The list of ship launches in 1906 includes a chronological list of ships launched in 1906. Ship Class Builder Location Country Notes 13 January Ferry Harland & Wolff Belfast For Belfast Steamship Co. 17 January Trawler Cook, Welton & Gemmell Beverley For Hellyer Steam Fishing Company 22 January Torpilleur N° 341 38‑metre type Normand (1904 tranche) 1st class torpedo boat Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Le Havre For French Navy 23 January B-class submarine Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness 24 January B-class submarine Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness For: 27 January Ocean liner Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Govan For Canadian Pacific Steamship Company 30 January Roanne Self‑propelled paddle‑wheel barge Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Le Havre For: Soc. des Messageries fluviales de France January Torpilleur N° 342 38‑metre type Normand (1904 tranche) 1st class torpedo boat Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Le Havre For French Navy 10 February Dreadnought HM Dockyard, Portsmouth Portsmouth 14 February William Denny & Brothers Dumbarton For British-India Steam Navigation Company 24 February Passenger ship Harland & Wolff Belfast For Royal Mail Line. 27 January Ferry Harland & Wolff Belfast For Belfast Steamship Co. 27 February N.E.R. No. 5 Hopper barge Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd Blyth For North Eastern Railway. 9 March Cargo liner Charles Connell & Co Glasgow 17 March Dunkerque Self‑propelled paddle‑wheel barge Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Le Havre For: Soc. des Messageries fluviales de France 22 March Cargo ship Harland & Wolff Belfast For Pacific Steam Navigation Company. 23 March B-class submarine Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness 23 MarchBlohm + VossHamburg For Imperial German Navy 24 March Torpilleur N° 343 38‑metre type Normand (1904 tranche) 1st class torpedo boat Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Le Havre For French Navy 9 April Heavy cruiser Kure Naval Arsenal Kure, Hiroshima 10 April Trawler Cook, Welton & Gemmell Beverley For Earl Steam Fishing Co. 12 April Cargo ship Harland & Wolff Belfast For T. & J. Brocklebank. 20 April Daffodil Ferry Robert Stephenson and Company Newcastle upon Tyne For Wallasey Corporation 20 April Torpilleur N° 344 38‑metre type Normand (1904 tranche) 1st class torpedo boat Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Le Havre For French Navy 21 April Coastal passenger ship Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works Chester, Pennsylvania For Eastern Steamship Company 25 April N.E.R. No. 6 Hopper barge Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd Blyth For North Eastern Railway. 5 May Sevastopol Shipyard Sevastopol 7 May Belle of Temagami Steamboat G. A. Pontbriand Temagami Canada 11 May Torpilleur N° 345 38‑metre type Normand (1904 tranche) 1st class torpedo boat Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Le Havre For French Navy 12 May Prinz Ludwig Ocean liner AG Vulkan Stettin For Norddeutscher Lloyd 12 May Germaniawerft Kiel For Imperial German Navy 21 May N.E.R. No. 7 Hopper barge Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd Blyth For North Eastern Railway. 24 May Cargo ship Harland & Wolff Belfast For Pacific Steam Navigation Company. 28 May N.E.R. No. 8 Hopper barge Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd Blyth For North Eastern Railway. 28 May Schichau Danzig 30 May AG Vulkan Stettin For Royal Hellenic Navy 6 June cruiser Devonport Dockyard Devonport 7 June Ocean liner John Brown & Co. Ltd Clydebank For Cunard Line 7 June Torpilleur N° 346 38‑metre type Normand (1904 tranche) 1st class torpedo boat Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Le Havre For French Navy 14 June AG Weser Bremen 23 June William Beardmore and Company Dalmuir 23 June Cargo ship William Gray & Co. Ltd. West Hartlepool For Ravelston Shipping Co Ltd 23 June Cargo ship Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd Blyth For Sheaf Steam Shipping Co. Ltd. 27 June Schooner Tarr and James Shipbuilders Essex, Massachusetts 30 June New York Shipbuilding Corporation Camden, New Jersey The last American pre-dreadnought battleship 30 June Germaniawerft Kiel For Imperial German Navy 5 July Cargo ship Harland & Wolff Belfast For Hamburg America Line. 10 July C-class submarine Vickers Limited Barrow in Furness 18 July AG Vulkan Stettin For Royal Hellenic Navy 19 July B.H.C. Rockbreaker No. 1 Dredger Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd Blyth For Blyth Harbour Commissioners. 