List of ship launches in 1798

The list of ship launches in 1798 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1798.

Date Country Builder Location Ship Class Notes
3 January  France Rochefort Africaine Preneuse-class frigate For French Navy.
4 January  Great Britain John Wells Deptford Dover Castle East Indiaman For British East India Company.[1]
17 January  Great Britain Thomas Pollard Deptford Dockyard Diomede Diomede-class ship of the line For Royal Navy.[2]
17 January  Great Britain John Perry Blackwall Yard Kent Ajax-class ship of the line For Royal Navy.[3]
17 January  Great Britain Perry Blackwall Lord Duncan East Indiaman For British East India Company.
31 January  France Louis Crucy Nantes L'Heureuse Heureuse-class frigate For French Navy.[4]
1 February  France Lorient Quatorze Juillet Téméraire-class ship of the line For French Navy.
2 February  Great Britain Barnard Deptford Wharf Northumberland America-class ship of the line For Royal Navy.
3 March  Great Britain John Randall Rotherhithe Ajax Ajax-class ship of the line For Royal Navy.
3 March  Great Britain Perry Blackwall Walpole East Indiaman For British East India Company.
19 March  Great Britain James Betts Mistleythorn Amphion Fifth rate For Royal Navy.[5]
19 March  Great Britain Thomas Pitcher Northfleet Superb Pompée-class ship of the line For Royal Navy.[6]
31 March  Great Britain John Wells Deptford Calcutta East Indiaman For British East India Company.[7]
31 March  Great Britain Plymouth Dockyard Plymouth Foudroyant Third rate For Royal Navy.
2 April  Great Britain William Wells Rotherhithe Dragon Third rate For Royal Navy.[8]
16 April  Great Britain Cleverley Bros. Gravesend Achille Pompée-class ship of the line For Royal Navy.
17 April  Great Britain Edwards Shoreham-by-Sea Pheasant Merlin-class sloop For Royal Navy.[9]
23 April  Batavian Republic Peter Glavimans Rotterdam Kortenaer Third rate For Batavian Navy.[10]
24 April  Russia A. G. Stepanov Kazan Frigate No.1 Kavkaz-class frigate For Imperial Russian Navy.[11]
24 April  Russia A. G. Stepanov Kazan Frigate No.2 Kavkaz-class frigate For Imperial Russian Navy.[12]
29 April  France Antoine & Louis Crucy Nantes Aréthuse Corvette For French Navy.
April  Great Britain Hobbs & Hellyer Redbridge Netley Gunboat For Royal Navy.
2 May  France Honoré Garnier Saint-Maurice Toulon Ligurienne Corvette For French Navy.
2 May  Great Britain John Dudman Deptford Wharf Renown America-class ship of the line For Royal Navy.[13]
16 May  Great Britain Hill & Mellish Limehouse Porpoise Storeship For Royal Navy.
19 May  Russia Arkhangelsk Kildyuin Armed storeship For Imperial Russian Navy.[14]
19 May  Russia G. Ignatyev Archangelsk Pospeshnyi Fifth rate For Imperial Russian Navy.[15]
19 May  Russia G. Ignatyev Archangelsk Schastlivyi Arkhangel Mikhail-class frigate For Imperial Russian Navy.[16]
7 June  United States James Hacket Kittery, Maine Portsmouth Unrated For United States Navy.
20 June  Russia A. S. Katsanov Kherson Sviatoi Mikhail Sviatoi Pyotr-class ship of the line For Imperial Russian Navy.[17]
28 June  Spain Julian Martin de Retamosa El Ferrol Argonauta Montañés-class ship of the line For Spanish Navy.[18]
30 June  Batavian Republic Rotterdam Johan de Witt Third rate For Dutch East India Company.[19]
June Kingdom of Great Britain Nova Scotia Snow Parker Liverpool Charles Mary Wentworth Privateer For Joseph Barss Sr., William Lawson, Snow Parker and Simeon Perkins.
14 July  Great Britain Randall, Brent & Sons Rotherhithe Sarah Christiana Merchantman For Robert Charnock.
28 July  Batavian Republic R. Dorman Amsterdam Wreker Wreker-class ship of the line For Batavian Navy.[20]
11 August  United States James Hackett Kittery, Maine Scammel Topsail schooner For Revenue Cutter Service.
13 August India Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia Bombay Scaleby Castle Full-rigged ship For Bruce, Fawcett & Co.[21]
13 August  France Charles-Henri Tellier Havre de Grâce Valeureuse Seine-class frigate For French Navy.
18 August  France Brest Biche Agile-class schooner For French Navy.
2 September  Russia A. I. Melikhov Saint Petersburg Bogoiavlenie Gospodne Aleksandr-class rowing frigate For Imperial Russian Navy.[22]
