List of ship launches in 1977

The list of ship launches in 1977 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 1977.

Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes
1 January  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Stump Spruance-class destroyer
22 January  Italy Cant. Nav. "Luigi Orlando" Livorno Espresso Venezia Espresso Livorno-class ferry For Tirrenia di Navigazione[1]
29 January  Norway Trosvik Verksted A/S Brevik Jan Heweliusz ferry For Polskie Linie Oceaniczne[2]
3 February  United Kingdom Swan Hunter Wallsend-on-Tyne Kharg Ol-class tanker (1965) For Imperial Iranian Navy[3]
19 February  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Cincinnati Los Angeles-class submarine
15 March  Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel B.A.E. Huancavilca Type 209 submarine For Fuerza Naval del Ecuador
26 March  Netherlands Koninklijke Schelde Groep Flushing Callenburgh Kortenaer-class frigate
11 April  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Belleau Wood Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship
16 April  Netherlands Koninklijke Schelde Groep Flushing Van Kinsbergen Kortenaer-class frigate
3 May  United Kingdom Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Barrow-in-Furness Invincible Invincible-class aircraft carrier
4 May  United States Lockheed Shipbuilding Seattle, Washington Emory S. Land Emory S. Land-class submarine tender
5 May  United Kingdom Appledore Shipbuilders Appledore. Devon RMV Scillonian III Ferry for Isles of Scilly Steamship Company
5 May  France Chantiers de France Dunkerque S.A. Helderberg The Big Whites-type reefer For Deutsche West-Afrika-Linie[4]
18 May  United Kingdom Yarrow Shipbuilders Glasgow, Scotland Battleaxe Type 22 frigate
19 May  Japan Yaeshio Uzushio-class submarine
21 May  Japan Yūgumo Yamagumo-class destroyer
3 June  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Conolly Spruance-class destroyer
4 June  Soviet Union Werft 340 Selenodolsk Nerpa Koni-class frigate For Soviet Navy
18 June  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut New York City Los Angeles-class submarine
21 June  Denmark Aalborg Værft A/S Ålborg Dana Anglia Ferry For DFDS Seaways
30 June  United Kingdom Ailsa Shipbuilding Company Troon Saturn Ferry For Caledonian MacBrayne
23 July  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Moosbrugger Spruance-class destroyer
30 July  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Indianapolis Los Angeles-class submarine
12 August  Germany Rickmers Werft Bremerhaven Wuppertal For JA Reinecke & Co[5]
16 August  France Chantiers de l'Atlantique Saint-Nazaire, France Pierre Guillaumat Batillus-class supertanker
17 September  France DCNS Tonnant Redoutable-class submarine For French Navy
20 October  Germany Nobiskrug Rendsburg, Germany Uikku Product tanker
24 October  Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel TCG Batiray Type 209 submarine For Turkish Naval Forces
28 October  Finland Rauma Rauma-Reopla Oy Buraidah For Fanco N.V. Willemstad[6]
29 October  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Birmingham Los Angeles-class submarine
29 October  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi John Hancock Spruance-class destroyer
11 November  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Nicholson Spruance-class destroyer
16 December  Italy Cant. Nav. "Luigi Orlando" Livorno Espresso Ravenna Espresso Livorno-class ferry For Adriatica di Navigazione SpA[7]
Date uncertain  Netherlands Bijlsma Lemmer Scheepswerf Lemmer Carebeka IX Bulk carrier
Date uncertain  People's Republic of China Huludao Shipyard Huludao, Liaoning ChangZheng 2 Type 091 nuclear-powered attack submarine
Date uncertain  Netherlands Buijs Scheepsbouw Krimpen aan den IJssel Ilhéu da Mina Dredger and freighter Currently operated by Açores Madeira
Date uncertain  Germany Rickmers Rederei Bremerhaven, Germany Mashala Ferry For Mashala Shipping Co.
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.

See also
Ship events in 1977
Ship launches: 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982
Ship commissionings: 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982
Ship decommissionings: 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982
Shipwrecks: 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982

References
  1. "M/S Espresso Venezia". Retrieved 2017-10-07.
  2. "M/S Jan Heweliusz". Retrieved 2017-04-02.
  3. Silverstone, Paul H. (1977), "Naval Intelligence", Warship International, International Naval Research Organization, 14 (3): 197, JSTOR 44888102
  4. IMO 7423029
  5. "M/S Wupperlat". Retrieved 2016-08-03.
  6. "M/S Buraidah". Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  7. "M/S Espresso Ravenna". Retrieved 2017-10-07.
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