List of ship launches in 1796

The list of ship launches in 1796 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1796.

Date  | Country  | Builder  | Location  | Ship  | Class  | Notes

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11 January  |  Great Britain | William Wallis  | Blackwall | Raven | Albatross-class sloop | For Royal Navy.[1]
9 February  |  Great Britain | Thomas Pollard  | Deptford Dockyard | Shannon | Maidstone-class frigate | For Royal Navy.[2]
10 February  |  France |  | Toulon | Diane | Fifth rate | For French Navy.[3]
10 February  |  France |  | Havre de Grâce | Libre | Romaine-class frigate | For French Navy.
23 February  |  Great Britain | Wells & Co.  | Rotherhithe | Cynthia | Sloop-of-war | For Royal Navy.
24 February  |  Great Britain | Peter Everitt Mestaer | Rotherhithe | Princess Charlotte | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.
24 February  |  Great Britain | John Tovery  | Woolwich Dockyard | Trent | Amazon-class frigate | For Royal Navy.[4]
February  |  Great Britain | Thomas King  | Dover | Harpy | Diligence-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy.
February  |  France | Pierre-Alexander Forfait  | Havre de Grâce | La Menaçante | Salamandre-class bomb vessel | For French Navy.[5]
February  |  Great Britain | Edward Grayson  | Liverpool | Watt | West Indiaman | For private owner.[6]
10 March  |  Great Britain | Wells  | Deptford | Henry Addington | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.
11 March  |  France |  | Havre de Grâce | Comète | Romaine-class frigate | For French Navy.
23 March  |  France |  | Nantes | Loire | Frigate | For French Navy.
24 March  |  Great Britain | John Tovey  | Woolwich Dockyard | Glenmore | Amazon-class frigate | For Royal Navy.
24 March  |  Great Britain | Barnard  | Deptford | York | Third rate | For Royal Navy.
26 March  |  Great Britain | Thomas Pollard and Edward Sisson  | Chatham Dockyard | Clyde | Artois-class frigate | For Royal Navy.
26 March  |  Great Britain | Edward Sison  | Chatham Dockyard | Tamar | Artois-class frigate | For Royal Navy.[7]
7 April  |  Great Britain | Balthazar Adams  | Bucklers Hard | Bittern | Bittern-class sloop | For Royal Navy.[8]
9 April  |  Great Britain | Pitcher  | Northfleet | Ardent | Third rate | For Royal Navy.
9 April  |  Great Britain | William Wyatt  | Fridsbury | Cyane | Bittern-class sloop | For Royal Navy.[9]
22 April  |  Great Britain | Perry, Sons & Green  | Blackwall | Thames | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.
23 April  |  France |  | Dunkerque | Désirée | Romaine-class frigate | For French Navy.
23 April  |  Great Britain | Randall & Co.  | Rotherhithe | Monmouth | Third rate | For Royal Navy.
23 April  |  Great Britain | James Betts  | Mistley | Plover | Bittern-class sloop | For Royal Navy.[10]
23 April  |  Great Britain | John Dudman  | Deptford | Termagant | Bittern-class sloop | For Royal Navy.
9 May  |  Great Britain | Joshua Young  | Rotherhithe | Tellicherry | Merchantman | For John St Barbe.
23 May  |  Great Britain | John & William Wells  | Rotherhithe | Glatton | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.
23 May  |  France |  | Dunkerque | Poursuivante | Romaine-class frigate | For French Navy.
23 May  |  Great Britain | Frances Barnard  | Deptford | Walmer Castle | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.
24 May  |  Great Britain | Thomas Hills  | Sandwich | Hound | Diligence-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy.
1 June  |  Great Britain | John Dudman  | Deptford | Merlin | Merlin-class ship-sloop | For Royal Navy.
6 June  |  Great Britain | Randall, Brent & Sons  | Rotherhithe | Sir Stephen Lushington | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.
