| Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class / type | Notes |
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| 1 January |  United States | Ingalls Shipbuilding | Pascagoula, Mississippi | Stump | Spruance-class destroyer | |
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| 22 January |  Italy | Cant. Nav. "Luigi Orlando" | Livorno | Espresso Venezia | Espresso Livorno-class ferry | For Tirrenia di Navigazione[1] |
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| 29 January |  Norway | Trosvik Verksted A/S | Brevik | Jan Heweliusz | ferry | For Polskie Linie Oceaniczne[2] |
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| 3 February |  United Kingdom | Swan Hunter | Wallsend-on-Tyne | Kharg | Ol-class tanker (1965) | For Imperial Iranian Navy[3] |
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| 19 February | United States | Newport News Shipbuilding | Newport News, Virginia | Cincinnati | Los Angeles-class submarine | |
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| 15 March |  West Germany | Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft | Kiel | B.A.E. Huancavilca | Type 209 submarine | For Fuerza Naval del Ecuador |
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| 21 March | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Lackenby | Bulk carrier | For Ropner Shipping.[4] |
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| 26 March |  Netherlands | Koninklijke Schelde Groep | Flushing | Callenburgh | Kortenaer-class frigate | |
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| 11 April | United States | Ingalls Shipbuilding | Pascagoula, Mississippi | Belleau Wood | Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship | |
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| 16 April | Netherlands | Koninklijke Schelde Groep | Flushing | Van Kinsbergen | Kortenaer-class frigate | |
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| 3 May | United Kingdom | Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering | Barrow-in-Furness | Invincible | Invincible-class aircraft carrier | |
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| 4 May | United States | Lockheed Shipbuilding | Seattle, Washington | Emory S. Land | Emory S. Land-class submarine tender | |
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| 5 May | United Kingdom | Appledore Shipbuilders | Appledore. Devon | RMV Scillonian III | Ferry | for Isles of Scilly Steamship Company |
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| 5 May |  France | Chantiers de France | Dunkerque | S.A. Helderberg | The Big Whites-type refrigerated cargo ship | For Deutsche West-Afrika-Linie |
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| 18 May | United Kingdom | Yarrow Shipbuilders | Glasgow, Scotland | Battleaxe | Type 22 frigate | |
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| 19 May |  Japan | | | Yaeshio | Uzushio-class submarine | |
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| 21 May | Japan | | | Yūgumo | Yamagumo-class destroyer | |
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| 3 June | United States | Ingalls Shipbuilding | Pascagoula, Mississippi | Conolly | Spruance-class destroyer | |
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| 4 June |  Soviet Union | Werft 340 | Selenodolsk | Nerpa | Koni-class frigate | For Soviet Navy |
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| 18 June | United Kingdom | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Coastal Corpus Christi | Supertanker | For Woodstock Shipping Co.[5] |
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| 18 June | United States | Electric Boat | Groton, Connecticut | New York City | Los Angeles-class submarine | |
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| 21 June |  Denmark | Aalborg Værft A/S | Ålborg | Dana Anglia | Ferry | For DFDS Seaways |
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| 30 June | United Kingdom | Ailsa Shipbuilding Company | Troon | Saturn | Ferry | For Caledonian MacBrayne |
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| 23 July | United States | Ingalls Shipbuilding | Pascagoula, Mississippi | Moosbrugger | Spruance-class destroyer | |
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| 30 July | United States | Electric Boat | Groton, Connecticut | Indianapolis | Los Angeles-class submarine | |
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| 12 August | West Germany | Rickmers Werft | Bremerhaven | Wuppertal | | For JA Reinecke & Co[6] |
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| 16 August | France | Chantiers de l'Atlantique | Saint-Nazaire, France | Pierre Guillaumat | Batillus-class supertanker | |
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| 17 September | France | DCNS | | Tonnant | Redoutable-class submarine | For French Navy |
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| 20 October | West Germany | Nobiskrug | Rendsburg, Germany | Uikku | Product tanker | |
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| 24 October | West Germany | Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft | Kiel | TCG Batiray | Type 209 submarine | For Turkish Naval Forces |
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| 28 October |  Finland | Rauma | Rauma-Repola Oy | Buraidah | | For Fanco N.V. Willemstad[7] |
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| 29 October | United States | Newport News Shipbuilding | Newport News, Virginia | Birmingham | Los Angeles-class submarine | |
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| 29 October | United States | Ingalls Shipbuilding | Pascagoula, Mississippi | John Hancock | Spruance-class destroyer | |
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| 11 November | United States | Ingalls Shipbuilding | Pascagoula, Mississippi | Nicholson | Spruance-class destroyer | |
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| 16 December | Italy | Cant. Nav. "Luigi Orlando" | Livorno | Espresso Ravenna | Espresso Livorno-class ferry | For Adriatica di Navigazione SpA[8] |
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| Unknown date | Netherlands | Bijlsma Lemmer Scheepswerf | Lemmer | Carebeka IX | Bulk carrier | |
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| Unknown date |  China | Huludao Shipyard | Huludao, Liaoning | ChangZheng 2 | Type 091 nuclear-powered attack submarine | |
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| Unknown date | Netherlands | Buijs Scheepsbouw | Krimpen aan den IJssel | Ilhéu da Mina | Dredger and freighter | Currently operated by Açores Madeira |
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| Unknown date | West Germany | Rickmers Rederei | Bremerhaven, Germany | Mashala | Ferry | For Mashala Shipping Co. |
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