# List of ship launches in 1942

The list of ship launches in 1942 includes a chronological list of some of the ships launched in 1942.

## January

| | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 5 January | United Kingdom | Cochrane & Son Ltd. | Selby | Empire Fairy | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 5 January | United Kingdom | C. Connell & Co. Ltd. | Glasgow | Empire Roamer | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 6 January | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff Ltd | Glasgow | Empire Bede | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 6 January | United Kingdom | William Hamilton & Co. Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Manaar | Cargo ship | For T. & J. Brocklebank Ltd. |
| 10 January | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Robert Fulton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 January | United Kingdom | Blyth Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd | Blyth, Northumberland | Bardell | Bar-class boom defence vessel | For Royal Navy. |
| 13 January | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | Empire Spruce | Maple-type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 14 January | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Daniel Boone | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 January | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Vulcan | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 January | United Kingdom | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. | Newcastle upon Tyne | Baltyk | Cargo ship | For Polish Government. |
| 15 January | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Bogue | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 15 January | United Kingdom | Hawthorn Leslie & Co. | Hebburn | Blean | Hunt-class destroyer | |
| 15 January | United Kingdom | Clelands (Successors) Ltd. | Wallsend | Empire Dyke | Coaster | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 15 January | United Kingdom | John Readhead & Sons Ltd. | South Shields | Empire Forest | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 15 January | United Kingdom | S. P. Austin & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Jill | Coaster | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 15 January | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | Empire Knight | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 15 January | United Kingdom | Yarrow & Co. Ltd | Scotstoun, Glasgow | Oakley | Hunt-class destroyer | Sold in 1958 to West Germany as Gneisenau |
| 15 January | United Kingdom | Clelands (Successors) Ltd | Wallsend | Empire Dyke | Coaster | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 15 January | United Kingdom | John Readhead & Sons Ltd | South Shields | Empire Forest | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 15 January | United Kingdom | S P Austin & Sons Ltd | Sunderland | Empire Jill | Coaster | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 16 January | United Kingdom | Swan Hunter | Wallsend | Queenborough | Q-class destroyer | To Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Queenborough 1945, later converted to Type 15 frigate, sold for scrapping 1975 |
| 17 January | Australia | HMA Naval Dockyard | Williamstown, Victoria | Echuca | Bathurst-class corvette | |
| 17 January | United Kingdom | J. L. Thompson & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Barrie | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 17 January | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff Ltd | Belfast | Empire Chapman | Ocean type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 17 January | United Kingdom | Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Marvell | Norwegian type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 17 January | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co. Ltd. | West Hartlepool | Empire Purcell | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 17 January | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | John Adams | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 17 January | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Nathaniel Greene | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 January | United Kingdom | Cochrane & Sons Ltd. | Selby | Empire Goblin | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 29 January | United Kingdom | Isaac Pimblott & Sons Ltd. | Northwich | Empire Lily | Coaster | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 29 January | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co. Ltd. | West Hartlepool | Empire Tennyson | Scandinavian type cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 20 January | United Kingdom | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. | Barrow in Furness | Empire March | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 20 January | United Kingdom | Scott & Sons | Bowling | Empire Palm | Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 20 January | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Valour | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 20 January | United Kingdom | Blythswood Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Glasgow | San Victoria | Tanker | For Eagle Oil & Shipping Co. Ltd. |
| 21 January | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Stephen A. Douglas | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 24 January | Australia | Morts Dock & Engineering Co | Sydney | Armidale | Bathurst-class corvette | |
| 24 January | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Benjamin Harrison | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 24 January | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Carter Braxton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 January | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Robert Morris | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 January | United Kingdom | Alexander Stephens & Sons | Govan, Glasgow | Bramham | Hunt-class destroyer | To the Royal Hellenic Navy in 1943 as Themistocles |
| 30 January | Australia | Evans Deakin & Co | Brisbane | Gympie | Bathurst-class corvette | |
| 30 January | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | Tahsinia | Cargo ship | For Anchor Line Ltd. |
| 31 January | Australia | J. Samuel White | Cowes | Quiberon | Q-class destroyer | |
| 31 January | United Kingdom | Richards Ironworks Ltd. | Lowestoft | Empire Punch | Coaster | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Venus | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 January | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Samuel Adams | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |

## February

| | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 2 February | United Kingdom | R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Co. Ltd. | Newcastle on Tyne | Nicania | Tanker | For Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd. |
| 3 February | United Kingdom | Swan Hunter | Tyne and Wear | Border | Hunt-class destroyer | Transferred to Greece in 1942 as Adrias |
| 3 February | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Virginia Dare | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 3 February | United Kingdom | Burntisland Shipbuilding Company | Burntisland | William Pearman | Collier | For London Power Co. Ltd. |
| 4 February | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | John Jay | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 February | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Nathan Hale | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 5 February | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Alarm | Algerine-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| 6 February | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Kit Carson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 February | Australia | Cockatoo Docks & Engineering | Sydney | Warramunga | Tribal-class destroyer | |
| 7 February | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | William Dawes | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 February | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | VIC 4 | VIC lighter | For the War Department. |
| 12 February | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Albert Gallatin | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 February | United States | New York Shipbuilding Corporation | Camden, New Jersey | Montpelier | Cleveland-class light cruiser | |
| 14 February | United Kingdom | Furness Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Haverton Hill-on-Tees | Empire Dickens | Norwegian type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 14 February | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Vigour | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 February | United States | Ingalls Shipbuilding | Pascagoula, Mississippi | Breton | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 15 February | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Christopher Newport | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 February | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Philip Schuyler | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 February | United States | Norfolk Navy Yard | Portsmouth, Virginia | Alabama | South Dakota-class battleship | |
| 16 February | United Kingdom | Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd. | Grangemouth | Empire Hearth | Icemaid type collier | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 17 February | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co Ltd | West Hartlepool | Empire Elgar | Heavy lift ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 17 February | United Kingdom | Barclay Curle & Co. | Glasgow | Empire Fairbairn | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 17 February | United Kingdom | Lithgows Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Empire Spartan | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 17 February | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Empire Spenser | Ocean type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 17 February | United Kingdom | Henry Scarr Ltd | Hessle | Empire Sprite | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 18 February | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Govan | Empire Vigilance | Ocean type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. Completed as British Vigilance. |
| 18 February | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Oliver Hazard Perry | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 18 February | Australia | Poole & Steel | Balmain, New South Wales | Wallaroo | Bathurst-class corvette | |
| 19 February | United Kingdom | G. Brown & Co. Ltd. | Greenock | Empire Dweller | coastal tanker | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 19 February | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | George Clymer | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 February | United States | Bath Iron Works | | Nicholas | Fletcher-class destroyer | For US Navy |
| 19 February | United Kingdom | William Denny & Brothers | Dumbarton | Obdurate | O-class destroyer | |
| 21 February | United Kingdom | John I. Thornycroft & Company | Woolston | Opportune | O-class destroyer | |
| 21 February | United Kingdom | Isaac Pimblott & Sons Ltd. | Northwich | VIC 19 | VIC lighter | For the Admiralty. |
| 21 February | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | William Hooper | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 February | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | James Wilson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 February | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Samuel Chase | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 February | United Kingdom | G Brown & Co Ltd | Greenock | Empire Audrey | coastal tanker | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 23 February | United Kingdom | Lithgows Ltd | Port Glasgow | Empire Beatrice | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 24 February | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Zebulon Pike | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 25 February | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | John Hart | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 February | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Card | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 28 February | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Elbridge Gerry | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 February | United Kingdom | Hawthorn Leslie | Hebburn | Quadrant | Q-class destroyer | To Australia as HMAS Quadrant 1945, later converted to Type 15 frigate, sold for scrapping 1962 |
| 28 February | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Vanity | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 February | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Richard Bland | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 February | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Zachary Taylor | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |

