List of ship launches in 1907

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 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
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[6]  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.[7]
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[8]  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.[9]
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[10]
10 July  United Kingdom Yarrow Shipbuilders London Lonchi Thyella-class destroyer [11]
 United Kingdom J. Samuel White Cowes TB 13 Cricket-class coastal destroyer [12]
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 [13]
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.[14]
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.[15]
10 October  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Navahoe Schooner oil barge For Anglo-American Oil Company.[16]
21 October  Japan Yokosuka Naval Arsenal Yokosuka Kurama Ibuki-class armored cruiser [17]
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 [18]
21 November  Japan Kure Naval Arsenal Kure, Hiroshima Ibuki Ibuki-class armored cruiser [17]
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..[19]
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.[15]
21 December  France Ateliers et Chantiers de Penhoët Rouen Gabion Branlebas-class destroyer Struck 1921.[15]
 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.[20]
Unknown date  United Kingdom Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. Glasgow Corsican Ocean liner For Allan Line.[20]
Unknown date  United Kingdom Workman, Clark & Co. Ltd. Belfast Kia Ora Cargo ship For private owner.[21]
Unknown date  Sweden Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad Gothenburg Wasa Merchant ship Sold to Norway in 1925

References
  1. 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. "Important Dundee Launch". Dundee Courier. Dundee. 27 April 1907. Retrieved 13 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. Schäuffelen 2005, p. 146.
  8. "Launches—Scotch: Alexandra". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. July 1907. p. 460.
  9. "Iroquois". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  10. "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches – Scotch: California". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 30. 1 August 1907. p. 36.
  11. "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches:English: Lonhi". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 30. 1 August 1907. p. 35.
  12. Friedman 2009, p. 305.
  13. Couhat 1974, p. 62.
  14. "Asturias". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  15. Couhat 1974, p. 94.
  16. "Navahoe". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  17. Jentschura, Jung & Mikel 1977, p. 78.
  18. Jentschura, Jung & Mikel 1977, pp. 103–104.
  19. "Median". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  20. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 21.
  21. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 441.
Sources
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  • Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
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