List of ship launches in 1930 explained

The list of ship launches in 1930 includes a chronological list of notable ships launched in 1930.

Date	Country	Builder	Location	Ship	Class	Notes
11 January		Öresundsvarvet	Landskrona		Passenger ship	For F Sternhagen – "Gotha Line"
17 January		Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd.	Birkenhead		Cargo ship	For Canadian National Steamship Company.
12 February	United Kingdom	Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Co Ltd	Wallsend			For Royal Navy
14 January		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For British & African Steamship Co.[1]
28 January		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Argentine Navigation Co.[2]
12 February		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For H. Hogarth & Sons.[3]
18 February		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Silver Line.[4]
27 February		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For British & African Steamship Co.[5]
27 February		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For British & African Steamship Co.[6]
1 March	United Kingdom	Ardrossan Dockyard Ltd	Ardrossan		Cargo ship	For Union Steamship Company of New Zealand Ltd. Wellington
4 March		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Ferry	For City of Cork Steam Packet Co.
5 March		Harland & Wolff	Belfast	Celedonia	Lighter	For Argentine Navigatio Co.[7]
14 March	United Kingdom	Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd	Wallsend			For Royal Navy
17 March		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For H. Hogarth & Sons.[8]
18 March	United Kingdom	John I. Thornycroft & Company	Woolston, Hampshire			For Royal Navy
19 March	United States	Bath Iron Works	Bath, Maine	Aras	Yacht
March	United States	New York Shipbuilding Corporation	New York City	Santa Clara	Passenger ship	For Grace Steamship Company
10 April	United States	Mare Island Naval Shipyard	Vallejo, California			For United States Navy
10 April	United Kingdom	Devonport Dockyard	Plymouth			For Royal Navy
10 April	United Kingdom	Devonport Dockyard	Plymouth			For Royal Navy
10 April		Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft	Flensburg		Cargo ship	For Knöhr & Burchardt .
12 April	France	Chantiers Dubigeon	Nantes			For French Navy
15 April	United Kingdom	Lithgows	Port Glasgow		Tanker	For United Molasses Co Ltd
15 April		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Silver Line.[9]
27 April						For Regia Marina
27 April		O.T.O.	La Spezia			For Regia Marina
28 April		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Richard Hughes & Co.[10]
29 April		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For British & African Steamship Co.[11]
29 April		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Passenger ship	For Union-Castle Line.[12]
8 May		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Argentine Navigation Co.[13]
12 May		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Richard Hughes & Co.[14]
12 May		Yokosuka Naval Arsenal	Yokosuka			For Imperial Japanese Navy
12 May		Maizuru Naval Arsenal	Maizuru, Kyoto			For Imperial Japanese Navy
12 May	United Kingdom	Swan Hunter	Wallsend			For Royal Indian Marine
15 May	United States	Newport News Shipbuilding	Newport News, Virginia	Oriente	Ocean liner	For New York and Cuba Mail and Steamship Co
27 May		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Asphalt carrier	For Ebano Oil Co.[15]
28 May	France	Arsenal de Brest	Brest			For French Navy
29 May	United Kingdom	Hawthorn Leslie	Hebburn
29 May		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Silver Line.[16]
30 May		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Worms & Cie.[17]
5 June	United Kingdom	Furness Shipbuilding	Haverton Hill-on-Tees		cargo ship	For Hartlepool Steamship Co
10 June		Isaac J. Abdela & Mitchell (1925) Ltd.	Queensferry		Coaster	For Eltham Shipping Co. Ltd.[18]
12 June	United Kingdom	Harland and Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Bank Line.
12 June		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Worms & Cie.[19]
16 June		Yokosuka Naval Arsenal	Yokosuka			For Imperial Japanese Navy
26 June		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Ferry	For Argentine Navigation Co.[20]
26 June		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Silver Line.[21]
28 June	France	Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire	Saint-Nazaire			For French Navy
30 June		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Argentine Navigation Co.[22]
June		Schiffswerft von Henry Koch AG	Lübeck		Fishing trawler	For Hochseefischerei J. Wieting AG
1 July		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Compagnie Générale Transatlantique.[23]
2 July	Finland	Sandvikens Skeppsdocka och Mekaniska Verkstad	Helsinki		Submarine	For Suomen Merivoimat
10 July		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Worms & Cie.[24]
10 July	United Kingdom	Vickers Armstrong	Barrow-in-Furness		flotilla leader
10 July		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Bank Line.[25]
11 July	Canada	John I. Thornycroft & Company	Woolston, Hampshire			For Royal Canadian Navy
18 July	United Kingdom	Palmer's	Jarrow
25 July	United Kingdom	Palmer's	Hebburn
26 July		Nobiskrug	Rendsburg	Wilfred	Cargo schooner
30 July	United Kingdom	Smiths Dock Co Ltd	Middlesbrough		Trawler	For Christian Salvesen & Co Ltd
6 August	United Kingdom	John Brown & Company	Clydebank			For Royal Navy
11 August		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Worms & Cie.[26]
14 August		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Compagnie Générale Transatlantique.[27]
