List of ship launches in 1937

The list of ship launches in 1937 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1937.

Date Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes
8 January  United States Brooklyn Navy Yard Brooklyn, New York Spencer Treasury-class cutter For United States Coast Guard.
12 January  United States Mare Island Navy Yard Vallejo, California Henley Bagley-class destroyer For United States Navy
14 January  United States Charleston Navy Yard Charleston, South Carolina Bibb Treasury-class cutter For United States Coast Guard.
14 May  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast May Lightship tenderCommissioners of Irish Lights.[1] For
27 January  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Comara Coaster For North Coast Steam Navigation Company.[2]
28 January  United Kingdom Blythswood Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. Glasgow Adula Tanker For Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd.[3]
28 January  United Kingdom John Brown & Company Clydebank Ilex I-class destroyer For Royal Navy.
7 February  Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg Admiral Hipper Admiral Hipper-class cruiser For Kriegsmarine.
11 February  United Kingdom Yarrow Shipbuilders Scotstoun Ivanhoe I-class destroyer For Royal Navy.[4]
11 February  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Rochester Castle Refrigerated cargo ship For Union-Castle Line.
20 February  Germany Hans Rolshoven Krischan-class seaplane tender For the Luftwaffe.
25 February  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Torr Head Cargo ship For Ulster Steamship Co.[5]
1 March  United Kingdom J. Samuel White Cowes Impulsive I-class destroyer For Royal Navy.[6]
6 March  Netherlands Wilton-Fijenoord Schiedam Nederland Tanker For Nederlandsche Pacific Petroleum Maatschappij[7]
11 March  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Salacia Cargo ship For Donaldson Line.[8]
12 March  Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Erich Giese Type 1934A-class destroyer For Kriegsmarine.
13 March  United States Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company Kearny, New Jersey Somers Somers-class destroyer For United States Navy.
16 March  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Lady Sylvia Ferry For Union Steamship Co.[9]
18 March  Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Erich Koellner Type 1934A-class destroyer For Kriegsmarine
21 March  Germany Blohm & Voss Hamburg Friedrich Eckoldt Type 1934A-class destroyer For Kriegsmarine.
23 March  Germany Howaldtswerke Kiel Friesenland Friesenland-class seaplane carrier For civilian service.
24 March  United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Govan Liverpool Town-class cruiser For Royal Navy.
25 March  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Roxburgh Castle Refrigerated cargo ship For Union-Castle Line.[10]
10 April  Netherlands N.V. Rotterdam Drydock Company Rotterdam Nieuw Amsterdam Ocean liner For Holland America Line.
12 April  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Delius Cargo ship For Lamport & Holt.[11]
12 April  United Kingdom R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company Hebburn Manchester Town-class cruiser For Royal Navy.[12]
22 April  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Boardale Tanker For British Tanker Company.[13]
24 April  Germany Flenderwerft Lübeck Porjus Fishing trawler For For Afrikanische Frucht-Compagnie A.G.
5 May  Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg Wilhelm Gustloff Passenger ship For Hamburg Süd.
6 May  United States Puget Sound Navy Yard Bremerton, Washington Patterson Bagley-class destroyer For United States Navy.
8 May  United States New York Shipbuilding Corporation Camden, New Jersey Savannah Brooklyn-class cruiser For United States Navy.
8 June  Germany Deutsche Werke Kiel Blücher Admiral Hipper-class cruiser For Kriegsmarine.
8 June  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Walker Afridi Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.
8 June  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Walker Cossack Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.[14]
16 June  Germany Deutsche Werke Hamburg Teutonia Fishing trawler For N. Ebsling.
22 June  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Govan British Integrity Tanker For British Tanker Company.[15]
23 June  Germany Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Flensburg Birka Passenger ship For Mathies Reederei KG.
24 June  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Leinster Ferry For British & Irish Steam Packet Co.[16]
7 July  United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Govan Gurkha Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.
14 July  United Kingdom J. Samuel White Cowes Bittern Bittern-class sloop For Royal Navy.[17]
25 July  Italy Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico Trieste Vittorio Veneto Littorio-class battleship For Regia Marina.
