List of ships built by William Denny and Brothers

This is a list of ships built by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland.

Ships

Launched Ship's nameat launch Tonnage(GRT) Yard number Notes 1845 106 1 Built for the Dumbarton Steamboat Co. Moved to Liverpool in 1852. 1845 30 2 Built for the Dumbarton Steamboat Co. Operated on Loch Katrine. Scuttled in 1859. 1845 275 3 Built for the Taylor and Scott of Dublin. Sank on 2 November 1861 in a storm just after leaving the River Clyde. 1846 127 6 Built for the Dumbarton Steamboat Co. Moved to Weymouth in 1852. Cosens & Co Ltd pleasure steamer for several decades. Scrapped 1938. 1846 273 7 Collided with the Steamer Sabrina in the Bristol Channel on 6 January 1855. Written off. 1847 182 9 Built for the Orkney Steam Navigation Company. Sank in 1859 1847 135 11 Sold via P&O to the Pasha of Egypt Muhammad Ali. 1847 83 12 Built for the Glasgow & Lochfyne Steam Packet Company. Broken up in 1896 1847 238 15 1848 94 23 Built for the Girvan Steam Packet Company 1849 370 24 1849 500 Built for the North-West Steam Packet Company. 1849 Miner 32 27 Sailing vessel 1849 772 28 Built for Brownlow, Pearson & Company of Hull 1853William Denny596First steamship to link Auckland and Sydney. Aground near Murimotu Island in 1857 and abandoned in 1858. 1858SS Nova Scotian 68 Built for the Allan Line. Served for 34 years. Scrapped 1893. 1859 2,108 Sank in Casco Bay on approach to Portland, Maine, after striking an underwater ledge on 22 February 1864.1862SS City of Cork 1,547 86Built for the Inman Line. 1869Cutty Sark 963 Completed by Denny's after the liquidation of her contracted builders, Scott & Linton. Preserved in a dry dock at Greenwich, London 1870 3,167 148 Built for Cunard Line. Served for 86 years; scrapped 1956. 1882 3,075 261 Built for the Compagnie Nationale de Navigation as a passenger ship, especially for immigrants to the USA. Converted into a troop ship for French soldiers in the Sino-French War. Wrecked off Panama in 1902. 1884Lucinda 301 282Government yacht, ordered by the Queensland Government by letter dated 30 January 1883, delivered 20 December 1884. Connected to the drafting of the Australian Constitution. 1886SS Jumna5,197312Steel passenger and cargo steamship built in 1886 by William Denny and Brothers in Dumbarton, Scotland, for British India Associated Steamers Ltd (managed by the British India Steam Navigation Company). Constructed specifically to serve the Queensland Royal Mail route, she carried mail, cargo, and thousands of assisted immigrants from Great Britain to Australia during the late 19th century 1889SS Aramac 2,114 415 Built for the Australian United Steam Navigation Company 1889SS Arawatta 2,114 416 Built for the Australian United Steam Navigation Company 1893 546 463 Veteran steamship on Lake Titicaca, Peru, now a floating restaurant 1895 SS Vladimir 5,331 507 Built for Russian Volunteer Fleet Association, Odessa. Purchased in 1915 by the Imperial Russian Navy. 1899 115 623 Veteran steamship still on Loch Katrine, Scotland 1901 562 651 Excursion steamer, the first commercial vessel to be driven by steam turbines 1902 665 670 Destroyed by fire 1911; sold to Canada 1903 6,953 671 Australian United Steam Navigation Company passenger liner requisitioned as a troop ship and then a hospital ship. Foundered 1929. 1903 SS Kyarra 6,953 672 Australian United Steam Navigation Company passenger liner requisitioned as a hospital ship. Sunk by torpedo 1918 1905 TSS Arahura 1607 755 Passenger and cargo ship (also schooner rigged) built for the Union Steam Ship Company and operated in New Zealand coastal waters until May 1949. Hulk sunk as a target in 1952. 1905 5282 746 Passenger ship owned by Union Company of New Zealand. Washed ashore on Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia while under tow to be scrapped in July 1935. 1906 583 770 3 direct drive steam turbines, 21.6 knots LMS/CSP Passenger Vessel for the Ardrossan - Arran service; later on the Stranraer - Larne service; Scrapped 1970 1907 TSS 1689 789 2 direct drive steam turbines, 21.75 knots SE&CR Cross-channel ferry; later Isle of Man Steam Packet Co; Scrapped 1957 1908 7,420 835 New Zealand Shipping Company refrigerated cargo liner; sunk 1917 1909 10,870 880 New Zealand Shipping Company liner; later Italian-flagged; scrapped 1957 1910 11,130 915 New Zealand Shipping Company liner; sunk 1917 1910 700 Commonwealth Naval Forces Destroyer; struck 1928 1912 SS Indarra 9,735 966 Australian United Steam Navigation Company passenger liner, in 1920 Lloyd Royal Belge Pays de Waes and from 1923 Osaka Shosen KK Horai Maru. Japanese troopship in World War 2, sunk 1942. 1912 10,348 969 Compañía Transatlántica Española passenger liner, renamed Uruguay in 1931, prison ship from 1934. Sunk by a Nationalist air raid on Barcelona in 1939. Raised and scrapped. 