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The list of ship launches in 1906 includes a chronological list of ships launched in 1906.

Country Builder Location Ship Class Notes
13 January   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Heroic Ferry For Belfast Steamship Co. [1]
17 January   United Kingdom Cook, Welton & Gemmell Beverley Viola Trawler For Hellyer Steam Fishing Company
23 January   United Kingdom Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness B8 B-class submarine
24 January   United Kingdom Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness B9 B-class submarine
27 January   United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Govan Empress of Ireland Ocean liner For Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
10 February   United Kingdom HM Dockyard, Portsmouth Portsmouth Dreadnought Dreadnought [2]
14 February   United Kingdom William Denny & Brothers Dumbarton Rewa For British-India Steam Navigation Company
24 February   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Amazon Passenger ship For Royal Mail Line.
27 January   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Graphic Ferry For Belfast Steamship Co. [3]
9 March   United Kingdom Charles Connell & Co Glasgow Ganges Cargo liner
22 March   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Ortega Cargo ship For Pacific Steam Navigation Company. [4]
23 March   United Kingdom Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness B10 B-class submarine
23 March   Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg Scharnhorst Scharnhorst-class cruiser For Imperial German Navy [5]
9 April   Japan Kure Naval Arsenal Kure, Hiroshima Ikoma Heavy cruiser [6]
10 April   United Kingdom Cook, Welton & Gemmell Beverley Earl Hereford Trawler For Earl Steam Fishing Co.
12 April   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Matheran Cargo ship For T. & J. Brocklebank. [7]
20 April   United Kingdom Robert Stephenson and Company Newcastle upon Tyne Daffodil Ferry For Wallasey Corporation
21 April   United States Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works Chester, Pennsylvania Governor Cobb Coastal passenger ship For Eastern Steamship Company
5 May   Russia Sevastopol Shipyard Sevastopol Ioann Zlatoust Evstafi-class battleship [8]
7 May Canada Canada G. A. Pontbriand Temagami Belle of Temagami Steamboat
12 May   Germany Stettiner Vulkan Stettin Prinz Ludwig Ocean liner For Norddeutscher Lloyd
12 May   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel G132 S90-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy [9]
24 May   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Oronsa Cargo ship For Pacific Steam Navigation Company. [10]
28 May   Germany Schichau Danzig Schlesien Deutschland-class battleship [11]
30 May   Germany Stettiner Vulkan AG Stettin Niki Niki-class destroyer For Royal Hellenic Navy
6 June   United Kingdom Devonport Dockyard Devonport Minotaur Minotaur-class cruiser [12]
7 June   United Kingdom John Brown & Co. Ltd Clydebank Lusitania Ocean liner For Cunard Line
14 June   Germany Weserwerft Bremen Gneisenau Scharnhorst-class cruiser [5]
23 June   United Kingdom William Beardmore and Company Dalmuir Agamemnon Lord Nelson-class battleship [13]
23 June   United Kingdom William Gray & Co. Ltd. West Hartlepool Ravelston Cargo ship For Ravelston Shipping Co Ltd
27 June   United States Tarr and James Shipbuilders Essex, Massachusetts Esperanto Schooner
30 June   United States New York Shipbuilding Corporation Camden, New Jersey New Hampshire Connecticut-class battleship The last American pre-dreadnought battleship
30 June   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel G133 S90-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy [9]
5 July   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Salamanca Cargo ship For Hamburg America Line. [14]
10 July   United Kingdom Vickers Limited Barrow in Furness C1 C-class submarine
18 July   Germany Stettiner Vulkan AG Stettin Doxa Niki-class destroyer For Royal Hellenic Navy
25 July Canada Canada Canadian Ship Building Company Toronto Sagamo For Muskosa Lakes Navigation and Hotel Company
4 August   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel U-1 Submarine
25 August   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel G136 S90-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy [15]
28 August   Germany Kaiserliche Werft Kiel Kiel Nürnberg Königsberg-class cruiser
1 September   United States Fore River Shipbuilding Quincy, Massachusetts Cuttlefish B-class submarine [16]
4 September   United Kingdom Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Jarrow Lord Nelson Lord Nelson-class battleship Last pre-dreadnought battleship for the Royal Navy. [13]
5 September   United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Govan Volturno Passenger steamer [17]
6 September   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Rohilla Cruise liner For British India Steam Navigation Company. [18]
7 September   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel G135 S90-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy [15]
10 September   Germany AG Weser Bremen Reserve Lightship
20 September   United Kingdom Harland and Wolff Belfast Adriatic Ocean liner For White Star Line [18]
20 September   United Kingdom Ramage and Ferguson Ltd Leith Agawa Yacht [19]
20 September   United Kingdom Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Wallsend Mauretania Ocean liner For Cunard Line [18]
20 September   United Kingdom Chatham Dockyard Chatham Shannon Minotaur-class cruiser [12]
22 September   Germany Kaiserliche Werft Danzig Danzig Stuttgart Königsberg-class cruiser
