List of ship launches in 1936 explained

The list of ship launches in 1936 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1936.

Date	Country	Builder	Location	Ship	Class	Notes
" style="background: #bbdddd;"	9 January	Netherlands	Wilton-Fijenoord	Schiedam		Tanker	For Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij 9,100 tons capacity^[1]
" style="background: #bbdddd;"	9 January	United Kingdom	Harland and Wolff	Belfast		Passenger steamer	For Indian Co-operative Navigation and Trading Company Ltd.^[2]
9 January		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Tanker	For Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co.^[3]
11 January		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Refrigerated cargo ship	For Blue Star Line.^[4]
" style="background: #bbdddd;"	22 January	United Kingdom	Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson	Newcastle upon Tyne		Cargo ship	For Wallsend Shipping Co Ltd.
" style="background: #bbdddd;"	22 January	United Kingdom	Devonport Dockyard	Plymouth
" style="background: #bbdddd;"	24 January	United Kingdom	Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Company	Greenock, Scotland
" style="background: #bbdddd;"	25 January	United Kingdom	Harland and Wolff	Belfast	Dunnottar Castle	Passenger ship	For Union-Castle Line
20 February		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Tanker	For Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co.^[5]
21 February		Uraga Dock Company	Uraga			For Imperial Japanese Navy.
" style="background: #bbdddd;"	25 February	United Kingdom	Swan Hunter	Wallsend
" style="background: #bbdddd;"	10 March	United Kingdom	Vickers Armstrong	Walker, Newcastle-on-Tyne
" style="background: #bbdddd;"	10 March	United Kingdom	Vickers Armstrong	Walker, Newcastle-on-Tyne
10 March		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Ferry	For Burns & Laird Line.
11 March		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Ferry	For Burns & Laird Line.
23 March	United Kingdom	Scotts	Greenock
24 March	Sweden	Karlskrona dockyard	Karlskrona
24 March		Deschimag	Bremen	Paul Jacobi
24 March	United Kingdom	Devonport Dockyard	Plymouth		Grimsby-class sloop
26 March	United States	Bath Iron Works	Bath, Maine
26 March		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Passenger ship	For Union-Castle Line.^[6]
26 March	United Kingdom	Alexander Stephen and Sons
27 March		Germaniawerft	Kiel	Wolfgang Zenker
28 March	Australia	Cockatoo Island Dockyard	Sydney		Grimsby-class sloop
4 April	United States	Newport News Shipbuilding	Newport News, Virginia
7 April	United Kingdom	Cammell Laird	Birkenhead
8 April	United Kingdom	Swan Hunter	Wallsend
22 April		Deschimag	Bremen	Theodor Riedel
24 April		Nederlandse Scheepsbouw Maatschappij.	Amsterdam		Tanker	For N.V. Petroleum Maatschappij La Corona.
" style="background: #bbdddd;"	25 April	Netherlands	Wilton-Fijenoord	Schiedam		Tanker	For Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij 9,100 tons capacity^[7]
5 May		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Huddart Parker.^[8]
5 May	United Kingdom	Denny	Dumbarton
5 May	United Kingdom	Alexander Stephen and Sons	Linthouse, Glasgow
7 May	Norway	Royal Norwegian Navy Yard	Horten
13 May		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Tug	For McKie & Baxter Ltd.^[9]
14 May		Germaniawerft	Kiel	Hans Lody
21 May	United States	Fore River Shipyard	Quincy, Massachusetts
22 May		Howaldtswerke	Kiel		Light seaplane tender	For civilian use, later taken over by the military
27 May		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Trawler	For Lancashire Sea Fisheries.^[10]
3 June	United States	Philadelphia Naval Shipyard	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
3 June	United States	Philadelphia Naval Shipyard	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
3 June	United States	Philadelphia Naval Shipyard	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
3 June	United States	Philadelphia Naval Shipyard	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
13 June		Blohm & Voss	Hamburg			For Reichsmarine
17 June	United States	Bath Iron Works	Bath, Maine
21 June		Sasebo Naval Arsenal	Sasebo			For Imperial Japanese Navy.
27 June		Schulte & Bruns	Emden		Fishing trawler	For Dollart Heringfischerei AG.
29 June		Deutsche Werft	Hamburg		Cargo ship	For Oldenburg Portugiesische Dampschiffs Rhederei.
7 July	United Kingdom	Denny	Dumbarton
8 July		Germaniawerft	Kiel	Bernd von Arnim
14 July		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Ferry	For Bombay Steam Navigation Co.^[11]
16 July		Deschimag	Bremen	Hermann Schoemann
16 July		Blohm & Voss	Hamburg		Ocean liner	For Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie
21 July		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Livestock carrier	For Burns & Laird Line.^[12]
6 August		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Livestock carrier	For Burns & Laird Line.^[13]
22 August		Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Unterweser AG	Wesermünde		Fishing vessel	For F. Busse
25 August		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Ferry	For Belfast Harbour Commissioners.^[14]
25 August	Norway	Royal Norwegian Navy Yard	Horten
3 September		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Livestock carrier	For Burns & Laird Line.^[15]
15 September		Deschimag	Bremen	Bruno Heinemann
16 September		Harland & Wolff	Govan		Tanker	For British Tanker Company.^[16]
17 September		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Union-Castle Line.^[17]
24 September		Blohm & Voss	Hamburg	Erich Steinbrinck
3 October		Kriegsmarinewerft	Wilhelmshaven
3 October	United States	Newport News Shipbuilding	Newport News, Virginia
6 October		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Collier	For John Kelly Ltd.^[18]
15 October	United Kingdom	Cammell Laird	Birkenhead
30 October	United Kingdom	Hawthorn Leslie	Tyneside
1 November		Fujinagata Shipyard	Osaka			For Imperial Japanese Navy.
3 November		Harland & Wolff	Govan		Tanker	For British Tanker Company.^[19]
" style="background: #bbdddd;"	7 November	Netherlands	Wilton-Fijenoord	Schiedam		Tanker	For Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij 9,100 tons capacity^[20]
12 November	United Kingdom	Yarrow	Glasgow
17 November		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Cargo ship	For Bank Line.^[21]
17 November	United States	Philadelphia Navy Yard	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
23 November		Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau	Wesermünde		Fishing trawler	For Grundmann & Gröschel
26 November	France	At. & Ch. de Bretagne	Nantes			For French Navy.
26 November	United Kingdom	John Brown & Company	Clydebank
27 November		Maizuru Naval Arsenal	Maizuru			For Imperial Japanese Navy.
30 November	United Kingdom	John I. Thornycroft & Company	Woolston, Southampton
30 November	United States	New York Navy Yard	Brooklyn, New York
2 December		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Coaster	For William Robertson Ltd.^[22]
3 December	United States	Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company	Newport News, Virginia
8 December		Deutsche Werke	Kiel
11 December	United Kingdom	Hawthorn Leslie	Tyneside
12 December		Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire	Saint-Nazaire
17 December	United Kingdom	J. Samuel White	Cowes
19 December		Lindholmens Varv	Gothenburg		Cargo ship	For Chr. Gundersen & Co.
29 December		Harland & Wolff	Belfast		Tanker	For Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co.^[23]
Date unknown		Noord Nederland Scheepsmakkerij	Groningen		Coaster	For M Oosterhuis
Date unknown		Lübecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft	Lübeck		Cargo ship	For Knohr & Burchard.
Date unknown		Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft	Flensburg		Cargo ship	For Flensburger Schiffsparten-Vereinigung AG
Date unknown		S. P. Austin & Sons Ltd.	Sunderland		Icemaid type collier	For the Gas, Light & Coke Co. Ltd.
Date unknown		Lübecker Flenderwerke AG.	Lübeck		Tanker	For C. Anderson.
Date unknown		Lübecker Flenderwerke AG	Lübeck		Cargo ship	For F Krupp AG
Date unknown	Danzig	F. Schichau.	Danzig		tanker	For Deutsche-Amerikanische Petroleum.
Date unknown	Danzig	Danziger Werft AG	Danzig	Poel	Coastal tanker	For Kriegsmarine.
Date unknown		Seebeckwerft	Bremerhaven	Seydlitz	Fishing trawler	For F. A. Pust Hochseefischerei AG
Date unknown		Smith's Dock Co. Ltd.	Middlesbrough		Whaler	For Southern Whaling & Sealing Co. Ltd.
Date unknown		Nordseewerke	Emden		Cargo ship	For Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Neptun

