October
| Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 October | United Kingdom | Bartram & Sons Ltd | Sunderland | Empire Blessing | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 2 October | United Kingdom | William Gray & Co Ltd | West Hartlepool | Empire Beaconsfield | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 6 October | United States | Kaiser Shipyards | Vancouver, WA | Emperor | Casablanca class escort carrier | Converted S4 merchant hull; Transferred to USN before commissioning as USS Solomons |
| 6 October | United Kingdom | Spiteful | S3 class submarine | |||
| 11 October | United Kingdom | Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd | Grangemouth | Empire Settler | Coastal tanker | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 14 October | United States | Newport News Shipbuilding | Newport News, VA | Franklin | Essex class aircraft carrier | |
| 14 October | United States | Consolidated Steel Corporation | Wilmington, CA | Cape Argos | Type C1 ship | For United States Maritime Commission |
| 14 October | United Kingdom | Rowhedge Ironworks Ltd | Rowhedge | Empire Boxer | Coastal tanker | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 14 October | United Kingdom | Richardsons Ironworks Ltd | Lowestoft | Empire Chuzzlewit | Coaster | For Ministry of War Transport. Completed as RFA Chattenden for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. |
| 15 October | United States | Kaiser Shipyards | Vancouver, WA | Kalinin Bay | Casablanca class escort carrier | Converted S4 merchant hull |
| 16 October | United Kingdom | John Readhead & Sons | Sunderland | Empire Crown | Cargo ship | For Ministry of War Transport |
| 24 October | United States | Kaiser Shipyards | Vancouver, WA | Kasaan Bay | Casablanca class escort carrier | Converted S4 merchant hull |
| 30 October | Australia | Evans Deakin & Co | Brisbane | Parkes | Bathurst class corvette | |
| 30 October | Japan | Mitsubishi Shipyard | Shimonoseki | Hishi Maru No 3 | Tanker | For Mitsubishi Kisen KK |
| 31 October | United Kingdom | John Crown & Sons Ltd | Sunderland | Empire Belle | Tug | For Ministry of War Transport |
Read more about this topic: List Of Ship Launches In 1943
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)