7 June  |  France |  | Bordeaux | Volontaire | Virginie-class frigate | For French Navy.
7 June  |  India | Hugh Edwards, Jonathan Gillett and Michael Larkins  | Calcutta | Wellington | Merchantman | For private owner.
23 June  |  India | David Glass & John Wood  | Calcutta | Bellona | Merchantman | For private owner.
June  |  France |  | Toulon | Foudre | Aviso | For French Navy.[11]
5 July  |  Great Britain | Peter Everitt Mestaer | Rotherhithe | Martha | Merchantman | For Peter Everitt Mestaer.
7 July  |  Great Britain | Bernard & Edward Adams  | Bucklers Hard | Princess Mary | Merchantman | For private owner.
23 July  |  Great Britain | Perry  | Blackwall Yard | Agincourt | Third rate | For Royal Navy.
July  |  Great Britain |  | Liverpool | Beresford | Merchantman | For Messrs. Lake & Brown.[12]
Unknown date  |  Republic of Venice |  | Venice | Pollux | Brig | For Venetian Navy.[13]
9 August  |  Batavian Republic | R. Dorman  | Amsterdam | Washington | Ship of the line | For Batavian Navy.[14]
11 August  |  Denmark-Norway | Nyholm Naval Dockyard  | Copenhagen | Najaden | Fifth rate | For Dano-Norwegian Navy.
11 August  |  Denmark-Norway | Nyholm Naval Dockyard  | Copenhagen | Nymfen | Fifth rate | For Dano-Norwegian Navy.[15]
24 August  |  Russia | G. Ignatyev  | Archangelsk | Aziia | Aziia-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[16]
5 September  |  Great Britain | Frances Barnard  | Deptford | Triton | Triton-class frigate | For Royal Navy.[17]
6 September  |  Russia | G. Ignatyev  | Arkhangelsk | Vsevolod | Yaroslav-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[18]
9 October  |  Russia | D. Masalsky  | Saint Petersburg | Sviatoi Konstantin | Aleksandr-class rowing frigate | For Imperial Russian Navy.[19]
9 October  |  Russia | D. Masalsky  | Saint Petersburg | Sviatoi Nikolai | Aleksandr-class rpwing frigate | For Imperial Russian Navy.[20]
31 October  |  Russia | A. S. Katsanov  | Kherson | Sviatoi Mikhail | Fourth rate | For Imperial Russian Navy.[21]
October  |  Batavian Republic |  | Harlingen | Ajax | Corvette | For Batavian Navy.[22]
15 November  |  Great Britain | Perry & Co.  | Blackwall | Warley | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.
29 November  |  Great Britain | Thomas Pollard  | Deptford Dockyard | Stork | Cormorant-class ship-sloop | For Royal Navy.[23]
30 November  |  Great Britain | Wells  | Deptford | Neptune | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.
15 December  |  Great Britain | Pitcher  | Northfleet | Earl of Abergavenny | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.
Unknown date  |  Great Britain |  |  | Admiral Kingsmill | Brig | For J. Roche.
Unknown date  |  Great Britain | John & Philip Laing  | Sunderland | Affinity | Merchantman | For J. Davie.[24]
Unknown date  |  United States |  | Boston, Massachusetts | Alknomac | Brig | For Gairdner & Mitchell.
Unknown date  |  Great Britain |  | Hull | Amphitrite | Merchantman | For Mr. Atkinson.
Unknown date  |  India |  | Calcutta | Armenia | Merchantman | For Mr. Walker.
Unknown date  |  Great Britain | Hobbs & Hellyer  | Redbridge | Arrow | Dart-class sloop | For Royal Navy.[25]
Unknown date  |  Great Britain |  | Liverpool | Beaver | Slave ship | For Mr Molineaux.
Unknown date  |  Great Britain |  | Itchen Ferry | Brilliant | Schooner | Purchased on the stocks by the Royal Navy.
Unknown date  |  Ottoman Empire | Mustafa Molla  | Kalas | Bülheves | Fifth rate | For Ottoman Navy.[26]
Unknown date  |  Great Britain | John Perry  | Blackwall Yard | Ceres | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.[27]
Unknown date  |  Great Britain |  | Sunderland | Cicero | West Indiaman | For private owner.
