List of ship launches in 1907 explained

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

Date	Country	Builder	Location	Ship	Class / type	Notes
12 January	France	Arsenal de Rochefort	Rochefort			Struck 1921.
14 January		Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company	Jarrow		Torpedo boat destroyer	Scrapped 1920.
31 January		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Elder Dempster..[1]
15 February		Vickers	Barrow-in-Furness		C-class submarine	Sold for scrapping, 1919
		Vickers	Barrow-in-Furness		C-class submarine	Sold for scrapping, 1920
16 February		Cammell Laird	Birkenhead, England		Tribal-class destroyer	Scrapped 1919
28 February		Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd	Blyth		Cargo ship	For Furness Withy & Co. Ltd.[2]
2 March		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Passenger ship	For Royal Mail Lines.[3]
4 March		Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd	Blyth	B.H.C. Rockbreaker No. 2	Dredger	For Blyth Harbour Commissioners.[4]
7 March		AG Vulcan Stettin	Stettin
15 March		Vickers	Barrow-in-Furness		C-class submarine	Sold for scrapping, 1922
16 March		Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company	Govan			Scrapped 1921
27 March		Vickers	Barrow-in-Furness		C-class submarine	Sunk in collision, 1909
29 March		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		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		Vickers	Barrow-in-Furness		C-class submarine	Sold for scrapping, 1922
6 April		Schichau-Werke	Elbing			For Imperial German Navy
13 April		Armstrong Whitworth	Elswick			Sunk 31 May 1916
14 April		Kure Naval Arsenal	Kure, Hiroshima			Sunk as target, 1924
21 April		La Spezia Naval Base	La Spezia
24 April		Pembroke Dockyard	Pembroke Dock		Minotaur-class cruiser	Sunk 31 May 1916
26 April[6]		Gourlay Brothers	Dundee		Passenger vessel	Sold in 1923
30 April		Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd	Blyth		Cargo ship	For British Maritime Trust Ltd.[7]
May		FJ Carver and Son	Bridgwater, England		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 May		Armstrong Whitworth	Elswick, England		Tribal-class destroyer	Scrapped 1919
28 May	France	Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde	Lormont
29 May	United States	Fore River Shipyard	Quincy, Massachusetts			Sold for scrap, 1930
30 May[8]		A. & J. Inglis	Glasgow, Scotland		Royal yacht	Sold to Norway in 1925, sunk by German bombers in 1940
26 June		John Brown & Company	Clydebank			Scrapped 1922
	United States	Bath Iron Works	Bath, Maine			Scrapped 1930
27 June		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Tanker	For Anglo-American Oil Company.[9]
29 June		Arsenal de Rochefort	Rochefort			Struck 1930.
29 June	United States	W. A. Boole & Son	Oakland, California	Sibyl Marston	schooner
9 July		D & W Henderson Ltd			Passenger liner	For Anchor Line[10]
10 July
		Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd	Blyth		Cargo ship	For Tyneside Line Ltd.[11]
		Yarrow Shipbuilders	London			[12]
		J. Samuel White	Cowes		Cricket-class coastal destroyer
27 July		Portsmouth Dockyard	Portsmouth, England			Scrapped 1921
15 August		Admiralty Shipyard	Saint Petersburg			Scrapped 1922
24 August		HM Dockyard	Devonport			Sold for scrap 1921
4 September		Baltic Shipyard	Saint Petersburg		Submarine	Sunk 1915
7 September		Baltic Shipyard	Saint Petersburg			Scrapped 1923
9 September		Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd	Newcastle upon Tyne		Icebreaker	Museum ship in Kotka, Finland
		Vickers	Barrow-in-Furness		C-class submarine	Sold for scrapping, 1920
10 September		Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd	Blyth		Steamship	For Elterwater Steamship Co. Ltd.[13]
19 September		Arsenal de Toulon	Toulon		Circé-class submarine	Sunk by U-boat, 1918
21 September		Brest Dockyard	Brest
22 September		Cantiere Navale di Riva Trigoso	Riva Trigoso		Ocean liner	Capsized on launch
26 September		Harland & Wolff	Belfast	Asturias	Passenger ship	For Royal Mail Lines.[14]
5 October		Blohm & Voss	Hamburg			Sunk on 14 March 1915 at Mas a Tierra
8 October	France	Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand	Le Havre			Sunk on 30 September 1915.
10 October		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Schooner oil barge	For Anglo-American Oil Company.[15]
21 October		Yokosuka Naval Arsenal	Yokosuka
22 October		Arsenal de Toulon	Toulon			Sunk in collision, 1914
		John Brown & Company	Clydebank		Passenger vessel	Sunk, 1917
23 October		AG Weser	Bremen			Broken up, 1921
7 November		Armstrong Whitworth	Elswick, England			Sold for scrap 1922
9 November		Vickers	Barrow-in-Furness		C-class submarine	Sold for scrapping, 1920
16 November		Blohm & Voss			Merchant ship	Converted as a seaplane carrier in World War I
18 November		Kawasaki	Kobe			[16]
21 November		Kure Naval Arsenal	Kure, Hiroshima
26 November	France	Arsenal de Toulon	Toulon			Struck 1921.
5 December		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For F. Leyland & Co..[17]
		Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd	Blyth		Cargo ship	For Tyneside Line Ltd.[18]
7 December		Vickers	Barrow-in-Furness		C-class submarine	Sold for scrapping, 1921
14 December		Arsenal de Rochefort	Rochefort			Struck 1920.
19 December	France	Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand	Le Havre			Struck 1925.
21 December	France	Ateliers et Chantiers de Penhoët	Rouen			Struck 1921.
		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Passenger ship	For Aberdeen Line.
Unknown date		Beeching Brothers Ltd.	Great Yarmouth	Boy Arthur	Steam drifter	For Richard Sutton.[19]
Unknown date		Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd.	Glasgow		Ocean liner	For Ellerman Lines.
Unknown date		Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd.	Glasgow		Ocean liner	For Allan Line.
Unknown date		Beeching Brothers Ltd.	Great Yarmouth	Felicia	Steam drifter	For Edward Baker.[20]
Unknown date		Beeching Brothers Ltd.	Great Yarmouth	Hope	Steam drifter	For Edwarde Catchpole.[21]
Unknown date		Beeching Brothers Ltd.	Great Yarmouth	Inter Nos	Steam drifter	For Edward Baker.[22]
Unknown date		Workman, Clark & Co. Ltd.	Belfast		Cargo ship	For private owner.
Unknown date		Brown & Clapson	Barton-upon-Humber	Merle	Sloop	For Summerfield & Mead Ltd.[23]
Unknown date		Beeching Brothers Ltd.	Great Yarmouth	Radiant	Steam drifter	For Daniel Ralph.[24]
Unknown date		Beeching Brothers Ltd.	Great Yarmouth	Rose	Steam drifter	For Alexander Storm.[25]
Unknown date		Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd	Blyth		Cargo ship	For Furness Withy & Co. Ltd.[26]
Unknown date		Beeching Brothers Ltd.	Great Yarmouth	Selina	Steam drifter	For Frederick Salmon.[27]
Unknown date		Beeching Brothers Ltd.	Great Yarmouth	Sphinx	Steam drifter	For Horatio Fenner Ltd.[28]
Unknown date		Beeching Brothers Ltd.	Great Yarmouth	Triumph	Steam drifter	For J. S. Johnson & Sons Ltd.[29]
Unknown date		Brown & Clapson	Barton-upon-Humber	United	Lighter	For William Carmichael and G. C. Dunwell.[30]
Unknown date		Brown & Clapson	Barton-upon-Humber	Vigo	Lighter	For Richard Carmichael.[31]
Unknown date	Sweden	Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad	Gothenburg	Wasa	Merchant ship	Sold to Norway in 1925
Unknown date		Brown & Clapson	Barton-upon-Humber	Unnamed	Lighter	For W. Sleight.[32]

