List of ship launches in 1857

The list of ship launches in 1857 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1857.

Date	Country	Builder	Location	Ship	Class / type	Notes
27 January	United Kingdom	Harrington and Workington Shipbuilding and Ropemaking Co	Workington	Kamehameha IV	Full-rigged ship	For Messrs. Bushby & Co.[1]
5 February	United Kingdom	Devonport Dockyard	Devonport	Pelorus	Pearl-class corvette	For Royal Navy
7 March	United Kingdom	R & H Green	Blackwall	Jaseur	Algerine-class gunboat	For Royal Navy
27 March	France		Rochefort	Alexandre	Suffren-class ship of the line	For French Navy
9 April	United Kingdom		Hartlepool		Steamship	Drove ashore on launch and was damaged.[2][3]
25 April	United Kingdom	Portsmouth Dockyard	Portsmouth	Royal Sovereign	First rate ship of the line	For Royal Navy
April	United States	Westervelt & Co.	New York City	Queen of the Pacific	Sidewheeler	For Morgan & Garrison
18 May	United Kingdom	James Laing	Sunderland, County Durham	Duncan Dunbar	Clipper	For Gellatly, Hankey & Sewell
May	United States		Murfreesboro, North Carolina	Chowan	Steamship	For North Carolina and New York Steamship Co.
May	British North America		Quebec City	Grace Vernon		Capsized on launch. Righted and found to be severely hogged.[4]
23 June	United Kingdom	Caird & Company	Greenock	Austria	Steamship, auxiliary sails	For Hamburg America Line
August	United States	Reaney, Neafie & Co.	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Explorer	Sternwheeler	For Joseph Christmas Ives
8 September	United States		Canemah, Oregon	Elk	Sternwheeler	For Pease, Matthieu and others
17 September	United Kingdom	Lawrence Hill & Co.	Port Glasgow	Admella	Steamship, auxiliary sails
29 October	Russia	Nikolaev Admiralty shipyard	Nikolaev	Tsesarevich	First rate ship of the line	For Imperial Russian Navy
2 November	United Kingdom	Money Wigram & Son	Blackwall	Victor	Intrepid-class gunvessel	For Royal Navy
10 December	United States	Jacob Aaron Westervelt	New York City	Huntsville	Steamship	For H. B. Cromwell & Co.
Unknown date	United States		Jeffersonville, Indiana	A. Child	Paddle steamer
Unknown date	United States		Cincinnati, Ohio	A. O. Tyler	Sidewheeler
Unknown date	United States	Peck and Masters	Cleveland, Ohio	Comet	Steamboat	For New York Central Railroad
Unknown date	United States			Croquette	Brig	For J. Crosby
Unknown date	United States	Samuel Sneden	New York City	Dawn	Steamship
Unknown date	Province of Canada	George T Davie & Sons	Lauzon	Gananoque	Clipper
Unknown date	United States		Cincinnati, Ohio	Great Western	Sidewheeler
Unknown date	Netherlands	F. Smit	Kinderdijk	Japan	Corvette	For Imperial Japanese Navy
Unknown date	United Kingdom			Minnehaha	Barque	For Richard Hughes & Co.
Unknown date	United States	S. Gildersleeve & Sons	Portland, Connecticut	National Guard	Steamship
Unknown date	United Kingdom			Newcastle	Clipper	For Green Blackwall Line
Unknown date	United States		Williamsburg, New York	Oliver M. Pettit	Steamship
Unknown date	United States		Cincinnati, Ohio	Peosta	Sidewheeler
Unknown date	United States	Philadelphia Navy Yard	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Shubrick	Lighthouse tender	For United States Lighthouse Board
Unknown date	United States	John English	Brooklyn, New York	Southfield	Ferry	For New York Ferry Company
Unknown date	United States	Silas E. Smith & George Anson Pease	Tualatin River	Swan	Sternwheeler
Unknown date	United States	Jeremiah Simonson	Greenpoint, New York	Vanderbilt	Passenger ship	For North Atlantic Mail Steamship Line
Unknown date	United States	Joseph Rowland	Setauket, New York	Wanderer	Schooner	For John Johnson
Unknown date	United States		Brooklyn, New York	William G. Putnam	Paddle tug
Unknown date	United Kingdom	William Pile	Sunderland, County Durham	Windsor Castle	Full-rigged ship	For Richard Green

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