Unknown date  |  Great Britain |  |  | Coutts | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.[28]
Unknown date  |  Great Britain |  |  | Dart | Privateer | For private owner.
Unknown date  |  Great Britain | Hobbs & Hellyer  | Redbridge | Dart | Experimental sloop-of-war | For Royal Navy.
Unknown date  |  France |  |  | Deux Amis | Privateer | For private owner.
Unknown date  |  Spain | Reales Astilleros de Esteiro | El Ferrol | Dilgencia | Fifth rate | For Spanish Navy.[29]
Unknown date  |  United States |  |  | Eagle | Brig | For private owner.
Unknown date  |  Great Britain | John Perry  | Blackwall Yard | Earl Talbot | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.[30]
Unknown date  |  Spain |  | El Ferrol | Galgo | Sloop-of-war | For Spanish Navy.[31]
Unknown date  |  Great Britain | John & Philip Laing  | Sunderland | Gemini | Merchantman | For James Swan.[24]
Unknown date  |  France |  | Bordeaux | Hardi | Privateer | For private owner.
Unknown date  |  France |  | Bordeaux | Harmonie | Virginie-class frigate | For French Navy.
Unknown date  |  India |  | Calcutta | Harrington | Brig | For Bengal Pilot Service.
Unknown date  |  Ottoman Empire | Nikoli Kalfa  | Bodrum | Heybetendaz | Third rate | For Ottoman Navy.[32]
Unknown date  |  Great Britain |  |  | Hindostan | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.
Unknown date  |  Great Britain | John & Philip Laing  | Sunderland | Hypomenes | Merchantman | For W. White.[24]
Unknown date  |  France | Mathurin Crucy  | Nantes | L'Actif | Privateer | For [private owner.[33]
Unknown date  |  France |  | Bayonne | La Gaieté | Bonne Citoyenne-class corvette | For French Navy.[34]
Unknown date  |  France |  | Havre de Grâce | La Libre | Romaine-class frigate | For French Navy.[35]
Unknown date  |  France |  | Nantes | La Nouvelle Eugenie | Privateer | For Feliz Cossin de Chourses.[36]
Unknown date  |  France |  |  | L'Elizabeth | Fifth rate | For French Navy.[37]
Unknown date  |  Ottoman Empire | Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine  | Constantinople | Mesken-i Gazi | Fourth rate | For Ottoman Navy.[38]
Unknown date  |  Ottoman Empire | Çamlicali Kalfa  |  | Mürg-ı Bahri | Sixth rate | For Ottoman Navy.[39]
Unknown date  |  Great Britain | John & Philip Laing  | Sunderland | Neptune | Merchantman | For Peddie & Co.[24]
Unknown date  |  Great Britain | Barnstaple  | Broadstairs | Princess of Wales | Hoy | For private owner.
Unknown date  |  Great Britain | Thomas Jones King  | Dover | Rambler | Cutter | For Royal Navy.[40]
Unknown date  |  Great Britain |  |  | Rattler | Collier | For private owner.
Unknown date  |  Ottoman Greece | Fredirk Ludwig af Klintberg  | Rhodes | Rehber-i Nusret | Sixth rate | For Ottoman Navy.[41]
Unknown date  |  Great Britain | James Walmsley  | North Shields | Rosina | Merchantman | For private owner.
Unknown date  |  Bermuda | Nathaniel Tynes  | Bermuda | Rover | Sloop-of-war | For Royal Navy.
Unknown date  |  Spain |  |  | San José | Polacca | For Spanish Navy.
Unknown date  |  Ottoman Greece | Antuvan Kalfa  | Rhodes | Şehper-i Zafer | Fourth rate | For Ottoman Navy.[42]
Unknown date  |  Ottoman Greece | Filip Kalfa  | Lemnos | Şevketnüma | Fourth rate | For Ottoman Navy.[43]
Unknown date  |  Great Britain |  | Liverpool | Tarleton | Slave ship | For Tarleton & Co.
