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The list of ship launches in 1959 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 1959.

Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes
9 January United States Mare Island Naval Shipyard Vallejo, California Halibut Unique nuclear-powered submarine
31 January  Australia Cockatoo Island Dockyard Sydney, New South Wales Parramatta River-class destroyer escort
11 February  Germany Burmester shipyard Bremen-Burg Cuxhaven Lindau-class minesweeper For German Navy
17 February United States Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard Sparrows Point, Maryland Haleakala Nitro-class ammunition ship
9 March  United Kingdom Yarrow Shipbuilders Glasgow, Scotland Ashanti Tribal-class frigate
19 March  Sweden Oskarshamns varv Oskarshamn Bore Ferry For Steamship Company Bore
21 March  West Germany Emden Köln-class (Type 140) frigate
6 April  United Kingdom Fairfield Shipbuilding Glasgow, Scotland Lincoln Salisbury-class frigate
22 April United States Defoe Shipbuilding Company Bay City, Michigan Henry B. Wilson Charles F. Adams-class destroyer
23 April United States Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle, Washington Towers Charles F. Adams-class destroyer
16 May United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Blueback Barbel-class submarine
23 May United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Preble Farragut-class destroyer
25 May  Japan Oyashio Oyashio-class submarine
9 June United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut George Washington George Washington-class submarine
18 June  Japan Harusame Murasame-class destroyer
23 June  United Kingdom Hawthorn Leslie Hebburn Royston Grange Refrigerated cargo liner For Houlder Line
23 June  United Kingdom Cammell Laird Birkenhead Windsor Castle Ocean liner For Union-Castle Line
24 June  Japan Teruzuki Akizuki-class destroyer
26 June  Japan Akizuki Akizuki-class destroyer
9 July United States Fore River Shipyard Quincy, Massachusetts Macdonough Farragut-class destroyer
14 July United States Fore River Shipyard Quincy, Massachusetts Long Beach Long Beach-class cruiser
21 July United States New York Shipbuilding Camden, New Jersey Savannah Nuclear-powered cargo ship For United States Maritime Administration
28 July United States Defoe Shipbuilding Company Bay City, Michigan Lynde McCormick Charles F. Adams-class destroyer
8 August  Japan Takanami Ayanami-class destroyer
15 August  West Germany Augsburg Köln-class (Type 140) frigate
17 August United States Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi Parsons Forrest Sherman-class destroyer
19 August  New Zealand J. Samuel White & Co. Cowes, Isle of Wight Taranaki Modified Rothesay-class frigate
8 September United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Charles F. Adams Charles F. Adams-class destroyer
22 September United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Patrick Henry George Washington-class submarine
3 October United States Mare Island Naval Shipyard Vallejo, California Theodore Roosevelt George Washington-class submarine
7 October United States San Francisco Naval Shipyard San Francisco, California Mahan Farragut-class destroyer
24 October  West Germany Karlsruhe Köln-class (Type 140) frigate
24 October  Sweden Kockums Malmö Esso Brussels Tanker For Esso Marine (Belgium) SA
3 November  United Kingdom Vickers-Armstrong Barrow-in-Furness Oriana Ocean liner For Orient Line
18 December United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Robert E. Lee George Washington-class submarine
29 December United States Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut Scorpion Skipjack-class submarine

See also[]

Ship events in 1959
Ship launches: 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964
Ship commissionings: 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964
Ship decommissionings: 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964
Shipwrecks: 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964
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