List of ship launches in 1907

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The list of ship launches in 1907 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1907.

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Date Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes
12 January  France Arsenal de Rochefort Rochefort Coutelas Claymore-class destroyer Struck 1921.[1]
14 January  United Kingdom Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Jarrow Bonetta Torpedo boat destroyer Scrapped 1920.[2]
31 January  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Fulani Cargo ship For Elder Dempster..[3]
15 February  United Kingdom Vickers Barrow-in-Furness C7 C-class submarine Sold for scrapping, 1919
 United Kingdom Vickers Barrow-in-Furness C8 C-class submarine Sold for scrapping, 1920
16 February  United Kingdom Cammell Laird Birkenhead, England Cossack Tribal-class destroyer Scrapped 1919
2 March  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Avon Passenger ship For Royal Mail Lines.[4]
7 March  Germany AG Vulcan Stettin Stettin Stettin Königsberg-class cruiser
15 March  United Kingdom Vickers Barrow-in-Furness C10 C-class submarine Sold for scrapping, 1922
16 March  United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Govan Indomitable Invincible-class battlecruiser Scrapped 1921
27 March  United Kingdom Vickers Barrow-in-Furness C11 C-class submarine Sunk in collision, 1909
29 March  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Prashu Cargo ship For Elder Dempster.[5]
30 March  United States Fore River Shipyard Quincy, Massachusetts Viper B-class submarine Sunk as a target, 1922
 United States Fore River Shipyard Quincy, Massachusetts Tarantula B-class submarine Sunk as a target, 1922
3 April  United Kingdom Vickers Barrow-in-Furness C9 C-class submarine Sold for scrapping, 1922
6 April  Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S143 S138-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy[6]
13 April  United Kingdom Armstrong Whitworth Elswick Invincible Invincible-class battlecruiser Sunk 31 May 1916
14 April  Japan Kure Naval Arsenal Kure, Hiroshima Aki Satsuma-class battleship Sunk as target, 1924
21 April  Italy La Spezia Naval Base La Spezia Roma Regina Elena-class battleship
24 April  United Kingdom Pembroke Dockyard Pembroke Dock Defence Minotaur-class cruiser Sunk 31 May 1916
26 April[7]  United Kingdom Gourlay Brothers Dundee Atalanta Passenger vessel Sold in 1923
May  United Kingdom FJ Carver and Son Bridgwater, England Irene Ketch 100-foot ketch built in Bridgwater in 1907, the last ship built in the docks and the only ketch built in the West Country still sailing.[8]
8 May  United Kingdom Armstrong Whitworth Elswick, England Afridi Tribal-class destroyer Scrapped 1919
28 May  France Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde Lormont Vérité Liberté-class battleship
29 May  United States Fore River Shipyard Quincy, Massachusetts Birmingham Chester-class cruiser Sold for scrap, 1930
30 May[9]  United Kingdom A. & J. Inglis Glasgow, Scotland Alexandra Royal yacht Sold to Norway in 1925, sunk by German bombers in 1940
26 June  United Kingdom John Brown & Company Clydebank Inflexible Invincible-class battlecruiser Scrapped 1922
 United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Chester Chester-class cruiser Scrapped 1930
27 June  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Iroquois Tanker For Anglo-American Oil Company.[10]
29 June  France Arsenal de Rochefort Rochefort Carquois Claymore-class destroyer Struck 1930.[1]
29 June  United States W. A. Boole & Son Oakland, California Sibyl Marston schooner
9 July  United Kingdom D & W Henderson Ltd Glasgow California Passenger liner For Anchor Line[11]
10 July  United Kingdom Yarrow Shipbuilders London Lonchi Thyella-class destroyer [12]
 United Kingdom J. Samuel White Cowes TB 13 Cricket-class coastal destroyer [13]
27 July  United Kingdom Portsmouth Dockyard Portsmouth, England Bellerophon Bellerophon-class battleship Scrapped 1921
15 August  Russia Admiralty Shipyard Saint Petersburg Bayan Bayan-class cruiser Scrapped 1922
24 August  United Kingdom HM Dockyard Devonport Temeraire Bellerophon-class battleship Sold for scrap 1921
4 September  Russia Baltic Shipyard Saint Petersburg Akula Submarine Sunk 1915
7 September  Russia Baltic Shipyard Saint Petersburg Imperator Pavel I Andrei Pervozvanny-class battleship Scrapped 1923
9 September  United Kingdom Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd Newcastle upon Tyne Tarmo Icebreaker Museum ship in Kotka, Finland
 United Kingdom Vickers Barrow-in-Furness C12 C-class submarine Sold for scrapping, 1920
19 September  France Arsenal de Toulon Toulon Circé Circé-class submarine Sunk by U-boat, 1918
21 September  France Brest Dockyard Brest Edgar Quinet Edgar Quinet-class cruiser [14]
22 September  Italy Cantiere Navale di Riva Trigoso Riva Trigoso Principessa Jolanda Ocean liner Capsized on launch
26 September  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Asturias Passenger ship For Royal Mail Lines.[15]
5 October  Germany Blohm & Voss Hamburg Dresden Dresden-class cruiser Sunk on 14 March 1915 at Mas a Tierra
8 October  France Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand Le Havre Branlebas Branlebas-class destroyer Sunk on 30 September 1915.[16]
10 October  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Navahoe Schooner oil barge For Anglo-American Oil Company.[17]
21 October  Japan Yokosuka Naval Arsenal Yokosuka Kurama Ibuki-class armored cruiser [18]
22 October  France Arsenal de Toulon Toulon Calypso Circé-class submarine Sunk in collision, 1914
 United Kingdom John Brown & Company Clydebank Copenhagen Passenger vessel Sunk, 1917
23 October  Germany AG Weser Bremen Albatross Nautilus-class minelayer Broken up, 1921
7 November  United Kingdom Armstrong Whitworth Elswick, England Superb Bellerophon-class battleship Sold for scrap 1922
9 November  United Kingdom Vickers Barrow-in-Furness C13 C-class submarine Sold for scrapping, 1920
16 November  Germany Blohm & Voss Santa Elena Merchant ship Converted as a seaplane carrier in World War I
18 November  Japan Kawasaki Kobe Yodo Yodo-class cruiser [19]
21 November  Japan Kure Naval Arsenal Kure, Hiroshima Ibuki Ibuki-class armored cruiser [18]
26 November  France Arsenal de Toulon Toulon Cognée Claymore-class destroyer Struck 1921.[1]
5 December  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Median Cargo ship For F. Leyland & Co..[20]
7 December  United Kingdom Vickers Barrow-in-Furness C14 C-class submarine Sold for scrapping, 1921
14 December  France Arsenal de Rochefort Rochefort Fleuret Claymore-class destroyer Struck 1920.[1]
19 December  France Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand Le Havre Fanfare Branlebas-class destroyer Struck 1925.[16]
21 December  France Ateliers et Chantiers de Penhoët Rouen Gabion Branlebas-class destroyer Struck 1921.[16]
 United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Pericles Passenger ship For Aberdeen Line.
Unknown date  United Kingdom Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. Glasgow City of Paris Ocean liner For Ellerman Lines.[21]
Unknown date  United Kingdom Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. Glasgow Corsican Ocean liner For Allan Line.[21]
Unknown date  United Kingdom Workman, Clark & Co. Ltd. Belfast Kia Ora Cargo ship For private owner.[22]
Unknown date  Sweden Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad Gothenburg Wasa Merchant ship Sold to Norway in 1925

