List of ship launches in 1966

The list of ship launches in 1966 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 1966.

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Country Builder Location Ship Class Notes
6 January  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Talbot Brooke-class frigate
21 January  Germany Nordseewerke Emden KNM Sklinna Kobben-class submarine For Royal Norwegian Navy
4 February  Norway Karljohansvern Horten Stavanger Oslo-class frigate
5 February  United Kingdom Richard Dunston Ltd Hessle Sir Winston Churchill Sail training ship For Sail Training Association
8 February  United Kingdom Hawthorn Leslie and Company Hebburn, England Argonaut Leander-class frigate
12 February  United States Lockheed Shipbuilding Seattle, Washington Juneau Austin-class amphibious transport dock
25 February  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Queenfish Sturgeon-class submarine
25 February  Germany Lübeck Orenstein & Koppel Westerwald Westerwald-class For German Navy
26 February  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Sturgeon Sturgeon-class submarine
1 March  Netherlands Scheepswerf & Machinefabriek P. Smit Jr. Rotterdam Texelstroom For Texels Eigen Stoomboot Onderneming[1]
3 March  Sweden Lindholmens Varv Gothenburg Svea ferry for Rederi AB Svea
24 March  Germany Nordseewerke Emden KNM Skolpen Kobben-class submarine For Royal Norwegian Navy
26 March  United States National Steel & Shipbuilding San Diego, California Niagara Falls Mars-class combat stores ship
1 April  United Kingdom Swan Hunter Wallsend, England Lyness combat stores ship
4 April  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Richard L. Page Brooke-class frigate
15 April  Germany Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Flensburg Freiburg Replenishment oiler For German Navy
3 May  Germany Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Flensburg Glücksburg Replenishment oiler For German Navy
5 May  United States Defoe Shipbuilding Company Bay City, Michigan Brisbane Perth-class destroyer For Royal Australian Navy
5 May  Germany Orenstein & Koppel Lübeck Odenwald Westerwald-class transport ship
7 May  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Cleveland Austin-class amphibious transport dock
14 May  United States Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Bremerton, Washington Samuel Gompers Samuel Gompers-class destroyer tender
21 May  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Haddock Permit-class submarine
25 May  Italy Cantieri Navali del Tirreno e Riuniti S.P.A. Genoa Winston Churchill ferry for DFDS Seaways
10 June  Germany Nordseewerke Emden KNM Stadt Kobben-class submarine For Royal Norwegian Navy
22 June  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Ray Sturgeon-class submarine
1 July  United States Lockheed Shipbuilding Seattle, Washington Coronado Austin-class amphibious transport dock
9 July  Germany Lindenau Kiel Ammersee Walchensee-class tanker For German Navy
15 July  Germany HDW Kiel U 2 Type 205 submarine For German Navy
21 July  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Will Rogers Benjamin Franklin-class submarine
22 July  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Julius A. Furer Brooke-class frigate
26 July  United States National Steel & Shipbuilding San Diego, California White Plains Mars-class combat stores ship
6 August  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Dubuque Austin-class amphibious transport dock
19 August  Denmark Aarhus Flydedok A/S Aarhus Najaden ferry For Danske Statsbaner[2]
2 September  Germany Nordseewerke Emden KNM Stord Kobben-class submarine For Royal Norwegian Navy
15 September  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Resolution Resolution-class submarine
16 September  United States Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Bremerton, Washington Puget Sound Samuel Gompers-class destroyer tender
16 September  United Kingdom Swan Hunter Wallsend, England Stromness combat stores ship
17 September  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Pargo Sturgeon-class submarine
29 September  Sweden Lindholmens Varv Gothenburg Patricia ferry for Swedish Lloyd
7 October  Australia Cockatoo Island Naval Dockyard Sydney, New South Wales Stalwart Destroyer tender
14 October  United States General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Quincy, Massachusetts Sunfish Sturgeon-class submarine
14 October  United States General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Quincy, Massachusetts Whale Sturgeon-class submarine
20 October  Germany HDW Kiel U 9 Type 205 submarine For German Navy
22 October  United States Lockheed Shipbuilding Seattle, Washington Shreveport Austin-class amphibious transport dock
22 October  Germany Lindenau Kiel Tegernsee Walchensee-class tanker For German Navy
19 November  United States Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle, Washington Knox Knox-class frigate
25 November  Japan Asagumo Yamagumo-class destroyer
29 November  United Kingdom Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Greenock, Scotland Otway Oberon-class submarine
16 December  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Lapon Sturgeon-class submarine
17 December  United States National Steel & Shipbuilding San Diego, California Concord Mars-class combat stores ship
29 December  East Germany V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft Wismar Shota Rustaveli Ivan Franko-class passenger ship For Black Sea Shipping Company

See also

Ship events in 1966
Ship launches: 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971
Ship commissionings: 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971
Ship decommissionings: 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971
Shipwrecks: 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971

References

  1. ↑ "M/S Texelstroom.". Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  2. ↑ "M/S Najaden.". Retrieved 2016-03-12.
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