## March

| | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 1 March | Germany | Schichau | Königsberg | Richthofen | Hans Albrecht Wedel-class light seaplane tender | For the Luftwaffe |
| 2 March | United Kingdom | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. | Newcastle upon Tyne | Congonian | Tanker | For United Africa Co. Ltd. |
| 2 March | United Kingdom | Fairfield | Govan, Glasgow | Myrmidon | M-class destroyer | Loaned to the Polish Navy and renamed ORP Orkan |
| 4 March | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | John Witherspoon | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 March | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Stronsay | Isles-class trawler | For Royal Navy. |
| 4 March | Australia | Walkers Limited | Maryborough | Tamworth | Bathurst-class corvette | |
| 5 March | United Kingdom | Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd. | Birkenhead | British Tradition | Tanker | For British Tanker Co. Ltd. |
| 5 March | United Kingdom | Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd. | Grangemouth | Empire Arthur | Coastal tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 5 March | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co Ltd | West Hartlepool | Empire Cadet | Coastal tanker | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 5 March | United States | Western Pipe & Steel | | Hamlin | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 5 March | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Henry W. Longfellow | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 5 March | United Kingdom | J. Samuel White | Cowes | Melbreak | Hunt-class destroyer | |
| 5 March | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Vintage | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 6 March | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co Ltd | West Hartlepool | Empire Arnold | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 6 March | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Henry Knox | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 March | United Kingdom | Yarrow Shipbuilders | Scotstoun, Glasgow | Zetland | Hunt-class destroyer | |
| 7 March | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Tracker | Attacker-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 8 March | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Daniel Morgan | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 March | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | John Dickinson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 March | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Rufus King | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 March | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Francis L. Lee | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 March | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | George Calvert | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 March | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Anthony Wayne | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 March | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Volunteer | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 March | United Kingdom | Hall, Russell & Co Ltd | Aberdeen | Empire Cherub | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 16 March | United Kingdom | S. P. Austin & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Fireside | C-type coaster | For Gas, Light & Coke Co. Ltd. |
| 17 March | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Deseado | Refrigerated cargo ship | For Royal Mail Line. |
| 17 March | United Kingdom | Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Coleridge | Norwegian type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 17 March | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Fisher Ames | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 17 March | United Kingdom | Vickers-Armstrongs | Barrow in Furness | Penylan | Hunt-class destroyer | |
| 18 March | United Kingdom | William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd | Sunderland | Empire Chaucer | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 18 March | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | Empire Folk | Maple-type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 18 March | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | Fresno City | Cargo ship | For Reardon Smith Line Ltd. |
| 18 March | United Kingdom | Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. | Goole | VIC 6 | VIC lighter | For the War Department. |
| 19 March | India | Hooghly Engineering and Docking Co. | Calcutta | Agra | Basset-class minesweeping trawler | |
| 19 March | United Kingdom | Short Brothers Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Keats | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 19 March | Germany | Schichau | Königsberg | Hermann Kohl | Hans Albrecht Wedel-class light seaplane tender | For the Luftwaffe |
| 20 March | United States | Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company | Newport News, Virginia | Birmingham | Cleveland-class light cruiser | |
| 21 March | United Kingdom | John Brown & Company | Clydebank | Rotherham | R-class destroyer | To Indian Navy as Rajput 1949; scrapped 1976 |
| 22 March | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Abiel Foster | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 March | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Francis Marion | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 March | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Robert G. Harper | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 March | United Kingdom | Lithgows | Port Glasgow | Empire Conrad | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 24 March | United Kingdom | Lithgows | Port Glasgow | Empire Austen | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 24 March | United Kingdom | John Crown & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Wold | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 26 March | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Edgar Allan Poe | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 March | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Veteran | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 March | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Robert Treat Paine | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 March | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Timothy Pickering | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 March | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | William C. C. Claiborne | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 March | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Joseph Hewes | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 March | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Sam Houston | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 March | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Benjamin Goodhue | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 March | United Kingdom | Furness Shipbuilding Co Ltd | Haverton Hill-on-Tees | Empire Beaumont | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 31 March | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co. Ltd. | West Hartlepool | Empire Caxton | Scandinavian type cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 31 March | United Kingdom | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. | Dundee | Empire Prince | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 31 March | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 March | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | Vancouver City | Cargo ship | For Reardon Smith Line Ltd. |

## April

| | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 1 April | United Kingdom | Ferguson Bros. Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Empire Lawn | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 1 April | United Kingdom | Cammell Laird | Birkenhead | Raider | R-class destroyer | To India as Rana 1949 |
| 1 April | United Kingdom | Henry Robb Ltd. | Leith | Samsonia | Bustler-class tug | For the Admiralty. |
| 2 April | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Abraham Clark | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 2 April | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Albacore | Algerine-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 April | United Kingdom | John Readhead & Sons Ltd | South Shields | Empire Clough | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 2 April | United Kingdom | Vickers-Armstrongs | Newcastle upon Tyne | Haydon | Hunt-class destroyer | |
| 2 April | United Kingdom | Burntisland Shipbuilding Company | Burntisland | Ingleton | Cargo ship | For R. Chapman & Son. |
| 2 April | United Kingdom | W. & C. French Ltd. | Newport | Lady Kathleen | Concrete ship | For Concrete Maritime Ltd. |
| 2 April | United Kingdom | John I. Thornycroft & Company | Woolston | Orwell | O-class destroyer | |
| 2 April | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | VIC 7 | VIC lighter | For the Admiralty. |
| 3 April | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Switha | Isles-class trawler | For Royal Navy. |
| 4 April | United States | Ingalls Shipbuilding | Pascagoula, Mississippi | Battler | Attacker-class escort carrier | For Royal Navy. Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 4 April | United Kingdom | Blyth Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd | Blyth, Northumberland | Brave | Algerine-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| 4 April | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Croatan | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 4 April | United States | New York Shipbuilding Corporation | Camden, New Jersey | Denver | Cleveland-class light cruiser | |
| 4 April | United Kingdom | C Connell & Co Ltd | Scotstoun, Glasgow | Empire Bowman | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 4 April | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff Ltd | Belfast | Empire Fletcher | Ocean type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 4 April | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Nassau | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 4 April | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Searcher | Attacker-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter for Lend-Lease |
| 4 April | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Thomas Nelson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 5 April | United Kingdom | Blyth Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd | Blyth, Northumberland | Fancy | Algerine-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| 5 April | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | John G. Whittier | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 6 April | United Kingdom | Ferguson Bros Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Empire Mead | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 6 April | United Kingdom | J. L. Thompson & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Tristram | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 6 April | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Voyager | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 April | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | William Cullen Bryant | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 8 April | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | William Floyd | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 9 April | Sweden | Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad | Gothenburg | Mjölner | Mode-class destroyer | For Swedish Navy |
| 11 April | Sweden | Götaverken | Gothenburg | Mode | Mode-class destroyer | For Swedish Navy |
| 11 April | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Vista | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 April | Australia | J. Samuel White | Cowes | Quickmatch | Q-class destroyer | |
| 12 April | United States | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company | Kearny, New Jersey | Hawaiian Shipper | Modified Type C3 cargo liner | For United States War Shipping Administration |
| 12 April | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | James Russell Lowell | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 April | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | John Penn | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 April | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | St. Olaf | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 April | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Thomas Stone | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 13 April | United Kingdom | Swan Hunter | Wallsend | Modbury | Hunt-class destroyer | Transferred to Greece as Miaoulis |
| 14 April | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Acute | Algerine-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| 14 April | United Kingdom | Blyth Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd | Blyth, Northumberland | Bardolf | Bar-class boom defence vessel | For Royal Navy. |
| 14 April | United Kingdom | Alexander Stephens & Sons | Glasgow | Holcombe | Hunt-class destroyer | |
| 14 April | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | John Langdon | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 April | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Stephen Hopking | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 April | United Kingdom | Ailsa Shipbuilding & Co. Ltd. | Troon | Empire Toiler | Scandinavian type cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 16 April | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff Ltd. | Govan | British Merit | Tanker | For British Tanker Co. Ltd. |
| 16 April | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Caleb Strong | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration."CALIFORNIA SHIPBUILDING". Shipbuildinghistory. Retrieved 23 January 2025.</ref> |
| 16 April | United Kingdom | Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd | Grangemouth | Empire Gawain | Coastal tanker | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 16 April | United Kingdom | A. Hall & Co. Ltd. | Aberdeen | Empire Minotaur | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 16 April | United Kingdom | Burntisland Shipbuilding Company | Burntisland | Flamma | Collier | For Gas, Light & Coke Co. Ltd. |
| 16 April | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Henry D. Thoreau | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 April | United Kingdom | Bartram & Sons Ltd | Sunderland | Jersey City | Cargo ship | For Reardon Smith Line Ltd. |
| 16 April | United Kingdom | Isaac Pimblott & Sons Ltd. | Northwich | VIC 20 | VIC lighter | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 17 April | United Kingdom | Greenock Dockyard Co. Ltd. | Greenock | Empire Might | Cargo liner | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 18 April | United States | Electric Boat Company | Groton, Connecticut | Blackfish | Gato-class submarine | |
| 18 April | United Kingdom | James Pollock & Sons | Faversham | Imta Layteri | Submarine tender | For Turkish Navy. |
| 19 April | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Davy Crockett | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 April | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 April | United Kingdom | Ardrossan Dockyard Ltd. | Ardrossan | Ulster Duke | Coaster | For Belfast Steamship Co. Ltd. |
| 20 April | United Kingdom | Furness Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Haverton Hill-on-Tees | Empire Norseman | Norwegian type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 21 April | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Volga | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 April | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Paine Wingate | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 April | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | James Whitcomb Riley | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 April | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Peter Minuit | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 April | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | T. J. Jackson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 25 April | Sweden | Götaverken | Gothenburg | Magne | Mode-class destroyer | For Swedish Navy |
| 25 April | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Vengeance | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 April | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | John C. Colhoun | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 April | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Samuel Huntington | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 April | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Esek Hopkins | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 April | United Kingdom | Fairfield | Glasgow | Haldon | Hunt-class destroyer | Transferred to Free France as La Combattante |
| 27 April | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | James Monroe | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 April | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Samuel Moody | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 April | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | Avristan | Cargo ship | For Strick Line (1923) Ltd. |
| 29 April | Norway | Geo. Lawley | Neponset, Massachusetts | King Haakon VII | PC class escort ship | Ex-USS PC-467 |
| 29 April | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Matthew Maury | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 April | United Kingdom | Lithgows Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Shahjehan | Cargo ship | For Asiatic Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. |
| 30 April | United Kingdom | Scott & Sons Ltd. | Bowling | Empire Farm | Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 30 April | United Kingdom | A. Hall & Co. Ltd. | Aberdeen | Empire Gnome | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 30 April | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | John Hathorn | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 April | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | John Sevier | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 April | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Vagrant | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 April | United Kingdom | Yarrow Shipbuilders | Scotstoun, Glasgow | Tanatside | Hunt-class destroyer | |
| 30 April | United Kingdom | William Denny & Brothers | Dumbarton | Obedient | O-class destroyer | |
| 30 April | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Thomas McKean | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| April | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Joseph M. Walsh | Tug | For Mobile Towing. |

