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This is a list of ships built by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland.
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This is a list of ships built by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland.
| Launched | Ship's name at launch | Tonnage (GRT) | Yard number | Notes |
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| 1845 | PS Loch Lomond | 106 | 1 | Built for the Dumbarton Steamboat Co. Moved to Liverpool in 1852. |
| 1845 | PS Rob Roy | 30 | 2 | Built for the Dumbarton Steamboat Co. Operated on Loch Katrine. Scuttled in 1859. |
| 1845 | SS Waterwitch | 275 | 3 | Built for the Taylor and Scott of Dublin. Sank on 2 November 1861 in a storm just after leaving the River Clyde. [1] |
| 1846 | PS Premier | 127 | 6 | Built for the Dumbarton Steamboat Co. Moved to Weymouth in 1852. Cosens & Co Ltd pleasure steamer for several decades. Scrapped 1938. |
| 1846 | SS Erin's Queen | 273 | 7 | Collided with the Steamer Sabrina in the Bristol Channel on 6 January 1855. [2] Written off. |
| 1847 | SS Northman | 182 | 9 | Built for the Orkney Steam Navigation Company. Sank in 1859 |
| 1847 | SS Marchioness of Bredalbane | 135 | 11 | Sold via P&O to the Pasha of Egypt Muhammad Ali. [3] |
| 1847 | SS Lochfine | 83 | 12 | Built for the Glasgow & Lochfyne Steam Packet Company. Broken up in 1896 |
| 1847 | SS Dumbarton Youth | 238 | 15 | |
| 1848 | SS Ayrshire Lass | 94 | 23 | Built for the Girvan Steam Packet Company |
| 1849 | SS Chevy Chase | 370 | 24 | |
| 1849 | SS Victory | 500 | Built for the North-West Steam Packet Company. [4] | |
| 1849 | Miner | 32 | 27 | Sailing vessel |
| 1849 | SS British Queen | 772 | 28 | Built for Brownlow, Pearson & Company of Hull [5] |
| 1853 | William Denny | 596 [6] | First steamship to link Auckland and Sydney. [7] Aground near Murimotu Island in 1857 [8] and abandoned in 1858. [9] | |
| 1858 | SS Nova Scotian | 68 | Built for the Allan Line. Served for 34 years. Scrapped 1893. [10] | |
| 1862 | SS City of Cork | 1,547 | 86 | Built for the Inman Line. [11] |
| 1869 | Cutty Sark |  | ||
| 1870 | SS Parthia | 3,167 | 148 |  |
| 1882 | SS Cheribon | 3,075 | 261 |  |
| 1884 | Lucinda | 301 | 282 | Government yacht, ordered by the Queensland Government by letter dated 30 January 1883, delivered 20 December 1884. Connected to the drafting of the Australian Constitution. |
| 1889 | SS Aramac | 2,114 | 415 |  |
| 1889 | SS Arawatta | 2,114 | 416 |  |
| 1893 | SS Coya | 546 | 463 | Veteran steamship on Lake Titicaca, Peru, now a floating restaurant |
| 1895 | SS Vladimir | 5,331 | 507 | Built for Russian Volunteer Fleet Association, Odessa. Purchased in 1915 by the Imperial Russian Navy. |
| 1899 | SS Sir Walter Scott | 115 | 623 |  |
| 1901 | TS King Edward | 562 | 651 |  |
| 1902 | TS Queen Alexandra | 665 | 670 | Destroyed by fire 1911; sold to Canada |
| 1903 | TSS Kanowna | 6,953 | 671 |  |
| 1903 | SS Kyarra | 6,953 | 672 |  |
| 1905 | TSS Arahura | 1607 | 755 |  |
| 1905 | SS Maheno | 5282 | 746 | Passenger ship owned by Union Company of New Zealand. Washed ashore on Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia while under tow to be scrapped in July 1935. |
| 1906 | TSS Duchess of Argyll | 583 | 770 | 3 direct drive steam turbines, 21.6 knots LMS/CSP Passenger Vessel for the Ardrossan - Arran service; later on the Stranraer - Larne service; Scrapped 1970 |
| 1907 | TSS Victoria | 1689 | 789 |  SE&CR Cross-channel ferry; later Isle of Man Steam Packet Co; Scrapped 1957 |
| 1908 | SS Otaki | 7,420 | 835 | New Zealand Shipping Company refrigerated cargo liner; sunk 1917 |
| 1909 | SS Ruahine | 10,870 | 880 | New Zealand Shipping Company liner; later Italian-flagged; scrapped 1957 |
| 1910 | SS Rotorua | 11,130 | 915 | New Zealand Shipping Company liner; sunk 1917 |
| 1910 | HMAS Yarra | 700 | Commonwealth Naval Forces Destroyer; struck 1928 | |
| 1912 | SS Indarra | 9,735 | 966 |  |
| 1912 | SS Infanta Isabel de Borbon | 10,348 | 969 |  |
| 1912 | TS Queen Alexandra | 785/827 | 970 | 1935 renamed Saint Columba and took over Glasgow to Ardrishaig until scrapped in 1958. |
