The list of ship launches in 1901 includes a chronological list of ships launched in 1901.  In cases where no official launching ceremony was held, the date built or completed may be used instead. 
   | Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class and type | Notes | 
  | 19 February |  United Kingdom | Palmers | Jarrow | Russell | Duncan-class battleship |  | 
  | 5 March |  United Kingdom | Chatham Dockyard | Chatham, Kent | Albemarle | Duncan-class battleship |  | 
  | 5 March |  United Kingdom | Devonport Dockyard | Plymouth | Montagu | Duncan-class battleship |  | 
  | 21 March |  United Kingdom | Thames Ironworks | Leamouth | Duncan | Duncan-class battleship |  | 
  | 22 March |  United Kingdom | Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd | Blyth | Barwon | Cargo ship | For Huddart Parker & Co. Pty. Ltd.[1] | 
  | 30 March | .svg.png) Germany | AG Vulcan | Stettin | Kronprinz Wilhelm | Passenger ship |  | 
  | 4 April |  United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Celtic | Ocean liner; one of the "Big Four"
 | For White Star Line. | 
  | 16 April |  United Kingdom | Napier & Miller | Yoker | Andrios | Cargo ship |  | 
  | 18 May |  United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Ryndam | Passenger ship | For Holland America Line. | 
  | 18 May |  United States | Union Iron Works | San Francisco, California | Ohio | Maine-class battleship |  | 
  | 18 May |  United States | W. A. Boole & Son | Oakland, California | Lahaina | barquentine | yard's first | 
  | 29 May | .svg.png) Sweden | Bergsunds Shipyard, | Stockholm | Wasa | Äran-class coastal defence ship | For the Royal Swedish Navy | 
  | 30 May | _crowned.svg.png) Italy | La Spezia Naval Base | La Spezia | Regina Margherita | Regina Margherita-class battleship | For the Regia Marina | 
  | 6 June | .svg.png) Nyasaland |  | Lake Nyasa | Chauncy Maples |  | Launched on Lake Nyasa having been transported from Scotland and reassembled | 
  | 6 June | .svg.png) Germany | Schichau-Werke | Danzig | Wettin | Wittelsbach-class battleship |  | 
  | 7 June |  United Kingdom | Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd | Blyth | Wisbech | Cargo ship | For Wisbech Steamship Co. Ltd.[2] | 
  | 12 June | .svg.png) Germany | Germaniawerft | Kiel | Zähringen | Wittelsbach-class battleship |  | 
  | 22 June | .svg.png) Germany | Kaiserliche Werft Kiel | Kiel | Prinz Adalbert | Prinz Adalbert-class cruiser | 
  | 24 June[3] |  United Kingdom | George Brown and Company | Greenock | Princess Beara | Steam cutter | For Bantry Bay Steamship Co. The first vessel launched by George Brown and Company[3] | 
  | 6 July |  United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Walmer Castle | Passenger ship | For Union-Castle Line.[5] | 
  | 13 July |  United Kingdom | Thames Ironworks | Leamouth | Cornwallis | Duncan-class battleship |  | 
  | 16 July |  United Kingdom | Armstrong Whitworth | Newcastle upon Tyne | Bantu | Cargo ship | Built for Bucknall Steamship Lines Ltd | 
  | 16 July |  United Kingdom | Allsup & Co. Ltd. | Preston | Seagull | Lightship | For Commissioners of Irish Lights.[6] | 
  | 22 July |  United States | Crescent Shipyard | Elizabethport, New Jersey | Adder | Plunger-class submarine | [7] | 
  | 27 July |  United States | William Cramp & Sons | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Maine | Maine-class battleship |  | 
  | 14 August | .svg.png) Sweden | Lindholmens Shipyard | Lindholmen | Äran | Äran-class coastal defence ship | For the Royal Swedish Navy | 
  | 15 August |  United Kingdom | Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd | Blyth | Battenhall | Cargo ship | For Lombard Steamship Co. Ltd.[8] | 
  | 17 August |  United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Athenic | Passenger ship | For White Star Line | 
  | 19 August | .svg.png) Germany | Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven | Wilhelmshaven | Schwaben | Wittelsbach-class battleship |  | 
  | 20 August |  United States | Crescent Shipyard | Elizabethport, New Jersey | Moccasin | Plunger-class submarine | Sponsored by Mrs. Rice [9] | 
  | 31 August |  United Kingdom | Laird Brothers | Birkenhead | Exmouth | Duncan-class battleship |  | 
  | 11 September | .svg.png) Austria-Hungary | Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino | Trieste | Árpád | Habsburg-class battleship | For the Austro-Hungarian Navy | 
  | 23 September |  United States | Crescent Shipyard | Elizabethport, New Jersey | Porpoise | Plunger-class submarine | Sponsored by Mrs. E. B. Frost [10] | 
  | 25 September |  Norway | Royal Norwegian Navy Shipyard | Horten | Sæl | 1.-class torpedo boat |  | 
  | 28 September |  United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Noordam | Passenger ship | For Holland America Line. | 
  | 30 September |  United Kingdom | William Denny & Brothers | Dumbarton | Santhia | Passenger ship | For the British-India Steam Navigation Company | 
  | 19 October |  United States | Crescent Shipyard | Elizabethport | Shark | Plunger-class submarine | For the United States Navy; sponsored by Mrs. Walter Stevens Turpin [11] | 
  | 7 November | .svg.png) Sweden | Kockums Shipyard | Malmö | Tapperheten | Äran-class coastal defence ship | For the Royal Swedish Navy | 
  | 7 November | _crowned.svg.png) Italy | Castellammare Royal Dockyard | Castellammare di Stabia | Benedetto Brin | Regina Margherita-class battleship | For the Regia Marina | 
  | 9 November | .svg.png) Germany | AG Vulcan | Stettin | Mecklenburg | Wittelsbach-class battleship |  | 
  | 14 November |  United Kingdom | Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd | Blyth | Lady Mildred | Cargo ship | For Exchange Steamship Co. Ltd.[13] | 
  | 28 November |  United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Warwickshire | Passenger ship | For Bibby Steamship Co.[14] | 
