This is a list of ships built by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland.

Ships

Launched Ship's name
at launch 		Tonnage
(GRT) 		Yard number Notes
1845 PS Loch Lomond 106 1 Built for the Dumbarton Steamboat Co. Moved to Liverpool in 1852.
1845 PS Rob Roy 30 2 Built for the Dumbarton Steamboat Co. Operated on Loch Katrine. Scuttled in 1859.
1845 SS Waterwitch 275 3 Built for the Taylor and Scott of Dublin. Sank on 2 November 1861 in a storm just after leaving the River Clyde.[1]
1846 PS Premier 127 6 Built for the Dumbarton Steamboat Co. Moved to Weymouth in 1852. Cosens & Co Ltd pleasure steamer for several decades. Scrapped 1938.
1846 SS Erin's Queen 273 7 Collided with the Steamer Sabrina in the Bristol Channel on 6 January 1855.[2] Written off.
1847 SS Northman 182 9 Built for the Orkney Steam Navigation Company. Sank in 1859
1847 SS Marchioness of Bredalbane 135 11 Sold via P&O to the Pasha of Egypt Muhammad Ali.[3]
1847 SS Lochfine 83 12 Built for the Glasgow & Lochfyne Steam Packet Company. Broken up in 1896
1847 SS Dumbarton Youth 238 15
1848 SS Ayrshire Lass 94 23 Built for the Girvan Steam Packet Company
1849 SS Chevy Chase 370 24
1849 SS Victory 500 Built for the North-West Steam Packet Company.[4]
1849 Miner 32 27 Sailing vessel
1849 SS British Queen 772 28 Built for Brownlow, Pearson & Company of Hull[5]
1853 William Denny 596[6] First steamship to link Auckland and Sydney.[7] Aground near Murimotu Island in 1857[8] and abandoned in 1858.[9]
1858 SS Nova Scotian 68 Built for the Allan Line. Served for 34 years. Scrapped 1893.[10]
1862 SS City of Cork 1,547 86 Built for the Inman Line.[11]
1869 Cutty Sark
Completed by Denny's after the liquidation of her contracted builders, Scott & Linton. Preserved in a dry dock at Greenwich, London
1870 SS Parthia 3,167 148
Built for Cunard Line. Served for 86 years; scrapped 1956.[12]
1882 SS Cheribon 3,075 261
Built for the Compagnie Nationale de Navigation as a passenger ship, especially for immigrants to the USA. Converted into a troop ship for French soldiers in the Sino-French War. Wrecked off Panama in 1902.[13]
1884 Lucinda 301 282 Government yacht, ordered by the Queensland Government by letter dated 30 January 1883, delivered 20 December 1884. Connected to the drafting of the Australian Constitution.
1889 SS Aramac 2,114 415
Built for the Australian United Steam Navigation Company
1889 SS Arawatta 2,114 416
Built for the Australian United Steam Navigation Company
1893 SS Coya 546 463 Veteran steamship on Lake Titicaca, Peru, now a floating restaurant
1895 SS Vladimir 5,331 507 Built for Russian Volunteer Fleet Association, Odessa. Purchased in 1915 by the Imperial Russian Navy.
1899 SS Sir Walter Scott 115 623
Veteran steamship still on Loch Katrine, Scotland
1901 TS King Edward 562 651
Excursion steamer, the first commercial vessel to be driven by steam turbines
1902 TS Queen Alexandra 665 670 Destroyed by fire 1911; sold to Canada
1903 TSS Kanowna 6,953 671
Australian United Steam Navigation Company passenger liner requisitioned as a troop ship and then a hospital ship. Foundered 1929.
1903 SS Kyarra 6,953 672
Australian United Steam Navigation Company passenger liner requisitioned as a hospital ship. Sunk by torpedo 1918
1905 TSS Arahura 1607 755
Passenger and cargo ship (also schooner rigged) built for the Union Steam Ship Company and operated in New Zealand coastal waters until May 1949. Hulk sunk as a target in 1952.
1905 SS Maheno 5282 746 Passenger ship owned by Union Company of New Zealand. Washed ashore on Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia while under tow to be scrapped in July 1935.
1906 TSS Duchess of Argyll 583 770 3 direct drive steam turbines, 21.6 knots