22 September   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S138 S138-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy [20]
22 September   Netherlands Rijkswerf Amsterdam Jacob van Heemskerck Coastal defence ship For Royal Netherlands Navy
4 October   United States Fore River Shipbuilding Quincy, Massachusetts Octopus C-class submarine [16]
6 October   United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News North Carolina Tennessee-class cruiser [21]
18 October   United Kingdom Hawthorn & Co Leith, Scotland Adele Yacht [22]
18 October   United Kingdom Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Dundee Lanfranc Ocean liner For Booth Line [23]
18 October   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Aburi Cargo Ship For African Steamship Company. [24] [25]
30 October   United Kingdom J. Samuel White Cowes TB 4 Cricket-class coastal destroyer [26]
October   United States William Cramp & Sons Philadelphia Havana For Ward Line
3 November   Russia Nikolayev Admiralty Shipyard, Nikolayev Evstafi Evstafi-class battleship [8]
4 November   United Kingdom Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness Rurik Armoured cruiser For Imperial Russian Navy. [27]
10 November   Russia Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg Andrei Pervozvanny Evstafi-class battleship [8]
12 November   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S139 S138-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy [20]
15 November   Japan Yokosuka Naval Arsenal Yokosuka, Kanagawa Satsuma Battleship [28]
15 November   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Sierra Leone Cargo ship For Elder Dempster. [29]
1 December   Germany AG Vulkan Stettin Kronprinzessin Cecilie Ocean Liner For Norddeutscher Lloyd
3 December   United States William Cramp & Sons Philadelphia Antilles Passenger-cargo ship [30]
7 December   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Schleswig-Holstein Deutschland-class battleship [11]
10 November   Russia Admiralty Shipyard Saint Petersburg Pallada Bayan-class cruiser
15 December   United States Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company Newport News, Virginia Montana Tennessee-class cruiser [21]
15 December   United Kingdom J. Samuel White Cowes TB 5 Cricket-class coastal destroyer [26]
22 December   United Kingdom Sir J Laing & Sons Ltd Sunderland Re d'Italia Ocean liner For Lloyd Sabaudo
Date unknown   United States Dialogue & Company Camden, New Jersey Aurora Tugboat
Date unknown   United Kingdom Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness B11 B-class submarine
Date unknown   Netherlands Bonn & Mees Rotterdam Goëland Fishing vessel For F. Courtois & F. Hovelaque
Date unknown   United States Camden, New Jersey Mariner Tugboat
Date unknown   United Kingdom Yarrow Shipbuilders Poplar Nafkratousa Thyella-class destroyer For Royal Hellenic Navy
Date unknown   United Kingdom McLearon Harwich Thalatta Thames barge
Date unknown   United States Toledo Shipbuilding Company Toledo, Ohio Theodore Roosevelt For Roosevelt Steamship Company
Date unknown   United Kingdom Richardson, Duck & Co Stockton, Great Britain Picton Steamship
Date unknown   United Kingdom Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd. Strathearn Cargo ship For private owner. [31]

References

  1. ^ "Heroic". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  2. ^ Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 21.
  3. ^ "Graphic". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Ortega". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  5. ^ a b Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 256.
  6. ^ Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 233.
  7. ^ "Matheran". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  8. ^ a b c Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 185.
  9. ^ a b Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 44.
  10. ^ "Oronsa". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  11. ^ a b Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 249.
  12. ^ a b Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 73.
  13. ^ a b Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 40.
  14. ^ "Salamanca". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  15. ^ a b Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 45.
  16. ^ a b Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 127.
  17. ^ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Volturno". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 October 1909. p. 101.
  18. ^ a b c "Belfast". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 October 1909. p. 95.
  19. ^ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Agawa". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 October 1909. pp. 101–102.
  20. ^ a b Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 47.
  21. ^ a b Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 149.
  22. ^ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Adele". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 November 1909. p. 137.
  23. ^ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Lanfranc". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 November 1909. p. 137.
  24. ^ Haws 1990, p. not cited.
  25. ^ "Aburi". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  26. ^ a b Friedman 2009, p. 305.
  27. ^ Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 191.
  28. ^ Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 228.
  29. ^ "Sierra Leone". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  30. ^ "Antilles (2204018)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  31. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 437.
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