References

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Fulani . The Yard . 22 February 2017.
2. Web site: Ludworth . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 30 September 2024 .
3. Web site: Avon . The Yard . 22 February 2017.
4. Web site: B.H.C. Rockbreaker No. 2 . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 30 September 2024 .
5. Web site: Prashu . The Yard . 22 February 2017.
6. News: . Important Dundee Launch . Dundee Courier . Dundee . 27 April 1907 . 13 October 2015 . . subscription .
7. Web site: Thornley . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 30 September 2024 .
8. Launches—Scotch: Alexandra. The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. July 1907. 29. 460.
9. Web site: Iroquois . The Yard . 22 February 2017.
10. Launches and Trial Trips: Launches – Scotch: California . The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. 1 August 1907. 36. 30.
11. Web site: Blackwood . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 30 September 2024 .
12. Launches and Trial Trips: Launches:English: Lonhi. The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. 1 August 1907. 35. 30.
13. Web site: Elterwater . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 30 September 2024 .
14. Web site: Asturias . The Yard . 22 February 2017.
15. Web site: Navahoe . The Yard . 22 February 2017.
16. Jentschura, Jung & Mikel 1977, pp. 103–104.
17. Web site: Median . The Yard . 22 February 2017.
18. Web site: Redwood . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 30 September 2024 .
19. Web site: Boy Arthur . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 28 September 2024 .
20. Web site: Felicia . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 28 September 2024 .
21. Web site: Hope . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 28 September 2024 .
22. Web site: Inter Nos . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 28 September 2024 .
23. Web site: Merle . Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust . 6 October 2024 .
24. Web site: Radiant . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 28 September 2024 .
25. Web site: Rose . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 28 September 2024 .
26. Web site: Ryhope . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 30 September 2024 .
27. Web site: Selina . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 28 September 2024 .
28. Web site: Sphinx . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 28 September 2024 .
29. Web site: Triumph . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 28 September 2024 .
30. Web site: United . Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust . 6 October 2024 .
31. Web site: Vigo . Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust . 6 October 2024 .
32. Web site: Un-named . Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust . 6 October 2024 .