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The list of ship launches in 1958 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 1958.

Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes
4 January United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Edson Forrest Sherman-class destroyer
1 February  West Germany Seeadler Seeadler-class fast attack craft
15 April United States Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Kittery, Maine Growler Grayback-class submarine
5 May United States Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company Seattle, Washington Turner Joy Forrest Sherman-class destroyer
23 May United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Morton Forrest Sherman-class destroyer
26 May United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Skipjack Skipjack-class submarine
30 May United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Somers Forrest Sherman-class destroyer
6 June United States New York Navy Yard Brooklyn, New York Independence Forrestal-class aircraft carrier
7 June United States Great Lakes Engineering Works River Rouge, Michigan Edmund Fitzgerald Great Lakes freighter
25 June United States Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard Sparrows Point, Maryland Nitro Nitro-class ammunition ship
18 July United States Bethlehem Steel Quincy, Massachusetts Farragut Farragut-class destroyer
19 July United States Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Kittery, Maine Barbel Barbel-class submarine
31 July  Japan Murasame Murasame-class destroyer
31 July  Japan Yudachi Murasame-class destroyer
13 August Flag of Denmark Denmark Frederikshavns Værft Frederikshavn Hans Hedtoft Ocean liner For Royal Greenland Trading Company
16 August United States Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Kittery, Maine Seadragon Skate-class submarine
19 August  United Kingdom Alexander Stephen and Sons Glasgow, Scotland Kirpan Blackwood-class frigate For Indian Navy
19 August United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Triton Unique nuclear-powered submarine
23 August  Germany Blohm + Voss Hamburg 'Gorch Fock Gorch-Fock-class Training ship For German Navy
14 September  Netherlands Rotterdam Drydock Company Rotterdam Rotterdam Ocean liner For Holland America Line
30 September  Australia Williamstown Naval Dockyard Williamstown, Victoria Yarra River-class destroyer escort
14 October  United Kingdom J. Samuel White Cowes, Isle of Wight Kuthar Blackwood-class frigate For Indian Navy
5 November United States Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard Sparrows Point, Maryland Pyro Nitro-class ammunition ship
22 November United States New York Shipbuilding Camden, New Jersey Bonefish Barbel-class submarine
30 November United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Dewey Farragut-class destroyer
6 December United States Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Bremerton, Washington Coontz Farragut-class destroyer
6 December United States Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Bremerton, Washington King Farragut-class destroyer
7 December  Italy Ansaldo Shipyards Genoa Leonardo da Vinci Ocean liner For Italian Line
11 December United States Fore River Shipyard Quincy, Massachusetts Luce Farragut-class destroyer
(unknown)  Italy Ansaldo Shipyards Italy Frederico C Ocean liner For Costa Line

See also[]

Ship events in 1958
Ship launches: 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
Ship commissionings: 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
Ship decommissionings: 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
Shipwrecks: 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
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