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

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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  |
22 March  |  United Kingdom | Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd | Blyth | Barwon | Cargo ship | For Huddart Parker & Co. Pty. Ltd.[1]
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  |
7 June  |  United Kingdom | Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd | Blyth | Wisbech | Cargo ship | For Wisbech Steamship Co. Ltd.[2]
12 June  |  Germany | Germaniawerft | Kiel | Zähringen | Wittelsbach-class battleship  |
22 June  |  Germany | Kaiserliche Werft Kiel | Kiel | Prinz Adalbert | Prinz Adalbert-class cruiser
24 June[3] |  United Kingdom | George Brown and Company | Greenock | Princess Beara | Steam cutter | For Bantry Bay Steamship Co.[4] The first vessel launched by George Brown and Company[3]
6 July  |  United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Walmer Castle | Passenger ship | For Union-Castle Line.[5]
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
16 July  |  United Kingdom | Allsup & Co. Ltd.  | Preston | Seagull | Lightship | For Commissioners of Irish Lights.[6]
22 July  |  United States | Crescent Shipyard | Elizabethport, New Jersey | Adder | Plunger-class submarine  | [7]
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
15 August  |  United Kingdom | Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd | Blyth | Battenhall | Cargo ship | For Lombard Steamship Co. Ltd.[8]
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 [9]
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 [10]
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 [11]
7 November  |  Sweden | Kockums Shipyard | Malmö | Tapperheten | Äran-class coastal defence ship  | For the Royal Swedish Navy[12]
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  |
14 November  |  United Kingdom | Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd | Blyth | Lady Mildred | Cargo ship | For Exchange Steamship Co. Ltd.[13]
28 November  |  United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Warwickshire | Passenger ship | For Bibby Steamship Co.[14]
12 December  |  United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Minnetonka | Passenger ship | For Atlantic Transport Co.[15]
23 December  |  United States | Maryland Steel Company | Sparrows Point, Maryland | Shawmut | Cargo ship | For Boston Steamship Company, later renamed Ancon.[16]
28 December  |  United States | Newport News Shipbuilding | Newport News, Virginia | Missouri | Maine-class battleship  |
Unknown date  |  United Kingdom | John Bowden  | Porthleven | Ada | Steam drifter | For Northern Steam Herring Fisheries Ltd.[17]
Unknown date  |  United Kingdom | John Bowden  | Porthleven | Clara | Steam drifter | For Northern Steam Herring Fisheries Ltd.[18]
Unknown date  |  United Kingdom | John Bowden  | Porthleven | Glentana | Steam drifter | For Steam Herring Fleet Ltd.[19]
Unknown date  |  United Kingdom | William Denny and Brothers | Dumbarton | King Edward | Passenger ship | For private owner.[20]
Unknown date  |  United Kingdom | Beeching Brothers Ltd.  | Great Yarmouth | King Edward | Steam drifter | For John Moore.[21]
Unknown date  |  United Kingdom | Allsup & Co. Ltd.  | Preston | Lord Kitchener | Steamboat | For David & William Monk.[22]
Unknown date  |  United Kingdom | Beeching Brothers Ltd.  | Great Yarmouth | Queen Alexandra | Steam drifter | For William Clowes.[23]
Unknown date  |  United Kingdom | Beeching Brothers Ltd.  | Great Yarmouth | Snowdrop | Steam drifter | For Pitchers Ltd.[24]
Unknown date  |  United Kingdom | Beeching Brothers Ltd.  | Great Yarmouth | Star of the Sea | Steam drifter | For James Murray.[25]
Unknown date  |  United Kingdom | T. Scott & Company  | Goole | Sudan | Steamship | For private owner.[26]
Unknown date  |  United Kingdom | Beeching Brothers Ltd.  | Great Yarmouth | Sunflower | Steam drifter | For John Salmon.[27]
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

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1. ^ "Barwon". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
2. ^ "Wisbech". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
3. ^ a b "GEO. BROWN & Co". Inverclyde Shipbuilding. Cartsburn Publishing. 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
4. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 292.
5. ^ "Walmer Castle". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
6. ^ "Seagull". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
7. ^ "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"
8. ^ "Battenhall". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
9. ^ "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"
10. ^ "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"
11. ^ "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."
12. ^ Fleks 1997, p. 16.
13. ^ "Lady Mildred". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
14. ^ "Warwickshire". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
15. ^ "Minnetonka". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
16. ^ Marine Engineering (1902). "New Ships of the Boston Steamship Company". Marine Engineering. 7 (January 1902). New York: Marine Engineering, Inc. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
17. ^ "Ada". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
18. ^ "Clara". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
19. ^ "Glentana". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
20. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 49.
21. ^ "King Edward". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
22. ^ "Lord Kitchener". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
23. ^ "Queen Alexandra". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
24. ^ "Snowdrop". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
25. ^ "Star of the Sea". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
26. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 257.
27. ^ "Sunflower". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 28 September 2024.

Sources

* Fleks, Adam (1997). Od Svea Do Drottning Victoria [From Svea to Drottning Victoria] (in Polish). Tarnowskie Góry: Okręty Wojenne. ISBN 978-8-39022-748-1.
* 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.

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