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List of ship launches in 1899

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The list of ship launches in 1899 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1899.

Date Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes
11 January  United Kingdom Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Jarrow Spiteful Spiteful-class destroyer For Royal Navy
14 January  United Kingdom Harland and Wolff Belfast Oceanic Ocean liner For White Star Line
30 January  United Kingdom Blyth Shipbuilding Co. Ltd Blyth Moorabool Steamship For Huddart Parker & Co. Pty. Ltd.[1]
13 February  United Kingdom Allsup & Co. Ltd. Preston Energy Tug For Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Preston.[2]
February  United Kingdom Armstrong Whitworth Newcastle upon Tyne Albany New Orleans-class protected cruiser For United States Navy
11 March  United Kingdom Cammell Laird Birkenhead Glory Canopus-class battleship For Royal Navy
11 March  United Kingdom HMNB Devonport Devonport Implacable Formidable-class battleship For Royal Navy
11 March  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Winifredian Passenger ship For F. Leyland & Co.[3]
13 March  United Kingdom John Brown & Company Glasgow Asahi Battleship For Imperial Japanese Navy
30 March  United Kingdom Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Jarrow Peterel Spiteful-class destroyer For Royal Navy
13 April  United Kingdom Blyth Shipbuilding Co. Ltd Blyth Warwick Steamship For Warwick Steamship Co. Ltd.[4]
18 April  Germany Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Flensburg Saxonia Cargo ship For Hamburg America Line
8 May  Russia Baltic Works St Petersburg Gromoboi Armoured cruiser For Imperial Russian Navy
29 May  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Dahlgren Torpedo boat For United States Navy
1 June  Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse Kaiser Friedrich III-class battleship For Imperial German Navy
8 June  France Arsenal de Toulon Toulon Jeanne d'Arc Armoured cruiser For French Navy
10 June  United States Harlan & Hollingsworth Wilmington, Delaware Stringham Torpedo boat For United States Navy
24 June  France Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire Saint-Nazaire Azuma Armored cruiser For Imperial Japanese Navy
26 June  Russia Neva Shipyard St Petersburg Gagara Torpedo boat For Imperial Russian Navy
27 June  United Kingdom Armstrong Whitworth Newcastle upon Tyne Hatsuse Shikishima-class battleship For Imperial Japanese Navy
28 June  United Kingdom Armstrong Whitworth Newcastle upon Tyne Cobra Destroyer For Royal Navy
28 June  United Kingdom HM Dockyard Chatham Chatham, Kent Pioneer Pelorus-class cruiser For Royal Navy
28 June  United Kingdom Blyth Shipbuilding Co. Ltd Blyth Somerford Steamship For Speeding & Marshall Steam Shipping Co. Ltd.[5]
29 June  Italy Gio. Ansaldo & C. Sestri Ponente, Genoa Giuseppe Garibaldi Giuseppe Garibaldi-class cruiser For Regia Marina
30 June  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Chesapeake Barque For United States Navy
8 July  Germany Stettiner Vulcan AG Stettin Yakumo Armoured cruiser For Imperial Japanese Navy
11 July  United Kingdom Alexander Stephen and Sons Glasgow Montezuma Cargo liner For Elder Dempster Lines
18 July  Germany AG Weser Bremen Niobe Gazelle-class cruiser For Imperial German Navy
25 July  France Arsenal de Brest Brest Suffren Pre-dreadnought battleship For French Navy
25 July  United Kingdom Vickers Barrow in Furness Vengeance Canopus-class battleship For Royal Navy
27 July  Japan Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Nagasaki Awa Maru Ocean liner For Nippon Yusen
29 July  United States Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works Portland, Maine Goldsborough Torpedo boat For United States Navy
6 August  Italy Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando Livorno Varese Giuseppe Garibaldi-class cruiser For Regia Marina
29 August  Norway Navy Yard Karljohansvern Myg Torpedo boat For Royal Norwegian Navy
August  Russia Admiralty Shipyard St Petersburg Pallada Pallada-class cruiser For Imperial Russian Navy
6 September  United Kingdom R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. Ltd. Newcastle upon Tyne Viper Viper-class destroyer For Royal Navy.
7 September  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Persic Passenger ship For White Star Line.
9 September  Austria-Hungary STT Trieste Habsburg Habsburg-class battleship For Austro-Hungarian Navy
16 September  Sweden William Lindbergs Verkstads- och Varfs AB Stockholm Hansa Passenger ship For Ångfartygs AB Gotland, Visby
20 September  France Compagnie Générale Transatlantique St. Nazaire La Lorraine Ocean liner For Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
20 September  Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg Rhein Ocean liner For Norddeutscher Lloyd
21 September  United Kingdom Portsmouth Dockyard Portsmouth London London-class battleship For Royal Navy
23 September  France Arsenal de Cherbourg Cherbourg Henri IV Pre-dreadnought battleship For French Navy
25 September  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Craven Torpedo boat For United States Navy
30 September  Russia Admiralty Shipyard St Petersburg Diana Pallada-class cruiser For Imperial Russian Navy
5 October  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Michigan Passenger ship For Atlantic Transport Co.[6]
7 October  United States Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company Newport News, Virginia El Cid Cargo ship For Southern Pacific Steamship Company
18 October  United Kingdom HMNB Devonport Devonport Bulwark London-class battleship For Royal Navy
18 October  Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg Kaiser Karl der Grosse Kaiser Friedrich III-class battleship For Imperial German Navy
19 October  United Kingdom Blyth Shipbuilding Co. Ltd Blyth Everingham Steamship For East Yorkshire Steamship Co. Ltd.[7]
21 October  United Kingdom Harland and Wolff Belfast Galeka Ocean liner For Union-Castle Line
31 October  United Kingdom Wm. Denny & Bros. Dumbarton Sir Walter Scott Steamship
31 October  United States William Trigg Company Richmond, Virginia Shubrick Torpedo boat For United States Navy
