The list of ship launches in 1979 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 1979. __NOTOC__ Date Ship Class / type Builder Location Country Notes 20 January Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi 27 January Tanker Harland & Wolff Belfast For Furness Withy. 27 January National Steel & Shipbuilding San Diego, California 3 February Container ship Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd. Appledore For Container Rentals Ltd. 3 February Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi 9 February Brooke Marine Ltd. Lowestoft For HM Coastguard. 15 February Brooke Marine Lowestoft, Suffolk For Royal Australian Navy. 10 March Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi 20 March Pontos Type 209 submarine Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel For Greek Navy. 24 March Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine 25 March Project 1135 large anti-submarine ship Yantar Kaliningrad 27 March Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle, Washington 27 March 31 March Roll-on/roll-off passenger car ferry Meyer Werft Papenburg For Rederi AB Slite for Viking Line traffic 7 April Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut 21 April Sokol Koni-class frigate Zelenodolsk Shipyard Zelenodolsk For Soviet Navy. 25 April Mercandian Carrier type FV 610 RoRo-ship Frederikshavn Vaerft Frederikshavn For Merc-Scandia KS 28 April Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut 28 April Avondale Shipyard Avondale, Louisiana 1 May Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi 9 May Container ship Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd. Appledore For Container Rentals Ltd. 19 May Todd Pacific Shipyards San Pedro, California 24 May Ferry Harland & Wolff Belfast For Sealink. 7 June Tug Arklow Engineering Co Ltd. Wexford For Cork Harbour Commissioners. 16 June Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi 29 June Type 42 destroyer Vosper Thornycroft Southampton, England 14 July Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine 28 July National Steel & Shipbuilding San Diego, California 20 July Type 209 submarine Marinewerft Gölcük For Turkish Navy 27 July Revenue cutter Brooke Marine Ltd. Lowestoft For HM Customs and Excise. 11 August Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi 11 August Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut 14 August Cruiseferry Wärtsilä Turku Shipyard Turku For SF Line for Viking Line traffic 18 August Mercandian Exporter II type FV 610 RoRo-ship Frederikshavn Vaerft Frederikshavn For Per Henriksen. 24 August Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle, Washington 30 August Casma Type 209 submarine Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel For Peruvian Navy 7 September Bulk carrier Harland & Wolff Belfast For British Steel Corporation. 10 September Offshore supply vessel Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd. Appledore For Ratchden Ltd. 11 September Roll-on/roll-off passenger car ferry Meyer Werft Papenburg Originally ordered by an unknown Norwegian company. Contract transferred to Rederi Ab Sally. 20 September 21 September Prairial Chantiers de l'Atlantique Saint-Nazaire, France 24 September New Zealand Caribbean container ship Bremer Vulkan Bremen-Vegesack For Shipping Corporation of New Zealand Ltd. 27 September Bremen Bremen-class frigate Bremer Vulkan Bremen-Vegesack For German Navy 5 October Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering 20 October Todd Pacific Shipyards San Pedro, California 27 October Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia 3 November Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine 4 November Ever Light Ever Level-class container ship Onomichi Zosen Onomichi For Evergreen Marine 10 November Georg Ots Dmitriy Shostakovich-class ferry Stocznia Szczecinska im Adolfa Warskiego Warskiego Szczecin For Black Sea Shipping Company 15 November Coaster Bideford Shipyard (1973) Ltd Bideford For Cornish Shipping Ltd. 1 December Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi 5 December St Anselm Ferry Harland & Wolff Belfast For Sealink. 8 December Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut 19 December Antofagasta Type 209 submarine Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Kiel For Peruvian Navy 29 December Dmitriy Shostakovich Dmitriy Shostakovich-class ferry Stocznia Szczecinska im Adolfa Warskiego Warskiego Szczecin For Black Sea Shipping Company Unknown date Lady Sarah Fishing vessel David Abels Boatbuilders Ltd. Bristol For private owner.
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