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The list of ship launches in 1979 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 1979.

Date Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes
20 January  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Deyo Spruance-class destroyer
27 January  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Elstree Grange Tanker For Furness Withy.[1]
27 January  United States National Steel & Shipbuilding San Diego, California Yellowstone Yellowstone-class destroyer tender
3 February  United Kingdom Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd. Appledore City of Hartlepool Container ship For Container Rentals Ltd.[2]
3 February  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Thorn Spruance-class destroyer
9 February  United Kingdom Brooke Marine Ltd. Lowestoft Searcher For HM Coastguard.[3]
15 February  United Kingdom Brooke Marine Lowestoft, Suffolk Fremantle Fremantle-class patrol boat For Royal Australian Navy.
10 March  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Ingersoll Spruance-class destroyer
20 March  West Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel Pontos Type 209 submarine For Greek Navy.
24 March  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Clark Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
25 March  Soviet Union Yantar Kaliningrad Zadornyy Project 1135 large anti-submarine ship
27 March  United States Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle, Washington Antrim Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
27 March  Japan Yūshio Yūshio-class submarine
31 March  West Germany Meyer Werft Papenburg Diana II Roll-on/roll-off passenger car ferry For Rederi AB Slite for Viking Line traffic
7 April  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Ohio Ohio-class submarine
21 April  Soviet Union Zelenodolsk Shipyard Zelenodolsk Sokol Koni-class frigate For Soviet Navy.
25 April  Denmark Frederikshavn Vaerft Frederikshavn Mercandian Carrier type FV 610 RoRo-ship For Merc-Scandia KS[4]
28 April  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Dallas Los Angeles-class submarine
28 April  United States Avondale Shipyard Avondale, Louisiana Cimarron Cimarron-class fleet replenishment oiler
1 May  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Fife Spruance-class destroyer
9 May  United Kingdom Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd. Appledore City of Ipswich Container ship For Container Rentals Ltd.[5]
19 May  United States Todd Pacific Shipyards San Pedro, California Sides Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
24 May  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Galloway Princess Ferry For Sealink.[6]
7 June  Ireland Arklow Engineering Co Ltd. Wexford Thomas F. Doyle Tug For Cork Harbour Commissioners.[7]
16 June  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Fletcher Spruance-class destroyer
29 June  United Kingdom Vosper Thornycroft Southampton, England Southampton Type 42 destroyer
14 July  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Samuel Eliot Morison Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
28 July  United States National Steel & Shipbuilding San Diego, California Acadia Yellowstone-class destroyer tender
20 July  Turkey Marinewerft Gölcük Yıldıray Type 209 submarine For Turkish Navy
27 July  United Kingdom Brooke Marine Ltd. Lowestoft Seeker Revenue cutter For HM Customs and Excise.[8]
11 August  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Kidd Kidd-class destroyer
11 August  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut La Jolla Los Angeles-class submarine
14 August  Finland Wärtsilä Turku Shipyard Turku Rosella Cruiseferry For SF Line for Viking Line traffic
18 August  Denmark Frederikshavn Vaerft Frederikshavn Mercandian Exporter II type FV 610 RoRo-ship For Per Henriksen.[9]
24 August  United States Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle, Washington Fahrion Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
30 August  West Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel Casma Type 209 submarine For Peruvian Navy
7 September  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast Ravenscraig Bulk carrier For British Steel Corporation.[10][11]
10 September  United Kingdom Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd. Appledore Star Hercules Offshore supply vessel For Ratchden Ltd.[12]
11 September  West Germany Meyer Werft Papenburg Viking Sally Roll-on/roll-off passenger car ferry Originally ordered by an unknown Norwegian company. Contract transferred to Rederi Ab Sally.
20 September  Japan Kurama Shirane-class destroyer
21 September  France Chantiers de l'Atlantique Saint-Nazaire, France Prairial Batillus-class supertanker
24 September  West Germany Bremer Vulkan Bremen-Vegesack New Zealand Caribbean container ship For Shipping Corporation of New Zealand Ltd.
27 September  West Germany Bremer Vulkan Bremen-Vegesack Bremen Bremen-class frigate For German Navy
5 October  United Kingdom Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Splendid Swiftsure-class submarine
20 October  United States Todd Pacific Shipyards San Pedro, California John A. Moore Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
27 October  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia San Francisco Los Angeles-class submarine
3 November  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Estocin Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
4 November  Japan Onomichi Zosen Onomichi Ever Light Ever Level-class container ship For Evergreen Marine[13]
10 November  Poland Stocznia Szczecinska im Adolfa Warskiego Warskiego Szczecin Georg Ots Dmitriy Shostakovich-class ferry For Black Sea Shipping Company[14]
15 November  United Kingdom Bideford Shipyard (1973) Ltd Bideford Peroto Coaster For Cornish Shipping Ltd.[15]
1 December  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Callaghan Kidd-class destroyer
5 December  United Kingdom Harland & Wolff Belfast St Anselm Ferry For Sealink.
8 December  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Phoenix Los Angeles-class submarine
19 December  West Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel Antofagasta Type 209 submarine For Peruvian Navy
29 December  Poland Stocznia Szczecinska im Adolfa Warskiego Warskiego Szczecin Dmitriy Shostakovich Dmitriy Shostakovich-class ferry For Black Sea Shipping Company[16]
Unknown date  United Kingdom David Abels Boatbuilders Ltd. Bristol Lady Sarah Fishing vessel For private owner.[17]

References

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  1. ^ "Elstree Grange". The Yard. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  2. ^ "City of Hartlepool". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  3. ^ "Searcher". Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
  4. ^ "M/S MERCANDIAN CARRIER" (in Swedish). Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  5. ^ "City of Ipswich". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  6. ^ "Galloway Princess". The Yard. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  7. ^ "Thomas F Doyle". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  8. ^ "Seeker". Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
  9. ^ "M/S MERCANDIAN EXPORTER II" (in Swedish). Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  10. ^ "Ravenscraig". The Yard. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  11. ^ "Ravenscraig". Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  12. ^ "Star Hercules". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  13. ^ Schiffsdaten im Miramar Ship Index (englisch, online nicht verfügbar) ID=7900819 at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
  14. ^ "M/S GEORG OTS" (in Swedish). Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  15. ^ "Peroto". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  16. ^ "M/S DMITRIY SHOSTAKOVICH" (in Swedish). Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  17. ^ "Lady Sarah". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
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