Unknown date  |  France |  |  | Vaillante | Bonne Citoyenne-class corvette | For French Navy.
Unknown date  |  India |  | Calcutta | Varuna | Merchantman | For Prinsep & Co.
Unknown date  |  Ottoman Empire | Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine  | Constantinople | Zafer Küsa | Sixth rate | For Ottoman Navy.[44]
Unknown date  |  Ottoman Empire | Ahmed Hoca Kaptan  | Midilli | Ziver-i Bahri | Third rate | For Ottoman Navy.[45]
Unknown date  |  Unknown  |  | Batavian Republic or Denmark-Norway | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner.
Unknown date  |  United States |  |  | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner.
Unknown date  |  France |  |  | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner.
Unknown date  |  United States |  |  | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner.

## References

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1. ^ "British sloop 'Raven' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
2. ^ "British Fifth Rate frigate 'Shannon' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
3. ^ "French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Diane' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
4. ^ "British Fifth Rate frigate 'Trent' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
5. ^ "French bomb vessel 'La Menaçante' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
6. ^ "Reviews". Liverpool Mercury. No. 2316\. Liverpool. 5 August 1851.
7. ^ "British Fifth Rate frigate 'Tamar' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
8. ^ "British sloop 'Bittern' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
9. ^ "British sloop 'Cyane' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
10. ^ "British sloop 'Plover' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
11. ^ "French advice boat 'La Foudre' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
12. ^ "(untitled)". The Times. No. 3640\. London. 18 July 1796. col D, p. 3.
13. ^ "Venetian brig 'Pollux' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
14. ^ "Dutch Third Rate ship of the line 'Washington' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
15. ^ "Danish Fifth Rate friagte 'Nymfen' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
16. ^ "Russian Third Rate ship of the line 'Aziia' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
17. ^ "British Fifth Rate frigate 'Triton' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
18. ^ "Russian Third Rate ship of the line 'Vsevelod' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
19. ^ "Russian Fifth Rate frigate 'Sviatoi Konstantin' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
20. ^ "Russian Fifth Rate frigate 'Sviatoi Nikolai' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
21. ^ "Russian Fourth Rate frigate 'Sviatoi Mikhail' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
22. ^ "Dutch corvette 'Ajax' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
23. ^ "British sloop 'Stork' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
24. ^ a b c d "SHIPS BUILT IN THE 1780s & 1790s". Searle. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
25. ^ "British sloop 'Arrow' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
26. ^ "Turkish Fifth Rate frigate 'Bülheves' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
27. ^ "British Merchant east indiaman 'Ceres' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
28. ^ "British Merchant east indiaman 'Coutts' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
29. ^ "Spanish Fifth Rate corvette 'Diligencia' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
30. ^ "British Merchant merchantman 'Earl Talbot' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
31. ^ "Spanish sloop 'Galgo' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
32. ^ "Turkish Third Rate ship of the line 'Heybetendaz' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
33. ^ "French Privateer brig 'L'Actif' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
34. ^ "French Sixth Rate corvette 'La Gaité' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
35. ^ "French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Libre' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
36. ^ "French Privateer brig 'La Nouvelle Eugenie' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
37. ^ "French Fifth Rate frigate 'L'Elizabeth' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
38. ^ "Turkish Fourth Rate frigate 'Mesken-i Gazi' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
39. ^ "Turkish Sixth Rate corvette 'Mürg-ı Bahri' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
40. ^ "British cutter 'Rambler' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
41. ^ "Turkish Sixth Rate corvette 'Rehber-i Nusret' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
42. ^ "Turkish Fourth Rate frigate 'Şehper-i Zafer' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
43. ^ "Turkish Fourth Rate frigate 'Şevketnüma' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
44. ^ "Turkish Sixth Rate corvette 'Zafer Küsa' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
45. ^ "Turkish Third Rate ship of the line 'Ziver-i Bahri' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

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