## May

| | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 1 May | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co. Ltd. | West Hartlepool | Empire Gareth | Scandinavian type cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 1 May | United Kingdom | Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. | Goole | VIC 11 | VIC lighter | For the Admiralty. |
| 2 May | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Barnes | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 2 May | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co. Ltd. | West Hartlepool | Empire Lionel | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 2 May | Australia | Mort's Dock & Engineering Co | Balmain, New South Wales | Inverell | Bathurst-class corvette | |
| 2 May | United Kingdom | John Brown & Company | Clydebank | Redoubt | R-class destroyer | To India as Ranjit 1949 |
| 4 May | United Kingdom | William Pickersgill & Co. Ltd. | Southwick | Stancleeve | Cargo ship | For Stanhope Steamship Co. Ltd. |
| 5 May | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Edwin Markham | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 5 May | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Jonathan Edwards | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 6 May | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Alexander Macomb | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 6 May | United Kingdom | Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. | Goole | VIC 12 | VIC lighter | For the Admiralty. |
| 7 May | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 May | United States | Western Pipe & Steel | | Prince William | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter for Lend-Lease |
| 9 May | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | George Matthews | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 9 May | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Viscount | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 9 May | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Thomas B. Robertson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 9 May | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | William Ellery | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 May | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Charles C. Pinckney | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 May | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Walt Whitman | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 May | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Eleazar Wheelock | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 May | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Winfield Scott | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 13 May | United Kingdom | Clelands (Successors) Ltd. | Wallsend | Empire Head | Coaster | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 13 May | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | F. A. C. Muhlenberg | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 13 May | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | VIC 8 | VIC lighter | For the War Department. |
| 14 May | United Kingdom | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. | Wallsend | Empire Garrick | Ocean type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 14 May | United Kingdom | William Denny and Bros. Ltd. | Dumbarton | Empire Guinevere | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 14 May | United Kingdom | John Readhead & Sons Ltd. | South Shields | Empire Hazlitt | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 14 May | United Kingdom | J. L. Thompson & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Iseult | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 14 May | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Henry St. G. Tucker | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 May | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Verity | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 May | United Kingdom | Burntisland Shipbuilding Company | Burntisland | Winsor | Collier | For Gas, Light & Coke Co. Ltd. |
| 15 May | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Core | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 15 May | United Kingdom | Short Brothers Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Southey | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 15 May | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | J. L. M. Curry | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 May | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | John Davenport | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 May | United States | Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company | Newport News, Virginia | Mobile | Cleveland-class light cruiser | |
| 16 May | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Abraham Baldwin | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 May | Australia | HMA Naval Dockyard | Melbourne | Horsham | Bathurst-class corvette | |
| 16 May | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | John B. Ashe | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 May | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Mark Twain | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 17 May | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | John Cropper | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 18 May | United Kingdom | Lithgows | Port Glasgow | Empire Galahad | Refrigerated cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 18 May | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Thomas Ruffin | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 May | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | John Page | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 May | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Altamaha | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 22 May | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | Empire Imp | Maple-type tug | For the Admiralty. |
| 22 May | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Irwin MacDowell | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 May | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | James Fenimore Cooper | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 May | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Lewis Morris | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 May | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Michael J. Stone | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 May | United States | Ingalls Shipbuilding | Pascagoula, Mississippi | Mormacpenn | C3 merchant freighter | Converted to escort carrier HMS Hunter in 1943 |
| 22 May | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Viceroy | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 May | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Richard Bassett | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 May | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Stephen F. Austin | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 May | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 May | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Washington Irving | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 May | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | William Johnson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 May | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | William Moultrie | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 May | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | John Schureman | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 May | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Cadmus | Algerine-class Mineweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| 27 May | Sweden | Öresundsvarvet | Landskrona | Munin | Mode-class destroyer | For Swedish Navy |
| 27 May | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Peter Silvester | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 May | United Kingdom | S. P. Austin & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Cormull | C-type coaster | For Wm. Cory & Son Ltd. |
| 28 May | United Kingdom | Clelands (Successors) Ltd. | Willington Quay-on-Tyne | Empire Piper | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 28 May | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Empire Strength | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 28 May | United Kingdom | William Hamilton & Co. Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Matheran | Cargo ship | For T. & J. Brocklebank Ltd. |
| 28 May | United Kingdom | Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. | Paisley | MOWT 7 | Crane barge | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 29 May | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Bret Harte | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 May | United Kingdom | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. | Glasgow | Canara | Cargo ship | For British India Steam Navigation Company. |
| 29 May | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | David S. Terry | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 May | United Kingdom | Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Wordsworth | Norwegian type tanker | For . |
| 29 May | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | Houston City | Cargo ship | For Reardon Smith Line Ltd. |
| 30 May | United Kingdom | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. | Dundee | Activity | Refrigerated cargo ship | For the Admiralty. Completed as escort carrier HMS Activity. |
| 30 May | United Kingdom | Furness Shipbuilding Co Ltd | Haverton Hill-on-Tees | Empire Guidon | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 30 May | United Kingdom | Cochrane & Sons Ltd. | Selby | Empire Pat | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 30 May | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | San Veronico | Tanker | For Eagle Oil & Shipping Co. Ltd. |
| 30 May | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Theodore Bland | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 May | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | William Paca | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 May | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Anne Hutchinson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 May | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | John Marshall | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 May | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Thomas Sumter | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |

## June

| | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 1 June | United Kingdom | Cochrane & Sons Ltd. | Selby | Empire Sam | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 1 June | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | Hardingham | Cargo ship | For Willis Steamship Co. Ltd. |
| 1 June | United Kingdom | Blythswood Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Glasgow | Nassa | Tanker | For Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd. |
| 1 June | United Kingdom | Hawthorn Leslie | Hebburn | Quail | Q-class destroyer | |
| 1 June | United Kingdom | John Brown & Company | Clydebank | Racehorse | R-class destroyer | |
| 2 June | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co. Ltd. | West Hartlepool | Empire Boswell | Scandinavian type cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 2 June | United Kingdom | Scott & Sons | Bowling | Empire Cupid | Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 2 June | United Kingdom | R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Co. Ltd. | Newcastle on Tyne | Nuculana | Tanker | For Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd. |
| 3 June | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Egbert Benson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 3 June | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Virtue | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 June | United Kingdom | J. S. Watson Ltd. | Gainsborough | Empire Meadow | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 4 June | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | John Harvard | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 June | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | VIC 9 | VIC lighter | For the Admiralty. |
| 4 June | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Oliver Ellsworth | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 6 June | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Block Island | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 6 June | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | George B. McClellan | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 June | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Elihu Yale | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 June | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Isaac Coles | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 June | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Jeremiah Van Rensselaer | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 June | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | John Winthrop | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 June | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Valentine | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 8 June | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | James Gunn | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 9 June | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Stephen Johnson Field | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 June | United States | New York Shipbuilding Corporation | Camden, New Jersey | Santa Fe | Cleveland-class light cruiser | |
| 11 June | Australia | Walkers Limited | Maryborough | Bowen | Bathurst-class corvette | |
| 12 June | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Joseph McKenna | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 June | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | William Travis | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 13 June | United Kingdom | Burntisland Shipbuilding Company | Burntisland | Lambrook | Cargo ship | For Austin Friars Steamship Co. |
| 13 June | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ocean Vanquisher | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 June | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Artemis Ward | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 June | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | John Wise | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 June | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Samuel Johnston | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 June | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Theodore Foster | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 June | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | William M. Stewart | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 June | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Benjamin Contee | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 June | United Kingdom | C. Connell & Co. Ltd. | Glasgow | Empire Mordred | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 16 June | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Cornelius Gilliam | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 June | United Kingdom | Furness Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Haverton Hill-on-Tees | Empire Lytton | Norwegian type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 17 June | United Kingdom | Lithgows Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Shahzada | Cargo ship | For Asiatic Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. |
| 18 June | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | George H. Williams | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 18 June | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | John Henry | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 June | Australia | Mort's Dock & Engineering Co | Balmain, New South Wales | Latrobe | Bathurst-class corvette | |
| 19 June | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Mirabeau B. Lamar | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 June | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Willie Van Devanter | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 20 June | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Joseph Hooker | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 20 June | United Kingdom | Yarrow Shipbuilders | Scotstoun, Glasgow | Wensleydale | Hunt-class destroyer | |
| 21 June | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Edward Rutledge | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 June | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | John Steele | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 June | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | William MacLay | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 June | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | George Thacher | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 June | Australia | Poole & Steel | Balmain, New South Wales | Kapunda | Bathurst-class corvette | |
| 23 June | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Matthew P. Deady | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 24 June | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Kale | River-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 25 June | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Benjamin Rush | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 25 June | Canada | Vickers-Armstrongs | Newcastle upon Tyne | Huron | Tribal-class destroyer | |
| 26 June | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | Coombe Hill | Cargo ship | For Putney Hill Steamship Co. Ltd. |
| 26 June | United Kingdom | Lithgows Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Junecrest | Cargo ship | For Crest Shipping Co. Ltd. |
| 26 June | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | William Patterson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 June | United Kingdom | John I. Thornycroft & Company | Woolston, Southamton | Brecon | Hunt-class destroyer | |
| 27 June | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Breton | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 27 June | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Circe | Algerine-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| 27 June | United Kingdom | J. L. Thompson & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Galliard | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 27 June | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Jason Lee | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 June | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Juan Cabrillo | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 June | United States | Permanente Metals | Richmond, California | Ocean Victory | Ocean ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 28 June | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Abel Parker Upshur | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 June | United Kingdom | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company | Dundee | Empire Archer | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 29 June | United Kingdom | Bartram & Sons Ltd | Sunderland | Empire Banner | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 29 June | United Kingdom | Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Collins | Norwegian type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 29 June | United Kingdom | Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd. | Grangemouth | Empire Damsel | Coaster | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 29 June | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co. Ltd. | West Hartlepool | Empire Patriot | Scandinavian type cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 29 June | United Kingdom | Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd. | Newcastle upon Tyne | Empire Standard | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 29 June | United Kingdom | Henry Scarr Ltd | Hessle | Empire Titan | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 29 June | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Francis Parkman | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 June | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | George Ross | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 June | United Kingdom | William Denny & Brothers | Dumbarton | Woodpecker | Modified Black Swan-class sloop | |
| 30 June | United Kingdom | Lithgows Ltd | Port Glasgow | Empire Buckler | Cargo ship | For the Ministry of War Transport |
| 30 June | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co Ltd | West Hartlepool | Empire Clarion | Cargo ship | For the Ministry of War Transport |
| 30 June | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Govan | Empire Metal | Ocean type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 30 June | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | Harpalyce | Cargo ship | For National Steamship Co. Ltd. |
| 30 June | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Henry Clay | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 June | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Junipero Serra | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 June | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Marcus Whitman | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 June | United Kingdom | William Pickersgill & Co. Ltd. | Southwick | Stanhill | Cargo ship | For Stanhope Steamship Co. Ltd. |

