List of ship launches in 2002

The list of ship launches in 2002 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 2002.

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	Country	Builder	Location	Ship	Class / type	Notes
25 January	Finland	Kvaerner Masa-Yards	Turku	Navigator of the Seas	Voyager-class cruise ship	For Royal Caribbean International
28 February	Spain	Izar	Ferrol	Almirante Juan de Borbón	Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate
20 March	Germany	HDW	Kiel	U 31	Type 212 submarine	For German Navy
13 April	Netherlands	Koninklijke Schelde Groep	Flushing	De Ruyter	De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate
26 April	United States	National Steel and Shipbuilding Company	San Diego, California	Soderman	Watson-class vehicle cargo ship
2 May	United Kingdom	VT Group: Appledore Shipbuilders	Appledore, Devon, England	Enterprise	Echo-class survey vessel
25 May	Australia	Tenix Defence Systems	Williamstown, Victoria	Ballarat	Anzac-class frigate
25 May	People's Republic of China	Jiangnan Shipyard	Shanghai	Guangzhou	Type 052B destroyer
25 May	People's Republic of China	Jiangnan Shipyard	Shanghai	Wuhan	Type 052B destroyer
31 May	Germany	Meyer Werft	Papenburg	Brilliance of the Seas	Radiance-class cruise ship	For Royal Caribbean International[1]
6 June	Germany	Blohm + Voss	Hamburg, Germany	Amatola	Valour-class frigate	For South African Navy
26 June	United States	Ingalls Shipbuilding	Pascagoula, Mississippi	Pinckney	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
8 August	Japan			Makinami	Takanami-class destroyer
16 August	Germany	HDW	Kiel	Hamburg	Sachsen-class frigate
7 September	South Korea	Hyundai Heavy Industries	Ulsan	Stena Britannica II	Seamaster-RoPax-ferry	For Stena Line[2]
16 September	USA	Ingalls Shipbuilding	Pascagoula, Mississippi	Pride of America	cruise ship	For American Classic Cruises
17 October	Taiwan	China Shipbuilding	Kaohsiung	Tian Dan	Cheng Kung-class frigate
23 October	Japan			Kuroshio	Oyashio-class submarine
27 October	Germany	Meyer Werft	Papenburg	Norwegian Dawn	Cruise ship	For Norwegian Cruise Line[3]
31 October	South Korea	Hyundai Heavy Industries	Ulsan	Stena Adventurer	Seamaster-RoPax-ferry	For Stena Line[4]
2 November	United States	Bath Iron Works	Bath, Maine	Chafee	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
5 December	Germany	Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft	Kiel, Germany	Isandlwana	Valour-class frigate	For South African Navy
15 December	United States	Ingalls Shipbuilding	Pascagoula, Mississippi	Chung-Hoon	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Unknown date	Japan	Sumitomo Heavy Industries	Yokosuka, Japan	Tempera	Crude oil tanker	For Neste Oil; first double acting tanker

References

1. Press Ticker
2. "M/S Stena Britannica II". Retrieved 2016-03-29.
3. Press Ticker
4. "M/S Stena Adventurer.". Retrieved 2016-03-29.

See also

Ship events in 2002
Ship launches:	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Ship commissionings:	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Ship decommissionings:	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Shipwrecks:	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007