References

Sources

• Book: Friedman, Norman. British Destroyers & Frigates: The Second World War and After. 2008. Seaforth Publishing. Barnsley, UK. 978-1-84832-015-4.
• Book: Friedman, Norman. British Destroyers From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Seaforth Publishing. Barnsley, UK. 2009. 978-1-84832-049-9.
• Book: Sawyer . LA . Mitchell . WH . 1990 . The Empire Ships . London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong . Lloyd's of London Press Ltd . 1-85044-275-4 . Second .
• Book: Whitley, M. J. . Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia . 2000 . Cassell & Co. . London . 1-85409-521-8.

Notes and References

1. News: Bataviaasch nieuwsblad. Een modern tankschip. 30 January 1936. Dutch.
2. Launches and Trial Trips. The Engineer. 17 January 1936. 86.
3. Web site: Standella . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
4. Web site: Sydney Star . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
5. Web site: Simnia . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
6. Web site: Dunvegan Castle . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
7. News: Haagsche courant. Drie tewaterlatingen op één dag voor de Koninklijke Shell. 25 April 1936. Dutch.
8. Web site: Adelong . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
9. Web site: Leonora . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
10. Web site: Charles Maciver . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
11. Web site: Dipavati . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
12. Web site: Lairdswood . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
13. Web site: Lairdscrest . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
14. Web site: Duchess of Abercorn . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
15. Web site: Lairdsbank . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
16. Web site: British Power . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
17. Web site: Walmer Castle . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
18. Web site: Crossgar . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
19. Web site: British Destiny . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
20. News: Motortankschip Eulima te water gelaten . Het Vaderland . 10 November 1936 . Dutch.
21. Web site: Ernebank . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
22. Web site: Cameo . The Yard . 26 February 2017.
23. Web site: Sitala . The Yard . 26 February 2017.