## July

| | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 1 July | United Kingdom | Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Thackeray | Scandinavian type cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 3 July | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Benjamin Bourne | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 3 July | United Kingdom | William Denny and Brothers Ltd. | Dumbarton | Cuillin | Ferry | For London, Midland and Scottish Railway. |
| 3 July | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | John Fiske | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 3 July | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | William Hawkins | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 July | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | George Vancouver | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 July | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | James Smith | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 July | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | John McLoughlin | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 July | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Joseph Stanton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 July | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Luther Martin | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 July | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | William Wirt | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 July | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Hugh Williamson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 July | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Jesse Applegate | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 8 July | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | ArthurS Middleton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 8 July | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | Empire Toby | Maple-type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 9 July | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | George Taylor | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 July | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | John A. Sutter | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 July | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Reverdy Johnson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 Julyy | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Daniel Carroll | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 July | United Kingdom | J Samuel White | Cowes | Easton | Hunt-class destroyer | For Royal Navy |
| 11 July | United Kingdom | Richards Ironworks Ltd. | Lowestoft | Empire Reynard | Coaster | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 11 July | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | George Abernethy | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 July | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Richard Henry Dana | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 July | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | William R. Davie | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 13 July | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | John H. B. Latrobe | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 13 July | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Edward Rowland Sill | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 13 July | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Thomas Hooker | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 July | United Kingdom | John Readhead & Sons Ltd. | South Shields | Empire Ruskin | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 14 July | United Kingdom | Scott & Sons Ltd | Bowling | Empire Sinew | Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 14 July | United Kingdom | S. P. Austin & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Firedog | C-type coaster | For Gas, Light & Coke Co. Ltd. |
| 14 July | United Kingdom | Blyth Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd | Blyth, Northumberland | Hartlepool | Bangor-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| 14 July | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Joseph Lane | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 July | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | William Whipple | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 July | United Kingdom | Burntisland Shipbuilding Company | Burntisland | Carlton | Cargo ship | For R. Chapman & Son Ltd. |
| 15 July | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | George Bancroft | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 July | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | George Gale | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 July | United Kingdom | John Brown & Company | Clydebank | Relentless | R-class destroyer | |
| 15 July | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Richard H. Alvey | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 July | United Kingdom | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. | Wallsend | Empire Reynolds | Ocean type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 16 July | United Kingdom | Cammell Laird | Birkenhead | Rapid | R-class destroyer | |
| 16 July | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Ravager | Attacker-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter for Lend-Lease |
| 18 July | United States | Ingalls Shipbuilding | Pascagoula, Mississippi | St. George | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 19July | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | Elias Howe | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 July | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Harvey W. Scott | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 July | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | James Ford Rhodes | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 July | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | William Gaston | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 20 July | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | VIC 10 | VIC lighter | For the Admiralty. |
| 21 July | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | James W. Nesmith | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 July | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | John Morton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 July | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | William H. Prescott | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 July | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Joaquin Miller | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 July | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | John Walker | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 July | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Alexander H. Stephens | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 July | United Kingdom | Ferguson Brothers Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Empire Warlock | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 24 July | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Francis Lewis | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 24 July | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Hilson R. Helper | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 24 July | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | John C. Ainsworth | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 25 July | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | John P. Poe | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 25 July | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Nicholas Gilman | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 July | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | William A. Graham | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 July | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | William F. Cody | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 July | United Kingdom | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. | Newcastle upon Tyne | Tuzla | Ferry | For Turkish Government, owned by Ministry of War Transport before transfer to Turkish Government on 18 November 1943. |
| 27 July | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | William P. McArthur | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 July | United States | Fore River Shipyard | Quincy, Massachusetts | Baltimore | Baltimore-class heavy cruiser | |
| 28 July | United Kingdom | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. | Wallsend | City of Bristol | Cargo ship | For Ellerman's City Line Ltd. |
| 28 July | United Kingdom | | | Cygnet | Modified Black Swan-class sloop | |
| 28 July | United Kingdom | Short Brothers Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Webster | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 28 July | United Kingdom | Blyth Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd | Blyth, Northumberland | Greenock | Bangor-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| 28 July | United Kingdom | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company | Greenock | Mahratta | M-class destroyer | |
| 29 July | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Bernard Carter | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 July | United Kingdom | Greenock Dockyard Co. Ltd. | Greenock | Empire Wisdom | Cargo liner | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 29 July | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Lew Wallace | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 July | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Robert F. Stockton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 July | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | VIC 21 | VIC lighter | For the Admiralty. |
| 30 July | United Kingdom | Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd. | Birkenhead | British Promise | Tanker | For British Tanker Co. Ltd. |
| 30 July | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co Ltd | West Hartlepool | Empire Centaur | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 30 July | United Kingdom | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. | Barrow in Furness | Empire Elaine | Heavy lift ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 30 July | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | George Read | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 July | United Kingdom | J. L. Thompson & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Thistledale | Cargo ship | For The Albyn Line Ltd. |
| 30 July | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | William B. Giles | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 July | United States | Newport News Shipbuilding | Newport News, Virginia | Essex | Essex-class aircraft carrier | |
| 31 July | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Eugene Skinner | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 July | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | John Carter Rose | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 July | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Starr King | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 July | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Thomas Heyward | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |

## August

| | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 1 August | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Croatan | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 2 August | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | James K. Polk | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 2 August | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Samuel Griffin | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 3 August | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Roger Sherman | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 August | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Leland Stanford | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 August | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Ocean Courier | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 August | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Ocean Gallant | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 August | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Ocean Seaman | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 August | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Ocean Stranger | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 August | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Ocean Traveller | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 August | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Ocean Wayfarer | Ocean ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 5 August | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Daniel H. Lownsdale | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 6 August | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | John Hamilton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 August | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Oliver Wolcott | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 August | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Elijah White | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 August | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | William Tilghman | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 8 August | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Empire Fusilier | Ocean type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. Completed as Empire Bombardier. |
| 8 August | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Jonathan Grout | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 8 August | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | O. Henry | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 8 August | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Francis Drake | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 9 August | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Daniel Huger | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 August | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Benjamin Chew | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 August | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Peter H. Burnett | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 August | United Kingdom | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd | Newcastle upon Tyne | Empire Dace | Ferry | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 11 August | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Harry Lane | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 August | United Kingdom | William Denny & Brothers | Dumbarton | Wren | Modified Black Swan-class sloop | |
| 12 August | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Espiegle | Algerine-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| 12 August | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Matthew Thornton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 August | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Samuel Hartley | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 13 August | United Kingdom | Ailsa Shipbuilding & Co. Ltd. | Troon | Empire Launcelot | Scandinavian type cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 13 August | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Ewing Young | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 August | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | F. Marion Crawford | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 August | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | George Chamberlain | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 August | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Jared Ingersoll | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 August | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Judah P. Bellingham | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 August | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Peter Cartwright | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 August | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Alexander Martin | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 August | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Ethan Allen | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 August | United States | Todd Shipyards Corp. | South Portland, Maine | Ocean Gallant | Ocean ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 16 August | United States | Todd Shipyards Corp. | South Portland, Maine | Ocean Seaman | Ocean ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 16 August | United States | Todd Shipyards Corp. | South Portland, Maine | Ocean Stranger | Ocean ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 16 August | United States | Todd Shipyards Corp. | South Portland, Maine | Ocean Traveller | Ocean ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 16 August | United States | Todd Shipyards Corp. | South Portland, Maine | Ocean Wayfarer | Ocean ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 17 August | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Brigham Young | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 17 August | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Jonathan Herrington | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 17 August | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Richard Stockton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 18 August | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Pierce Butler | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 August | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Horace Binney | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 August | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Horace Mann | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 August | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Theodore Sedgwick | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 20 August | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | George Leonard | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 20 August | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | William H. Seward | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 August | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | John Sergeant | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 August | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Joseph Rodman Drake | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 August | United Kingdom | J. Bolson & Son Ltd. | Poole | MMS 233 | MMS-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| 21 August | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | William Williams | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 August | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Daniel Heister | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 August | United States | New York Shipbuilding | New York City | Independence | Independence-class light aircraft carrier | Converted cruiser hull |
| 22 August | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Jane Addams | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 August | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Gideon Welles | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 August | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Prince William | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 23 August | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Thomas Pinckney | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 25 August | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Clara Barton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 25 August | United Kingdom | Furness Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Haverton Hill-on-Tees | Empire Grenadier | Norwegian type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 25 August | United Kingdom | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd | Newcastle upon Tyne | Empire Roach | Ferry | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 25 August | United Kingdom | Vickers-Armstrongs | Newcastle upon Tyne | Haida | Tribal-class destroyer | |
| 25 August | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Jefferson Davis | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 25 August | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co. Ltd. | West Hartlepool | Nordeflinge | Cargo ship | For Constants Ltd. |
| 25 August | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | Tower Hill | Cargo ship | For Tower Steamship Co. Ltd. |
| 25 August | United Kingdom | Yarrow Shipbuilders | Scoutstoun, Glasgow | Whimbrel | Modified Black Swan-class sloop | |
| 25 August | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | William Rawle | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 August | United States | Fore River Shipyard | Quincy, Massachusetts | Boston | Baltimore-class heavy cruiser | |
| 26 August | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Edwin M. Stanton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 August | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Eli Whitney | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 August | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Black Prince | Dido-class cruiser | For Royal Navy. |
| 27 August | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Empire Castle | Refrigerated cargo liner | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 27 August | United Kingdom | Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Cavalier | Norwegian type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 27 August | United Kingdom | Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd. | Troon | Empire Melody | Scandinavian type cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 27 August | United Kingdom | A. Hall & Co. Ltd. | Aberdeen | Empire Ned | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 27 August | United Kingdom | Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. | Goole | Empire Pixie | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 27 August | United States | New York Navy Yard | Brooklyn, New York | Iowa | Iowa-class battleship | |
| 27 August | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Pierre S. Dupont | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 August | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Tristram Dalton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 August | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | William Ellery Channing | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 August | United Kingdom | Burntisland Shipbuilding Company | Burntisland | Cormain | Collier | For Wm. Cory & Son Ltd. |
| 28 August | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | Harpagus | Cargo ship | For National Steamship Co. Ltd. |
| 28 August | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | John Fitch | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 August | United Kingdom | J. L. Thompson & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Middlesex Trader | Cargo ship | For Trader Navigation Co. Ltd. |
| 29 August | United Kingdom | Bartram & Sons Ltd | Sunderland | Empire Kinsman | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 29 August | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | William Dean Howells | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 August | United States | Newport News Shipbuilding | Newport News, Virginia | Intrepid | Essex-class aircraft carrier | |
| 30 August | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | William Blount | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 August | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Cleveland Abbe | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 August | United Kingdom | A. & J. Inglis Ltd. | Glasgow | Empire Gypsy | Coastal tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 31 August | United Kingdom | Lithgows Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Empire Lancer | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 31 August | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | John Howard Payne | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 August | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Jonathan Elmer | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 August | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Thomas Lynch | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 August | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Thomas T. Tucker | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 August | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Wendell Phillips | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| August | United Kingdom | Isaac Pimblott & Sons Ltd. | Northwich | VIC 14 | VIC lighter | For the Admiralty. |

## September

| | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 1 September | United Kingdom | C. Connell & Co. Ltd. | Glasgow | Empire Geraint | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 2 September | United Kingdom | John Crown & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Frank | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 2 September | United Kingdom | Lithgows Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Empire Pibroch | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 2 September | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | VIC 22 | VIC lighter | For the Admiralty. |
| 3 September | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Andrew Carnegie | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 September | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Ambrose E. Burnside | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 September | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Felipe de Neve | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 5 September | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | John Drayton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 September | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Andrew Furuseth | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 September | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Andrew Moore | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 September | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Benjamin Hawkins | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 September | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Charles Brantly Aycock | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 September | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Glacier | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 7 September | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | James Duncan | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 September | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | James G. Blaine | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 September | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Jeremiah Wadsworth | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 September | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | John Mitchell | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 September | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | John W. Brown | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 September | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Peter J. McGuire | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 September | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Samuel Gompers | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 8 September | United Kingdom | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. | Dundee | Lapland | Cargo ship | For Currie Line Ltd. |
| 9 September | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | George H. Thomas | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 9 September | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Horace Greely | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 9 September | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Philip H. Sheridan | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 September | United Kingdom | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd | Newcastle upon Tyne | Empire Cadet | Ferry | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 10 September | United Kingdom | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. | Newcastle upon Tyne | Empire Chub | Ferry | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 10 September | United Kingdom | Henry Robb Ltd. | Leith | Growler | Bustler-class tug | For the Admiralty. |
| 11 September | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Benjamin Huntington | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 September | United Kingdom | A. Hall & Co. Ltd. | Aberdeen | Empire Fred | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 11 September | United Kingdom | William Pickersgill & Co. Ltd. | Southwick | Empire Hunter | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 11 September | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Henry Ward Beecher | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 September | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Richard D. Spaight | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 September | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | William S. Rosecrans | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 September | United Kingdom | J. Samuel White | Cowes | Eggesford | Hunt-class destroyer | Sold to Federal German Navy in 1959 as Brommy |
| 12 September | United Kingdom | Cochrane & Sons Ltd. | Selby | Empire Ace | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 12 September | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Joel Chandler Harris | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 13 September | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Moses Rogers | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 13 September | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Ralph Izard | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 September | United Kingdom | John Readhead & Sons Ltd. | South Shields | Empire Lakeland | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 14 September | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Henry Villard | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 September | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | James Gordon Bennett | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 September | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | David Bushnell | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 17 September | United States | Electric Boat Company | Groton, Connecticut | Hoe | Gato-class submarine | |
| 17 September | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Samuel Ashe | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 17 September | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Samue Seabury | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 18 September | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | John Laurance | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 18 September | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Joseph Pulitzer | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 18 September | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-446 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 19 September | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Chatham | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter for Lend-Lease |
| 19 September | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | James Caldwell | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 September | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | James Rumsey | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 September | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | William K. Vanderbilt | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 20 September | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | Empire Ariel | Maple-type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 20 September | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Mark Hanna | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 September | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Caesar Rodney | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 September | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Malcolm M. Stewart | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 September | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Fantome | Algerine-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| 22 September | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | John Stevens | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 September | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-447 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 22 September | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Nicholas Biddle | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 September | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Samuel Livermore | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 September | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Benjamin Williams | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 September | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Empire Grange | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 23 September | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | George A. Custer | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 September | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Jospeh N. Teal | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 September | United States | Bethlehem Steel Company | Quincy, Massachusetts | Lexington | Essex-class aircraft carrier | |
| 23 September | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff Ltd. | Govan | San Vulfrano | Tanker | For Eagle Oil Co. Ltd. |
| 24 September | United Kingdom | S. P. Austin & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Bushwood | C-type coaster | For . |
| 24 September | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co Ltd | West Hartlepool | Empire Driver | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 24 September | United Kingdom | | | Chanticleer | Modified Black Swan-class sloop | |
| 24 September | United Kingdom | Scott & Sons Ltd. | Bowling | Empire Minnow | Modified Warrior-type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 24 September | United Kingdom | Hawthorn Leslie | Newcastle upon Tyne | Savage | Modified S-class destroyer | |
| 24 September | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | HMS Thruster | Tank Landing Craft | For Royal Navy. |
| 25 September | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | Bardistan | Cargo ship | For Strick Line (1923) Ltd. |
| 25 September | United Kingdom | Short Brothers Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Envoy | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 25 September | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co. Ltd. | West Hartlepool | Empire Lorenzo | Scandinavian type cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 25 September | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | George G. Meade | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 25 September | Australia | Cockatoo Island Dockyard | Sydney | Glenelg | Bathurst-class corvette | |
| 25 September | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Henry George | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 25 September | United Kingdom | Burntisland Shipbuilding Company | Burntisland | Highland Prince | Cargo ship | For Prince Line Ltd. |
| 25 September | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | James J. Hill | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 25 September | United Kingdom | R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Co. Ltd. | Newcastle on Tyne | Naticina | Tanker | For Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd. |
| 26 September | United Kingdom | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. | Wallsend | British Gratitude | Tanker | For British Tanker Co. Ltd. |
| 26 September | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Edward Everett | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 September | United Kingdom | Cochrane & Sons Ltd. | Selby | Empire Denis | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 26 September | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | George Weems | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 September | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Josiah Parker | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 September | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-448 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 26 September | United States | Marinship Corporation | Sausalito, California | William A. Richardson | Liberty ship | For United States Maritime Commission. |
| 27 September | United States | Western Pipe & Steel | | Attacker | Attacker-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 27 September | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Fitzjohn Porter | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 September | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Josiah Bartlett | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 September | United Kingdom | Furness Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Haverton Hill-on-Tees | Empire Nugget | Norwegian type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 28 September | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Samuel F. B. Morse | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 September | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Booker T. Washington | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 September | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | James Turner | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 September | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | John Rutledge | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 September | United Kingdom | J. L. Thompson & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Thistlemuir | Cargo ship | For The Albyn Line Ltd. |
| 30 September | United Kingdom | Lithgows Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Empire Pennant | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 30 September | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | James McNeill Whistler | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 September | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-449 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 30 September | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Nathaniel Bacon | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 September | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Samuel Heintzelman | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |

## October

| | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 2 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Cyrus H. McCormick | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 2 October | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Salmon P. Chase | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 October | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | James B. McPherson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-450 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 4 October | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Nathaniel Alexander | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 October | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | VIC 23 | VIC lighter | For the Admiralty. |
| 5 October | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Stephen Girard | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 6 October | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Herman Melville | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 6 October | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Houston Volunteers | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 6 October | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-451 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 7 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | James B. Francis | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 October | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | John Sedgwick | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 October | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Pybus | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 7 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | William Cushing | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 8 October | United Kingdom | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. | Dundee | Ascot | Cargo ship | For Britain Steamship Co. |
| 8 October | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Henry Dearborn | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 8 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | John James Audubon | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 9 October | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Joshua Seney | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 9 October | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-401 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 9 October | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | William Lloyd Garrison | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 October | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Cardinal Gibbons | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 October | United Kingdom | Blyth Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd | Blyth, Northumberland | Dart | River-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 10 October | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | David Stone | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 October | United Kingdom | Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd. | Grangemouth | Empire Clansman | Icemaid type collier | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 10 October | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Grace Abbott | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 October | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-452 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 10 October | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-453 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 10 October | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Mutine | Algerine-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| 10 October | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Thomas Scott | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 October | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | James B. Stephens | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 October | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Smith Thompson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 October | United Kingdom | Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. | Goole | Empire Faun | Coastal tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 12 October | United Kingdom | Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. | Goole | Empire Harry | Larch-class tug | For the Admiralty. |
| 12 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | John Blair | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 13 October | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Gabriel Duval | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 13 October | United Kingdom | Cammell Laird | Birkenhead | Kite | Modified Black Swan-class sloop | |
| 13 October | United Kingdom | Blythswood Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Glasgow | Naranio | Tanker | For Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd. |
| 14 October | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-454 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 14 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Richard Jordan Gatling | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 October | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Samuel Colt | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 October | United Kingdom | Fairfield | Govan, Glasgow | Starling | Modified Black Swan-class sloop | |
| 14 October | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Thomas Sinnickson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 October | United Kingdom | Yarrow Shipbuilders | Scoutstoun, Glasgow | Wild Goose | Modified Black Swan-class sloop | |
| 15 October | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | A. P. Hill | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 October | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | James B. Richardson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 October | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Joseph Story | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Charles M. Hall | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 October | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-401 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 16 October | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Tabitha Brown | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 October | United States | Marinship Corporation | Sausalito, California | William T. Coleman | Liberty ship | For United States Maritime Commission. |
| 17 October | United Kingdom | J Harker Ltd. | Knottingley | Empire Reaper | Severn type collier | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 17 October | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-455 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 17 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Robert H. Harrison | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 18 October | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Alexander Graham Bell | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 18 October | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Baffins | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 18 October | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Henry Baldwin | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 18 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | John F. Appleby | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 18 October | United States | Todd Shipyards Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Ocean Crusader | Ocean ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 18 October | United States | Todd Shipyards Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Ocean Glory | Ocean ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 18 October | United States | Todd Shipyards Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Ocean Gypsy | Ocean ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 18 October | United States | New York Shipbuilding | New York City | Princeton | Independence-class light aircraft carrier | Converted cruiser hull |
| 19 October | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Israel Putman | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 20 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | George Westinghouse | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 20 October | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Jonathan Sturges | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 20 October | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-456 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 20 October | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Paul Hamilton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 20 October | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Thomas A. Edison | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 October | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Brockholst Livingston | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 October | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | William King | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 October | United Kingdom | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. | Glasgow | Chyebassa | Cargo ship | For British India Steam Navigation Company. |
| 23 October | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | Harlesden | Cargo ship | For J. & C. Harrison Ltd. |
| 23 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | John Bartram | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 October | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | John Deere | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | John McLean | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 October | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-457 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 23 October | United States | Bethlehem Steel Company | San Francisco | Oakland | Atlanta-class light cruiser | |
| 24 October | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Bruiser | Tank Landing Craft | For Royal Navy. |
| 24 October | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co. Ltd. | West Hartlepool | Empire Record | Scandinavian type cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 24 October | United States | Basalt Rock Company | Napa, California | Gear | Diver-class rescue and salvage ship | |
| 24 October | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-403 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 24 October | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Thomas Johnson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 24 October | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Thomas Sim Lee | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 25 October | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Charles Goodyear | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 25 October | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | Empire Seraph | Maple-type tug | For the Admiralty. |
| 25 October | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Henry Middleton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 October | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-458 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 26 October | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Philip P. Barbour | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 October | United Kingdom | Greenock Dockyard Co. Ltd. | Greenock | Bonaventure | Cargo ship | For the Admiralty. Completed as HMS Bonaventure. |
| 27 October | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Elmer A. Sperry | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | G. H. Corliss | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 October | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | James Bowie | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 October | United Kingdom | Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd. | Linthouse | Papanui | Refrigerated cargo liner | For New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. |
| 27 October | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Richmond Mumford Pearson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 October | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Benjamin Smith | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 October | United Kingdom | Lithgows Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Coulgorm | Cargo ship | For Dornoch Shipping Co. Ltd. |
| 28 October | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-404 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 28 October | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-405 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 28 October | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-406 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 28 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Noah H. Swayne | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 October | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Onyx | Algerine-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| 28 October | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Peter V. Daniel | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 October | United Kingdom | Scotts Shipbuilding | Greenock | Rocket | R-class destroyer | |
| 29 October | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Govan | Empire Torrent | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 29 October | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | John P. Holland | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 October | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-459 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 30 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Richard March Hoe | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 October | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Samuel Nelson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 October | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Cotton Mather | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 October | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | James Longstreet | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 October | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | John Carver | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| date | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Joseph Carver | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 October | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-408 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 31 October | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-460 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 31 October | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Robert C. Grier | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 October | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Samuel F. Miller | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| October | United Kingdom | Isaac Pimblott & Sons Ltd. | Northwich | VIC 15 | VIC lighter | For the Admiralty. |

