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 |
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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 | 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 | 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 | Third rate | For Batavian Navy.[10] | |
24 April | Russia | A. G. Stepanov | Kazan | frigate | For Imperial Russian Navy.[11] | |
24 April | Russia | A. G. Stepanov | Kazan | 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 | Armed storeship | For Imperial Russian Navy.[14] | ||
19 May | Russia | G. Ignatyev | Archangelsk | Fifth rate | For Imperial Russian Navy.[15] | |
19 May | Russia | G. Ignatyev | Archangelsk | 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 | 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 | Third rate | For Dutch East India Company.[19] | ||
June | 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 | 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 | schooner | For French Navy. | |
2 September | Russia | A. I. Melikhov | Saint Petersburg | 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 | frigate | For Imperial Russian Navy.[24] | |
26 September | Great Britain | George Parsons | Bursledon | Penelope | 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 | Nova Scotia | Lowdon | Pictou | Harriet | Merchantman | For private owner. |
October | 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 | Sixth rate | For Ottoman Navy.[29] | |
22 December | Ottoman Empire | Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine | Constantinople | Sixth rate | For Ottoman Navy.[30] | |
22 December | Ottoman Empire | Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine | Constantinople | 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 | 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 | Kirkcaldy | Britannia | West Indiaman | For Mr. M'Neil. | |
Unknown date | Great Britain | Leith | Bush & Dreghorn | Merchantman | For private owner. | |
Unknown date | India | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.[32] | |||
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 | Lower Canada | Patrick Beatson | Quebec City | Diamond | Merchantman | For Beatson & Co. |
Unknown date | Batavian Republic | Rotterdam | Third rate | For Batavian Navy.[33] | ||
Unknown date | Great Britain | Woolwich Dockyard | Gunboat | For Royal Navy.[34] | ||
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 | Bermuda | Bermuda | Ellice | Merchantman | For private owner. | |
Unknown date | Great Britain | Thomas Haw | Stockton-on-Tees | Experiment | Merchantman | For Robert Wigram. |
Unknwn 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 | Full-rigged ship | For United States Navy.[35] | |||
Unknown date | United States | Full-rigged ship | For United States Navy.[36] | |||
Unknown date | United States | Full-rigged ship | For United States Navy.[37] | |||
Unknown date | France | Bordeaux | Guêpe | Sloop-of-war | For French Navy. | |
Unknown date | Great Britain | Lancaster | Harmony | West Indiaman | For Mr. Ritchie | |
Unknown date | Batavian Republic | Rotterdam | Third rate | For Batavian Navy.[38] | ||
Unknown date | India | Calcutta | Highland Chief | Merchantman | For Lennox & Co. | |
Unknown date | France | Bordeaux | Huit Amis | Privateer | For private owner. | |
Unknown date | 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.[39] | |
Unknown date | France | Raymond-Antoine Haran | Bayonne | frigate | For French Navy.[40] | |
Unknown date | France | La Résolue | Privateer | For private owner.[41] | ||
Unknown date | France | La Ressource | Privateer | For private owner.[42] | ||
Unknown date | France | Le Baret | Privateer | For private owner.[43] | ||
Unknown date | France | Le Bordelais | Privateer | For private owner.[44] | ||
Unknown date | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe | Le Dix Août | Privateer | For private owner.[45] | |
Unknown date | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe | Le Sauveur | Privateer | For private owner.[46] | |
Unknown date | France | Le Scoevola | Privateer | For private owner.[47] | ||
Unknown date | France | Dunkerque | Le Vigilant | Privateer | For private owner.[48] | |
Unknown date | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe | L'Intrepide | Privateer | For private owner.[49] | |
Unknown date | France | L'Invariable | Privateer | For private owner.[50] | ||
Unknown date | France | Bordeaux | L'Invincible Général Bonaparte | Privateer | For private owner.[51] | |
Unknown date | Great Britain | Thomas King | Dover | Lord Duncan | Merchantman | For private owner. |
Unknown date | 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 | Privateer | For private owner.[52] | ||
Unknown date | France | Bordeaux | Mars | Privateer | For private owner. | |
Unknown date | Ottoman Empire | Third rate | For Ottoman Navy.[53] | |||
Unknown date | Ottoman Empire | Jean-Baptiste Benoit | Constantinople | First rate | For Ottoman Navy.[54] | |
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 | Third rate | For Batavian Navy.[55] | ||
Unknown date | Great Britain | Edward Mosley & Co. | Howdon | Nile} | Merchantman | For Francis & Thomas Hurry. |
Unknown date | Norfolk Island | Norfolk Island | Norfolk | Sloop | For John Hunter. | |
Unknown date | United States | Norfolk, Virginia | Norfolk | Brig | For United States Navy. | |
Unknown date | France | Lorient | Orient | Téméraire-class ship of the line | For French 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 | Full-rigged ship | For United States Navy.[56] | |||
Unknown date | United States | Full-rigged ship | For United States Navy.[57] | |||
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.[58] |
Unknown date | United States | John Patterson | Savannah, Georgia | Savannah | Row galley | For United States Navy.[59] |
Unknown date | United States | Full-rigged ship | For United States Navy.[60] | |||
Unknown date | Upper Canada | Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard | Kingston | Speedy | Gunboat | For Provincial Marine. |
Unknown date | Great Britain | J. Blenkinsop | Monkwearmouth | Spring | Brig | For J. Blenkinsop.[58] |
Unknown date | Great Britain | Telegraph | Brig | For private owner. | ||
Unknown date | Great Britain | Whitby | Tom | West Indiaman | For private owner. | |
Unknown datedate | 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 | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Vertumnus | Merchantman | For J. Poditch.[58] |
Unknown date | Denmark-Norway | Copenhagen | Third rate | For Dano-Norwegian Navy.[61] | ||
Unknown date | United States | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | |
Unknown date | 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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Ship events in 1798 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1793 | 1794 | 1795 | 1796 | 1797 | 1798 | 1799 | 1800 | |||
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Ship decommissionings: | 1801 | ||||||||||
Shipwrecks: | 1793 | 1794 | 1795 | 1796 | 1797 | 1798 | 1799 | 1800 | 1801 | 1802 | 1803 |
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