5 August  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Donaghadee Collier For John Kelly Ltd.[18]
14 August  United States Norfolk Naval Shipyard Portsmouth, Virginia Blue Bagley-class destroyer For United States Navy.
18 August  Norway Royal Norwegian Navy Shipyard Horten Nordkapp Nordkapp-class fishery protection vessel For Royal Norwegian Navy.
19 August  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Diether von Roeder Type 1936-class destroyer For Kriegsmarine.
22 August  Italy Gio. Ansaldo & C. Sestri Ponente Littorio Littorio-class battleship For Regia Marina.
24 August  United Kingdom Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Wallsend Somali Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.
26 August  United States New York Naval Yard Brooklyn, New York Honolulu Brooklyn-class cruiser For United States Navy.
2 September  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Broomdale Tanker For British Tanker Company.[19]
2 September  United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Govan Maori Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.
3 September  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Walker Eskimo Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.
3 September  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Walker Mashona Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.
23 September  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Capetown Castle Passenger ship For Union-Castle Line.
23 September  United Kingdom Alexander Stephen and Sons Govan Zulu Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.[20]
25 September  Germany Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Unterweser Wesermünde Gauleiter Telschow Fishing trawler For For Hussmann & Hahn.
September  Germany Deschimag Wesermünde Dorum Fishing trawler For Ernst Glässel.
2 October  United States New York Shipbuilding Corporation Camden, New Jersey Nashville Brooklyn-class cruiser For United States Navy.
5 October  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Barrow-in-Furness Undine U-class submarine For Royal Navy.[21]
6 October  United Kingdom Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Greenock Matabele Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.
9 October  United States Bethlehem Steel Company Sparrows Point, Maryland Gulfwave Tanker For Gulf Oil Corporation.
15 October  United Kingdom John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston, Hampshire Mohawk Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.
19 October  United Kingdom Devonport Dockyard Devonport Gloucester Town-class cruiser For Royal Navy.[22]
20 October  Germany H. C. Stülcken Sohn Hamburg Gebrüder Kähler Fishing trawler For Hinrich Foch Hochseefischerei AG.
21 October  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Delane Cargo ship For Lamport & Holt.[23]
21 October  United Kingdom Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Wallsend Tartar Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.
27 October  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast British Trust Tanker For British Tanker Company.[24]
30 October  Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg Albert Leo Schlageter Gorch Fock-class sail training ship For Kriegsmarine.
October  Germany Deschimag Wesermünde Hermann Bösch Fishing trawler For C. C. H. Bösch.
3 November  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Munster Ferry For British & Irish Steam Packet Co.[25]
4 November  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Govan British Security Tanker For British Tanker Company.[26]
5 November  United Kingdom William Denny and Brothers Dumbarton Ashanti Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.
16 November  United States Philadelphia Navy Yard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wichita Cruiser For United States Navy.
1 December  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Hans Lüdemann Type 1936-class destroyer For Kriegsmarine.
2 December  United Kingdom Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Greenock Cachalot Grampus-class submarine For Royal Navy.[27]
16 December  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Koolama Cargo ship For West Australian Government.[28]
17 December  United Kingdom Alexander Stephen & Sons Linthouse Sikh Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.
18 December  United Kingdom Alexander Stephen & Sons Linthouse Punjabi Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.
21 December  United Kingdom William Denny and Brothers Dumbarton Bedouin Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.[29]
21 December  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Devis Cargo ship For Lamport & Holt.[30]
21 December  United Kingdom John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston Nubian Tribal-class destroyer For Royal Navy.
22 December  United Kingdom Ailsa Shipbuilding Company Troon, Ayrshire Franklin Halcyon-class minesweeper For Royal Navy.
22 December  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Hermann Künne Type 1936-class destroyer For Kriegsmarine.
28 December  Germany H. C. Stülcken Sohn Hamburg Otto Bröhan Fishing trawler For Cranzer Fischdamper AG.
December  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremerhaven Franz Westermann Fishing trawler For Reederei Siebert & Co.