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Couhat 1974, p. 90.
  2. ^ Lyon 2001, p. 37.
  3. ^ "Fulani". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Avon". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Prashu". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  6. ^ Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 47.
  7. ^ "Important Dundee Launch". Dundee Courier. Dundee. 27 April 1907. Retrieved 13 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ^ Schäuffelen 2005, p. 146.
  9. ^ "Launches—Scotch: Alexandra". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. July 1907. p. 460.
  10. ^ "Iroquois". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  11. ^ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches – Scotch: California". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 30. 1 August 1907. p. 36.
  12. ^ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches:English: Lonhi". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 30. 1 August 1907. p. 35.
  13. ^ Friedman 2009, p. 305.
  14. ^ Couhat 1974, p. 62.
  15. ^ "Asturias". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  16. ^ a b c Couhat 1974, p. 94.
  17. ^ "Navahoe". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  18. ^ a b Jentschura, Jung & Mikel 1977, p. 78.
  19. ^ Jentschura, Jung & Mikel 1977, pp. 103–104.
  20. ^ "Median". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  21. ^ a b Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 21.
  22. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 441.
Sources
  • Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
  • Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
  • Gröner, Erich; Jung, Dieter; Maass, Martin (1983). Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815–1945: Band 2: Torpedoboote, Zerstörer, Schnellboote, Minensuchboote, Minenräumboote (in German). Koblenz: Bernard & Graef Verlag. ISBN 3-7637-4801-6.
  • Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter; Mikel, Peter (1977). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. Annapolis, Maryland, USA: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
  • Lyon, David (2001). The First Destroyers. London: Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-3648.
  • 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.
  • Schäuffelen, Otmar (2005). Chapman Great Sailing Ships of the World. Hearst Books. ISBN 1-58816-384-9.
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