| 1912 | TSS Brighton | Newhaven to Dieppe ferry. | ||
| 1913 | TSS Paris | Newhaven to Dieppe ferry. Sister ship to TSS Brighton. First ship to be fitted with the Michell Tilting Pad Thrust Bearing. | ||
| 1924 | SS Sagaing | 1167 | Built for P Henderson & Company's Shaw, Savill & Albion Line as a passenger and cargo ship. Severely damaged by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Easter Sunday Raid on Trincomalee Harbour in 1942. Hulk sunk in 1943. | |
| 1925 | Delta King | 1168 |  | |
| 1925 | Delta Queen | 1169 |  | |
| 1925 | TSS Glen Sannox | 690 | 1170 | 3 shaft, single reduction Parsons geared turbines, triple screws, 21.5 knots LMS/CSP Passenger Vessel for the Ardrossan-Arran service; Scrapped 1954 |
| 1926 | TS King George V | 985 | 1182 |  |
| 1930 | TS Duchess of Montrose | 806 | 1245 |  |
| 1931 | MV Lochfyne | 656 | 1256 | David MacBrayne passenger vessel. First British-built diesel-electric passenger ship. Re-engined 1953 with British Polar diesels. Withdrawn from service 1969. Scrapped after attempted restaurant conversion in 1974. |
| 1933 | TS Queen Mary | 871 | 1262 |  |
| 1934 | PS Caledonia | 623 | 1266 |  |
| 1935 | SS Anselm | 5,954 | 1276 |  |
| 1936 | MV Lochnevis | 573 | 1273 | David MacBrayne (1928) Ltd diesel-electric passenger vessel; Scrapped 1974 |
| 1936 | MV Countess of Breadalbane | 106 | 1294 | CSP for Loch Awe service, later Clyde, then Loch Lomond; Scrapped 1999 |
| 1937 | PS Ryde | 1306 |  | |
| 1938 | MV Lymington | 1322 | Isle of Wight ferry which as MV Sound of Sanda became a Clyde ferry in 1974 | |
| 1938 | MV The Second Snark | 50 | 1327 |  |
| 1939 | SS Royal Daffodil | 2,061 | 1330 | Thames Estuary / Continent day excursion for Steam Navigation Company Ltd, London; Scrapped Feb 1967 |
| 1939 | MV Lochiel | 603 | 1341 | David MacBrayne Mailboat on Islay, Port Askaig and other routes; Scrapped Dec 1995 |
| 1947 | MV Princess Victoria | 2,694 | 1399 | LMS ferry based in Stranraer; Sank Jan 1953 |
| 1947 | MV Loch Seaforth | 1,090 | 1404 |  |
| 1948 | MV Southsea | 986 | 1411 | Portsmouth – Ryde ferry for British Transport Commission. In service until 1986, then in reserve until 1997. Latterly owned in part by the Southsea Preservation Society in association with the Avon River Historic Vessel & Navigation Trust in 2002. Scrapped in 2005 in Denmark. |
| 1948 | MV Royal Sovereign | 1,851 | 1413 | General Steam Navigation Company. Originally summer excursions from Thames to Continent; 1967 Townsend Car Ferries Ltd |
| 1948 | PS Teal | 460 | 1418 | River passenger & cargo Paddle Steamer built for India General Navigation & Railway Company |
| 1948 | PS Tern | 460 | 1419 | River passenger & cargo Paddle Steamer built for India General Navigation & Railway Company |
| 1951 | MV Tofua | 5,299 | 1447 |  |
| 1950 | MV Royal Iris | 1448 |  | |
| 1951 | MV Portree | 53 | 1458 | CSP Passenger Car Ferry |
| 1951 | MV Lochalsh | 24 | 1459 | CSP Passenger Car Ferry for Lochalsh-Kyleakin ferry |
| 1953 | MV Fenerbahçe | 994 | 1456 | Former Passenger Ferry, now a museum ship in Istanbul, Turkey |
| 1953 | MV Arran | 568 | 1470 | CSP Passenger Car Ferry |
| 1953 | MV Broadford | 1483 | CSP Passenger Car Ferry built for British Railways Board | |
| 1957 | MV Bardic | 2,550 | Built for the Atlantic Steam Navigation Co Ltd made her maiden voyage on 2 September 1957 on the Preston to Larne route. | |
| 1957 | MV Ionic | 2,557 | Built for the Atlantic Steam Navigation Co Ltd made her maiden voyage on 10 October 1958 on the Preston to Larne route. | |
| 1957 | HMS Jaguar | 2,560 | 1476 |  |
| 1961 | TSS Caledonian Princess | 3,630 | 1501 |  |
| 1961 | GMV Aramoana | 4,160 | 1502 | Final ship completed by the yard. The first Interislander road/rail ferry used between Picton and Wellington by New Zealand Government Railways. Scrapped 1994. |
| Denny D2 Hoverbus | ||||
| 1964 | MV Melbrook | 1504 | Cargo ship; completed by Alexander Stephen at Linthouse (yard number 685) after Denny's closure [14] |
William Denny and Brothers Limited, often referred to simply as Denny, was a Scottish shipbuilding company.
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