Unknown date  Germany Deutsche Werft AG Hamburg Algol Coastal tanker For Trelleborgs Angfabrik Nya A/B.[31]
Unknown date  United Kingdom Cochrane & Sons Ltd. Selby Englishman tug For United Towing Co. Ltd.[32]
Unknown date  Germany Flensburger Schiff- Gesellschaft. Flensburg Ernst L. M. Russ Cargo ship For Ernst Russ.[33]
Unknown date  Germany F Schichau GmbH Elbing Gabelsflach Coastal tanker For Kriegsmarine.
Unknown date  Germany Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Wesermünde Gambian Cargo ship For United African Company.[34]
Unknown date  United Kingdom Burntisland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. Burntisland Ginnheim Cargo ship For Unterweser Reederei.[35]
Unknown date  United Kingdom Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Newcastle upon Tyne Inkosi Refrigerated cargo liner For Charente Steamship Co. Ltd.
Unknown date  Germany Lübecker Flender-Werke AG Lübeck Marie Fisser Cargo ship For Fisser & van Doornum.
Unknown date  Germany Flensburger Schiff- Gesellschaft. Flensburg Mathias Stinnes Tanker For Kohlen Import und Poseidon Schiffs.[36]
Unknown date  Germany Neptun AG Rostock Messina Cargo ship For Robert Miles Sloman Jr.
Unknown date  Germany Stettiner Oderwerke AG Stettin Saar Cargo ship For R. C. Gribel.
Unknown date  United Kingdom Henry Robb Ltd. Leith Spinel Cargo ship For William Robertson.[37]
Unknown date  Germany Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Wesermünde Takoradian Cargo ship For United Africa Company.[38]
Unknown date  Germany Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau. Bremen Unitas Whaler For Unitas Deutsche Walfang GmbH.[39]
Unknown date  Germany Bremer Vulkan Schiff- und Mashcinenbau Bremen Unitas 4 Whaler For Jurgens Van Den Brugh Margarine Verkaufs Union GmbH.[40]
Unknown date  Germany Bremer Vulkan Schiff- und Mashcinenbau Bremen Unitas 5 Whaler For Jurgens Van Den Brugh Margarine Verkaufs Union GmbH.[40]
Unknown date  Germany Bremer Vulkan Schiff- und Mashcinenbau Bremen Unitas 8 Whaler For Jurgens Van Den Brugh Margarine Verkaufs Union GmbH.[40]

References
  1. "May". The Yard. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  2. "Comara". The Yard. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  3. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 177.
  4. Colledge & Warlow 2003, p. 170.
  5. "Torr Head". The Yard. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  6. Colledge & Warlow 2003, p. 166.
  7. "Motortankschip Nederland te water gelaten". De Maasbode. 7 March 1937.
  8. "Salacia". The Yard. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  9. "Lady Sylvia". The Yard. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  10. "Roxburgh Castle". The Yard. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  11. "Delius". The Yard. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  12. Colledge & Warlow 2003, p. 205.
  13. "Boardale". The Yard. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  14. Colledge & Warlow 2003, p. 85.
  15. "Mails and Shipping". The Times. No. 47726. London. 26 June 1937. col G, p. 26.
  16. "Leinster". The Yard. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  17. Colledge & Warlow 2003, p. 51.
  18. "Donaghadee". The Yard. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  19. "Broomdale". The Yard. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  20. Colledge & Warlow 2003, p. 367.
  21. Colledge & Warlow 2003, p. 338.
  22. Colledge & Warlow 2003, p. 140.
  23. "Delane". The Yard. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  24. "British Trust". The Yard. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  25. "Munster". The Yard. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  26. "British Security". The Yard. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  27. Colledge & Warlow 2003, p. 64.
  28. "Koolama". The Yard. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  29. Colledge & Warlow 2003, p. 47.
  30. "Devis". The Yard. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  31. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, pp. 470–71.
  32. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 301.
  33. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 466.
  34. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, pp. 397–98.
  35. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 465.
  36. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 470.
  37. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 467.
  38. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 395.
  39. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, pp. 473–74.
  40. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 473.
Sources
  • Colledge, J.J.; Warlow, Ben (2003). Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy. Greenhill. ISBN 1-85367-566-0.
  • 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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