List of ship launches in 2009
      The list of ship launches in 2009 includes a chronological list of ships launched in 2009.
 | 
 Country | 
 Builder | 
 Location | 
 Ship | 
 Class / type | 
 Notes | 
|  14 January | 
   Vietnam | 
 Nam Trieu Ship Building Industry Corporation | 
 Hai Phong | 
 PTSC-Bach Ho[1] | 
 Floating Storage and Offloading vessel | 
 For Petrovietnam.[2] | 
|  16 January | 
   Germany | 
 Ferus Smit | 
 Leer | 
 Drogdenbank | 
 | 
 For Pot Scheepvaart | 
|  17 January | 
   Turkey | 
  | 
  | 
 Halit Bey | 
  | 
 For VBG Shipping & Trading Co, Turkey.[3] | 
|  18 January | 
   United States | 
 Northrop Grumman | 
 Newport News, Virginia | 
 New Mexico | 
 Virginia-class submarine | 
  | 
|  January | 
   France | 
 STX Europe | 
 Saint-Nazaire | 
 MSC Magnifica | 
 Musica-class cruise ship | 
 For MSC Cruises | 
|  11 February | 
   Spain | 
 Navantia | 
 Ferrol | 
 Thor Heyerdahl | 
 Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate | 
 For Royal Norwegian Navy | 
|  13 February | 
   Germany | 
 Meyer Werft | 
 Papenburg | 
 AIDAluna | 
 Cruise ship | 
 Official launch at Palma de Mallorca, built at Papenburg for AIDA Cruises. | 
|  27 February | 
   Italy | 
 Fincantieri | 
 Ancona | 
 Silver Spirit | 
 Cruise ship | 
 For Silversea Cruises[4] | 
|  8 March | 
   United States | 
 National Steel and Shipbuilding | 
 San Diego, California | 
 Wally Schirra | 
 Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship | 
  | 
|  12 March | 
   Italy | 
 Fincantieri | 
 Marghera | 
 Costa Deliziosa | 
 Hybrid Vista-class and Spirit-class cruise ship | 
 For Costa Cruises | 
|  21 March | 
   Netherlands | 
 Ferus Smit | 
 Hoogezand | 
 Bro Garland | 
 | 
 [5] | 
|  27 March | 
   Germany | 
 Nordseewerke | 
 Emden | 
 Frisia Lübeck | 
  | 
  | 
|  28 March | 
   Netherlands | 
 Niestern Sander | 
 Delfzijl | 
 Eemsborg | 
 | 
 For Wagenborg | 
|  30 March | 
   United States | 
 Ingalls Shipbuilding | 
 Pascagoula, Mississippi | 
 Gravely | 
 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer | 
  | 
|  March | 
   South Korea | 
 Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering | 
 Okpo | 
 Danit | 
 Container ship | 
  | 
|  25 May | 
   Germany | 
 Diedrich Shipyard | 
 Oldersum  | 
 Wind Force I | 
 | 
 For AG Norden-Frisia | 
|  6 June | 
   Germany | 
 Meyer Werft | 
 Papenburg | 
 Celebrity Equinox | 
 Solstice-class cruise ship | 
 For Celebrity Cruises | 
|  7 June | 
   Germany | 
 Wandan Yards | 
 Wismar | 
 MV Stena Britannica | 
 RoPax 55 | 
 For Stena Line[6] | 
|  7 June | 
   Germany | 
 Wandan Yards | 
 Wismar | 
 MV Stena Hollandica | 
 RoPax 55 | 
 For Stena Line[7] | 
|  16 June | 
   Germany | 
 Ferus Smit | 
 Leer | 
 Fivelborg | 
 | 
 For Wagenborg | 
|  18 June | 
   Germany | 
 HDW | 
 Kiel | 
 Arpão | 
 Type 214 submarine | 
 For Portuguese Navy | 
|  25 June | 
   Italy | 
 T Mariotti SpA | 
 Venice | 
 Seabourn Odyssey | 
 Cruise ship | 
 For Seabourn Cruise Line | 
|  26 June | 
   Italy | 
 Fincantieri | 
 Monfalcone | 
 Azura | 
 Grand-class cruise ship | 
 For P&O Cruises[8] | 
|  26 July | 
   India | 
 Shipbuilding Centre | 
 Visakhapatnam | 
 Arihant | 
 Arihant-class submarine | 
  | 
|  1 August | 
   United States | 
 Bath Iron Works | 
 Bath, Maine | 
 Jason Dunham | 
 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer | 
  | 
|  14 August | 
   Germany | 
 Lindenau | 
 Kiel | 
 Seychelles Paradise | 
 Tanker | 
 | 
|  16 August | 
   United States | 
 National Steel and Shipbuilding | 
 San Diego, California | 
 Matthew Perry | 
 Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship | 
  | 
|  18 August | 
   Germany | 
 Nordseewerke | 
 Emden | 
 Borkum | 
 | 
 | 
|  21 August | 
   Japan | 
 IHI Marine United | 
 | 
 Ise | 
 Hyūga-class helicopter destroyer | 
 | 
|  29 August | 
   Bulgaria | 
  | 
  | 
 Royal Helena[9] | 
 Barquentine | 
  | 
|  18 September | 
   India | 
 Mazagon Dock Limited | 
 Mumbai | 
 Kochi | 
 Kolkata-class destroyer | 
 | 
|  19 September | 
   United States | 
 VT Halter Marine | 
 Moss Point, Mississippi | 
 Ferdinand R. Hassler | 
 Hydrographic survey vessel | 
For the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration[10] | 
|  1 October | 
   Italy | 
 Fincantieri | 
 Ancona | 
 Le Boreal | 
 Cruise ship | 
 For Compagnie du Ponant[11] | 
|  16 October | 
   Japan | 
 | 
 | 
 Hakuryū | 
 Sōryū-class submarine | 
 | 
|  21 October | 
   United Kingdom | 
 BVT Surface Fleet | 
 Govan | 
 Defender | 
 Type 45 destroyer | 
  | 
|  30 October | 
   Italy | 
 Fincantieri | 
 Marghera | 
 Nieuw Amsterdam | 
 Vista-class cruise ship | 
 For Holland America Line[12] | 
|  19 November | 
   United Kingdom | 
 BAE Systems Surface Ships | 
 Scotstoun | 
 Scarborough[13] | 
 Offshore patrol vessel | 
 For Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard | 
|  20 November | 
   United States | 
 General Dynamics Electric Boat | 
 Groton, Connecticut | 
 Missouri | 
 Virginia-class submarine | 
 | 
|  20 November | 
   Finland | 
 STX Europe | 
 Turku | 
 Allure of the Seas | 
 Oasis-class cruise ship | 
 For Royal Caribbean International | 
|  21 November | 
   Netherlands | 
 Ferus Smit | 
 Westerbroek  | 
 Pioneer | 
  | 
 | 
|  11 December | 
   Germany | 
 Nordseewerke | 
 Emden | 
 Frisia Cottbus	 | 
 TNSW 3400 | 
  | 
|  15 December | 
   United States | 
 Ingalls Shipbuilding | 
 Pascagoula, Mississippi | 
 William P. Lawrence | 
 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer | 
 | 
|  Exact date unknown | 
   Philippines | 
  | 
  | 
 Wight Ryder I | 
 Catamaran | 
 For Wightlink | 
|  Exact date unknown | 
   Turkey | 
 Ada Yacht Works | 
 Bodrum | 
 Le Pietre | 
 Gulet | 
  | 
References
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