The list of ship launches in 1907 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1907.
Date
|
Country
|
Builder
|
Location
|
Ship
|
Class / type
|
Notes
|
12 January
|
France
|
Arsenal de Rochefort
|
Rochefort
|
Coutelas
|
Claymore-class destroyer
|
Struck 1921.
|
14 January
|
United Kingdom
|
Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company
|
Jarrow
|
Bonetta
|
Torpedo boat destroyer
|
Scrapped 1920.
|
24 January
|
Germany
|
Germaniawerft
|
Kiel
|
G137
|
S90-class torpedo boat
|
For Imperial German Navy
|
31 January
|
United Kingdom
|
Harland & Wolff
|
Belfast
|
Fulani
|
Cargo ship
|
For Elder Dempster..[4]
|
15 February
|
United Kingdom
|
Vickers
|
Barrow-in-Furness
|
C7
|
C-class submarine
|
Sold for scrapping, 1919
|
United Kingdom
|
Vickers
|
Barrow-in-Furness
|
C8
|
C-class submarine
|
Sold for scrapping, 1920
|
16 February
|
United Kingdom
|
Cammell Laird
|
Birkenhead, England
|
Cossack
|
Tribal-class destroyer
|
Scrapped 1919
|
28 February
|
United Kingdom
|
Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd
|
Blyth
|
Ludworth
|
Cargo ship
|
For Furness Withy & Co. Ltd.[5]
|
2 March
|
United Kingdom
|
Harland & Wolff
|
Belfast
|
Avon
|
Passenger ship
|
For Royal Mail Lines.[6]
|
4 March
|
United Kingdom
|
Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd
|
Blyth
|
B.H.C. Rockbreaker No. 2
|
Dredger
|
For Blyth Harbour Commissioners.[7]
|
7 March
|
Germany
|
AG Vulcan Stettin
|
Stettin
|
Stettin
|
Königsberg-class cruiser
|
|
15 March
|
United Kingdom
|
Vickers
|
Barrow-in-Furness
|
C10
|
C-class submarine
|
Sold for scrapping, 1922
|
16 March
|
United Kingdom
|
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
|
Govan
|
Indomitable
|
Invincible-class battlecruiser
|
Scrapped 1921
|
27 March
|
United Kingdom
|
Vickers
|
Barrow-in-Furness
|
C11
|
C-class submarine
|
Sunk in collision, 1909
|
29 March
|
United Kingdom
|
Harland & Wolff
|
Belfast
|
Prashu
|
Cargo ship
|
For Elder Dempster.[8]
|
30 March
|
United States
|
Fore River Shipyard
|
Quincy, Massachusetts
|
Viper
|
B-class submarine
|
Sunk as a target, 1922
|
United States
|
Fore River Shipyard
|
Quincy, Massachusetts
|
Tarantula
|
B-class submarine
|
Sunk as a target, 1922
|
3 April
|
United Kingdom
|
Vickers
|
Barrow-in-Furness
|
C9
|
C-class submarine
|
Sold for scrapping, 1922
|
6 April
|
Germany
|
Schichau-Werke
|
Elbing
|
S143
|
S138-class torpedo boat
|
For Imperial German Navy
|
13 April
|
United Kingdom
|
Armstrong Whitworth
|
Elswick
|
Invincible
|
Invincible-class battlecruiser
|
Sunk 31 May 1916
|
14 April
|
Japan
|
Kure Naval Arsenal
|
Kure, Hiroshima
|
Aki
|
Satsuma-class battleship
|
Sunk as target, 1924
|
21 April
|
Italy
|
La Spezia Naval Base
|
La Spezia
|
Roma
|
Regina Elena-class battleship
|
|
24 April
|
United Kingdom
|
Pembroke Dockyard
|
Pembroke Dock
|
Defence
|
Minotaur-class cruiser
|
Sunk 31 May 1916
|
26 April[10]
|
United Kingdom
|
Gourlay Brothers
|
Dundee
|
Atalanta
|
Passenger vessel
|
Sold in 1923
|
30 April
|
United Kingdom
|
Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd
|
Blyth
|
Thornley
|
Cargo ship
|
For British Maritime Trust Ltd.[11]
|
May
|
United Kingdom
|
FJ Carver and Son
|
Bridgwater, England
|
Irene
|
Ketch
|
100-foot ketch built in Bridgwater in 1907, the last ship built in the docks and the only ketch built in the West Country still sailing.
