List of ship launches in 1930

The list of ship launches in 1930 includes a chronological list of notable ships launched in 1930.

Country Builder Location Ship Class Notes
11 January  Sweden Öresundsvarvet Landskrona Belgia Passenger ship For F Sternhagen - "Gotha Line"
12 February  United Kingdom Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Co Ltd Wallsend Folkestone Hastings-class sloop For Royal Navy
14 March  United Kingdom Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd Wallsend Scarborough Hastings-class sloop For Royal Navy
18 March  United Kingdom John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston, Hampshire Acheron A-class destroyer For Royal Navy
19 March  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Aras Yacht
24 March  United Kingdom Devonport Dockyard Plymouth Fowey Shoreham-class sloop For Royal Navy
March  United States New York Shipbuilding Corporation New York Santa Clara Passenger ship For Grace Steamship Company
10 April  United States Mare Island Naval Shipyard Vallejo, California Chicago Northampton-class cruiser For United States Navy
10 April  United Kingdom Devonport Dockyard Plymouth Hastings Hastings-class sloop For Royal Navy
15 April  United Kingdom Lithgows Port Glasgow Atheltemplar Tanker For United Molasses Co Ltd
27 April  Italy Alberto da Giussano Condottieri-class cruiser For Regia Marina
27 April  Italy O.T.O. La Spezia Zara Zara-class cruiser For Regia Marina
12 May  Japan Yokosuka Navy Yard Yokosuka Takao Takao-class cruiser For Imperial Japanese Navy
12 May  Japan Maizuru Naval Arsenal Maizuru, Kyoto Yūgiri Fubuki-class destroyer For Imperial Japanese Navy
15 May  United States Newport News Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia Oriente Ocean liner For New York and Cuba Mail and Steamship Co
5 June  United Kingdom Furness Shipbuilding Haverton Hill-on-Tees Edenhurst cargo ship For Hartlepool Steamship Co
12 June  United Kingdom Harland and Wolff Belfast Foylebank cargo ship
16 June  Japan Yokosuka Navy Yard Yokosuka Atago Takao-class cruiser For Imperial Japanese Navy
2 July  Finland Sandvikens Shipyard Helsinki Saukko Submarine For Suomen Merivoimat
26 July  Germany Nobiskrug Rendsburg Wilfred Cargo schooner
30 July  United Kingdom Smiths Dock Co Ltd Middlesbrough Svana Trawler For Christian Salvesen & Co Ltd, Leith
6 August  United Kingdom Basilisk B-class destroyer For Royal Navy
23 August  Italy Alberico da Babriano Condottieri-class cruiser For Regia Marina
23 August  United Kingdom Cook, Welton & Gemmell Beverley Firefly Trawler For St Andrews Steam Fishing Co Ltd
1 September  United States Puget Sound Navy Yard Bremerton, Washington Louisville Northampton-class cruiser For United States Navy
9 October  France Arsenal de Brest Brest Dupleix Suffren-class cruiser For Marine Nationale
14 October  United Kingdom John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston, Hampshire Skeena River-class destroyer For Royal Canadian Navy
18 October  United States Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine Trudione Yacht
6 November  France Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire St Nazaire Georges Philippar Ocean liner For Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes
8 November  Japan Sasebo Naval Arsenal Sasebo, Nagasaki Oboro Fubuki-class destroyer For Imperial Japanese Navy
6 December  United Kingdom Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd Wallsend Bulldog B-class destroyer For Royal Navy
Date unknown  United States Mathis Yacht Building Company Camden, New Jersey Armina Yacht
Date unknown  United States Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp New York Elda Yacht
Date unknown  Germany Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft Kiel Etak Schooner
Date unknown  Italy Gorizia Zara-class cruiser For Regia Marina
Date unknown  United States Herreshoff Manufacturing Co Bristol, Rhode Island Katoura Yacht
Date unknown  United Kingdom Saunders-Roe Cowes Miss England II Racing monohull hydroplane For Kaye Don
Date unknown  Germany Howaldtswerke Kiel Neumark Cargo ship For Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt Actien Gesellschaft
 United Kingdom Cammel Laird Birkenhead Prince David ocean liner For Canadian National Railway
Date unknown  United States General Engineering and Dry Dock Sebago Banff-class sloop For United States Navy
Date unknown  United Kingdom William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd Sunderland, Co Durham Stakesby Cargo ship For Rowland & Marwood Steamship Co Ltd
Date unknown  Norway Oslo Suderøy V Whaler
Date unknown  United States Veedol II Tanker For Tidewater Oil Co
Date unknown  United States Al Larson Los Angeles Vindicator Purse seiner
Date unknown  United States Nunes Brothers Sausalito Zaca Yacht


See also

Ship events in 1930
Ship launches: 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
Ship commissionings: 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
Ship decommissionings: 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
Shipwrecks: 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935