LMS/CSP Passenger Vessel for the Ardrossan - Arran service; later on the Stranraer - Larne service; Scrapped 1970

1907 TSS Victoria 1689 789
2 direct drive steam turbines, 21.75 knots

SE&CR Cross-channel ferry; later Isle of Man Steam Packet Co; Scrapped 1957

1908 SS Otaki 7,420 835 New Zealand Shipping Company refrigerated cargo liner; sunk 1917
1909 SS Ruahine 10,870 880 New Zealand Shipping Company liner; later Italian-flagged; scrapped 1957
1910 SS Rotorua 11,130 915 New Zealand Shipping Company liner; sunk 1917
1910 HMAS Yarra 700 Commonwealth Naval Forces Destroyer; struck 1928
1912 SS Indarra 9,735 966
Australian United Steam Navigation Company passenger liner, in 1920 Lloyd Royal Belge Pays de Waes and from 1923 Osaka Shosen KK Horai Maru. Japanese troopship in World War 2, sunk 1942.
1912 SS Infanta Isabel de Borbon 10,348 969
Compañía Transatlántica Española passenger liner, renamed Uruguay in 1931, prison ship from 1934. Sunk by a Nationalist air raid on Barcelona in 1939. Raised and scrapped.
1912 TS Queen Alexandra 785/827 970 1935 renamed Saint Columba and took over Glasgow to Ardrishaig until scrapped in 1958.
1912 TSS Brighton Newhaven to Dieppe ferry.
1913 TSS Paris Newhaven to Dieppe ferry. Sister ship to TSS Brighton. First ship to be fitted with the Michell Tilting Pad Thrust Bearing.
1924 SS Sagaing 1167 Built for P Henderson & Company's Shaw, Savill & Albion Line as a passenger and cargo ship. Severely damaged by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Easter Sunday Raid on Trincomalee Harbour in 1942. Hulk sunk in 1943.
1925 Delta King 1168
Stern Wheel Paddle Steamer
1925 Delta Queen 1169
Stern Wheel Paddle Steamer
1925 TSS Glen Sannox 690 1170 3 shaft, single reduction Parsons geared turbines, triple screws, 21.5 knots

