From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

Date Country Builder Location Ship Class and type Notes
10 January   Denmark Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen Polarlys Coastal passenger/cargo steamer For Bergen Steamship Company.
31 January   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel G9 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
5 February   Spain SECN Ferrol España España-class battleship For Spanish Navy. [2]
7 February   Germany Howaldswerke Kiel Monte Penedo General cargo vessel
17 February   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Prinzregent Luitpold Kaiser-class battleship
2 March   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Desna Passenger ship For Royal Mail Line. [3]
2 March   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S14 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German 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
15 March   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel G10 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
20 March   United Kingdom Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Jarrow Queen Mary unique battlecruiser
23 March   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S15 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
21 March   United Kingdom Scotts Shipyard Greenock Ajax King George V-class battleship
21 March   Austria-Hungary Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino Trieste Tegetthoff Tegetthoff-class battleship
30 March   Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg Seydlitz unique battlecruiser For Imperial German Navy
18 April   France Chantiers de Penhoët Saint-Nazaire Dehorter Bouclier-class destroyer [4]
20 April   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S16 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
23 April   German Empire Germaniawerft Kiel G11 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
27 April   Germany Schichau-Werft Danzig König Albert Kaiser-class battleship
16 May   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Darro Passenger ship For Royal Mail Line. [5]
18 May   United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Texas New York-class battleship
23 May   Germany AG Vulcan Hamburg Imperator Imperator-class ocean liner For Hamburg America Line.[ citation needed]
1 June   United Kingdom Yarrow & Company Scotstoun Lurcher Acheron-class destroyer [6]
12 June   United Kingdom Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Limited Hebburn Ebani General cargo vessel For British & African Steam Navigation Co Ltd (Elder, Dempster & Co Ltd)
15 June   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Oxfordshire Cargo Liner For Bibby Line. [7]
22 June   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S17 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
29 June   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Drina Passenger ship For Royal Mail Line.. [8]
15 July   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel G12 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
10 August   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S18 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
14 August   United Kingdom William Beardmore & Co Ltd Dalmuir Willochra Cruise ship For Adelaide Steamship Company
15 August   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Abosso Cargo ship For African Steamship Co. [9]
24 August   United States Mare Island Navy Yard Vallejo, California Jupiter Collier Later became USS Langley
29 August   United Kingdom Hawthorn Leslie Hebburn Christopher Acasta-class destroyer For Royal Navy. [10]
5 September   United Kingdom Yarrow & Company Scotstoun Oak Acheron-class destroyer For Royal Navy. [6]
10 September   United Kingdom John Brown & Company Clydebank Acasta Acasta-class destroyer For Royal Navy. [6]
12 September   France Arsenal de Toulon Toulon Bisson Bisson-class destroyer For French Navy. [11]
19 September   United Kingdom Cammell Laird Birkenhead Audacious King George V-class battleship
28 September   France Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée La Seyne Paris Courbet-class battleship
10 October   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Appam Passenger ship For British & African Steamship Co. [12]
10 October   United Kingdom Sir John Priestman & Co Ltd Southwick Hannington Court Cargo ship For Court Line Ltd
12 October   United Kingdom HM Dockyard Portsmouth Iron Duke Iron Duke-class battleship
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.
17 October   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S19 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
24 October   United Kingdom HM Dockyard Devonport Marlborough Iron Duke-class battleship
30 October   United States New York Navy Yard Brooklyn, New York New York New York-class battleship
7 November   France Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire Saint-Nazaire France Courbet-class battleship
8 November   United Kingdom Hawthorn Leslie Hebburn Cockatrice Acasta-class destroyer For Royal Navy. [10]
11 November   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Karlsruhe Karlsruhe-class cruiser
12 November   Germany Howaldtswerke Kiel Rostock Karlsruhe-class cruiser
14 November   United Kingdom John Brown & Company Clydebank Achates Acasta-class destroyer For Royal Navy. [6]
30 November   Austria-Hungary Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino Trieste Prinz Eugen Tegetthoff-class battleship
4 December   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S20 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