23 August						For Regia Marina
23 August	United Kingdom	Cook, Welton & Gemmell	Beverley		Trawler	For St Andrews Steam Fishing Co Ltd
26 August	United Kingdom	Cammell Laird	Birkenhead		Tanker molasses	For United Molasses Co. Ltd. Liverpool
26 August		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Nourse Line.[28]
1 September	United States	Puget Sound Navy Yard	Bremerton, Washington			For United States Navy
6 September	France	Chantiers Navals Français	Blainville-sur-Orne, Caen			For French Navy
11 September		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Compagnie Générale Transatlantique.[29]
17 September		Blohm & Voss	Hamburg			For Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft
23 September	United Kingdom	Hawthorn Leslie	Hebburn
23 September		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Passenger ship	For Pacific Steam Navigation Company.
24 September	United Kingdom	Cammell Laird	Birkenhead		Tanker molasses	For United Molasses Co. Ltd. Liverpool
25 September		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Richard Hughes & Co.[30]
29 September	United Kingdom	John Brown & Company	Clydebank
9 October	United Kingdom	Swan Hunter	Tyne and Wear
9 October	France	Arsenal de Brest	Brest			For Marine Nationale
9 October		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Hain Shipping Co.[31]
10 October	Canada	John I. Thornycroft & Company	Woolston, Hampshire			For Royal Canadian Navy
14 October		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Richard Hughes & Co.[32]
18 October	United States	Bath Iron Works	Bath, Maine	Trudione	Yacht
22 October		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Ferry	For Argentine Navigation Co.[33]
23 October		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Compagnie Générale Transatlantique.[34]
4 November	United Kingdom	Devonport Dockyard	Plymouth			For Royal Navy
6 November	France	Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire	St Nazaire		Ocean liner	For Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes
8 November		Sasebo Naval Arsenal	Sasebo, Nagasaki			For Imperial Japanese Navy
20 November		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Compagnie Générale Transatlantique.[35]
22 November	United Kingdom	Chatham Dockyard	Chatham			For Royal Navy
4 December		Blohm & Voss	Hamburg			For Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft.
6 December	United Kingdom	Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd	Wallsend			For Royal Navy
19 December	United Kingdom	Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited	Greenock		cargo ship	For Ocean Steamship Co. Ltd
10 December		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Coaster	For Clyde Shipping Co.[36]
20 December		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Compagnie Générale Transatlantique.[37]
Date unknown		Flensburger Schiff- Gesellschaft.	Flensburg		Cargo ship	For W. Traber & Co.
Date unknown	United States	Mathis Yacht Building Company	Camden, New Jersey	Armina	Yacht
Date unknown		Schiffswerft J. Frerichs & Co	Einswarden		Fishing trawler	For Nordsee Deutsche Hochseefisherei
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Charles Connell & Co Ltd	Glasgow		Cargo ship	For Ben Line.
Date unknown	United States	Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp	New York City	Elda	Yacht
Date unknown		Deutsche Werft.	Hamburg		Tanker	For J. T. Essberger.
Date unknown		Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft	Kiel	Etak	Schooner
Date unknown		Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau	Wesermünde		Fishing trawler	For Grundmann & Gröschel
Date unknown						For Regia Marina
Date unknown		Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd.	Sunderland		Cargo ship	For J. & C. Harrison.
Date unknown		Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd.	Sunderland		Cargo ship	For J. & C. Harrison.
Date unknown		Bartram & Sons Ltd.	Sunderland		Cargo ship	For National Steamship Co.
Date unknown		Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau	Wesermünde		Fishing trawler	For Hanseatische Hochseefisherei AG
Date unknown	United States	Herreshoff Manufacturing Co	Bristol, Rhode Island	Katoura	Yacht
Date unknown		Flensburger Schiff- Gesellschaft.	Flensburg		Cargo ship	For R. M. Sloman.
Date unknown	United Kingdom	Northumberland Shipbuilding Company	Howdon		Cargo ship	For Constantine Group
Date unknown	United Kingdom	Saunders-Roe	Cowes	Miss England II	Racing monohull hydroplane	For Kaye Don
Date unknown		Howaldtswerke	Kiel	Neumark	Cargo ship	For Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt Actien Gesellschaft
Date unknown	Canada	Cammell Laird	Birkenhead		ocean liner	For Canadian National Railway
Date unknown		William Simons & Co. Ltd.	Greenock	'	Dredger	For South African Railways.
Date unknown		General Engineering and Dry Dock		Sebago		For United States Navy
Date unknown		Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau	Bremen	Skolpenbank	Fishing trawler	For private owner
Date unknown	United Kingdom	William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd	Sunderland, Co Durham		Cargo ship	For Rowland & Marwood Steamship Co Ltd
Date unknown	Norway		Oslo	Suderøy V	Whaler
Date unknown		Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd.	Newcastle upon Tyne		Tanker	For Kerguelen Sealing & Whaling Co.
Date unknown	United States			Veedol II	Tanker	For Tidewater Oil Co
Date unknown	United States	Al Larson	Los Angeles	Vindicator	Purse seiner
Date unknown	United States	Nunes Brothers	Sausalito		Yacht

