The list of ship launches in 1936 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1936. Date Ship Class Builder Location Country Notes 9 January TankerWilton-FijenoordSchiedamFor Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij 9,100 tons capacity 9 January Passenger steamerHarland and WolffBelfastFor Indian Co-operative Navigation and Trading Company Ltd. 9 January Tanker Harland & Wolff Belfast For Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. 11 January Refrigerated cargo ship Harland & Wolff Belfast For Blue Star Line. 22 January Cargo ship Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Newcastle upon Tyne For Wallsend Shipping Co Ltd. 22 JanuaryDevonport DockyardPlymouth 24 JanuaryScotts Shipbuilding & Engineering CompanyGreenock, Scotland 25 January Dunnottar Castle Passenger ship Harland and Wolff Belfast For Union-Castle Line January CNCS Narval Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For CN San Cristobal SA. 20 February Tanker Harland & Wolff Belfast For Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. 21 FebruaryUraga Dock CompanyUragaFor Imperial Japanese Navy. 25 FebruarySwan HunterWallsend 10 March Vickers Armstrong Walker, Newcastle-on-Tyne 10 March Vickers Armstrong Walker, Newcastle-on-Tyne 10 March Ferry Harland & Wolff Belfast For Burns & Laird Line. 11 March Ferry Harland & Wolff Belfast For Burns & Laird Line. 23 MarchScottsGreenock24 MarchKarlskrona dockyardKarlskrona24 MarchPaul JacobiDeschimagBremen24 March Grimsby-class sloopDevonport DockyardPlymouth 26 March Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine 26 March Passenger ship Harland & Wolff Belfast For Union-Castle Line. 26 March Alexander Stephen and SonsLinthouse, Glasgow 27 MarchWolfgang ZenkerGermaniawerftKiel 28 March Grimsby-class sloop Cockatoo Island DockyardSydney 4 April Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia 7 AprilCammell LairdBirkenhead8 April Swan HunterWallsend22 AprilTheodor RiedelDeschimagBremen 24 April Tanker Nederlandse Scheepsbouw Maatschappij. Amsterdam For N.V. Petroleum Maatschappij La Corona. 25 April TankerWilton-FijenoordSchiedamFor Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij 9,100 tons capacity 5 May Cargo ship Harland & Wolff Belfast For Huddart Parker. 5 MayDennyDumbarton 5 May Alexander Stephen and SonsLinthouse, Glasgow 7 May Royal Norwegian Navy Yard Horten 13 May Tug Harland & Wolff Belfast For McKie & Baxter Ltd. 14 MayHans LodyGermaniawerftKiel 21 May Fore River Shipyard Quincy, Massachusetts 22 May Light seaplane tender Howaldtswerke Kiel For civilian use, later taken over by the military 27 May Trawler Harland & Wolff Belfast For Lancashire Sea Fisheries. 3 June Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 3 June Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 3 June Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 3 June Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 13 June Blohm & Voss Hamburg For Reichsmarine 17 June Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine 21 JuneSasebo Naval ArsenalSaseboFor Imperial Japanese Navy. 27 June Fishing trawler Schulte & Bruns Emden For Dollart Heringfischerei AG. 29 June Cargo ship Deutsche Werft Hamburg For Oldenburg Portugiesische Dampschiffs Rhederei. June Iroquois Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For Gulf Oil Corp. June Onondaga Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For Gulf Oil Corp. 7 JulyDennyDumbarton 8 July Bernd von ArnimGermaniawerftKiel 14 July Ferry Harland & Wolff Belfast For Bombay Steam Navigation Co. 16 July Hermann SchoemannDeschimagBremen 16 July Ocean liner Blohm & Voss Hamburg For Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie 21 July Livestock carrier Harland & Wolff Belfast For Burns & Laird Line. 6 August Livestock carrier Harland & Wolff Belfast For Burns & Laird Line. 22 August Fishing vessel Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Unterweser AG Wesermünde For F. Busse 25 August Ferry Harland & Wolff Belfast For Belfast Harbour Commissioners. 25 August Royal Norwegian Navy Yard Horten 3 September Livestock carrier Harland & Wolff Belfast For Burns & Laird Line. 15 September Bruno HeinemannDeschimagBremen 16 September Tanker Harland & Wolff Govan For British Tanker Company. 