LMS/CSP Passenger Vessel for the Ardrossan-Arran service; Scrapped 1954

1926 TS King George V 985 1182
Pioneering turbine steamer built for Turbine Steamers Ltd.
1930 TS Duchess of Montrose 806 1245
Turbine steamer built for CSP, operated until 1964. The first single-class Clyde vessel.
1931 MV Lochfyne 656 1256 David MacBrayne passenger vessel. First British-built diesel-electric passenger ship. Re-engined 1953 with British Polar diesels. Withdrawn from service 1969. Scrapped after attempted restaurant conversion in 1974.
1933 TS Queen Mary 871 1262
Turbine steamer built for Williamson-Buchanan, operated until 1977. The largest (though not the longest) excursion turbine on the River Clyde. Converted into a floating pub in 1987 and moored in London. Returned to the Clyde in 2016 and now being restored.
1934 PS Caledonia 623 1266
CSP Paddle Steamer. Latterly, a floating pub in London until destroyed by fire in 1980.
1935 SS Anselm 5,954 1276
Booth Steamship Co cargo and passenger liner. Converted into troop ship 1940; sunk by torpedo 1941
1936 MV Lochnevis 573 1273 David MacBrayne (1928) Ltd diesel-electric passenger vessel; Scrapped 1974
1936 MV Countess of Breadalbane 106 1294 CSP for Loch Awe service, later Clyde, then Loch Lomond; Scrapped 1999
1937 PS Ryde 1306
Paddle steamer built for the Southern Railway. Ryde was the last coal-fired sea-going paddle steamer in the world when taken out of service in 1969.
1938 MV Lymington 403 1322
Isle of Wight ferry which became MV Sound of Sanda for Western Ferries
1938 MV The Second Snark 50 1327
Former Denny-owned tug / tender on the River Clyde
1939 SS Royal Daffodil 2,061 1330 Thames Estuary / Continent day excursion for Steam Navigation Company Ltd, London; Scrapped Feb 1967
1939 MV Lochiel 603 1341 David MacBrayne Mailboat on Islay, Port Askaig and other routes; Scrapped Dec 1995
1947 MV Princess Victoria 2,694 1399 LMS ferry based in Stranraer; Sank Jan 1953
1947 MV Loch Seaforth 1,090 1404
David MacBrayne mailboat Mallaig - Kyle of Lochalsh - Stornoway; Scrapped June 1973
1948 MV Southsea 986 1411 Portsmouth – Ryde ferry for British Transport Commission. In service until 1986, then in reserve until 1997. Latterly owned in part by the Southsea Preservation Society in association with the Avon River Historic Vessel & Navigation Trust in 2002. Scrapped in 2005 in Denmark.
1948 MV Royal Sovereign 1,851 1413 General Steam Navigation Company. Originally summer excursions from Thames to Continent; 1967 Townsend Car Ferries Ltd
1948 PS Teal 460 1418 River passenger & cargo Paddle Steamer built for India General Navigation & Railway Company
1948 PS Tern 460 1419 River passenger & cargo Paddle Steamer built for India General Navigation & Railway Company
1951 MV Tofua 5,299 1447
Union Steam Ship Company ferry.
1950 MV Royal Iris 1448
Former Mersey ferry, now berthed at Woolwich, London
1951 MV Portree 53 1458 CSP Passenger Car Ferry
1951 MV Lochalsh 24 1459 CSP Passenger Car Ferry for Lochalsh-Kyleakin ferry
1953 MV Fenerbahçe 994 1456 Former Passenger Ferry, now a museum ship in Istanbul, Turkey
1953 MV Arran 568 1470 CSP Passenger Car Ferry
1953 MV Broadford 1483 CSP Passenger Car Ferry built for British Railways Board
1957 MV Bardic 2,550 Built for the Atlantic Steam Navigation Co Ltd made her maiden voyage on 2 September 1957 on the Preston to Larne route.
1957 MV Ionic 2,557 Built for the Atlantic Steam Navigation Co Ltd made her maiden voyage on 10 October 1958 on the Preston to Larne route.
1957 HMS Jaguar 2,560 1476
Leopard class frigate. Last frigate built by Dennys. Now BNS Ali Haider in Bangladesh Navy
1961 TSS Caledonian Princess 3,630 1501
Irish Sea/English Channel car ferry; later Tuxedo Princess nightclub on the Tyne.
1961 GMV Aramoana 4,160 1502 Final ship completed by the yard. The first Interislander road/rail ferry used between Picton and Wellington by New Zealand Government Railways. Scrapped 1994.
Denny D2 Hoverbus
1964 MV Melbrook 1504 Cargo ship; completed by Alexander Stephen at Linthouse (yard number 685) after Denny's closure[14]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Loss of another Steamer". British Standard. England. 15 November 1861. Retrieved 26 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ^ "Collision of two steamers in the Bristol Channel". Morning Advertiser. England. 8 January 1855. Retrieved 25 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "Portugal - Southampton, Friday Night". Glasgow Courier. England. 30 November 1847. Retrieved 26 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ "Launch of the Steamer Victory". Derry Journal. Ireland. 23 May 1849. Retrieved 26 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ "The British Queen Steam Ship". Hull Packet. England. 3 August 1849. Retrieved 26 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "William Denny". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Steam Communication Accomplished". New Zealander. 29 July 1854. Retrieved 12 September 2020 – via Papers Past.
  8. ^ "Later intelligence respecting the William Denny". Daily Southern Cross. 17 March 1857. Retrieved 12 September 2020 – via Papers Past.
  9. ^ "The William Denny". Daily Southern Cross. 22 June 1858. Retrieved 12 September 2020 – via Papers Past.
  10. ^ "Nova Scotian". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  11. ^ "S/S City of Cork". Scottish Built Ships. Norway Heritage. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  12. ^ "Parthia". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  13. ^ "Chilian Steamer Wrecked". New-York Tribune. New York City. 2 May 1902. p. 1. Retrieved 13 August 2015 – via Library of Congress.
  14. ^ "Melbrook". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 17 April 2011.

See also

Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_built_by_William_Denny_and_Brothers
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