  | 12 December |  United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Minnetonka | Passenger ship | For Atlantic Transport Co.[15] | 
  | 23 December |  United States | Maryland Steel Company | Sparrows Point, Maryland | Shawmut | Cargo ship | For Boston Steamship Company, later renamed Ancon.[16] | 
  | 28 December |  United States | Newport News Shipbuilding | Newport News, Virginia | Missouri | Maine-class battleship |  | 
  | Unknown date |  United Kingdom | John Bowden | Porthleven | Ada | Steam drifter | For Northern Steam Herring Fisheries Ltd.[17] | 
  | Unknown date |  United Kingdom | John Bowden | Porthleven | Clara | Steam drifter | For Northern Steam Herring Fisheries Ltd.[18] | 
  | Unknown date |  United Kingdom | John Bowden | Porthleven | Glentana | Steam drifter | For Steam Herring Fleet Ltd.[19] | 
  | Unknown date |  United Kingdom | William Denny and Brothers | Dumbarton | King Edward | Passenger ship | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown date |  United Kingdom | Beeching Brothers Ltd. | Great Yarmouth | King Edward | Steam drifter | For John Moore.[21] | 
  | Unknown date |  United Kingdom | Allsup & Co. Ltd. | Preston | Lord Kitchener | Steamboat | For David & William  Monk.[22] | 
  | Unknown date |  United Kingdom | Beeching Brothers Ltd. | Great Yarmouth | Queen Alexandra | Steam drifter | For William Clowes.[23] | 
  | Unknown date |  United Kingdom | Beeching Brothers Ltd. | Great Yarmouth | Snowdrop | Steam drifter | For Pitchers Ltd.[24] | 
  | Unknown date |  United Kingdom | Beeching Brothers Ltd. | Great Yarmouth | Star of the Sea | Steam drifter | For James Murray.[25] | 
  | Unknown date |  United Kingdom | T. Scott & Company | Goole | Sudan | Steamship | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown date |  United Kingdom | Beeching Brothers Ltd. | Great Yarmouth | Sunflower | Steam drifter | For John Salmon.[27] | 
  | Unknown date |  United States | J. M. Bayles and Sons | Port Jefferson, New York | Zoraya | Armed yacht | Built as a private vessel, leased for World War I service by the U.S. Navy in 1917, returned to its owner in 1919. | 
 References
   - ^ "Barwon". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 30 September 2024. 
- ^ "Wisbech". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 30 September 2024. 
- ^ a b "GEO. BROWN & Co". Inverclyde Shipbuilding. Cartsburn Publishing. 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2023. 
- ^ "Walmer Castle". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017. 
- ^ "Seagull". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 23 September 2024. 
- ^ "A-2 (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 3)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2019. The submarine torpedo boat A-2 was originally laid down as Adder (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 3) on 3 October 1900 at Elizabethport, New Jersey, by the Crescent Shipyard of Lewis Nixon, a subcontractor for the John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Co. of New York; launched on 22 July 1901; sponsored by Mrs. Jane S. Wainwright, wife of Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright 
- ^ "Battenhall". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 30 September 2024. 
- ^ "A-4 (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 5)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2019. The submarine torpedo boat A-4 was originally laid down as Moccasin (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 5) ... launched on 20 August 1901; sponsored by a Mrs. Rice 
- ^ "A-6 (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 7)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2019. The submarine torpedo boat A-6 was originally laid down as Porpoise (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 7) on 13 December 1900 at Elizabethport, N.J., by the Crescent Shipyard of Lewis Nixon, a subcontractor for the John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Co. of New York; launched on 23 September 1901; sponsored by Mrs. E.B. Frost, the wife of E.B. Frost of Crescent Shipyard 
- ^ "A-7 (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 8)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2019. The submarine torpedo boat A-7 was originally laid down as Shark (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 8) on 11 January 1901 at Elizabethport, N.J., by the Crescent Shipyard of Lewis Nixon, a subcontractor for the John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Co. of New York; launched on 19 October 1901; and sponsored by Mrs. Walter Stevens Turpin, wife of Lt. Comdr. Walter S. Turpin, an officer on duty at Crescent Shipyard. 
- ^ "Lady Mildred". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 30 September 2024. 
- ^ "Warwickshire". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017. 
- ^ "Minnetonka". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017. 
- ^ Marine Engineering (1902). "New Ships of the Boston Steamship Company". Marine Engineering. 7 (January 1902). New York: Marine Engineering, Inc. Retrieved 21 January 2015. 
- ^ "Ada". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 2 October 2024. 
- ^ "Clara". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 2 October 2024. 
- ^ "Glentana". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 2 October 2024. 
- ^ "King Edward". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 28 September 2024. 
- ^ "Lord Kitchener". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 23 September 2024. 
- ^ "Queen Alexandra". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 28 September 2024. 
- ^ "Snowdrop". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 28 September 2024. 
- ^ "Star of the Sea". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 28 September 2024. 
- ^ "Sunflower". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 28 September 2024. 
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