|
8 May
|
United Kingdom
|
Armstrong Whitworth
|
Elswick, England
|
Afridi
|
Tribal-class destroyer
|
Scrapped 1919
|
28 May
|
France
|
Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde
|
Lormont
|
Vérité
|
Liberté-class battleship
|
|
29 May
|
United States
|
Fore River Shipyard
|
Quincy, Massachusetts
|
Birmingham
|
Chester-class cruiser
|
Sold for scrap, 1930
|
30 May[13]
|
United Kingdom
|
A. & J. Inglis
|
Glasgow, Scotland
|
Alexandra
|
Royal yacht
|
Sold to Norway in 1925, sunk by German bombers in 1940
|
26 June
|
United Kingdom
|
John Brown & Company
|
Clydebank
|
Inflexible
|
Invincible-class battlecruiser
|
Scrapped 1922
|
United States
|
Bath Iron Works
|
Bath, Maine
|
Chester
|
Chester-class cruiser
|
Scrapped 1930
|
27 June
|
United Kingdom
|
Harland & Wolff
|
Belfast
|
Iroquois
|
Tanker
|
For Anglo-American Oil Company.[14]
|
29 June
|
France
|
Arsenal de Rochefort
|
Rochefort
|
Carquois
|
Claymore-class destroyer
|
Struck 1930.
|
29 June
|
United States
|
W. A. Boole & Son
|
Oakland, California
|
Sibyl Marston
|
schooner
|
|
9 July
|
United Kingdom
|
D & W Henderson Ltd
|
Glasgow
|
California
|
Passenger liner
|
For Anchor Line[15]
|
10 July
|
United Kingdom
|
Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd
|
Blyth
|
Blackwood
|
Cargo ship
|
For Tyneside Line Ltd.[16]
|
United Kingdom
|
Yarrow Shipbuilders
|
London
|
Lonchi
|
Thyella-class destroyer
|
[17]
|
United Kingdom
|
J. Samuel White
|
Cowes
|
TB 13
|
Cricket-class coastal destroyer
|
|
27 July
|
United Kingdom
|
Portsmouth Dockyard
|
Portsmouth, England
|
Bellerophon
|
Bellerophon-class battleship
|
Scrapped 1921
|
15 August
|
Russia
|
Admiralty Shipyard
|
Saint Petersburg
|
Bayan
|
Bayan-class cruiser
|
Scrapped 1922
|
24 August
|
United Kingdom
|
HM Dockyard
|
Devonport
|
Temeraire
|
Bellerophon-class battleship
|
Sold for scrap 1921
|
4 September
|
Russia
|
Baltic Shipyard
|
Saint Petersburg
|
Akula
|
Submarine
|
Sunk 1915
|
7 September
|
Russia
|
Baltic Shipyard
|
Saint Petersburg
|
Imperator Pavel I
|
Andrei Pervozvanny-class battleship
|
Scrapped 1923
|
9 September
|
United Kingdom
|
Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
|
Newcastle upon Tyne
|
Tarmo
|
Icebreaker
|
Museum ship in Kotka, Finland
|
United Kingdom
|
Vickers
|
Barrow-in-Furness
|
C12
|
C-class submarine
|
Sold for scrapping, 1920
|
10 September
|
United Kingdom
|
Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd
|
Blyth
|
Elterwater
|
Steamship
|
For Elterwater Steamship Co. Ltd.[19]
|
19 September
|
France
|
Arsenal de Toulon
|
Toulon
|
Circé
|
Circé-class submarine
|
Sunk by U-boat, 1918
|
21 September
|
France
|
Brest Dockyard
|
Brest
|
Edgar Quinet
|
Edgar Quinet-class cruiser
|
|
22 September
|
Italy
|
Cantiere Navale di Riva Trigoso
|
Riva Trigoso
|
Principessa Jolanda
|
Ocean liner
|
Capsized on launch
|
26 September
|
United Kingdom
|
Harland & Wolff
|
Belfast
|
Asturias
|
Passenger ship
|
For Royal Mail Lines.[21]
|
5 October
|
Germany
|
Blohm & Voss
|
Hamburg
|
Dresden
|
Dresden-class cruiser
|
Sunk on 14 March 1915 at Mas a Tierra
|
8 October
|
France
|
Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand
|
Le Havre
|
Branlebas
|
Branlebas-class destroyer
|
Sunk on 30 September 1915.
