1979.

Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes
20 January  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Deyo Spruance-class destroyer
27 January  United States National Steel & Shipbuilding San Diego, California Yellowstone Yellowstone-class destroyer tender
3 February  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Thorn Spruance-class destroyer
16 February  United Kingdom Brooke Marine Lowestoft, Suffolk Fremantle Fremantle-class patrol boat for  Royal Australian Navy
10 March  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Ingersoll Spruance-class destroyer
20 March  West Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel Type 209 submarine For  Hellenic Navy
24 March  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Clark Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
25 March  Soviet Union Yantar Kaliningrad Zadornyy Project 1135 large anti-submarine ship
27 March  United States Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle, Washington Antrim Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
27 March  Japan Yūshio Yūshio-class submarine
31 March  West Germany Meyer Werft Papenburg Diana II Roll-on/roll-off passenger car ferry For Rederi AB Slite for Viking Line traffic
7 April  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Ohio Ohio-class submarine
21 April  Soviet Union Zelenodolsk Shipyard Zelenodolsk Sokol Koni-class frigate For  Soviet Navy
25 April  Denmark Frederikshavn Mercandian Carrier type FV 610 RoRo-ship For Merc-Scandia KS[1]
28 April  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Dallas Los Angeles-class submarine
28 April  United States Avondale Shipyard Avondale, Louisiana Cimarron Cimarron-class fleet replenishment oiler
1 May  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Fife Spruance-class destroyer
19 May  United States Todd Pacific Shipyards San Pedro, California Sides Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
16 June  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Fletcher Spruance-class destroyer
29 June  United Kingdom Vosper Thornycroft Southampton, England Southampton Type 42 destroyer
14 July  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Samuel Eliot Morison Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
28 July  United States National Steel & Shipbuilding San Diego, California Acadia Yellowstone-class destroyer tender
20 July  Turkey Gölcük Type 209 submarine For  Turkish Naval Forces
11 August  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Kidd Kidd-class destroyer
11 August  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut La Jolla Los Angeles-class submarine
14 August  Finland Wärtsilä Turku Shipyard Turku Rosella Cruiseferry For SF Line for Viking Line traffic
18 August  Denmark Frederikshavn Mercandian Exporter II type FV 610 RoRo-ship For Per Henriksen[2]
24 August  United States Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle, Washington Fahrion Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
30 August  West Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel Casma Type 209 submarine For  Peruvian Navy
11 September  West Germany Meyer Werft Papenburg Viking Sally Roll-on/roll-off passenger car ferry Originally ordered by an unknown Norwegian company. Contract transferred to Rederi Ab Sally.
20 September  Japan Kurama Shirane-class destroyer
21 September  France Chantiers de l'Atlantique Saint-Nazaire, France Prairial Batillus-class supertanker
24 September  West Germany Bremer Vulkan Bremen-Vegesack New Zealand Caribbean container ship For Shipping Corporation of New Zealand Ltd.
IMO 7817115
27 September  West Germany Bremer Vulkan Bremen-Vegesack Bremen Bremen-class frigate For  German Navy
5 October  United Kingdom Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Splendid Swiftsure-class submarine
20 October  United States Todd Pacific Shipyards San Pedro, California John A. Moore Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
27 October  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia San Francisco Los Angeles-class submarine
3 November  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Estocin Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
4 November  Japan Onomichi Ever Light Ever Level-class container ship For Evergreen Marine[3]
10 November  Poland Stocznia Szczecinska im Adolfa Warskiego Warskiego Szczecin Georg Ots Dmitriy Shostakovich-class ferry For Black Sea Shipping Company[4]
1 December  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Callaghan Kidd-class destroyer
8 December  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Phoenix Los Angeles-class submarine
19 December  West Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel Antofagasta Type 209 submarine For  Peruvian Navy
29 December  Poland Stocznia Szczecinska im Adolfa Warskiego Warskiego Szczecin Dmitriy Shostakovich-class ferry For Black Sea Shipping Company[5]

See also[]

Ship events in 1979
Ship launches: 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
Ship commissionings: 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
Ship decommissionings: 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
Shipwrecks: 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984

References[]

  1. ^ "M/S MERCANDIAN CARRIER". Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  2. ^ "M/S MERCANDIAN EXPORTER II". Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  3. ^ Schiffsdaten im Miramar Ship Index (englisch, online nicht verfügbar) ID=7900819 at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
  4. ^ "M/S GEORG OTS". Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  5. ^ "M/S DMITRIY SHOSTAKOVICH". Retrieved 2016-10-16.
Retrieved from ""