11 December   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Ceramic Passenger ship For White Star Line.
Unknown date   United States Kennebunk, Maine A. G. Prentiss Small wooden-hulled tug [13]
Unknown date   Germany F Schichau GmbH Elbling Badenia Coaster For A Kirsten
Unknown date   Germany Nüscke & Co Stettin Borussia Coaster For A Kirsten
Unknown date   United Kingdom Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. Glasgow Czar Passenger ship For private owner. [14]
Unknown date   United Kingdom Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richarson Ltd. Newcastle upon Tyne Dimboola Cargo ship For private owner. [15]
Unknown date   Germany Stettiner Oderwerke Stettin Dollart Coaster Bugsier Reederei und Bergungs AG
Unknown date   Sweden Oskarshamn Shipyard Oskarshamn Fernebo Cargo ship For Broström Axel & Son
Unknown date   United Kingdom Ailsa Shipbuilding Co Ltd. Troon Glen Avon Paddle steamer For P. & A. Campbell. [16]
Unknown date   Belgium Antwerp Engineering Co Ltd Hoboken Hispania Cargo ship For Svenska Lloyd AB
Unknown date   United States Toledo Shipbuilding Company. Toledo, Ohio L. V. Stoddard Tanker For private owner. [17]
Unknown date   United Kingdom Blyth Shipbuilding and Drydock Co Ltd Blyth Thyra Menier Cargo ship For Donald Steamship Co Ltd
Unknown date   United States Kennebunk, Maine Verna & Esther Patrol vessel Operated as private motorboat from 1912 to 1917; acquired on lease by U.S. Navy for use during World War I; returned to owner in 1918.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 52.
  2. ^ Fernández, Mitiukov & Crawford 2007, pp. 66–67.
  3. ^ "Desna". The Yard. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  4. ^ Couhat 1974, p. 104.
  5. ^ "Darro". The Yard. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  6. ^ a b c d Friedman 2009, p. 306.
  7. ^ "Oxfordshire". The Yard. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  8. ^ "Drina". The Yard. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  9. ^ "Abosso". The Yard. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  10. ^ a b Friedman 2009, p. 307.
  11. ^ Couhat 1974, p. 111.
  12. ^ "Appam". The Yard. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  13. ^ "A. G. Prentiss". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. 16 June 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2019. A. G. Prentiss, a small wooden-hulled tug built in 1912 at Kennebunk, Maine
  14. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 465.
  15. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 390.
  16. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 244.
  17. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 468.
Sources
  • Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan. ISBN  0-7110-0445-5.
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
  • Fernández, Rafael; Mitiukov, Nicholas; Crawford, Kent (March 2007). "The Spanish Dreadnoughts of the España class". Warship International. 44 (1). Toledo: International Naval Research Organization: 63–117. ISSN  0043-0374.
  • Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the First World War. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN  978-1-84832-049-9.
  • Gröner, Erich; Jung, Dieter; Maass, Martin (1983). Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815–1945: Band 2: Torpedoboote, Zerstörer, Schnellboote, Minensuchboote, Minenräumboote (in German). Koblenz: Bernard & Graef Verlag. ISBN  3-7637-4801-6.
  • 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.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

Date Country Builder Location Ship Class and type Notes
10 January   Denmark Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen Polarlys Coastal passenger/cargo steamer For Bergen Steamship Company.
31 January   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel G9 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
5 February   Spain SECN Ferrol España España-class battleship For Spanish Navy. [2]
7 February   Germany Howaldswerke Kiel Monte Penedo General cargo vessel
17 February   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Prinzregent Luitpold Kaiser-class battleship
2 March   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Desna Passenger ship For Royal Mail Line. [3]
2 March   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S14 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German 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
15 March   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel G10 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
20 March   United Kingdom Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Jarrow Queen Mary unique battlecruiser
23 March   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S15 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
21 March   United Kingdom Scotts Shipyard Greenock Ajax King George V-class battleship
21 March   Austria-Hungary Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino Trieste Tegetthoff Tegetthoff-class battleship
30 March   Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg Seydlitz unique battlecruiser For Imperial German Navy
18 April   France Chantiers de Penhoët Saint-Nazaire Dehorter Bouclier-class destroyer [4]
20 April   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S16 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
23 April   German Empire Germaniawerft Kiel G11 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
27 April   Germany Schichau-Werft Danzig König Albert Kaiser-class battleship
16 May   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Darro Passenger ship For Royal Mail Line. [5]
18 May   United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Texas New York-class battleship
23 May   Germany AG Vulcan Hamburg Imperator Imperator-class ocean liner For Hamburg America Line.[ citation needed]
1 June   United Kingdom Yarrow & Company Scotstoun Lurcher Acheron-class destroyer [6]
12 June   United Kingdom Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Limited Hebburn Ebani General cargo vessel For British & African Steam Navigation Co Ltd (Elder, Dempster & Co Ltd)
15 June   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Oxfordshire Cargo Liner For Bibby Line. [7]
22 June   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S17 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
29 June   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Drina Passenger ship For Royal Mail Line.. [8]
15 July   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel G12 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
10 August   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S18 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
14 August   United Kingdom William Beardmore & Co Ltd Dalmuir Willochra Cruise ship For Adelaide Steamship Company
15 August   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Abosso Cargo ship For African Steamship Co. [9]
24 August   United States Mare Island Navy Yard Vallejo, California Jupiter Collier Later became USS Langley
29 August   United Kingdom Hawthorn Leslie Hebburn Christopher Acasta-class destroyer For Royal Navy. [10]
5 September   United Kingdom Yarrow & Company Scotstoun Oak Acheron-class destroyer For Royal Navy. [6]
10 September   United Kingdom John Brown & Company Clydebank Acasta Acasta-class destroyer For Royal Navy. [6]
12 September   France Arsenal de Toulon Toulon Bisson Bisson-class destroyer For French Navy. [11]
19 September   United Kingdom Cammell Laird Birkenhead Audacious King George V-class battleship
28 September   France Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée La Seyne Paris Courbet-class battleship
10 October   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Appam Passenger ship For British & African Steamship Co. [12]
10 October   United Kingdom Sir John Priestman & Co Ltd Southwick Hannington Court Cargo ship For Court Line Ltd
12 October   United Kingdom HM Dockyard Portsmouth Iron Duke Iron Duke-class battleship
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.