|
10 October
|
United Kingdom
|
Harland & Wolff
|
Belfast
|
Navahoe
|
Schooner oil barge
|
For Anglo-American Oil Company.[23]
|
21 October
|
Japan
|
Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
|
Yokosuka
|
Kurama
|
Ibuki-class armored cruiser
|
|
22 October
|
France
|
Arsenal de Toulon
|
Toulon
|
Calypso
|
Circé-class submarine
|
Sunk in collision, 1914
|
United Kingdom
|
John Brown & Company
|
Clydebank
|
Copenhagen
|
Passenger vessel
|
Sunk, 1917
|
23 October
|
Germany
|
AG Weser
|
Bremen
|
Albatross
|
Nautilus-class minelayer
|
Broken up, 1921
|
7 November
|
United Kingdom
|
Armstrong Whitworth
|
Elswick, England
|
Superb
|
Bellerophon-class battleship
|
Sold for scrap 1922
|
9 November
|
United Kingdom
|
Vickers
|
Barrow-in-Furness
|
C13
|
C-class submarine
|
Sold for scrapping, 1920
|
16 November
|
Germany
|
Blohm & Voss
|
|
Santa Elena
|
Merchant ship
|
Converted as a seaplane carrier in World War I
|
18 November
|
Japan
|
Kawasaki
|
Kobe
|
Yodo
|
Yodo-class cruiser
|
[25]
|
21 November
|
Japan
|
Kure Naval Arsenal
|
Kure, Hiroshima
|
Ibuki
|
Ibuki-class armored cruiser
|
|
26 November
|
France
|
Arsenal de Toulon
|
Toulon
|
Cognée
|
Claymore-class destroyer
|
Struck 1921.
|
5 December
|
United Kingdom
|
Harland & Wolff
|
Belfast
|
Median
|
Cargo ship
|
For F. Leyland & Co..[26]
|
United Kingdom
|
Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd
|
Blyth
|
Redwood
|
Cargo ship
|
For Tyneside Line Ltd.[27]
|
7 December
|
United Kingdom
|
Vickers
|
Barrow-in-Furness
|
C14
|
C-class submarine
|
Sold for scrapping, 1921
|
14 December
|
France
|
Arsenal de Rochefort
|
Rochefort
|
Fleuret
|
Claymore-class destroyer
|
Struck 1920.
|
19 December
|
France
|
Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand
|
Le Havre
|
Fanfare
|
Branlebas-class destroyer
|
Struck 1925.
|
21 December
|
France
|
Ateliers et Chantiers de Penhoët
|
Rouen
|
Gabion
|
Branlebas-class destroyer
|
Struck 1921.
|
United Kingdom
|
Harland & Wolff
|
Belfast
|
Pericles
|
Passenger ship
|
For Aberdeen Line.
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Beeching Brothers Ltd.
|
Great Yarmouth
|
Boy Arthur
|
Steam drifter
|
For Richard Sutton.[28]
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd.
|
Glasgow
|
City of Paris
|
Ocean liner
|
For Ellerman Lines.
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd.
|
Glasgow
|
Corsican
|
Ocean liner
|
For Allan Line.
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Beeching Brothers Ltd.
|
Great Yarmouth
|
Felicia
|
Steam drifter
|
For Edward Baker.[30]
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Beeching Brothers Ltd.
|
Great Yarmouth
|
Hope
|
Steam drifter
|
For Edwarde Catchpole.[31]
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Beeching Brothers Ltd.
|
Great Yarmouth
|
Inter Nos
|
Steam drifter
|
For Edward Baker.[32]
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Workman, Clark & Co. Ltd.
|
Belfast
|
Kia Ora
|
Cargo ship
|
For private owner.
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Brown & Clapson
|
Barton-upon-Humber
|
Merle
|
Sloop
|
For Summerfield & Mead Ltd.[34]
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Beeching Brothers Ltd.
|
Great Yarmouth
|
Radiant
|
Steam drifter
|
For Daniel Ralph.[35]
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Beeching Brothers Ltd.
|
Great Yarmouth
|
Rose
|
Steam drifter
|
For Alexander Storm.[36]
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd
|
Blyth
|
Ryhope
|
Cargo ship
|
For Furness Withy & Co. Ltd.[37]
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Beeching Brothers Ltd.
|
Great Yarmouth
|
Selina
|
Steam drifter
|
For Frederick Salmon.[38]
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Beeching Brothers Ltd.
|
Great Yarmouth
|
Sphinx
|
Steam drifter
|
For Horatio Fenner Ltd.[39]
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Beeching Brothers Ltd.
|
Great Yarmouth
|
Triumph
|
Steam drifter
|
For J. S. Johnson & Sons Ltd.[40]
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Brown & Clapson
|
Barton-upon-Humber
|
United
|
Lighter
|
For William Carmichael and G. C. Dunwell.[41]
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Brown & Clapson
|
Barton-upon-Humber
|
Vigo
|
Lighter
|
For Richard Carmichael.[42]
|
Unknown date
|
Sweden
|
Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad
|
Gothenburg
|
Wasa
|
Merchant ship
|
Sold to Norway in 1925
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
Brown & Clapson
|
Barton-upon-Humber
|
Unnamed
|
Lighter
|
For W. Sleight.[43]
|
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