List of ship launches in 1912

The list of ship launches in 1912 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1912.

Country Builder Location Ship Class Notes
10 January  Norway Burmeister & Wain Copenhagen Polarlys Coastal passenger/cargo steamer Captured by Germany in 1940, renamed Satan. Handed back post-war, kept in service until sold to the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1953, scrapped in 1964
5 February  Spain SECN Ferrol España España-class battleship For Spanish Navy[1]
12 March  Norway The Royal Norwegian Navy Shipyard Horten Kjell 2.-class torpedo boat Captured by Germany in 1940, renamed Dragoner and sunk in 1944 by Mosquito fighter bombers
21 March  United Kingdom Scotts Shipyard Greenock, Scotland Ajax King George V-class battleship
21 March  Austria-Hungary Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino Trieste Tegetthoff Tegetthoff-class battleship
30 March  German Empire Blohm + Voss Hamburg SMS Seydlitz battlecruiser For Imperial German Navy
27 April  Germany Schichau-Werft Danzig König Albert Kaiser-class battleship
18 May  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Texas New York-class battleship
14 August  United Kingdom William Beardmore & Co Ltd Dalmuir, West Dunbartonshire Willochra Cruise ship For Adelaide Steamship Company
24 August  United States Mare Island Navy Yard Vallejo, California Jupiter Collier Later became USS Langley
19 September  United Kingdom Cammell Laird Birkenhead, England Audacious King George V-class battleship
10 October  United Kingdom Sir John Priestman & Co Ltd Southwick, Sunderland Hannington Court Cargo ship For Court Line Ltd
16 October  Germany Kaiserliche Werft Danzig U-17 Type U 17 submarine Captured and sunk first British merchant vessel to be lost during World War I.
30 October  United States New York Navy Yard Brooklyn, New York New York New York-class battleship
30 November  Austria-Hungary Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino Trieste Prinz Eugen Tegetthoff-class battleship
Exact date unknown  United States Kennebunk, Maine A. G. Prentiss Small wooden-hulled tug
Exact date unknown  Germany F Schichau GmbH Elbling Badenia Coaster For A Kirsten
Exact date unknown  Germany Nüscke & Co Stettin Borussia Coaster For A Kirsten
Exact date unknown  Germany Stettiner Oderwerke Stettin Dollart Coaster Bugsier Reederei und Bergungs AG
Exact date unknown  Belgium Antwerp Engineering Co Ltd, Hoboken Hispania Cargo ship For Svenska Lloyd AB
Exact date unknown  United Kingdom Blyth Shipbuilding and Drydock Co Ltd Blyth Thyra Menier Cargo ship For Donald Steamship Co Ltd

See also

Ship events in 1912
Ship launches: 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917
Ship commissionings: 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917
Ship decommissionings: 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917
Shipwrecks: 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917
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References

  1. ↑ Fernandez, Mituckov & Crawford, pp. 66–67
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