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List of ship launches in 1901

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The list of ship launches in 1901 includes a chronological list of ships launched in 1901. In cases where no official launching ceremony was held, the date built or completed may be used instead.

Date Country Builder Location Ship Class and type Notes
19 February  United Kingdom Palmers Jarrow Russell Duncan-class battleship
5 March  United Kingdom Chatham Dockyard Chatham, Kent Albemarle Duncan-class battleship
5 March  United Kingdom Devonport Dockyard Plymouth Montagu Duncan-class battleship
21 March  United Kingdom Thames Ironworks Leamouth Duncan Duncan-class battleship
30 March  Germany AG Vulcan Stettin Kronprinz Wilhelm Passenger ship
4 April  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Celtic Ocean liner;
one of the "Big Four" 		For White Star Line.
16 April  United Kingdom Napier & Miller Yoker Andrios Cargo ship
18 May  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Ryndam Passenger ship For Holland America Line.
18 May  United States Union Iron Works San Francisco, California Ohio Maine-class battleship
18 May  United States W. A. Boole & Son Oakland, California Lahaina barquentine yard's first
29 May  Sweden Bergsunds Shipyard, Stockholm Wasa Äran-class coastal defence ship For the Royal Swedish Navy
30 May  Italy La Spezia Naval Base La Spezia Regina Margherita Regina Margherita-class battleship For the Regia Marina
6 June  Nyasaland Lake Nyasa Chauncy Maples Launched on Lake Nyasa having been transported from Scotland and reassembled
6 June  Germany Schichau-Werke Danzig Wettin Wittelsbach-class battleship
12 June  Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Zähringen Wittelsbach-class battleship
22 June  Germany Kaiserliche Werft Kiel Kiel Prinz Adalbert Prinz Adalbert-class cruiser
24 June[1]  United Kingdom George Brown and Company Greenock Princess Beara Steam cutter For Bantry Bay Steamship Co.[2] The first vessel launched by George Brown and Company[1]
6 July  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Walmer Castle Passenger ship For Union-Castle Line.[3]
13 July  United Kingdom Thames Ironworks Leamouth Cornwallis Duncan-class battleship
16 July  United Kingdom Armstrong Whitworth Newcastle upon Tyne Bantu Cargo ship Built for Bucknall Steamship Lines Ltd
22 July  United States Crescent Shipyard Elizabethport, New Jersey Adder Plunger-class submarine [4]
27 July  United States William Cramp & Sons Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Maine Maine-class battleship
14 August  Sweden Lindholmens Shipyard Lindholmen Äran Äran-class coastal defence ship For the Royal Swedish Navy
17 August  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Athenic Passenger ship For White Star Line
19 August  Germany Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven Wilhelmshaven Schwaben Wittelsbach-class battleship
20 August  United States Crescent Shipyard Elizabethport, New Jersey Moccasin Plunger-class submarine Sponsored by Mrs. Rice [5]
31 August  United Kingdom Laird Brothers Birkenhead Exmouth Duncan-class battleship
11 September  Austria-Hungary Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino Trieste Árpád Habsburg-class battleship For the Austro-Hungarian Navy
23 September  United States Crescent Shipyard Elizabethport, New Jersey Porpoise Plunger-class submarine Sponsored by Mrs. E. B. Frost [6]
25 September  Norway Royal Norwegian Navy Shipyard Horten Sæl 1.-class torpedo boat
28 September  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Noordam Passenger ship For Holland America Line.
30 September  United Kingdom William Denny & Brothers Dumbarton Santhia Passenger ship For the British-India Steam Navigation Company
19 October  United States Crescent Shipyard Elizabethport Shark Plunger-class submarine For the United States Navy; sponsored by Mrs. Walter Stevens Turpin [7]
7 November  Sweden Kockums Shipyard Malmö Tapperheten Äran-class coastal defence ship For the Royal Swedish Navy[8]
7 November  Italy Castellammare Royal Dockyard Castellammare di Stabia Benedetto Brin Regina Margherita-class battleship For the Regia Marina
9 November  Germany AG Vulcan Stettin Mecklenburg Wittelsbach-class battleship
28 November  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Warwickshire Passenger ship For Bibby Steamship Co.[9]
12 December  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Minnetonka Passenger ship For Atlantic Transport Co.[10]
23 December  United States Maryland Steel Company Sparrows Point, Maryland Shawmut Cargo ship For Boston Steamship Company, later renamed Ancon.[11]
28 December  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Missouri Maine-class battleship
Unknown date  United Kingdom William Denny and Brothers Dumbarton King Edward Passenger ship For private owner.[12]
Unknown date  United Kingdom T. Scott & Company Goole Sudan Steamship For private owner.[13]
Unknown date  United States J. M. Bayles and Sons Port Jefferson, New York Zoraya Armed yacht Built as a private vessel, leased for World War I service by the U.S. Navy in 1917, returned to its owner in 1919.

References edit

  1. ^ a b "GEO. BROWN & Co". Inverclyde Shipbuilding. Cartsburn Publishing. 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  2. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 292.
  3. ^ "Walmer Castle". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  4. ^ "A-2 (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 3)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2019. The submarine torpedo boat A-2 was originally laid down as Adder (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 3) on 3 October 1900 at Elizabethport, New Jersey, by the Crescent Shipyard of Lewis Nixon, a subcontractor for the John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Co. of New York; launched on 22 July 1901; sponsored by Mrs. Jane S. Wainwright, wife of Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright
  5. ^ "A-4 (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 5)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2019. The submarine torpedo boat A-4 was originally laid down as Moccasin (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 5) ... launched on 20 August 1901; sponsored by a Mrs. Rice
  6. ^ "A-6 (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 7)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2019. The submarine torpedo boat A-6 was originally laid down as Porpoise (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 7) on 13 December 1900 at Elizabethport, N.J., by the Crescent Shipyard of Lewis Nixon, a subcontractor for the John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Co. of New York; launched on 23 September 1901; sponsored by Mrs. E.B. Frost, the wife of E.B. Frost of Crescent Shipyard
  7. ^ "A-7 (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 8)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2019. The submarine torpedo boat A-7 was originally laid down as Shark (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 8) on 11 January 1901 at Elizabethport, N.J., by the Crescent Shipyard of Lewis Nixon, a subcontractor for the John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Co. of New York; launched on 19 October 1901; and sponsored by Mrs. Walter Stevens Turpin, wife of Lt. Comdr. Walter S. Turpin, an officer on duty at Crescent Shipyard.
  8. ^ Fleks 1997, p. 16.
  9. ^ "Warwickshire". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  10. ^ "Minnetonka". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  11. ^ Marine Engineering (1902). "New Ships of the Boston Steamship Company". Marine Engineering. 7 (January 1902). New York: Marine Engineering, Inc. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  12. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 49.
  13. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 257.
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