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

Ships

This is a partial list of ships built by William Denny and Brothers.

Launched Ship's name
at launch 		Tonnage
(GRT) 		Notes
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 (1870)
Yard number 148. Built for the Cunard Line. Served for 86 years; scrapped 1956.[1]
1882 SS Cheribon 3,075
Yard number 261. Built for the Compagnie Nationale de Navigation as a passenger ship, especially for immigrants to the United States. Was converted into a troop transporter for French soldiers during the Sino-French War. Length: 341.2 feet. Breadth: 40.3 feet. Propulsion: Single Steam Screw Engine, 11 Knots. Wrecked off of Remedios Point, Panama on April 11, 1902.[2]
1889 SS Aramac 2,114
Yard number 415. Built for the Australian United Steam Navigation Company
1889 SS Arawatta 2,114
Yard number 416. Built for the Australian United Steam Navigation Company
1893 SS Coya 546 Yard number 463. Veteran steamship on Lake Titicaca, Peru, now a floating restaurant
1895 SS Vladimir 5,331 Yard number 507. Built for Russian Volunteer Fleet Association, Odessa. Purchased in 1915 by the Imperial Russian Navy.
1899 SS Sir Walter Scott 115
Yard Number 623. Veteran steamship still on Loch Katrine, Scotland
1901 TS King Edward 562
Yard Number 651. Excursion steamer, the first commercial vessel to be driven by steam turbines
1902 TS Queen Alexandra (1902) 665 Yard Number 670. Destroyed by fire 1911; sold to Canada
1903 TSS Kanowna 6,953
Yard Number 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
Yard number 672. Australian United Steam Navigation Company passenger liner requisitioned as a hospital ship. Sunk by torpedo 1918
1905 TSS Arahura 1607
Yard Number 755. Passenger/cargo ship (also schooner rigged) built for the Union Steam Ship Company and operated in New Zealand coastal waters until May 1949. Hulk sunk in the Cook Strait as a target in Operation "Scuttle Two" in January 1952.
1906 TSS Duchess of Argyll 583 Yard Number 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
Yard Number 789. 2 direct drive steam turbines, 21.75 knots

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

1912 TSS Indarra 9,735
Yard number 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 TS Queen Alexandra 785/827 Yard Number 970. 1935 renamed Saint Columba and took over Glasgow to Ardrishaig until scrapped in 1958.
1925 Delta King
Yard Number 1168. Stern Wheel Paddle Steamer
1925 Delta Queen
Yard Number 1169. Stern Wheel Paddle Steamer
1925 TSS Glen Sannox 690 Yard Number 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
Yard number 1182. Pioneering turbine steamer built for Turbine Steamers Ltd.
1930 TS Duchess of Montrose 806
Yard number 1245 Turbine steamer built for CSP, operated until 1964. The first single-class Clyde vessel.
1931 MV Lochfyne 656 Yard Number 1256. David MacBrayne Passenger Vessel. First British diesel electric passenger ship, and first diesel electric ship from Denny. Re-engined 1953 with British Polar diesels. Made last ever run of MacBrayne Royal Route 30 Sept 1969. Scrapped after attempted restaurant conversion, Dalmuir Apr 1974.
1933 TS Queen Mary 871
Yard Number 1262. Turbine steamer built for Williamson-Buchanan, operated until 1977. The largest (though not the longest) excursion turbine on the River Clyde. Subsequently, a floating restaurant, previously in London
1934 PS Caledonia 623
Yard Number 1266. CSP Paddle Steamer. Latterly, a floating pub in London until destroyed by fire in 1980.
1935 SS Anselm 5,954
Yard Number 1276. Booth Steamship Co cargo and passenger liner. Converted into troop ship 1940; sunk by torpedo 1941
1936 MV Lochnevis 573 Yard Number 1273. David MacBrayne (1928) Ltd diesel-electric passenger vessel; Scrapped 1974
1936 MV Countess of Breadalbane 106 Yard Number 1294. CSP for Loch Awe service, later Clyde, then Loch Lomond; Scrapped 1999
1937 PS Ryde
Yard Number 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 Yard Number 1322. Isle of Wight ferry which as MV Sound of Sanda became a Clyde ferry in 1974
1938 MV The Second Snark 50
Yard Number 1327 Former Denny-owned tug / tender on the River Clyde
1939 SS Royal Daffodil 2,061 Yard Number 1330. Thames Estuary / Continent day excursion for Steam Navigation Company Ltd, London; Scrapped Feb 1967
1939 MV Lochiel 603 Yard Number 1341. David MacBrayne Mailboat on Islay, Port Askaig and other routes; Scrapped Dec 1995
1947 MV Princess Victoria 2,694
File:MV princess victoria.ferry.jpg
Yard Number 1399. LMS ferry based in Stranraer; Sank Jan 1953
1947 MV Loch Seaforth 1,090
Yard Number 1404. David MacBrayne mailboat Mallaig - Kyle of Lochalsh - Stornoway; Scrapped June 1973
1948 MV Southsea 986 Yard Number 1411. Portsmouth/Ryde IoW ferry for British Transport Commission. In regular service until 1986, then in reserve until 1997. Sold in that year to Brasspatch plc, Lymington. Then in 1998 ownership passed to Mastercox Ltd, subsequently Southsea Shipping, Property & Aviation Ltd. Thereafter to Surrinder Gill. Latterly owned in part by the Southsea Preservation Society in association with the Avon River Historic Vessel & Navigation Trust in 2002. Scrapped in 2005 by Smedegaarden, Esbjerg, Denmark.
1948 MV Royal Sovereign 1,851 Yard Number 1413. General Steam Navigation Company. Originally summer excursions from Thames to Continent; 1967 Townsend Car Ferries Ltd
1948 PS Teal 460 Yard Number 1418. River passenger & cargo Paddle Steamer built for India General Navigation & Railway Company
1948 PS Tern 460 Yard Number 1419. River passenger & cargo Paddle Steamer built for India General Navigation & Railway Company
December 1950 MV Royal Iris
Yard Number 1448. Former Mersey ferry, now berthed at Woolwich, London
1951 MV Portree 53 Yard Number 1458. CSP Passenger Car Ferry
1951 MV Lochalsh 24 Yard Number 1459. CSP Passenger Car Ferry for Lochalsh-Kyleakin ferry
1953 MV Arran 568 Yard Number 1470. CSP Passenger Car Ferry
1953 MV Broadford Yard Number 1483. CSP Passenger Car Ferry built for British Railways Board
1957 HMS Jaguar
Yard Number 1476. Leopard class frigate. Last frigate built by Dennys. Now BNS Ali Haider in Bangladesh Navy
1961 TSS Caledonian Princess 3,630
Yard Number 1501. Irish Sea/English Channel car ferry; later Tuxedo Princess nightclub on the Tyne.
1961 GMV Aramoana 4,160
File:Aramoana1976.jpg
Yard Number 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 Yard Number 1504. Cargo vessel; completed by Alexander Stephen at Linthouse (Yd 685) following Denny closure[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "ss PARTHIA". Ships Database. Clydebuilt. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  2. ^ New York Tribune, "Chilian Steamer Wrecked", New York City, 02 May 1902, p.1. Retrieved on 13 August 2015
  3. ^ "mv MELBROOK". Ships Database. Clydebuilt. Retrieved 17 April 2011.

See also

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