References

Sources

• Book: Hague, Arnold. Sloops: A History of the 71 Sloops Built in Britain and Australia for the British, Australian and Indian Navies 1926–1946. 1993. World Ship Society. Kendal, England. 0-905617-67-3.
• Book: Sawyer . LA . Mitchell . WH . 1990 . The Empire Ships . London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong . Lloyd's of London Press Ltd . 1-85044-275-4 . Second .
• Book: Whitley, M. J.. Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. 2000. Cassell & Co.. London. 1-85409-521-8.

Notes and References

1. Web site: William Wilberforce . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
2. Web site: Genova . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
3. Web site: Baron Napier . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
4. Web site: Silvercypress . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
5. Web site: Edward Blyden . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
6. Web site: Macgregor Laird . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
7. Web site: Celedonia . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
8. Web site: Baron Erskine . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
9. Web site: Silverwalnut . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
10. Web site: Prestatyn Rose . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
11. Web site: Alfred Jones . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
12. Web site: Warwick Castle . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
13. Web site: Hamburgo . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
14. Web site: Anglesea Rose . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
15. Web site: Ebano . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
16. Web site: Silverteak . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
17. Web site: Medoc . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
18. Web site: Brightside . Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust . 22 September 2024 .
19. Web site: Pomerol . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
20. Web site: Guayra . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
21. Web site: Silversandal . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
22. Web site: Ciudad de Corrientes . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
23. Web site: San Antonio . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
24. Web site: Chateau Larose . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
25. Web site: Laganbank . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
26. Web site: Chateau Pavie . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
27. Web site: San Diego . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
28. Web site: Ganges . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
29. Web site: San Francisco . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
30. Web site: Maurice Rose . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
31. Web site: Somali . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
32. Web site: Dennis Rose . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
33. Web site: Cuidad de Concepcion . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
34. Web site: San Jose . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
35. Web site: San Mateo . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
36. Web site: Rockabill . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
37. Web site: San Pedro . The Yard . 26 February 2017.