23 July Germaniawerft Kiel For Imperial German Navy 25 July Canadian Ship Building Company Toronto Canada For Muskosa Lakes Navigation and Hotel Company 4 August Submarine Germaniawerft Kiel 6 August Émeraude Émeraude-class submarine Arsenal de Cherbourg Cherbourg For French Navy 6 August Deux-Sèvres Steamship Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Le Havre For Cie. de Navigation d'Orbigny-Faustin 25 August Germaniawerft Kiel For Imperial German Navy28 August Kaiserliche Werft Kiel Kiel 1 September B-class submarine Fore River Shipbuilding Quincy, Massachusetts 4 September Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Jarrow Last pre-dreadnought battleship for the Royal Navy. 5 September Passenger steamer Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Govan 6 September Cargo ship Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd Blyth For Alfred Christensen. 6 September Cruise liner Harland & Wolff Belfast For British India Steam Navigation Company. 7 September Germaniawerft Kiel For Imperial German Navy 10 September Reserve Lightship AG Weser Bremen 20 September Ocean liner Harland and Wolff Belfast For White Star Line 20 September Agawa Yacht Ramage and Ferguson Ltd Leith 20 September Ocean liner Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Wallsend For Cunard Line 20 September Protected cruiser Arsenal de Ferrol Ferrol 20 September cruiser Chatham Dockyard Chatham 22 September Kaiserliche Werft DanzigDanzig 22 September Schichau-Werke Elbing For Imperial German Navy 22 September Coastal defence ship Rijkswerf Amsterdam For Royal Netherlands Navy 4 October C-class submarine Fore River Shipbuilding Quincy, Massachusetts 6 October Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News 18 October Yacht Hawthorn & Co Leith, Scotland 18 October Ocean liner Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Dundee For Booth Line 18 October Cargo Ship Harland & Wolff Belfast For African Steamship Company. 30 October Cricket-class coastal destroyer J. Samuel White Cowes October Havana William Cramp & Sons Philadelphia For Ward Line 3 November Nikolayev Admiralty Shipyard, Nikolayev 4 November Armoured cruiser Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness For Imperial Russian Navy. 10 November Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg 12 November Schichau-Werke Elbing For Imperial German Navy 15 November Battleship Yokosuka Naval Arsenal Yokosuka, Kanagawa 15 November Cargo ship Harland & Wolff Belfast For Elder Dempster. 20 November Opale Émeraude-class submarine Arsenal de Cherbourg Cherbourg For French Navy 1 December Ocean Liner AG Vulkan Stettin For Norddeutscher Lloyd 3 December Passenger-cargo ship William Cramp & Sons Philadelphia 7 December Germaniawerft Kiel 10 November Admiralty Shipyard Saint Petersburg 15 December Cargo ship Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd Blyth For N.V. Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappik. 15 December Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company Newport News, Virginia 15 December Cricket-class coastal destroyer J. Samuel White Cowes 16 December Abeille No. 7 Tug Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Le Havre For: Soc. de Remorquage "Les Abeilles" 17 December Drague a Godets No.22 Dredger Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée Le Havre For: Cie. Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez 22 December Ocean liner Sir J Laing & Sons Ltd Sunderland For Lloyd Sabaudo Date unknown Tugboat Dialogue & Company Camden, New Jersey Date unknown B-class submarine Vickers Limited Barrow-in-Furness Date unknown Boy Sam Steam drifter John Bowden Porthleven For John E. Howe and others. Date unknown Champion Steam drifter Beeching Brothers Ltd. Great Yarmouth For John McKenzie. Date unknown Comet Star Steam drifter Beeching Brothers Ltd. Great Yarmouth For George Cowie. Date unknown Glenafton Steam drifter Beeching Brothers Ltd. Great Yarmouth For Alexander Smith. Date unknown Fishing vessel Bonn & Mees Rotterdam For F. Courtois & F. Hovelaque Date unknown Hildalgo Merchantman Abdela & Mitchell Ltd. Brimscombe For private owner.Date unknown Steamship Abdela & Mitchell Ltd. Brimscombe For private owner. Date unknown Irene Steam drifter Beeching Brothers Ltd. Great Yarmouth For Edward Baker.Date unknown Steamship Abdela & Mitchell Ltd. Brimscombe For John Lysaght Ltd. Date unknown Tugboat Camden, New Jersey Date unknown Yarrow Shipbuilders Poplar For Royal Hellenic Navy Date unknown Nike Steam drifter Beeching Brothers Ltd. Great Yarmouth For private owner. Date unknown Orion Steam drifter Beeching Brothers Ltd. Great Yarmouth For James Smith. Date unknown Premier Steam drifter Beeching Brothers Ltd. Great Yarmouth For George Hall.Date Unknown San Juan Merchantman Abdela & Mitchell Ltd. Brimscombe For private owner. Date unknown Thames barge McLearon Harwich Date unknown Toledo Shipbuilding Company Toledo, Ohio For Roosevelt Steamship Company Date unknown Steamship Richardson, Duck & Co Stockton, Great Britain Date unknown Providence Lighter Brown & Clapson Barton-upon-Humber For John Charles Raper. Date unknown Cargo ship Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd. For private owner. Date unknown Unnamed Lighter Brown & Clapson Barton-upon-Humber For George F. Sleight.
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