List of ship launches in 2006

The list of ship launches in 2006 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 2006.

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	Country	Builder	Location	Ship	Class / type	Notes
1 February	United Kingdom	BAE Systems Naval Ships (YSL)	Scotstoun, Glasgow, Scotland	Daring	Type 45 destroyer
30 March	Template:IND	Mazagon Dock Limited	Mumbai	Kolkata	Kolkata-class destroyer
13 May	Template:NLD	Koninklijke Schelde Groep	Flushing	Johan de Witt	Rotterdam class landing platform dock
19 April	Template:GER	Blohm + Voss	Hamburg	Braunschweig	Braunschweig-class corvette
28 April	Template:ESP	Navantia	Ferrol	Otto Sverdrup	Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate	For Royal Norwegian Navy
9 May	Template:SIN	ST Engineering	Benoi	Supreme	Formidable-class frigate
14 June	United Kingdom	VT Group	HMNB Portsmouth, Portsmouth, England	Clyde	River-class patrol vessel
17 June	United States	Electric Boat	Groton, Connecticut	Hawaii	Virginia-class submarine
24 June	United States	National Steel & Shipbuilding	San Diego, California	Sacagawea	Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship
12 July	France	DCN	Lorient	Chevalier Paul	Horizon-class frigate
10 August	Template:PAK	Karachi Shipyard	Karachi	Hamza	Agosta 90B class submarine
11 August	United States	Northrop Grumman Ship Systems	Avondale, Louisiana	Green Bay	San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock
30 August	Template:JPN	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Nagasaki	Ashigara	Atago-class destroyer
6 September	Template:GER	Lürssen	Bremen-Vegesack	Magdeburg	Braunschweig-class corvette
16 September	United States	Bath Iron Works	Bath, Maine	Sampson	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
22 September	United States	Ingalls Shipbuilding	Pascagoula, Mississippi	Makin Island	Wasp-class amphibious assault ship
23 September	United States	Marinette Marine	Marinette, Wisconsin	Freedom	Freedom-class littoral combat ship
29 September	United States	NGSS Ingalls	Pascagoula, Mississippi	Template:USCGC	Legend-class cutter
9 October	United States	Northrop Grumman	Newport News, Virginia	George H.W. Bush	Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
15 October	Template:GER	Meyer Werft	Papenburg	Norwegian Pearl	Jewel-class cruise ship	For Norwegian Cruise Line
6 November	Template:JPN			Mochishio	Oyashio-class submarine
18 November	Australia	Tenix	Williamstown, Victoria	Otago	Protector class offshore patrol vessel	For Royal New Zealand Navy
23 November	Template:FIN	Aker Finnyards	Helsinki	Star	Cruiseferry	For Tallink
6 December	United States	National Steel & Shipbuilding	San Diego, California	Alan Shepard	Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship
15 December	Template:FIN	Aker Finnyards	Turku	Color Magic	Cruiseferry	For Color Line; largest cruiseferry in the world when delivered; completed at Aker Finnyards' Rauma shipyard
Unknown date	Template:SGP	Damen Group	Singapore	Bornholm Express	Fast Passenger Ferry	For Christansøfarten, Gudhjem, Denmark.
Unknown date	Template:ESP	Astilleros de Huelva	Huelva	Clipper Point	Roll-on/roll-off Ferry	For Seatruck Ferries "Heysham Max" vessel for Heysham Warrenpoint route.

See also

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