9 September  France Saint-Malo Le Décidé Privateer For Havard et Compagnie.[23]
11 September  Great Britain Chatham Dockyard Chatham Temeraire Neptune-class ship of the line For Royal Navy.
12 September India Calcutta Cuvera East Indiaman For Lambert, Ross & Co.
24 September  Russia G. Ignatyev Archangelsk Feodosii Totemskii Feodosii Totemskii-class frigate For Imperial Russian Navy.[24]
26 September  Great Britain George Parsons Bursledon Penelope Penelope-class frigate For Royal Navy.[25]
27 September  Great Britain Randall & Brent Rotherhithe Etingdon West Indiaman For Hayman & Co.
27 September  Great Britain Randall & Brent Rotherhithe Phoenix Merchantman For Hibbert & Co.
12 October  United States Association of Newburyport Shipwrights Newburyport, Massachusetts Merrimack Sixth rate Presented to United States Navy.[26]
20 October  Great Britain Almon Hill & Sons Limehouse Diadem Sloop-of-war For Royal Navy.
25 October Kingdom of Great Britain Nova Scotia Lowdon Pictou Harriet Merchantman For private owner.
October France Malta La Valette Valetta Athénien Third rate For French Navy.
October  France Bordeaux Foudroyant Privateer For private owner.[27]
6 December  Great Britain Humble Liverpool Charlton East Indiaman For British East India Company.
8 December  Great Britain Humble Liverpool Asia East Indiaman For British East India Company.
10 December  Great Britain Frances Barnard, Son, & Roberts Deptford Preston East Indiaman For British East India Company.
22 December  France Pierre-Elisabeth Rolland Lorient Argonaute Téméraire-class ship of the line For French Navy.[28]
22 December  Ottoman Empire Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine Constantinople Ateş Feşan Sixth rate For Ottoman Navy.[29]
22 December  Ottoman Empire Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine Constantinople Saika Bar Sixth rate For Ottoman Navy.[30]
22 December  Ottoman Empire Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine Constantinople Tavus-i Bahri Second rate For Ottoman Navy.[31]
Unknown date  Great Britain Adamant Merchantman For M. Warren.
Unknown date  Great Britain Edward Mosley North Shields Admiral Duncan Merchantman For Mr. Holand.
Unknown date  France Dunkerque Anacréon Privateer For private owner.
Unknown date  Great Britain Poole Andersons Slave ship For John Anderson.
Unknown date Kingdom of Great Britain Bermuda Bermuda Apollo Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date  France Bordeaux Argus Privateer For private owner.
Unknown date  Great Britain Dartmouth Backhouse Slave ship For Daniel Backhouse & John Tarleton.
Unknown date  United States Joseph Caverley Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore Frigate For United States Navy.
Unknown date  Great Britain Berwick upon Tweed Berwick Packet Smack For Mr. Patterson.
Unknown date  Great Britain Nicholas Bools & William Good Bridport Betsey Sloop For William Good and others.[32]
Unknown date  Great Britain Kirkcaldy Britannia West Indiaman For Mr. M'Neil.
Unknown date  Great Britain Leith Bush & Dreghorn Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date India Chance East Indiaman For British East India Company.[33]
Unknown date  United States Charleston, South Carolina Charleston Row galley For United States Navy.
Unknown date India Bombay Dockyard Comet Brig For Bombay Marine.
Unknown date  France Courageaux Privateer For private owner.
Unknown date Kingdom of Great Britain Lower Canada Patrick Beatson Quebec City Diamond Merchantman For Beatson & Co.
Unknown date  Batavian Republic Rotterdam Doggersbank Third rate For Batavian Navy.[34]
Unknown date  Great Britain Woolwich Dockyard Dover Gunboat For Royal Navy.[35]
Unknown date  United States Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Eagle Schooner For Revenue Cutter Service
Unknown date  Great Britain = Gatcombe Earl St Vincent Merchantman For Wade & Co.
Unknown date  Great Britain Great Yarmouth Earl St Vincent Merchantman For J. Sayers.
Unknown date  Hamburg Hamburg Elizabeth Merchantman For B. Bosen & Co.
Unknown date Kingdom of Great Britain Bermuda Bermuda Ellice Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date  Great Britain Thomas Haw Stockton-on-Tees Experiment Merchantman For Robert Wigram.
Unknown date  Great Britain Great Yarmouth Flora Merchantman For Mr. Heathfield.
Unknown date  Great Britain Fowey Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date  United States Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ganges Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date  United States Governor Davie Full-rigged ship For United States Navy.[36]
Unknown date  United States Governor Jay Full-rigged ship For United States Navy.[37]
Unknown date  United States Governor Williams Full-rigged ship For United States Navy.[38]
Unknown date  France Bordeaux Guêpe Sloop-of-war For French Navy.
Unknown date  Great Britain Nicholas Bools & William Good Bridport Happy Return Sloop For William Barnes, Joseph Dason, William Ketteridge and Simon Lee.[39]
Unknown date  Great Britain Lancaster Harmony West Indiaman For Mr. Ritchie
Unknown date  Batavian Republic Rotterdam Hersteller Third rate For Batavian Navy.[40]
Unknown date India Calcutta Highland Chief Merchantman For Lennox & Co.
Unknown date  France Bordeaux Huit Amis Privateer For private owner.
Unknown date Denmark Denmark-Norway Frantz Hohlenberg Nyholm Hvide Ørn Frigate For Dano-Norwegian Navy.
