List of ship launches in 1925

The list of ship launches in 1925 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1925.

Country Builder Location Ship Class Notes
6 January  Germany Reichsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven Emden Light cruiser For Reichsmarine
12 January  Germany Deutsche Werke Kiel Topeka Cargo ship For A/S Norge-Mexico Gulflinjen.[1]
15 January  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Alynbank Cargo ship For Bank Line.[2]
12 February  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Elmbank Cargo ship For Bank Line.[3]
23 February  Japan Mitsubishi Kobe Ro-68 Type L4 submarine For Imperial Japanese Navy
24 February  United Kingdom Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd Newcastle upon Tyne Inanda Cargo liner For Charente Steamship Co Ltd
25 February  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Inverlago Tanker For Lago Shipping Co.[4]
13 March  United Kingdom William Simons and Co. Ltd. Renfrew Patrick Stewart Cable ship renamed HMIS Investigator and converted into a survey ship for the Royal Indian Navy
14 March  Germany Deutsche Werke Kiel Schwarzenfels Merchant ship renamed Schwabenland and converted to a seaplane tender for Deutsche Luft Hansa's South Atlantic airmail in 1934
25 March  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Inverossa Tanker For Lago Shipping Co.[5]
26 March  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Govan Rawalpindi Passenger ship For Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
6 April  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Inverpool Tanker For British Mexican Petroleum Company.[6]
7 April  United States New York Shipbuilding Camden, New Jersey Saratoga Lexington-class aircraft carrier For United States Navy
8 April  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Forresbank Cargo ship For Bank Line.[7]
23 April  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Invercaibo Tanker For Lago Shipping Co.[8]
24 April  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Hythe Ferry For Southern Railway.[9]
8 May  Norway Fredrikstad Mekaniske Verksted Fredrikstad Dronning Maud Passenger ship For Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskipsselskap
8 May  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast King James Cargo ship For King Line.[10]
21 May  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Nairnbank Cargo ship For Bank Line.[11]
22 May  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Haslemere Ferry For Southern Railway.[12]
26 May  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Inverruba Tanker For Lago Shipping Co.
May  Germany Seebeckwerft Wesermünde Weser Fishing trawler For Hochseefischerei Bremerhaven
18 June  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Weirbank Cargo ship For Bank Line.[13]
23 June  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Whitstable Ferry For Southern Railway.[14]
7 July  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Asturias Passenger ship For Royal Mail Line.[15]
7 July  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast King Malcolm Cargo ship For King Line.[16]
14 July  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Larchbank Cargo ship For Bank Line.[17]
21 July  United Kingdom Cammell Laird Birkenhead Sulaco Reefer ship For Fyffes Line
5 August  Japan Kure Naval Arsenal Kure I-53 (I-153) Kaidai III-type submarine For Imperial Japanese Navy
6 August  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Ltd Greenock Rajputana Ocean liner For P&O.[18]
18 August  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Fratton Ferry For Southern Railway.[19]
26 August  Netherlands P. Smit Jr. Shipbuilding and Machine Factory Rotterdam Jääkarhu Icebreaker For the Finnish Board of Navigation.[20]
1 September  Germany Travewerk Gebroeders Goedhardt AG Lübeck Riga Cargo ship For Lübeck Linie AG
1 September  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Temuco Tender For Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company.[21]
2 September  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Gascony Cargo ship For David MacIver & Co.[22]
2 September  Japan Kure Naval Arsenal Kure I-55 (I-155) Kaidai III-type submarine For Imperial Japanese Navy
3 September  United Kingdom Armstrong Whitworth Walker Nelson Nelson-class battleship For Royal Navy
18 September  Germany Seebeckwerft Wesermünde Ferdinand Niedermeyer Fishing trawler For Grundmann & Gröschel
24 September  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Levernbank Cargo ship For Bank Line.[23]
25 September  Japan Mitsubishi Kobe Ro-65 Type L4 submarine For Imperial Japanese Navy
3 October  Japan Yokosuka Naval Arsenal Yokosuka I-58 (I-158) Kaidai III-type submarine For Imperial Japanese Navy
3 October  United States Bethlehem Shipbuilding Fore River Shipyard Quincy, Massachusetts Lexington Lexington-class aircraft carrier For United States Navy
28 October  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Madrid Cargo ship For Argentine Navigation Co.[24]
29 October  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Myrtlebank Cargo ship For Bank Line.[25]
14 November  Germany Blohm & Voss Hamburg Hamburg Ocean liner For Hamburg America Line.[26]
17 November  United Kingdom Ailsa Shipbuilding Company Troon Scillonian Ferry For Isles of Scilly Steamship Company.[27]
25 November  Sweden Kockums Malmö Childar Merchant For Weil & Amundsen Rederi A/S, Halden, Norway
28 November  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Marthara Cargo ship For MacLay& MacIntyre Ltd.[28]
3 December  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Olivebank Cargo ship For Bank Line.[29]
17 December  United Kingdom Cammell Laird Birkenhead Rodney Nelson-class battleship For Royal Navy
17 December  France Brest Dock Yard Brest Duquesne Duquesne-class cruiser For French Navy
19 December  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Colonial Cargo ship For T. & J. Harrison.[30]
29 December  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Roma Cargo ship For Argentine Navigation Co.[31]
31 December  United Kingdom Cook, Welton & Gemmell Beverley William Scoresby Research vessel For the Crown Agents for the Colonies.[32]
Unknown date  Germany Gebrüder Schäfer Völklingen Anna Leonie Towed riverboat
Unknown date  United Kingdom Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. Barrow-in-Furness Carinthia Refrigerated cargo liner For Cunard Line.[33]
Unknown date  Germany Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfabrik AG Hamburg Grohm Fishing trawler For Deutsche Hochseefischerei Bremen-Cuxhaven AG
Unknown date  Germany Deutsche Werft. Hamburg Las Palmas Cargo ship For Oldeburg Portuguese Line.[34]
Unknown date  Germany Atlas Werke Bremen Leander Cargo ship For Neptun Line AG
Unknown date  France Société des Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire St. Nazaire Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft Ocean liner For Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland, Amsterdam
Unknown date  United Kingdom Workman, Clark and Company Belfast Antinous Cargo ship For New Egypt & Levant Shipping Co. Ltd. [35]
Unknown date  United Kingdom John Brown & Co. Ltd. Glasgow Lumen Tanker For H. E. Moss & Co. Ltd.[36]
Unknown date  United Kingdom Michael H. Motor barge For J. Harker Ltd.[37]
Unknown date  United Kingdom Cochrane & Son Ltd. Selby Nobleman Tug For United Towing Co. Ltd.[38]
Unknown date  United Kingdom Cochrane & Son Ltd. Selby Prizeman Tug For United Towing Co. Ltd.[38]
Unknown date  United Kingdom R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. Ltd. Newcastle upon Tyne Ranchi Ocean Liner For Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company.[39]
Unknown date  United Kingdom R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. Ltd. Newcastle upon Tyne Ranpura Ocean Liner For Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company.[39]
Unknown date  Germany Schiffs-und Dockbauwerft Flender Lübeck Reval Cargo ship For Lübeck Linie AG
Unknown date  Sweden Kockums Mekaniska Verkstad Malmö Skåneland Cargo ship For Angfartyg AB Tirfing
Unknown date  Germany AG Weser Bremen Sorrento Cargo ship For Robert M Sloman Jr
Unknown date  Germany Norderwerft. Hamburg Wiedau Cargo ship For Budsier Reederei & Berugungs AG.[40]