## November

| | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 1 November | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Collis P. Huntington | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 1 November | United States | Consolidated Steel Corporation | Orange, Texas | Edsall | Edsall-class destroyer escort | |
| 1 November | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | S. M. Babcock | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 2 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Elihu Thomson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 3 November | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Benjamin R. Curtis | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 3 November | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-461 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 4 November | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Charles Gordon Curtis | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | George B. Selden | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 5 November | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-407 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 5 November | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Marion McKinley Bovard | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 5 November | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | VIC 24 | VIC lighter | For the Ministry of Supply. |
| 6 November | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Cornelius Harnett | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 6 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | David Davis | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 6 November | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-462 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 6 November | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Wade Hampton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | John B. Floyd | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 November | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Jonathan Trumball | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 November | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Samuel Parker | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 November | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | William Eaton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 8 November | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Will Rogers | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 9 November | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | Bradford City | Cargo ship | For Leeds Shipping Co. Ltd. |
| 9 November | United Kingdom | | | Crane | Modified Black Swan-class sloop | |
| 9 November | United Kingdom | John Readhead and Sons | South Shields | Empire Fortune | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 9 November | United Kingdom | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. | Wallsend | Empire Portia | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 9 November | United Kingdom | J. L. Thompson & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Essex Trader | Cargo ship | For Trader Navigatinon Co. Ltd. |
| 9 November | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | James B. Eads | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 9 November | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-411 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 6 November | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-463 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 9 November | United Kingdom | William Pickersgill & Co. Ltd. | Southwick | Stanlodge | Cargo ship | For Stanhope Steamship Co. Ltd. |
| 9 November | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Stephen M. White | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 November | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co Ltd | West Hartlepool | Empire Cato | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 10 November | United Kingdom | Rowhedge Ironworks Ltd | Rowhedge | Empire Homestead | Empire Lad-class coastal tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 10 November | United Kingdom | Ailsa Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Troon | Empire Pioneer | Icemaid type collier | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 10 November | United Kingdom | Burntisland Shipbuilding Company | Burntisland | Empire Rosalind | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 10 November | United Kingdom | Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. | Goole | Empire Rupert | Larch-class tug | For the Admiralty. |
| 10 November | United Kingdom | Henry Robb Ltd. | Leith | Hesper | Bustler-class tug | For the Admiralty. |
| 10 November | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-413 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 10 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Morrison R. Waite | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Nathaniel Bowditch | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 November | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Bastian | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter for Lend-Lease |
| 11 November | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Bolinas | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter |
| 11 November | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding | Wilmington, North Carolina | Henry Bacon | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 November | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Hubert Howe Bancroft | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 November | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Joseph Gale | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 November | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Thomas J. Rusk | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 November | United States | Marinship Corporation | Sausalito, California | William Kent | Liberty ship | For United States Maritime Commission. |
| 11 November | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | William P. Fessenden | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 November | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Winslow Homer | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 November | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Daniel Chester French | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 November | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-464 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 12 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Robert E. Peary | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Charles M. Conrad | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 November | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Lincoln Steffens | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 November | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Peter Skene Ogden | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 November | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | William Bradford | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 November | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Abner Nash | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 November | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-409 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 15 November | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-410 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 15 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Melville W. Fuller | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 November | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | James W. Marshall | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 November | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Joseph E. Johnston | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 November | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Joseph L. Meek | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 November | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Lambert Cadwalader | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 November | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-412 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 18 November | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | George Chaffey | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 18 November | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-466 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 18 November | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Samuel L. Tilden | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 November | United Kingdom | Sir W G Armstrong, Whitworth & Co (Shipbuilders) Ltd | Newcastle upon Tyne | Empire Claymore | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 19 November | United Kingdom | Furness Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Haverton Hill-on-Tees | Empire Cobbett | Norwegian type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 20 November | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Abner Doubleday | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 20 November | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | J. E. B. Stuart | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 20 November | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Joseph Alston | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 20 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Joseph Holt | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 20 November | United Kingdom | Fleming & Ferguson Ltd. | Paisley | MOWT 8 | Crane barge | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 20 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Stanley Matthews | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 November | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Darro | Refrigerated cargo ship | For Royal Mail Line. |
| 21 November | United Kingdom | C Connell & Co Ltd | Scotstoun | Empire Carpenter | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 21 November | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Frank Joseph Irwin | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 November | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | James Hoban | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 November | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-414 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 21 November | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-467 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 22 November | United States | Basalt Rock Company | Napa, California | Escape | Diver-class rescue and salvage ship | |
| 22 November | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | George W. Goethals | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 November | United States | Marinship Corporation | Sausalito, California | John Muir | Liberty ship | For United States Maritime Commission. |
| 23 November | United Kingdom | S. P. Austin & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Betty Hindley | C-type coaster | For Stephenson, Clarke Ltd. |
| 23 November | United Kingdom | Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd. | Grangemouth | Bucklaw | Icemaid type collier | For G. Gibson & Co. Ltd. |
| 23 November | United Kingdom | Henry Scarr Ltd | Hessle | Empire Oberon | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 23 November | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Helen Hunt Jackson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | John M. Schofield | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 November | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | John Vining | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 November | United Kingdom | J. Samuel White | Cowes | Stevenstone | Hunt-class destroyer | |
| 23 November | United Kingdom | Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Wearfield | Tanker | For Northern Petroleum Tank Steamship Co. Ltd. |
| 24 November | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff Ltd | Belfast | Empire Benefit | Ocean type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 24 November | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-417 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 24 November | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-468 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 24 November | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Paul Hamilton Hayne | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 24 November | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Govan | Tweed | River-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 25 November | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Abel Stearns | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 25 November | United Kingdom | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd | Barrow in Furness | Empire Charmian | Heavy lift ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 25 November | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | William T. Sherman | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 November | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Augustine Heard | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Daniel J. Brewer | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 November | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Daniel Willard | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 November | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Henry Wyndkoop | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 November | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | John Murray Forbes | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 November | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Julia Ward Howe | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 November | United States | Marinship Corporation | Sausalito, California | Lyman Beecher | Liberty ship | For United States Maritime Commission. |
| 26 November | United Kingdom | Lithgows Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Triona | Cargo ship | For British Phosphate Commissioners. |
| 26 November | United Kingdom | | | Woodcock | Modified Black Swan-class sloop | |
| 27 November | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Benjamin Ide Wheeler | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | John A. Rawlins | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 November | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-469 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 27 November | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Marshall Elliott | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 November | United States | Walsh-Kaiser Company | Providence, Rhode Island | William Coddington | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 November | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Amos G. Throop | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 November | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Frank B. Kellogg | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | George W. McCrary | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 November | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Thaddeus Kosciuszko | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 November | United Kingdom | Bartram & Sons Ltd | Sunderland | Empire Prospero | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 29 November | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | James Iredell | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 November | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Pierre LaClede | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 November | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Carls Schurz | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 November | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Clark Mills | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 November | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-416 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 30 November | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-418 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 30 November | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-470 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |

## December

| | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 1 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Alexander Ramsey | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 1 December | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Penelope Barker | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 1 December | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | William Mulholland | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 2 December | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Henry Barnard | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 2 December | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | John B. Hood | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 3 December | Australia | Poole & Steel | Sydney | Cootamundra | Bathurst-class corvette | |
| 3 December | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-471 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 3 December | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Samuel Jordan Kirkwood | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 4 December | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Gaspar De Portola | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 5 December | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | John S. Copley | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 5 December | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-420 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 5 December | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-421 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 6 December | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Alexander Lillington | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 6 December | United States | New York Shipbuilding | New York City | Belleau Wood | Independence-class light aircraft carrier | Converted cruiser hull |
| 6 December | United Kingdom | Blyth Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co Ltd | Blyth | Empire Rosa | Tug | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 6 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Frederic Remington | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 December | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Alexander White | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 December | United Kingdom | Blyth Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd | Blyth, Northumberland | Ballinderry | River-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 7 December | United States | Bethlehem Steel Company | Quincy, Massachusetts | Bunker Hill | Essex-class aircraft carrier | |
| 7 December | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Charles Willson Peale | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 December | United States | Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation | Savannah, Georgia | George Handley | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 December | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-472 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 7 December | United States | Philadelphia Navy Yard | Philadelphia | New Jersey | Iowa-class battleship | |
| 7 December | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Pearl Harbor | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Robert T. Lincoln | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 7 December | United States | Marinship Corporation | Sausalito, California | Philip Kearny | Liberty ship | For United States Maritime Commission. |
| 7 December | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Sebastian Viscaino | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 8 December | Hong Kong | Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd. | Hong Kong | Empire Lanter | Cargo ship | For Japanese Government. Completed at Gyoku Maru. |
| 8 December | United States | William Cramp & Sons | Philadelphia | Miami | Cleveland-class light cruiser | |
| 8 December | United Kingdom | Short Brothers Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Bardolph | Refrigerated cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 8 December | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co. Ltd. | West Hartlepool | Empire Candida | Scandinavian type cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 8 December | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | William Brewster | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 9 December | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Edwin Booth | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 9 December | United Kingdom | Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd. | Grangemouth | Fireguard | Icemaid type collier | For Gas, Light & Coke Co. Ltd. |
| 9 December | United Kingdom | Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd. | Birkenhead | John Holt | Cargo ship | For John Holt Ltd. |
| 9 December | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-473 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 9 December | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Luis Arguello | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 9 December | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Rattler | Algerine-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| 9 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | William C. Endicott | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 December | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-422 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 10 December | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Richard Caswell | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 10 December | United Kingdom | Scotts Shipbuilding | Greenock | Roebuck | R-class destroyer | |
| 10 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Walter Colton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 December | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Joseph Jefferson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 11 December | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-426 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 11 December | United Kingdom | William Denny and Brothers Ltd. | Dumbarton | Pegu | Cargo ship | For British & Burmese Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. |
| 11 December | United Kingdom | Yarrow Shipbuilders | Scoutstoun, Glasgow | Pheasant | Modified Black Swan-class sloop | |
| 12 December | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Abraham Lincoln | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 December | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Archbishop Lamy | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 December | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Big Foot Wallace | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 12 December | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Boxer | Tank Landing Craft | For Royal Navy. |
| 12 December | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-424 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 12 December | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-425 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 12 December | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-474 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 12 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Redfield Proctor | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 13 December | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | King S. Woolsey | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 13 December | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Pocahontas | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 13 December | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Richard Mansfield | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | David Gaillard | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 14 December | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Mayo Brothers | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 December | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Benjamin H. Latrobe | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 December | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | John Burke | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 15 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | J. Sterling Morton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 16 December | United States | Kaiser Company | Vancouver, Washington | LST-475 | Landing Ship, Tank | For United States Navy. |
| 17 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Henry J. Raymond | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 17 December | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Jim Bridger | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 17 December | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Louis McLane | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 17 December | United Kingdom | Burntisland Shipbuilding Company | Burntisland | Windsor Queen | Cargo ship | For British Channel Islands Shipping Co. Ltd. |
| 18 December | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Amelia Earhart | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 18 December | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Christopher Gadsden | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 18 December | United Kingdom | J. L. Thompson & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Brutus | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 19 December | United States | Basalt Rock Company | Napa, California | Diver | Diver-class rescue and salvage ship | |
| 19 December | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Ezra Meeker | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | George H. Dern | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 December | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | John Bidwell | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 December | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Lord Delaware | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 19 December | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-427 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 20 December | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | Jersey Hart | Cargo ship | For Nolisement Steamship Co. Ltd. |
| 20 December | United States | Marinship Corporation | Sausalito, California | Thomas Hart Benton | Liberty ship | For United States Maritime Commission. |
| 20 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | William G. McAdoo | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 December | United Kingdom | Furness Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Haverton Hill-on-Tees | British Vigour | Tanker | For British Tanker Co. Ltd. |
| 21 December | United Kingdom | Lithgows Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Cape Howe | Cargo ship | For Cape of Good Hope Motorship Co Ltd. |
| 21 December | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | James Madison | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 21 December | United Kingdom | John I. Thornycroft & Company | | Narbada | Black Swan-class sloop | |
| 21 December | United Kingdom | Barclay Curle | Glasgow | Empire Courage | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 21 December | United Kingdom | Scott & Sons Ltd. | Bowling | Empire Titania | Modified Warrior-type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 21 December | United Kingdom | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. | Dundee | Norman Monarch | Cargo ship | For Monarch Steamship Co. Ltd. |
| 22 December | United Kingdom | Blythswood Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Glasgow | Airsprite | Sprite-class tanker | For Royal Fleet Auxiliary. |
| 22 December | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Betty Zane | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 December | United Kingdom | J. S. Watson Ltd. | Gainsborough | Empire Ben | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 22 December | United Kingdom | Clelands (Successors) Ltd. | Wallsend | Empire Sandy | Larch-class tug | For the Admiralty. |
| 22 December | United Kingdom | William Doxford & Sons Ltd. | Pallion | English Prince | Cargo ship | For Prince Line Ltd. |
| 22 December | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Hugh S. Legare | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Key Pittman | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Leslie M. Shaw | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 22 December | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-428 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 22 December | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | LST-430 | Landing Ship, Tank | For Royal Navy. |
| 22 December | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Sacajawea | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 December | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | David G. Farragut | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 December | United Kingdom | Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Commerce | Intermediate type tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 23 December | United Kingdom | Burntisland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Burntisland | Empire MacAlpine | MAC ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 23 December | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co. Ltd. | West Hartlepool | Empire Mortimer | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 23 December | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Empire Nerissa | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 23 December | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | James Buchanan | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 23 December | United States | Bethlehem Steel Company | San Francisco | Reno | Atlanta-class light cruiser | |
| 23 December | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Rowallan Castle | Refrigerated cargo ship | For Union-Castle Line. |
| 24 December | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Chief Washakie | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 24 December | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | James J. Pettigrew | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 24 December | United States | Delta Shipbuilding | New Orleans, Louisiana | Pat Harrison | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 26 December | United Kingdom | A. & J. Inglis Ltd. | Glasgow | Empire Fay | Coastal tanker | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 26 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | George B. Cortelyou | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 December | United States | New England Shipbuilding Corporation | South Portland, Maine | Anne Bradstreet | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 December | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | Daniel H. Hill | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 December | United States | Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation | Savannah, Georgia | James Jackson | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 December | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | John M. Clayton | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 27 December | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | William E. Borah | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Chief Ouray | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 December | United Kingdom | Lithgows Ltd. | Port Glasgow | Empire Treasure | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 28 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Frederick Jackson Turner | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 December | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | M. M. Guhin | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 December | United States | Western Pipe and Steel Company | San Pedro, California | Staten Island | Wind-class icebreaker | For Lend-Lease |
| 28 December | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Willard Hall | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 December | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | William L. Marcy | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 28 December | United States | Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard | Baltimore, Maryland | Woodbridge N. Ferris | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 29 December | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | Empire Laird | Severn type collier | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 29 December | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Lewis Cass | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 December | United States | Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard | Tacoma | Carnegie | Bogue-class escort carrier | Converted C3 merchant freighter for Lend-Lease |
| 30 December | United States | Todd Houston Shipbuilding Corporation | Houston, Texas | Champ Clark | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 December | United States | J. A. Jones Construction Company | Panama City, Florida | E. Kirby Smith | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 December | United States | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company | Wilmington, North Carolina | George Davis | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 30 December | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Jeremiah S. Black | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 December | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Colin P. Kelly Jr. | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 December | United States | California Shipbuilding Corporation | Los Angeles, California | Elihu B. Washburne | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 December | United Kingdom | John Crown & Sons Ltd. | Sunderland | Empire Demon | Near-Warrior type tug | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| 31 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | George S. Boutwell | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 December | United States | Basalt Rock Company | Napa, California | Grapple | Diver-class rescue and salvage ship | |
| 31 December | United States | Permamente Metals Corporation | Richmond, California | Joseph G. Cannon | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 December | United States | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation | Portland, Oregon | Lindley M. Garrison | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| 31 December | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Simon Willard | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| December | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | John T. Walsh | Tug | For Mobile Towing. |

## Unknown date

| | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | J. Harker Ltd. | Knottingley | Barnsdale H. | Motor barge | For J. Harker Ltd. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | W. J. Yarwood & Sons Ltd. | Northwich | Bishops Terrier | Lighter | For Liverpool Lighterage Co. Ltd. and/or Bishops Wharf Carrying Co. Ltd. |
| Unknown date | Germany | Norderwerft Koser und Meyer | Hamburg | Boelke | Karl Meyer-class seaplane tender | For the Luftwaffe |
| Unknown date | | | | Danisch Wold | Coastal tanker | |
| Unknown date | Hong Kong | Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Company of Hong Kong Ltd | Hong Kong | Empire Blossom | Cargo ship | For the Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Unknown date | Norway | Akers Mekaniske Verksted | Oslo | Flandern | Whaler | Requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine on completion |
| Unknown date | Germany | Elsflether Werft AG | Elsfleth | Flemhude | Coastal tanker | For the Kriegsmarine. |
| Unknown date | Germany | D W Kremer Sohn | Elmshorn | Grete | Coastal tanker | For the Kriegsmarine |
| Unknown date | Hong Kong | Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd. | Hong Kong | Gyoten Maru | Cargo ship | For Japanese Government. |
| Unknown date | Norway | Akers Mekaniske Verksted | Oslo | Helgoland | Whaler | Requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine on completion |
| Unknown date | Germany | | | Hilde | Coastal tanker | For the Kriegsmarine. |
| Unknown date | United States | Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation | Savannah, Georgia | James Oglethorpe | Liberty ship | For War Shipping Administration. |
| Unknown date | Denmark | Nakskov Skibs Akt. | Nakskov | Karin K. Bornhofen | Cargo ship | For R. Bornhofen. |
| Unknown date | Norway | Sarpsborg Mekaniske Verksted | Sarpsborg | Marsteinen | Coastal tanker | Requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine on completion |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Brooke Marine Ltd. | Lowestoft | MGB 622 | Fairmile D motor gun boat | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Anderson, Rigden & Perkins Ltd. | Whitstable | MFV-21 | Naval Motor Fishing Vessel | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | J. Bolson & Son Ltd. | Poole | MMS 58 | MMS-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | J. Bolson & Son Ltd. | Poole | MMS 202 | MMS-class minesweeper | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd. | Chepstow | MOWT 1 | Crane barge | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd. | Chepstow | MOWT 2 | Crane barge | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd. | Chepstow | MOWT 3 | Crane barge | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd. | Chepstow | MOWT 5 | Crane barge | For Ministry of War Transport. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Richard Dunston Ltd. | Thorne | Pinklake | Tug | For River Lighterage Co. Ltd. |
| Unknown date | United States | Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company | Mobile, Alabama | Richard Walsh | Tug | For Mobile Towing. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | J. Hay & Sons Ltd. | Kirkintilloch | VIC 18 | VIC lighter | For the Admiralty. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | A. & J. Inglis Ltd. | Glasgow | Vipya | Ferry | For Nyasaland Railways. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Bathurst & Co | Tewkesbury | Unnamed | Steamship | For Admiralty. |