List of ship launches in 1936

The list of ship launches in 1936 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1936.

Country Builder Location Ship Class Notes
9 January  United Kingdom Harland and Wolff Belfast Ramdas Passenger steamer For Indian Co-operative Navigation and Trading Company Ltd.[1]
9 January  Netherlands Wilton-Fijenoord Schiedam Eulota Tanker For Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij 9,100 tons capacity[2]
22 January  United Kingdom Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Newcastle upon Tyne Hopestar Cargo ship For Wallsend Shipping Co Ltd.
22 January  United Kingdom Devonport Dockyard Plymouth Aberdeen Grimsby-class sloop [3]
24 January  United Kingdom Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Greenock, Scotland Hostile H-class destroyer [4]
25 January  United Kingdom Harland and Wolff Belfast Dunnottar Castle passenger ship For Union-Castle Line
25 February  United Kingdom Swan Hunter Wallsend Hunter H-class destroyer [4]
10 March  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Walker, Newcastle-on-Tyne Hereward H-class destroyer [4]
10 March  United Kingdom Vickers Armstrong Walker, Newcastle-on-Tyne Hero H-class destroyer [4]
23 March  United Kingdom Scotts Greenock Hotspur H-class destroyer [4]
24 March  Sweden Karlskrona dockyard Karlskrona Stockholm Göteborg-class destroyer [5]
24 March  Germany Deschimag Bremen Paul Jacobi Type 1934A-class destroyer [6]
24 March  United Kingdom Devonport Dockyard Plymouth Fleetwood Grimsby-class sloop [3]
26 March  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Drayton Mahan-class destroyer
26 March  United Kingdom Alexander Stephen and Sons Linthouse, Glasgow Mallard Kingfisher-class sloop [7]
27 March  Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Wolfgang Zenker Type 1934A-class destroyer [6]
28 March  Australia Cockatoo Island Dockyard Sydney Swan Grimsby-class sloop [3]
4 April  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Yorktown Yorktown-class aircraft carrier
7 April  United Kingdom Cammell Laird Birkenhead Hardy H-class destroyer Leader[4]
8 April  United Kingdom Swan Hunter Wallsend Hyperion H-class destroyer [4]
22 April  Germany Deschimag Bremen Theodor Riedel Type 1934A-class destroyer [6]
25 April  Netherlands Wilton-Fijenoord Schiedam Elusa Tanker For Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij 9,100 tons capacity[8]
5 May  United Kingdom Denny Dumbarton Hasty H-class destroyer [4]
5 May  United Kingdom Alexander Stephen and Sons Linthouse, Glasgow Puffin Kingfisher-class sloop [7]
7 May  Norway Royal Norwegian Navy Yard Horten Sleipner Sleipner-class destroyer [9]
14 May  Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Hans Lody Type 1934A-class destroyer [6]
21 May  United States Fore River Shipyard Quincy, Massachusetts Vincennes New Orleans-class cruiser
22 May  Germany Howaldtswerke Kiel Ostmark Light seaplane tender For civilian use, later taken over by the military
3 June  United States Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Campbell Treasury-class cutter
3 June  United States Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Duane Treasury-class cutter
3 June  United States Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ingham Treasury-class cutter
3 June  United States Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Roger B. Taney Treasury-class cutter
13 June  Germany Blohm & Voss Hamburg Horst Wessel Gorch Fock-class school ship For Reichsmarine
17 June  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Lamson Mahan-class destroyer
7 July  United Kingdom Denny Dumbarton Havock H-class destroyer [4]
8 July  Germany Germaniawerft Kiel Bernd von Arnim Type 1934A-class destroyer [6]
16 July  Germany Deschimag Bremen Hermann Schoemann Type 1934A-class destroyer [6]
16 July  Germany Blohm & Voss Hamburg Pretoria Ocean liner For Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie
25 August  Norway Royal Norwegian Navy Yard Horten Æger Sleipner-class destroyer [9]
15 September  Germany Deschimag Bremen Bruno Heinemann Type 1934A-class destroyer [6]
24 September  Germany Blohm & Voss Hamburg Erich Steinbrinck Type 1934A-class destroyer [6]
3 October  Germany Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven Scharnhorst Scharnhorst-class battleship
3 October  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Enterprise Yorktown-class aircraft carrier
15 October  United Kingdom Cammell Laird Birkenhead Inglefield I-class destroyer Leader[4]
30 October  United Kingdom Hawthorn Leslie Tyneside Imogen I-class destroyer [4]
7 November  Netherlands Wilton-Fijenoord Schiedam Eulima Tanker For Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij 9,100 tons capacity[10]
12 November  United Kingdom Yarrow Glasgow Isis I-class destroyer [4]
17 November  United States Philadelphia Navy Yard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia Brooklyn-class cruiser
26 November  France At. & Ch. de Bretagne Nantes Volta Mogador-class destroyer [11]
26 November  United Kingdom John Brown & Company Clydebank Icarus I-class destroyer [4]
30 November  United Kingdom John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston, Southampton Kittiwake Kingfisher-class sloop [7]
30 November  United States New York Navy Yard Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn Brooklyn-class cruiser
3 December  United States Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company Newport News, Virginia Boise Brooklyn-class cruiser
8 December  Germany Deutsche Werke Kiel Gneisenau Scharnhorst-class battleship
11 December  United Kingdom Hawthorn Leslie Tyneside Imperial I-class destroyer [4]
12 December  France Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire Saint-Nazaire Strasbourg Dunkerque-class battleship
17 December  United Kingdom J. Samuel White Cowes Intrepid I-class destroyer
19 December  Sweden Lindholmens Varv Gothenburg Sama Cargo ship For Chr. Gundersen & Co.
Date uncertain  Netherlands Noord Nederland Scheepsmakkerij Groningen Dr Colijn Coaster For M Oosterhuis
Date uncertain  Germany Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Flensburg Heinrich Schmidt Cargo ship For Flensburger Schiffsparten-Vereinigung AG
Date uncertain  Germany Lübecker Flenderwerke AG Lübeck Nordcoke Cargo ship For F Krupp AG
Date uncertain  Germany Danziger Werft AG Danzig Poel Coastal tanker For Kriegsmarine
Date uncertain  Germany Seebeckwerft brementhaven Seydlitz Fishing trawler
Date uncertain  Germany Nordseewerke Emden Thalia Cargo ship For Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Neptun
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.

References
  1. "Launches and Trial Trips" (PDF). The Engineer. 17 January 1936. p. 86.
  2. "Een modern tankschip". Bataviaasch nieuwsblad. 30 January 1936.
  3. Friedman 2008, p. 332
  4. Friedman 2009, p. 315
  5. Whitley 2000, p. 249
  6. Whitley 2000, p. 59
  7. Friedman 2008, p. 339
  8. "Drie tewaterlatingen op één dag voor de Koninklijke Shell". Haagsche courant. 25 April 1936.
  9. Whitley 2000, p. 215
  10. "Motortankschip Eulima te water gelaten". Het Vaderland. 10 November 1936.
  11. Whitley 2000, p. 44
  • Friedman, Norman (2008). British Destroyers & Frigates: The Second World War and After. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-015-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Whitley, M. J. (2000). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Ship events in 1936
Ship launches: 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941
Ship commissionings: 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941
Ship decommissionings: 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941
Shipwrecks: 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941
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