List of ship launches in 1906

Last updated May 27, 2024

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	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
23 July	Germany	Germaniawerft	Kiel	*G134*	S90-class torpedo boat	For Imperial German Navy ^[15]
25 July	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]

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References

↑ "Heroic". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
↑ Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 21.
↑ "Graphic". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
↑ "Ortega". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
1 2 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 256.
↑ Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 233.
↑ "Matheran". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
1 2 3 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 185.
1 2 Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 44.
↑ "Oronsa". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
1 2 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 249.
1 2 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 73.
1 2 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 40.
↑ "Salamanca". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
1 2 3 Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 45.
1 2 Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 127.
↑ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Volturno". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 October 1909. p. 101.
1 2 3 "Belfast". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 October 1909. p. 95.
↑ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Agawa". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 October 1909. pp. 101–102.
1 2 Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 47.
1 2 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 149.
↑ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Adele". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 November 1909. p. 137.
↑ "Launches and Trial Trips: Launches—Scotch: Lanfranc". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 29. 1 November 1909. p. 137.
↑ Haws 1990, p. not cited.
↑ "Aburi". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
1 2 Friedman 2009, p. 305.
↑ Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 191.
↑ Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 228.
↑ "Sierra Leone". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
↑ "Antilles (2204018)" . Miramar Ship Index . Retrieved 28 February 2020.
↑ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 437.

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[HW378-1] "Heroic". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.

[FOOTNOTEGardinerGray198521-2] Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 21.

[HW379-3] "Graphic". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.

[HW376-4] "Ortega". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.

[FOOTNOTEChesneauKolesnik1979256-5] 1 2 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 256.

[FOOTNOTEGardinerGray1985233-6] Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 233.

[HW375-7] "Matheran". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.

[FOOTNOTEChesneauKolesnik1979185-8] 1 2 3 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 185.

[FOOTNOTEGrönerJungMaass198344-9] 1 2 Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 44.

[HW377-10] "Oronsa". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.

[FOOTNOTEChesneauKolesnik1979249-11] 1 2 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 249.

[FOOTNOTEChesneauKolesnik197973-12] 1 2 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 73.

[FOOTNOTEChesneauKolesnik197940-13] 1 2 Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 40.

[HW380-14] "Salamanca". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.

[FOOTNOTEGrönerJungMaass198345-15] 1 2 3 Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 45.

[FOOTNOTEGardinerGray1985127-16] 1 2 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.

[bel-18] 1 2 3 "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.

[FOOTNOTEGrönerJungMaass198347-20] 1 2 Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 47.

[FOOTNOTEChesneauKolesnik1979149-21] 1 2 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.

[FOOTNOTEHaws1990not_cited-24] Haws 1990, p. not cited.

[HW383-25] "Aburi". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.

[FOOTNOTEFriedman2009305-26] 1 2 Friedman 2009, p. 305.

[FOOTNOTEChesneauKolesnik1979191-27] Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 191.

[FOOTNOTEGardinerGray1985228-28] Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 228.

[HW384-29] "Sierra Leone". The Yard. Retrieved 22 February 2017.

[30] "Antilles (2204018)" . Miramar Ship Index . Retrieved 28 February 2020.

[FOOTNOTEMitchellSawyer1990437-31] Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 437.

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