List of ships built by William Denny and Brothers
# List of ships built by William Denny and Brothers

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

## Ships

| 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 | First steamship to link Auckland and Sydney. Aground near Murimotu Island in 1857 and abandoned in 1858. |
| 1858 | SS Nova Scotian | | Built for the Allan Line. Served for 34 years. Scrapped 1893. |
| 1862 | SS City of Cork | 1,547 | Built for the Inman Line. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |

## Footnotes

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