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List of ship launches in 1977

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The list of ship launches in 1977 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 1977.

Date Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes
1 January  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Stump Spruance-class destroyer
22 January  Italy Cant. Nav. "Luigi Orlando" Livorno Espresso Venezia Espresso Livorno-class ferry For Tirrenia di Navigazione[1]
29 January  Norway Trosvik Verksted A/S Brevik Jan Heweliusz ferry For Polskie Linie Oceaniczne[2]
3 February  United Kingdom Swan Hunter Wallsend-on-Tyne Kharg Ol-class tanker (1965) For Imperial Iranian Navy[3]
19 February  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Cincinnati Los Angeles-class submarine
15 March  West Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel B.A.E. Huancavilca Type 209 submarine For Fuerza Naval del Ecuador
21 March  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Lackenby Bulk carrier For Ropner Shipping.[4]
26 March  Netherlands Koninklijke Schelde Groep Flushing Callenburgh Kortenaer-class frigate
11 April  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Belleau Wood Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship
16 April  Netherlands Koninklijke Schelde Groep Flushing Van Kinsbergen Kortenaer-class frigate
3 May  United Kingdom Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Barrow-in-Furness Invincible Invincible-class aircraft carrier
4 May  United States Lockheed Shipbuilding Seattle, Washington Emory S. Land Emory S. Land-class submarine tender
5 May  United Kingdom Appledore Shipbuilders Appledore. Devon RMV Scillonian III Ferry for Isles of Scilly Steamship Company
5 May  France Chantiers de France Dunkerque S.A. Helderberg The Big Whites-type refrigerated cargo ship For Deutsche West-Afrika-Linie
18 May  United Kingdom Yarrow Shipbuilders Glasgow, Scotland Battleaxe Type 22 frigate
19 May  Japan Yaeshio Uzushio-class submarine
21 May  Japan Yūgumo Yamagumo-class destroyer
3 June  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Conolly Spruance-class destroyer
4 June  Soviet Union Werft 340 Selenodolsk Nerpa Koni-class frigate For Soviet Navy
18 June  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Coastal Corpus Christi Supertanker For Woodstock Shipping Co.[5]
18 June  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut New York City Los Angeles-class submarine
21 June  Denmark Aalborg Værft A/S Ålborg Dana Anglia Ferry For DFDS Seaways
30 June  United Kingdom Ailsa Shipbuilding Company Troon Saturn Ferry For Caledonian MacBrayne
23 July  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Moosbrugger Spruance-class destroyer
30 July  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Indianapolis Los Angeles-class submarine
12 August  West Germany Rickmers Werft Bremerhaven Wuppertal For JA Reinecke & Co[6]
16 August  France Chantiers de l'Atlantique Saint-Nazaire, France Pierre Guillaumat Batillus-class supertanker
17 September  France DCNS Tonnant Redoutable-class submarine For French Navy
20 October  West Germany Nobiskrug Rendsburg, Germany Uikku Product tanker
24 October  West Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel TCG Batiray Type 209 submarine For Turkish Naval Forces
28 October  Finland Rauma Rauma-Repola Oy Buraidah For Fanco N.V. Willemstad[7]
29 October  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Birmingham Los Angeles-class submarine
29 October  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi John Hancock Spruance-class destroyer
11 November  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Nicholson Spruance-class destroyer
16 December  Italy Cant. Nav. "Luigi Orlando" Livorno Espresso Ravenna Espresso Livorno-class ferry For Adriatica di Navigazione SpA[8]
Unknown date  Netherlands Bijlsma Lemmer Scheepswerf Lemmer Carebeka IX Bulk carrier
Unknown date  China Huludao Shipyard Huludao, Liaoning ChangZheng 2 Type 091 nuclear-powered attack submarine
Unknown date  Netherlands Buijs Scheepsbouw Krimpen aan den IJssel Ilhéu da Mina Dredger and freighter Currently operated by Açores Madeira
Unknown date  West Germany Rickmers Rederei Bremerhaven, Germany Mashala Ferry For Mashala Shipping Co.

References edit

  1. ^ "M/S Espresso Venezia" (in Swedish). Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  2. ^ "M/S Jan Heweliusz" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  3. ^ Silverstone, Paul H. (1977), "Naval Intelligence", Warship International, 14 (3), International Naval Research Organization: 197–199, JSTOR 44888102
  4. ^ "Lackenby". The Yard. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Coastal Corpus Christi". The Yard. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  6. ^ "M/S Wupperlat" (in Swedish). Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  7. ^ "M/S Buraidah" (in Swedish). Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  8. ^ "M/S Espresso Ravenna" (in Swedish). Retrieved 7 October 2017.
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