# 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) | Yard number | Notes |
| 1845 | PS Loch Lomond | 106 | 1 | Built for the Dumbarton Steamboat Co. Moved to Liverpool in 1852. |
| 1845 | PS Rob Roy | 30 | 2 | Built for the Dumbarton Steamboat Co. Operated on Loch Katrine. Scuttled in 1859. |
| 1845 | SS Waterwitch | 275 | 3 | Built for the Taylor and Scott of Dublin. Sank on 2 November 1861 in a storm just after leaving the River Clyde. |
| 1846 | PS Premier | 127 | 6 | Built for the Dumbarton Steamboat Co. Moved to Weymouth in 1852. Cosens & Co Ltd pleasure steamer for several decades. Scrapped 1938. |
| 1846 | SS Erin's Queen | 273 | 7 | Collided with the Steamer Sabrina in the Bristol Channel on 6 January 1855. Written off. |
| 1847 | SS Northman | 182 | 9 | Built for the Orkney Steam Navigation Company. Sank in 1859 |
| 1847 | SS Marchioness of Bredalbane | 135 | 11 | Sold via P&O to the Pasha of Egypt Muhammad Ali. |
| 1847 | SS Lochfine | 83 | 12 | Built for the Glasgow & Lochfyne Steam Packet Company. Broken up in 1896 |
| 1847 | SS Dumbarton Youth | 238 | 15 | |
| 1848 | SS Ayrshire Lass | 94 | 23 | Built for the Girvan Steam Packet Company |
| 1849 | SS Chevy Chase | 370 | 24 | |
| 1849 | SS Victory | 500 | | Built for the North-West Steam Packet Company. |
| 1849 | Miner | 32 | 27 | Sailing vessel |
| 1849 | SS British Queen | 772 | 28 | Built for Brownlow, Pearson & Company of Hull |
| 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 | | 68 | Built for the Allan Line. Served for 34 years. Scrapped 1893. |
| 1862 | SS City of Cork | 1,547 | 86 | 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 | 3,167 | 148 | Built for Cunard Line. Served for 86 years; scrapped 1956. |
| 1882 | SS Cheribon | 3,075 | 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 | 301 | 282 | 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 | 415 | Built for the Australian United Steam Navigation Company |
| 1889 | SS Arawatta | 2,114 | 416 | Built for the Australian United Steam Navigation Company |
| 1893 | SS Coya | 546 | 463 | Veteran steamship on Lake Titicaca, Peru, now a floating restaurant |
| 1895 | SS Vladimir | 5,331 | 507 | Built for Russian Volunteer Fleet Association, Odessa. Purchased in 1915 by the Imperial Russian Navy. |
| 1899 | SS Sir Walter Scott | 115 | 623 | Veteran steamship still on Loch Katrine, Scotland |
| 1901 | TS King Edward | 562 | 651 | Excursion steamer, the first commercial vessel to be driven by steam turbines |
| 1902 | TS Queen Alexandra | 665 | 670 | Destroyed by fire 1911; sold to Canada |
| 1903 | TSS Kanowna | 6,953 | 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 | 672 | Australian United Steam Navigation Company passenger liner requisitioned as a hospital ship. Sunk by torpedo 1918 |
| 1905 | TSS Arahura | 1607 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 835 | New Zealand Shipping Company refrigerated cargo liner; sunk 1917 |
| 1909 | SS Ruahine | 10,870 | 880 | New Zealand Shipping Company liner; later Italian-flagged; scrapped 1957 |
| 1910 | SS Rotorua | 11,130 | 915 | New Zealand Shipping Company liner; sunk 1917 |
| 1910 | HMAS Yarra | 700 | | Commonwealth Naval Forces Destroyer; struck 1928 |
| 1912 | SS Indarra | 9,735 | 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 | 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 | 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 | | 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 | | 1168 | Stern Wheel Paddle Steamer |
| 1925 | Delta Queen | | 1169 | Stern Wheel Paddle Steamer |
| 1925 | TSS Glen Sannox | 690 | 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 | 1182 | Pioneering turbine steamer built for Turbine Steamers Ltd. |