17 September Cargo ship Harland & Wolff Belfast For Union-Castle Line. 24 September Erich SteinbrinckBlohm & Voss Hamburg September CNSC 262 Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For CN San Cristobal SA. September CNSC 263 Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For CN San Cristobal SA. September CNSC 264 Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For CN San Cristobal SA. September CNSC 265 Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For CN San Cristobal SA. September CNSC 266 Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For CN San Cristobal SA. September CNSC 267 Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For CN San Cristobal SA. 3 October Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven 3 October Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia 6 October Collier Harland & Wolff Belfast For John Kelly Ltd.15 October Cammell LairdBirkenhead30 OctoberHawthorn LeslieTyneside 1 NovemberFujinagata ShipyardOsakaFor Imperial Japanese Navy. 3 November Tanker Harland & Wolff Govan For British Tanker Company. 7 November TankerWilton-FijenoordSchiedamFor Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij 9,100 tons capacity12 NovemberYarrowGlasgow 17 November Cargo ship Harland & Wolff Belfast For Bank Line. 17 November Philadelphia Navy Yard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 23 November Fishing trawler Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Wesermünde For Grundmann & Gröschel26 NovemberAt. & Ch. de BretagneNantesFor French Navy.26 NovemberJohn Brown & Company Clydebank 27 NovemberMaizuru Naval ArsenalMaizuruFor Imperial Japanese Navy. 30 NovemberJohn I. Thornycroft & CompanyWoolston, Southampton 30 November New York Navy Yard Brooklyn, New York 2 December Coaster Harland & Wolff Belfast For William Robertson Ltd. 3 December Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company Newport News, Virginia 8 December Deutsche Werke Kiel 11 DecemberHawthorn LeslieTyneside 12 December Ateliers et Chantiers de la LoireSaint-Nazaire 17 DecemberJ. Samuel WhiteCowes 19 December Cargo ship Lindholmens Varv Gothenburg For Chr. Gundersen & Co. 29 December Tanker Harland & Wolff Belfast For Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Date unknown A.G.T. No. 28 Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For A. G. Thomas. Date unknown A.G.T. No. 30 Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For A. G. Thomas. Date unknown Towboat Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For United States Army Corps of Engineers. December CNSC Ballena Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For CN San Cristobal SA. December CNSC Bonito Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For CN San Cristobal SA. Date unknown CNSC 260 Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For CN San Cristobal SA. Date unknown CNSC 261 Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For CN San Cristobal SA. Date unknown Coaster Noord Nederland Scheepsmakkerij Groningen For M Oosterhuis Date unknown Cargo ship Lübecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft Lübeck For Knohr & Burchard. Date unknown Cargo ship Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Flensburg For Flensburger Schiffsparten-Vereinigung AG Date unknown Hempstead No. 2 Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For Warrior Mobile Gulf Towing. Date unknown Icemaid type collier S. P. Austin & Sons Ltd. Sunderland For the Gas, Light & Coke Co. Ltd. Date unknown Tanker Lübecker Flenderwerke AG. Lübeck For C. Anderson. Date unknown Cargo ship Lübecker Flenderwerke AG Lübeck For F Krupp AG Date unknown tanker F. Schichau. Danzig Danzig For Deutsche-Amerikanische Petroleum. Date unknown Poel Coastal tanker Danziger Werft AG Danzig Danzig For Kriegsmarine. Date unknown Seydlitz Fishing trawler Seebeckwerft Bremerhaven For F. A. Pust Hochseefischerei AG Date unknown Shepco 10 Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For Shell Producers Co. Date unknown Skylark 10 Motor vessel J. Bolson & Son Ltd. Poole For J. Bolson & Son Ltd. Date unknown Whaler Smith's Dock Co. Ltd. Middlesbrough For Southern Whaling & Sealing Co. Ltd. Date unknown Cargo ship Nordseewerke Emden For Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Neptun Date unknown Titlark Motor vessel J. Bolson & Son Ltd. Poole For J. Bolson & Son Ltd. Date unknown Titlark I Motor vessel J. Bolson & Son Ltd. Poole For J. Bolson & Son Ltd. Date unknown No. 54 Barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For United States Army Corps of Engineers. Date unknown No. 97 Tank barge Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For Q. D. Ainsley. Date unknown 3 unnamed vessels Barges Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company Mobile, Alabama For private owners.
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