31 October  United States William Cramp & Sons Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Varyag Cruiser For Imperial Russian Navy
2 November  United Kingdom HM Dockyard Chatham Chatham, Kent Venerable London-class battleship For Royal Navy
18 November  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Minneapolis Passenger ship For Atlantic Transport Co.[8]
18 November  United Kingdom John Brown & Company Clydebank Sutlej Cressy-class cruiser For Royal Navy
21 November  Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Nymphe Gazelle-class cruiser For Imperial German Navy
25 November  Germany AG Vulcan Stettin Hamburg Barbarossa-class ocean liner For Hamburg America Line
2 December  Germany F Schichau Danzig Grosser Kurfürst Ocean liner For Norddeutsche Lloyd
4 December  United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd Govan Cressy Cressy-class cruiser For Royal Navy
5 December  United States Gas Engine & Power Company / Charles L Seabury Company Morris Heights, New York Bailey Torpedo boat For United States Navy
5 December  United Kingdom Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd Blyth Gelderland Steamship For N.V. Scheepvaart en Steenkolen Maatschappij.[9]
9 December  Sweden Bergsunds Shipyard Stockholm Claes Uggla Torpedo cruiser For Royal Swedish Navy
15 December  Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg Potsdam Ocean Liner For Holland-America Line
16 December  United Kingdom John Brown & Company Clydebank Saxonia Ocean liner For Cunard Line
20 December  United Kingdom William Denny and Brothers Dumbarton Anglia Ferry For London and North Western Railway
21 December  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Saxon Passenger ship For Union Steamship Co.[10]
23 December  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Virginia Yacht For Isaac Stern
31 December  United States Detroit Shipbuilding Company Detroit Tashmoo Paddle steamer For White Star Line, ~Detroit
Unknown date  Netherlands Kalkman Capelle aan den IJssel Albatros Ketch Last commercially trading cargo sailing ship in Europe.
Unknown date  United States W. & A. Fletcher Company Hoboken, New Jersey Corsair Yacht For J. P. Morgan, Jr.
Unknown date  United Kingdom Armstrong Whitworth Newcastle upon Tyne Eidsvold Eidsvold-class coastal defence ship For Royal Norwegian Navy
Unknown date  United States John Roach and Sons Chester, Pennsylvania Eugenia Yacht
Unknown date  United Kingdom Allsup & Co. Ltd. Preston Florence Barge For private owner.[11]
Unknown date  United Kingdom Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Newcastle upon Tyne Ivernia Ocean liner For Cunard Line
Unknown date  United States A C Brown Tottenville, New York Jack T Scully Tugboat For Neptune Line
Unknown date  Germany Geestemunde Köln Ocean Liner For Norddeutscher Lloyd
Unknown date  Germany Flensburger Schiffsbaugesellschaft Flensburg, Germany Korea Passenger liner for Russian East Asiatic Steamship Company
Unknown date  United States Portland, Oregon Leona Paddle steamer For Oregon City Transportation Company
Unknown date  United States Neafie and Levy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Luckenbach No. 3 Tugboat For Luckenbach Steamship Company
Unknown date  United States Neafie and Levy Ship and Engine Building Company Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lykens Tugboat For the Reading Company
Unknown date  Germany Neptun AG. Rostock Marie Cargo ship For Flensburger Dampschiff Gesellschaft.[12]
Unknown date  United Kingdom D S Hall Reedham, Norfolk Maud Norfolk wherry For Walter Bunn
Unknown date  United Kingdom Sir Raylton Dixon & Co Middlesbrough Mont-Blanc Tramp steamer For Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
Unknown date  United Kingdom Armstrong Whitworth Newcastle upon Tyne Norge Eidsvold-class coastal defence ship For Royal Norwegian Navy
Unknown date  United Kingdom Beeching & Co. Great Yarmouth Olive Passenger ship For Laura Beeching.[13]
Unknown date  United Kingdom Brown & Clapson Barton-upon-Humber Only Son Humber Keel For John Charles Raper.[14]
Unknown date  United States Jersey City, Illinois Patrol Harbor launch
Unknown date  United Kingdom Allsup & Co. Ltd. Preston Petschora Paddle steamer For private owner.[15]
Unknown date  United Kingdom Allsup & Co. Ltd. Preston Pioneer Steamboat For William Monk Jr.[16]
Unknown date  United Kingdom Beeching Brothers Ltd. Great Yarmouth Piscator Steam drifter For Henry F. Eastick and others.[17]
Unknown date  Denmark Helsingørs Jernskib-og Maskinbyggeri A/S Helsingør Söderhamn Cargo ship
Unknown date  United Kingdom John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston, Hampshire Stag Destroyer For Royal Navy
Unknown date  United Kingdom Allsup & Co. Ltd. Preston Toroa Coaster For Richardson & Co. Ltd.[18]

References

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  1. ^ "Moorabool". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Energy". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  3. ^ "Winifredian". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Warwick". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Somerford". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  6. ^ "Michigan". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  7. ^ "Everingham". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  8. ^ "Minneapolis". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  9. ^ "Gelderland". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  10. ^ "Saxon". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  11. ^ "Florence". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  12. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 454.
  13. ^ "Olive". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
  14. ^ "Only Son". Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
  15. ^ "Petschora". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  16. ^ "Pioneer". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  17. ^ "Piscator". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
  18. ^ "Toroa". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
Sources
  • Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA (1990). The Empire Ships (Second ed.). London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's of London Press Ltd. ISBN 1-85044-275-4.