| 1930 | TS Duchess of Montrose | 806 | 1245 | Turbine steamer built for CSP, operated until 1964. The first single-class Clyde vessel. |
| 1931 | MV Lochfyne | 656 | 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 | 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 | 1266 | CSP Paddle Steamer. Latterly, a floating pub in London until destroyed by fire in 1980. |
| 1935 | SS Anselm | 5,954 | 1276 | Booth Steamship Co cargo and passenger liner. Converted into troop ship 1940; sunk by torpedo 1941 |
| 1936 | MV Lochnevis | 573 | 1273 | David MacBrayne (1928) Ltd diesel-electric passenger vessel; Scrapped 1974 |
| 1936 | MV Countess of Breadalbane | 106 | 1294 | CSP for Loch Awe service, later Clyde, then Loch Lomond; Scrapped 1999 |
| 1937 | PS Ryde | | 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 | | 1322 | Isle of Wight ferry which as MV Sound of Sanda became a Clyde ferry in 1974 |
| 1938 | MV The Second Snark | 50 | 1327 | Former Denny-owned tug / tender on the River Clyde |
| 1939 | SS Royal Daffodil | 2,061 | 1330 | Thames Estuary / Continent day excursion for Steam Navigation Company Ltd, London; Scrapped Feb 1967 |
| 1939 | MV Lochiel | 603 | 1341 | David MacBrayne Mailboat on Islay, Port Askaig and other routes; Scrapped Dec 1995 |
| 1947 | MV Princess Victoria | 2,694 | 1399 | LMS ferry based in Stranraer; Sank Jan 1953 |
| 1947 | MV Loch Seaforth | 1,090 | 1404 | David MacBrayne mailboat Mallaig - Kyle of Lochalsh - Stornoway; Scrapped June 1973 |
| 1948 | MV Southsea | 986 | 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 | 1413 | General Steam Navigation Company. Originally summer excursions from Thames to Continent; 1967 Townsend Car Ferries Ltd |
| 1948 | PS Teal | 460 | 1418 | River passenger & cargo Paddle Steamer built for India General Navigation & Railway Company |
| 1948 | PS Tern | 460 | 1419 | River passenger & cargo Paddle Steamer built for India General Navigation & Railway Company |
| 1951 | MV Tofua | 5,299 | 1447 | Union Steam Ship Company ferry. |
| 1950 | MV Royal Iris | | 1448 | Former Mersey ferry, now berthed at Woolwich, London |
| 1951 | MV Portree | 53 | 1458 | CSP Passenger Car Ferry |
| 1951 | MV Lochalsh | 24 | 1459 | CSP Passenger Car Ferry for Lochalsh-Kyleakin ferry |
| 1953 | MV Fenerbahçe | 994 | 1456 | Former Passenger Ferry, now a museum ship in Istanbul, Turkey |
| 1953 | MV Arran | 568 | 1470 | CSP Passenger Car Ferry |
| 1953 | MV Broadford | | 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 | 1476 | Leopard class frigate. Last frigate built by Dennys. Now BNS Ali Haider in Bangladesh Navy |
| 1961 | TSS Caledonian Princess | 3,630 | 1501 | Irish Sea/English Channel car ferry; later Tuxedo Princess nightclub on the Tyne. |
| 1961 | GMV Aramoana | 4,160 | 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 | | 1504 | Cargo ship; completed by Alexander Stephen at Linthouse (yard number 685) after Denny's closure |

## Footnotes

* ↑ "Loss of another Steamer". British Standard. England. 15 November 1861. Retrieved 26 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
* ↑ "Collision of two steamers in the Bristol Channel". Morning Advertiser. England. 8 January 1855. Retrieved 25 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
* ↑ "Portugal - Southampton, Friday Night". Glasgow Courier. England. 30 November 1847. Retrieved 26 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
* ↑ "Launch of the Steamer Victory". Derry Journal. Ireland. 23 May 1849. Retrieved 26 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
* ↑ "The British Queen Steam Ship". Hull Packet. England. 3 August 1849. Retrieved 26 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
* ↑ "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.