References edit

  1. ^ "Topeka (5606327)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Alynbank". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Elmbank". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Inverlago". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Inverrosa". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  6. ^ "Inverpool". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  7. ^ "Forresbank". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  8. ^ "Invercaibo". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  9. ^ "Hythe". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  10. ^ "King James". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  11. ^ "Nairnbank". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  12. ^ "Haslemere". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  13. ^ "Weirbank". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  14. ^ "Whitstable". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  15. ^ "Asturias". The Yard. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  16. ^ "King Malcolm". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  17. ^ "Larchbank". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  18. ^ "1149361". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 28 March 2009.
  19. ^ "Fratton". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  20. ^ Laurell 1992, p. not cited.
  21. ^ "Temuco". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  22. ^ "Gascony". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  23. ^ "Levernbank". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  24. ^ "Madrid". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  25. ^ "Myrtlebank". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  26. ^ "5397109". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 28 March 2009.
  27. ^ Carter 1998, p. not cited.
  28. ^ "Marthara". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  29. ^ "Olivebank". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  30. ^ "Colonial". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  31. ^ "Roma". The Yard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  32. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 252.
  33. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 123.
  34. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 462.
  35. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 39.
  36. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 390.
  37. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 215.
  38. ^ a b Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 312.
  39. ^ a b Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 141.
  40. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 453.
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