List of ship launches in 1937

The list of ship launches in 1937 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1937.

DateCountryBuilderLocationShipClassServiceNotes
8 January  United States Brooklyn Navy Yard Brooklyn, New York Spencer Treasury-class cutter United States Coast Guard
12 January  United States Mare Island Navy Yard Vallejo, California Henley Bagley-class destroyer United States Navy
14 January  United States Charleston Navy Yard Charleston, South Carolina Bibb Treasury-class cutter United States Coast Guard
28 January  United Kingdom John Brown & Company Clydebank Ilex I-class destroyer Royal Navy
7 February  Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg Admiral Hipper Admiral Hipper-class cruiser Kriegsmarine
11 February  United Kingdom Yarrow Shipbuilders Scotstoun, Glasgow Ivanhoe I-class destroyer Royal Navy [1]
20 February  Germany Hans Rolshoven Krischan-class seaplane tender For the Luftwaffe
1 March  United Kingdom J. Samuel White Cowes, Isle of Wight Impulsive I-class destroyer Royal Navy [2]
6 March  Netherlands Wilton-Fijenoord Schiedam Nederland Tanker Merchant For Nederlandsche Pacific Petroleum Maatschappij[3]
12 March  Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Erich Giese Type 1934A-class destroyer Kriegsmarine
13 March  United States Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company Kearny, New Jersey Somers Somers-class destroyer United States Navy
18 March  Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Erich Koellner Type 1934A-class destroyer Kriegsmarine
21 March  Germany Blohm & Voss Hamburg Friedrich Eckoldt Type 1934A-class destroyer Kriegsmarine
23 March  Germany Howaldtswerke Kiel Friesenland Friesenland-class seaplane carrier For civilian service
24 March  United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Govan, Glasgow Liverpool Town-class cruiser Royal Navy
12 April  United Kingdom Hawthorn Leslie Hebburn, England Manchester Town-class cruiser Royal Navy [4]
5 May  Nazi Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg MV Wilhelm Gustloff Hamburg Süd For Kraft durch Freude
6 May  United States Puget Sound Navy Yard Bremerton, Washington Patterson Bagley-class destroyer United States Navy
8 May  United States New York Shipbuilding Corporation Camden, New Jersey Savannah Brooklyn-class cruiser United States Navy
8 June  Germany Deutsche Werke Kiel Blücher Admiral Hipper-class cruiser Kriegsmarine
8 June  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Walker, Newcastle Afridi Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
8 June  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Walker, Newcastle Cossack Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy [5]
22 June  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Govan, Glasgow British Integrity Tanker British Tanker Company [6]
7 July  United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Govan, Glasgow Gurkha Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
14 July  United Kingdom J. Samuel White Cowes, Isle of Wight Bittern Bittern-class sloop Royal Navy [7]
25 July  Kingdom of Italy Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico Trieste Vittorio Veneto Littorio-class battleship Regia Marina
14 August  United States Norfolk Naval Shipyard Portsmouth, Virginia Blue Bagley-class destroyer United States Navy
18 August  Norway Royal Norwegian Navy Shipyard Horten Nordkapp Nordkapp-class fishery protection vessel Royal Norwegian Navy
19 August  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Diether von Roeder Type 1936-class destroyer Kriegsmarine
22 August  Kingdom of Italy Gio. Ansaldo & C. Sestri Ponente, Genoa Littorio Littorio-class battleship Regia Marina
24 August  United Kingdom Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Wallsend Somali Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
26 August  United States New York Naval Yard Brooklyn, New York Honolulu Brooklyn-class cruiser United States Navy
2 September  United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Govan, Glasgow Maori Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
3 September  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Walker, Newcastle Eskimo Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
3 September  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Walker, Newcastle Mashona Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
23 September  United Kingdom Alexander Stephen and Sons Govan, Glasgow Zulu Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy [8]
2 October  United States New York Shipbuilding Corporation Camden, New Jersey Nashville Brooklyn-class cruiser United States Navy
5 October  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Barrow-in-Furness, England Undine U-class submarine Royal Navy [9]
6 October  United Kingdom Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Greenock, Scotland Matabele Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
9 October  United States Bethlehem Steel Company Sparrows Point, Maryland Gulfwave Oil tanker Gulf Oil Corporation
15 October  United Kingdom John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston, Hampshire Mohawk Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
19 October  United Kingdom Devonport Dockyard Devonport, England Gloucester Town-class cruiser Royal Navy [10]
21 October  United Kingdom Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Wallsend Tartar Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
30 October  Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg Albert Leo Schlageter Gorch Fock-class Sail training ship Kriegsmarine
5 November  United Kingdom William Denny and Brothers Dunbarton, Scotland Ashanti Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
16 November  United States Philadelphia Navy Yard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wichita Unique cruiser United States Navy
1 December  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Hans Lüdemann Type 1936-class destroyer Kriegsmarine
2 December  United Kingdom Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Greenock, Scotland Cachalot Grampus-class submarine Royal Navy [11]
17 December  United Kingdom Alexander Stephen & Sons Linthouse Sikh Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
18 December  United Kingdom Alexander Stephen & Sons Linthouse Punjabi Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
21 December  United Kingdom William Denny and Brothers Dunbarton, Scotland Bedouin Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy [12]
21 December  United Kingdom John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston, Hampshire Nubian Tribal-class destroyer Royal Navy
22 December  Germany DeSchiMAG Bremen Hermann Künne Type 1936-class destroyer Kriegsmarine
Unknown date  Germany Deutsche Werft AG Hamburg Algol Coastal tanker Merchant For Trelleborgs Angfabrik Nya A/B
Unknown date  Germany F Schichau GmbH Elbing Gabelsflach Coastal tanker Kriegsmarine
Unknown date  United Kingdom Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Newcastle upon Tyne Inkosi Refrigerated cargo liner Merchant For Charente Steamship Co Ltd
Unknown date  Germany Lübecker Flender-Werke AG Lübeck Marie Fisser Cargo ship Merchant For Fisser & van Doornum
Unknown date  Germany Neptun AG Rostock Messina Cargo ship Merchant For Robert Miles Sloman Jr
Unknown date  Germany Stettiner Oderwerke AG Stettin Saar Cargo ship Merchant For R C Gribel
Unknown date  Germany Bremer Vulkan Schiff- und Mashcinenbau Bremen Unitas 4 Whaler Jurgens Van Den Brugh Margarine Verkaufs Union GmbH, Hamburg
Unknown date  Germany Bremer Vulkan Schiff- und Mashcinenbau Bremen Unitas 5 Whaler Jurgens Van Den Brugh Margarine Verkaufs Union GmbH, Hamburg
Unknown date  Germany Bremer Vulkan Schiff- und Mashcinenbau Bremen Unitas 8 Whaler Jurgens Van Den Brugh Margarine Verkaufs Union GmbH, Hamburg
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Notes
  1. Colledge (2003), p170
  2. Colledge (2003), p166
  3. "Motortankschip Nederland te water gelaten". De Maasbode. 7 March 1937.
  4. Colledge (2003), p205
  5. Colledge (2003), p85
  6. "Mails and Shipping". The Times (47726). London. 26 June 1937. col G, p. 26.
  7. Colledge (2003), p51
  8. Colledge (2003), p367
  9. Colledge (2003), P338
  10. Colledge (2003), p140
  11. Colledge (2003), p64
  12. Colledge (2003), p47

References
  • Colledge, J.J. & Warlow, Ben (2003), Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill ISBN 1-85367-566-0
Ship events in 1937
Ship launches: 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
Ship commissionings: 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
Ship decommissionings: 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
Shipwrecks: 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
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