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
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	Great Britain	Nicholas Bools	Bridport	Don Quixote	Brig	For Mr. Tremlett.[30]
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.[31]
Unknown date	Great Britain	Nicholas Bools & William Good	Bridport	Eliza	Sloop	For Joseph Down and others.[32]
Unknown date	Spain		El Ferrol	Galgo	Sloop-of-war	For Spanish Navy.[33]
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.[34]
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.[35]
Unknown date	France		Bayonne	La Gaieté	Bonne Citoyenne-class corvette	For French Navy.[36]
Unknown date	France		Havre de Grâce	La Libre	Romaine-class frigate	For French Navy.[37]
Unknown date	France		Nantes	La Nouvelle Eugenie	Privateer	For Feliz Cossin de Chourses.[38]
Unknown date	France			L'Elizabeth	Fifth rate	For French Navy.[39]
Unknown date	Ottoman Empire	Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine	Constantinople	Mesken-i Gazi	Fourth rate	For Ottoman Navy.[40]
Unknown date	Ottoman Empire	Çamlicali Kalfa		Mürg-ı Bahri	Sixth rate	For Ottoman Navy.[41]
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.[42]
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.[43]
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.[44]
Unknown date	Ottoman Greece	Filip Kalfa	Lemnos	Şevketnüma	Fourth rate	For Ottoman Navy.[45]
Unknown date	Great Britain	Nicholas Bools & William Good	Bridport	Stag	Sloop	For William Styles and others.[46]
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.[47]
Unknown date	Ottoman Empire	Ahmed Hoca Kaptan	Midilli	Ziver-i Bahri	Third rate	For Ottoman Navy.[48]
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.