1912 785/827 970 1935 renamed Saint Columba and took over Glasgow to Ardrishaig until scrapped in 1958. 1912 Newhaven to Dieppe ferry. 1913 Newhaven to Dieppe ferry. Sister ship to TSS Brighton. First ship to be fitted with the Michell Tilting Pad Thrust Bearing. 1924 1167 Built for P Henderson & Company's Shaw, Savill & Albion Line as a passenger and cargo ship. Severely damaged by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Easter Sunday Raid on Trincomalee Harbour in 1942. Hulk sunk in 1943. 1925 Delta King 1168 Stern Wheel Paddle Steamer 1925Delta Queen 1169 Stern Wheel Paddle Steamer 1925 690 1170 3 shaft, single reduction Parsons geared turbines, triple screws, 21.5 knots LMS/CSP Passenger Vessel for the Ardrossan-Arran service; Scrapped 1954 1926 985 1182 Pioneering turbine steamer built for Turbine Steamers Ltd. 1929 5066 1223 Cargo ship Armadale was built for Australind Steam Shipping Co.; Scrapped 1964 1930 806 1245 Turbine steamer built for CSP, operated until 1964. The first single-class Clyde vessel. 1931 656 1256 David MacBrayne passenger vessel. First British-built diesel-electric passenger ship. Re-engined 1953 with British Polar diesels. Withdrawn from service 1969. Scrapped after attempted restaurant conversion in 1974. 1933 871 1262 Turbine steamer built for Williamson-Buchanan, operated until 1977. The largest (though not the longest) excursion turbine on the River Clyde. Converted into a floating pub in 1987 and moored in London. Returned to the Clyde in 2016 and now being restored. 1934 623 1266 CSP Paddle Steamer. Latterly, a floating pub in London until destroyed by fire in 1980. 1935 5,954 1276 Booth Steamship Co cargo and passenger liner. Converted into troop ship 1940; sunk by torpedo 1941 1936 573 1273 David MacBrayne (1928) Ltd diesel-electric passenger vessel; Scrapped 1974 1936 106 1294 CSP for Loch Awe service, later Clyde, then Loch Lomond; Scrapped 1999 1937 603 1306 Paddle steamer built for the Southern Railway. Ryde was the last coal-fired sea-going paddle steamer in the world when taken out of service in 1969. 1938403 1322 Isle of Wight ferry which became MV Sound of Sanda for Western Ferries 1938 50 1327 Former Denny-owned tug / tender on the River Clyde 1939 2,061 1330 Thames Estuary / Continent day excursion for Steam Navigation Company Ltd, London; Scrapped Feb 1967 1939 603 1341 David MacBrayne Mailboat on Islay, Port Askaig and other routes; Scrapped Dec 1995 1941 7,015 1358 Empire class cargo vessel Empire Cameron; Scrapped Nov 1963 1947 2,694 1399 LMS ferry based in Stranraer; Sank Jan 1953 1947 1,090 1404 David MacBrayne mailboat Mallaig - Kyle of Lochalsh - Stornoway; Scrapped June 1973 1948 986 1411 Portsmouth – Ryde ferry for British Transport Commission. In service until 1986, then in reserve until 1997. Latterly owned in part by the Southsea Preservation Society in association with the Avon River Historic Vessel & Navigation Trust in 2002. Scrapped in 2005 in Denmark. 1948 1,851 1413 General Steam Navigation Company. Originally summer excursions from Thames to Continent; 1967 Townsend Car Ferries Ltd 1948 460 1418 River passenger & cargo Paddle Steamer built for India General Navigation & Railway Company 1948 460 1419 River passenger & cargo Paddle Steamer built for India General Navigation & Railway Company 1951MV Tofua 5,299 1447 Union Steam Ship Company ferry. 1950 1,234 1448 Former Mersey ferry, now berthed at Woolwich, London 1951 53 1458 CSP Passenger Car Ferry 1951 24 1459 CSP Passenger Car Ferry for Lochalsh-Kyleakin ferry 1953 994 1456 Former Passenger Ferry, now a museum ship in Istanbul, Turkey 1953 568 1470 CSP Passenger Car Ferry 1953 1483 CSP Passenger Car Ferry built for British Railways Board1957MV Bardic2,550 Built for the Atlantic Steam Navigation Co Ltd made her maiden voyage on 2 September 1957 on the Preston to Larne route. 1957MV Ionic2,557 Built for the Atlantic Steam Navigation Co Ltd made her maiden voyage on 10 October 1958 on the Preston to Larne route. 1957 2,560 1476 Leopard class frigate. Last frigate built by Dennys. Now BNS Ali Haider in Bangladesh Navy 1957 Koolama II 3,377 1490 Built for Stateships, Western Australia, later renamed Grain Trader and Eastern Peace, scrapped 1980 1961 3,630 1501 Irish Sea/English Channel car ferry; later Tuxedo Princess nightclub on the Tyne. 1961 4,160 1502 Final ship completed by the yard. The first Interislander road/rail ferry used between Picton and Wellington by New Zealand Government Railways. Scrapped 1994. Denny D2 Hoverbus 1964 1504 Cargo ship; completed by Alexander Stephen at Linthouse (yard number 685) after Denny's closure

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See also Scottish Built Ships database