List of ship launches in 2004

The list of ship launches in 2004 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 2004.

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	Country	Builder	Location	Ship	Class / type	Notes
7 January	France	DCNS	Lorient	Formidable	Formidable-class frigate	For Republic of Singapore Navy
9 January	United States	Ingalls Shipbuilding	Pascagoula, Mississippi	Halsey	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
13 March	Germany	Meyer Werft	Papenburg	Jewel of the Seas	Radiance-class cruise ship	For Royal Caribbean International
20 March	Australia	Tenix Defence Systems	Williamstown, Victoria	Perth	Anzac-class frigate
3 April	United States	Bath Iron Works	Bath, Maine	Nitze	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
19 April	United Kingdom	BAE Systems	Glasgow, Scotland	Mounts Bay	Bay-class landing ship dock
22 April	Germany	HDW	Kiel	Papanikolis	Type 214 submarine	For Greece Navy
1 May	Finland	Kvaerner Masa Yards	Turku	Color Fantasy	Cruiseferry	For Color Line; largest cruiseferry in the world when delivered
13 May	United States	Electric Boat	Groton, Connecticut	Jimmy Carter	Seawolf-class submarine
3 June	Spain	Navantia	Ferrol	Fridtjof Nansen	Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate	For Royal Norwegian Navy
4 June	India	Mazagon Dock Limited	Mumbai	Satpura	Shivalik-class frigate
26 June	Italy	Fincantieri	Marghera	Arcadia	Vista-class cruise ship	For P&O Cruises
3 July	Singapore	ST Engineering	Benoi	Intrepid	Formidable-class frigate
20 July	Italy	Fincantieri	Riva Trigoso	Cavour	Amphibious assault aircraft carrier
26 August	Japan			Suzunami	Takanami-class destroyer
August	Germany	HDW	Kiel	U 33	Type 212 submarine	For German Navy
2 October	United States	Ingalls Shipbuilding	Pascagoula, Mississippi	Forrest Sherman	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
6 October	France	Brest Arsenal	Brest	Mistral	Mistral-class amphibious assault ship
4 November	Japan			Yaeshio	Oyashio-class submarine
13 November	United States	Bath Iron Works	Bath, Maine	Bainbridge	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
19 November	United States	Ingalls Shipbuilding	Pascagoula, Mississippi	Mesa Verde	San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock
11 December	United States	Avondale Shipyard	New Orleans, Louisiana	New Orleans	San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock
16 December	Sweden	Kockums	Malmö	Härnösand	Visby-class corvette
18 December	Italy	Fincantieri	Muggiano	Scirè	Type 212 submarine
Unknown date	People's Republic of China	Zhoushan Shipyard	Zhoushan	Angeln	Container ship	For Brise Bereederungs GmbH & Co. KG
Unknown date	South Korea	STX Offshore & Shipbuilding	Jinhae-gu	Jutul	Tanker	Renamed the Maersk Peary in 2011 and leased to the Military Sealift Command
13 March	Germany			Lisa von Lübeck	Carrack