List of ship launches in 1979

The list of ship launches in 1979 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 1979.

Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes
20 January  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Deyo Spruance-class destroyer
27 January  United States National Steel & Shipbuilding San Diego, California Yellowstone Yellowstone-class destroyer tender
3 February  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Thorn Spruance-class destroyer
16 February  United Kingdom Brooke Marine Lowestoft, Suffolk Fremantle Fremantle-class patrol boat for Royal Australian Navy
10 March  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Ingersoll Spruance-class destroyer
20 March  Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel Pontos Type 209 submarine For Hellenic Navy
24 March  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Clark Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
25 March  Soviet Union Yantar Kaliningrad Zadornyy Project 1135 large anti-submarine ship
27 March  United States Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle, Washington Antrim Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
27 March  Japan Yūshio Yūshio-class submarine
31 March  West Germany Meyer Werft Papenburg Diana II Roll-on/roll-off passenger car ferry For Rederi AB Slite for Viking Line traffic
7 April  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Ohio Ohio-class submarine
21 April  SUN Zelenodolsk Shipyard Zelenodolsk Sokol Koni-class frigate For Soviet Navy
25 April  Denmark Frederikshavn Vaerft Frederikshavn Mercandian Carrier type FV 610 RoRo-ship For Merc-Scandia KS[1]
28 April  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Dallas Los Angeles-class submarine
28 April  United States Avondale Shipyard Avondale, Louisiana Cimarron Cimarron-class fleet replenishment oiler
1 May  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Fife Spruance-class destroyer
19 May  United States Todd Pacific Shipyards San Pedro, California Sides Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
16 June  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Fletcher Spruance-class destroyer
29 June  United Kingdom Vosper Thornycroft Southampton, England Southampton Type 42 destroyer
14 July  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Samuel Eliot Morison Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
28 July  United States National Steel & Shipbuilding San Diego, California Acadia Yellowstone-class destroyer tender
20 July  Turkey Marinewerft Gölcük Yıldıray Type 209 submarine For Turkish Naval Forces
11 August  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Kidd Kidd-class destroyer
11 August  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut La Jolla Los Angeles-class submarine
14 August  Finland Wärtsilä Turku Shipyard Turku Rosella Cruiseferry For SF Line for Viking Line traffic
18 August  Denmark Frederikshavn Vaerft Frederikshavn Mercandian Exporter II type FV 610 RoRo-ship For Per Henriksen[2]
24 August  United States Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle, Washington Fahrion Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
30 August  Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel Casma Type 209 submarine For Peruvian Navy
11 September  West Germany Meyer Werft Papenburg Viking Sally Roll-on/roll-off passenger car ferry Originally ordered by an unknown Norwegian company. Contract transferred to Rederi Ab Sally.
20 September  Japan Kurama Shirane-class destroyer
21 September  France Chantiers de l'Atlantique Saint-Nazaire, France Prairial Batillus-class supertanker
24 September  West Germany Bremer Vulkan Bremen-Vegesack New Zealand Caribbean container ship For Shipping Corporation of New Zealand Ltd.
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27 September  Germany Bremer Vulkan Bremen-Vegesack Bremen Bremen-class frigate For German Navy
5 October  United Kingdom Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Splendid Swiftsure-class submarine
20 October  United States Todd Pacific Shipyards San Pedro, California John A. Moore Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
27 October  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia San Francisco Los Angeles-class submarine
3 November  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Estocin Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
4 November  Japan Onomichi Zosen Onomichi Ever Light Ever Level-class container ship For Evergreen Marine[3]
10 November  Poland Stocznia Szczecinska im Adolfa Warskiego Warskiego Szczecin Georg Ots Dmitriy Shostakovich-class ferry For Black Sea Shipping Company[4]
1 December  United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Callaghan Kidd-class destroyer
8 December  United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Phoenix Los Angeles-class submarine
19 December  Germany Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel Antofagasta Type 209 submarine For Peruvian Navy
29 December  Poland Stocznia Szczecinska im Adolfa Warskiego Warskiego Szczecin Dmitriy Shostakovich Dmitriy Shostakovich-class ferry For Black Sea Shipping Company[5]
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

See also
Ship events in 1979
Ship launches: 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
Ship commissionings: 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
Ship decommissionings: 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
Shipwrecks: 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984

References
  1. "M/S MERCANDIAN CARRIER". Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  2. "M/S MERCANDIAN EXPORTER II". Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  3. Schiffsdaten im Miramar Ship Index (englisch, online nicht verfügbar) ID=7900819 at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
  4. "M/S GEORG OTS". Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  5. "M/S DMITRIY SHOSTAKOVICH". Retrieved 2016-10-16.
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