17 October   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S19 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
24 October   United Kingdom HM Dockyard Devonport Marlborough Iron Duke-class battleship
30 October   United States New York Navy Yard Brooklyn, New York New York New York-class battleship
7 November   France Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire Saint-Nazaire France Courbet-class battleship
8 November   United Kingdom Hawthorn Leslie Hebburn Cockatrice Acasta-class destroyer For Royal Navy. [10]
11 November   Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Karlsruhe Karlsruhe-class cruiser
12 November   Germany Howaldtswerke Kiel Rostock Karlsruhe-class cruiser
14 November   United Kingdom John Brown & Company Clydebank Achates Acasta-class destroyer For Royal Navy. [6]
30 November   Austria-Hungary Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino Trieste Prinz Eugen Tegetthoff-class battleship
4 December   Germany Schichau-Werke Elbing S20 V1-class torpedo boat For Imperial German Navy. [1]
11 December   United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Ceramic Passenger ship For White Star Line.
Unknown date   United States Kennebunk, Maine A. G. Prentiss Small wooden-hulled tug [13]
Unknown date   Germany F Schichau GmbH Elbling Badenia Coaster For A Kirsten
Unknown date   Germany Nüscke & Co Stettin Borussia Coaster For A Kirsten
Unknown date   United Kingdom Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. Glasgow Czar Passenger ship For private owner. [14]
Unknown date   United Kingdom Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richarson Ltd. Newcastle upon Tyne Dimboola Cargo ship For private owner. [15]
Unknown date   Germany Stettiner Oderwerke Stettin Dollart Coaster Bugsier Reederei und Bergungs AG
Unknown date   Sweden Oskarshamn Shipyard Oskarshamn Fernebo Cargo ship For Broström Axel & Son
Unknown date   United Kingdom Ailsa Shipbuilding Co Ltd. Troon Glen Avon Paddle steamer For P. & A. Campbell. [16]
Unknown date   Belgium Antwerp Engineering Co Ltd Hoboken Hispania Cargo ship For Svenska Lloyd AB
Unknown date   United States Toledo Shipbuilding Company. Toledo, Ohio L. V. Stoddard Tanker For private owner. [17]
Unknown date   United Kingdom Blyth Shipbuilding and Drydock Co Ltd Blyth Thyra Menier Cargo ship For Donald Steamship Co Ltd
Unknown date   United States Kennebunk, Maine Verna & Esther Patrol vessel Operated as private motorboat from 1912 to 1917; acquired on lease by U.S. Navy for use during World War I; returned to owner in 1918.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 52.
  2. ^ Fernández, Mitiukov & Crawford 2007, pp. 66–67.
  3. ^ "Desna". The Yard. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  4. ^ Couhat 1974, p. 104.
  5. ^ "Darro". The Yard. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  6. ^ a b c d Friedman 2009, p. 306.
  7. ^ "Oxfordshire". The Yard. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  8. ^ "Drina". The Yard. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  9. ^ "Abosso". The Yard. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  10. ^ a b Friedman 2009, p. 307.
  11. ^ Couhat 1974, p. 111.
  12. ^ "Appam". The Yard. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  13. ^ "A. G. Prentiss". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. 16 June 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2019. A. G. Prentiss, a small wooden-hulled tug built in 1912 at Kennebunk, Maine
  14. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 465.
  15. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 390.
  16. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 244.
  17. ^ Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 468.
Sources
  • Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan. ISBN  0-7110-0445-5.
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
  • Fernández, Rafael; Mitiukov, Nicholas; Crawford, Kent (March 2007). "The Spanish Dreadnoughts of the España class". Warship International. 44 (1). Toledo: International Naval Research Organization: 63–117. ISSN  0043-0374.
  • Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the First World War. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN  978-1-84832-049-9.
  • Gröner, Erich; Jung, Dieter; Maass, Martin (1983). Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815–1945: Band 2: Torpedoboote, Zerstörer, Schnellboote, Minensuchboote, Minenräumboote (in German). Koblenz: Bernard & Graef Verlag. ISBN  3-7637-4801-6.
  • 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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