List of ship launches in 1960

The list of ship launches in 1960 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 1960.

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	Country	Builder	Location	Ship	Class / type	Notes
18 January	United Kingdom	Cook, Welton & Gemmell	Beverley, East Yorkshire	Arctic Cavalier	764 ton side trawler	First diesel-engined trawler built for Boyd Line, Hull
30 January	United States	Bath Iron Works	Bath, Maine	John King	Charles F. Adams-class destroyer
13 February	Japan			Onami	Ayanami-class destroyer
27 February	United States	New York Shipbuilding	Camden, New Jersey	Lawrence	Charles F. Adams-class destroyer
29 February	United Kingdom	Cook, Welton & Gemmell	Beverley, East Yorkshire	Arctic Corsair	764 ton side trawler	for Boyd Line, Hull
6 March	United States	Philadelphia Naval Shipyard	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	William V. Pratt	Farragut-class destroyer
16 March	United Kingdom	Cook, Welton & Gemmell	Beverley, East Yorkshire	Royalist	228 ton trawler	for Hewett Fishing Company, Fleetwood
16 March	United States	Philadelphia Naval Shipyard	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Dahlgren	Farragut-class destroyer
16 March	United States	Newport News Shipbuilding	Newport News, Virginia	Shark	Skipjack-class submarine
16 March	United Kingdom	Harland and Wolff	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Canberra	Ocean liner	For P&O
20 March	United Kingdom	J. Samuel White	Cowes, Isle of Wight	Eskimo	Tribal-class frigate
31 March	United States	Ingalls Shipbuilding	Pascagoula, Mississippi	Sculpin	Skipjack-class submarine
25 April	Japan			Makinami	Ayanami-class destroyer
27 April	United States	Defoe Shipbuilding Company	Bay City, Michigan	Robison	Charles F. Adams-class destroyer
27 April	United States	Electric Boat	Groton, Connecticut	Tullibee	Unique nuclear-powered submarine
10 May	United Kingdom	Vickers-Armstrongs		Empress of Canada	Ocean liner	For Canadian Pacific Steamships
11 May	United States	Todd Pacific Shipyards	Seattle, Washington	Buchanan	Charles F. Adams-class destroyer
11 May	France	Chantiers de l'Atlantique	Saint-Nazaire	France	Ocean liner	For French Line
14 May	United States	Portsmouth Naval Shipyard	Kittery, Maine	Abraham Lincoln	George Washington-class submarine
21 May	United States	New York Shipbuilding	Camden, New Jersey	Kitty Hawk	Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier
21 May	United States	Bath Iron Works	Bath, Maine	Sampson	Charles F. Adams-class destroyer
10 June	United Kingdom	Cammell Laird	Birkenhead	Devonshire	County-class destroyer
14 June	United States	New York Shipbuilding	Camden, New Jersey	Claude V. Ricketts	Charles F. Adams-class destroyer
9 July	United States	Portsmouth Naval Shipyard	Kittery, Maine	Thresher	Thresher-class submarine
11 July	United Kingdom	John I. Thornycroft & Company	Southampton, England	Gurkha	Tribal-class frigate
23 July	France			Foch	Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier
4 August	United States	Defoe Shipbuilding Company	Bay City, Michigan	Hoel	Charles F. Adams-class destroyer
19 August	United States	Philadelphia Naval Shipyard	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Okinawa	Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship
6 September	United Kingdom	Portsmouth Dockyard	Portsmouth, England	Nubian	Tribal-class frigate
9 September	United States	Bath Iron Works	Bath, Maine	Sellers	Charles F. Adams-class destroyer
17 September	United States	Puget Sound Naval Shipyard	Bremerton, Washington	Iwo Jima	Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship
17 September	United Kingdom	William Osborne	Littlehampton, England	Alexandra	Watson Lifeboat	Royal National Lifeboat Institution
19 September	United Kingdom	Devonport Dockyard	Devonport, England	Tartar	Tribal-class frigate
24 September	United States	Newport News Shipbuilding	Newport News, Virginia	Enterprise	Unique nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
8 October	United States	Mare Island Naval Shipyard	Vallejo, California	Scamp	Skipjack-class submarine
8 October	United States	New York Navy Yard	Brooklyn, New York	Constellation	Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier
21 October	United Kingdom	Vickers Armstrong	Barrow-in-Furness	Dreadnought	Unique nuclear-powered submarine
31 October	United States	Ingalls Shipbuilding	Pascagoula, Mississippi	Snook	Skipjack-class submarine
22 November	United States	Electric Boat	Groton, Connecticut	Ethan Allen	Ethan Allen-class submarine
10 December	United States	New York Shipbuilding	Camden, New Jersey	Barney	Charles F. Adams-class destroyer