Unknown date India Calcutta Indian Chief Merchantman For Mr. Thompson
Unknown date  France Nantes Infatigable Privateer For private owner.
Unknown date  France Bayonne La Cantabré Privateer For private owner.[41]
Unknown date  France Raymond-Antoine Haran Bayonne La Dédaigneuse Patriote-class frigate For French Navy.[42]
Unknown date  France La Résolue Privateer For private owner.[43]
Unknown date  France La Ressource Privateer For private owner.[44]
Unknown date  France Le Baret Privateer For private owner.[45]
Unknown date  France Le Bordelais Privateer For private owner.[46]
Unknown date France Guadeloupe Guadeloupe Le Dix Août Privateer For private owner.[47]
Unknown date France Guadeloupe Guadeloupe Le Sauveur Privateer For private owner.[48]
Unknown date  France Le Scoevola Privateer For private owner.[49]
Unknown date  France Dunkerque Le Vigilant Privateer For private owner.[50]
Unknown date France Guadeloupe Guadeloupe L'Intrepide Privateer For private owner.[51]
Unknown date  France L'Invariable Privateer For private owner.[52]
Unknown date  France Bordeaux L'Invincible Général Bonaparte Privateer For private owner.[53]
Unknown date  Great Britain Thomas King Dover Lord Duncan Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date Kingdom of Great Britain New Brunswick Lord Duncan Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date  Great Britain Sunderland Lord Duncan Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date  Great Britain Liverpool Lord Nelson Slave ship For James Bold and Robert Bibby.
Unknown date  Great Britain John Smith Gainsborough Maria West Indiaman For private owner.
Unknown date  France Bordeaux La Détérminee Privateer For private owner.[54]
Unknown date  France Bordeaux Mars Privateer For private owner.
Unknown date  Ottoman Empire Menba-ı Nusret Third rate For Ottoman Navy.[55]
Unknown date  Ottoman Empire Jean-Baptiste Benoit Constantinople Mesudiye First rate For Ottoman Navy.[56]
Unknown date  Great Britain Hobbs & Hellyer Redbridge Milbrook Gunboat For Royal Navy.
Unknown date  France Mosambique Privateer For private owner.
Unknown date  Batavian Republic Rotterdam Neptunus Third rate For Batavian Navy.[57]
Unknown date  Great Britain Edward Mosley & Co. Howdon Nile} Merchantman For Francis & Thomas Hurry.
Unknown date Kingdom of Great Britain Norfolk Island Norfolk Island Norfolk Sloop For John Hunter.
Unknown date  United States Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk Brig For United States Navy.
Unknown date India Bombay Philip Dundas Brig For Bombay Pilot Service.[21]
Unknown date  United States Newburyport, Massachusetts Pickering Topsail schooner For United States Navy.
Unknown date  United States Pinckney Full-rigged ship For United States Navy.[58]
Unknown date  United States Protector Full-rigged ship For United States Navy.[59]
Unknown date  France Antoine & Louis Crucy Nantes Psyché Privateer For private owner.
Unknown date  Great Britain Hobbs & Hellyer Redbridge Redbridge Gunboat For Royal Navy.
Unknown date  United States Norfolk, Virginia Richmond Brig For United States Navy.
Unknown date  France La Ciotat Sans Pareille Privateer For private owner.
Unknown date  Great Britain John & Philip Laing Sunderland Sarah Merchantman For Mr. Scaling.[60]
Unknown date  United States John Patterson Savannah, Georgia Savannah Row galley For United States Navy.[61]
Unknown date  United States South Carolina Full-rigged ship For United States Navy.[62]
Unknown date Kingdom of Great Britain Upper Canada Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard Kingston Speedy Gunboat For Provincial Marine.
Unknown date  Great Britain Nicholas Bools & William Good Bridport Sprightly Sloop For Nicholas Bools and others.[63]
Unknown date  Great Britain J. Blenkinsop Monkwearmouth Spring Brig For J. Blenkinsop.[60]
Unknown date  Great Britain Telegraph Brig For private owner.
Unknown date  Great Britain Whitby Tom West Indiaman For private owner.
Unknown datedate Kingdom of Great Britain New Brunswick Trelawney Planter Merchantman For Mr. Fleming.
Unknown date  Great Britain Ann Brodrick South Shields Tyne Merchantman For Mr. Simpson.
Unknown date  Great Britain Nicholas Bools & William Good Bridport Union Schooner For Philip Head Jr., William Head and John Otton.[64]
Unknown date  Great Britain John & Philip Laing Sunderland Vertumnus Merchantman For J. Poditch.[60]
Unknown date Denmark Denmark-Norway Copenhagen Waldemar Third rate For Dano-Norwegian Navy.[65]
Unknown date  United States Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Name unknown Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date Batavian Republic Netherlands East Indies Batavia Name unknown Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date  France Name unknown Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date Unknown France or Spain Name unknown Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date  Spain Name unknown Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date  France Name unknown Ketch For private owner.
Unknown date  United States Boston, Massachusetts Name unknown Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date  France Name unknown Schooner For private owner.
Unknown date  United States New York Name unknown Snow For private owner.

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