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

Ships

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Launched Ship's name
at launch 		Tonnage
(GRT) 		Notes
1846 PS Premier Yard number 6. Built for the Dumbarton Steamboat Co. Moved to Weymouth in 1852. Cosens & Co Ltd pleasure steamer for several decades. Scrapped 1938.
1853 William Denny 596[1] First steamship to link Auckland and Sydney.[2] Aground near Murimotu Island in 1857[3] and abandoned in 1858.[4]
1858 SS Nova Scotian Built for the Allan Line. Served for 34 years. Scrapped 1893.[5]
1862 SS City of Cork 1,547 Built for the Inman Line.[6]
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
Yard number 148. Built for Cunard Line. Served for 86 years; scrapped 1956.[7]
1882 SS Cheribon 3,075
Yard number 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.[8]
1884 Lucinda 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
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 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 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 Yard Number 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 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

1908 SS Otaki 7,420 Yard number 835. New Zealand Shipping Company refrigerated cargo liner; sunk 1917
1909 SS Ruahine 10,870 Yard number 880. New Zealand Shipping Company liner; later Italian-flagged; scrapped 1957
1910 SS Rotorua 11,130 Yard number 915. New Zealand Shipping Company liner; sunk 1917
1910 HMAS Yarra 700 Commonwealth Naval Forces Destroyer; struck 1928
1912 SS 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 SS Infanta Isabel de Borbon 10,348
Yard number 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 Yard Number 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 Yard Number 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
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-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
Yard Number 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
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 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 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 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
1951 MV Tofua 5,299
Yard Number 1447. Union Steam Ship Company ferry.
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 Fenerbahçe 994 Yard Number 1456. Former Passenger Ferry, now a museum ship in Istanbul, Turkey
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 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
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 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 ship; completed by Alexander Stephen at Linthouse (yard number 685) after Denny's closure[9]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ "William Denny". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Steam Communication Accomplished". New Zealander. 29 July 1854. Retrieved 12 September 2020 – via Papers Past.
  3. ^ "Later intelligence respecting the William Denny". Daily Southern Cross. 17 March 1857. Retrieved 12 September 2020 – via Papers Past.
  4. ^ "The William Denny". Daily Southern Cross. 22 June 1858. Retrieved 12 September 2020 – via Papers Past.
  5. ^ "Nova Scotian". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  6. ^ "S/S City of Cork". Scottish Built Ships. Norway Heritage. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  7. ^ "Parthia". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  8. ^ "Chilian Steamer Wrecked". New-York Tribune. New York City. 2 May 1902. p. 1. Retrieved 13 August 2015 – via Library of Congress.
  9. ^ "Melbrook". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 17 April 2011.

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