List of ship launches in 1797

The list of ship launches in 1797 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1797.

	Country	Builder	Location	Ship	Class	Notes
12 January	Great Britain	Perry	Blackwall	Earl Talbot	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
28 January	Great Britain	Perry	Blackwall	Ceres	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
28 January	Batavian Republic		Rotterdam	Eendracht	Fifth rate	For Batavian Navy.[1]
28 January	Great Britain	Deptford Dockyard	Deptford	Neptune	Neptune-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy.
28 January	Batavian Republic		Rotterdam	Oldenbarneveldt	Third rate	For Dutch East India Company.[2]
29 January	Great Britain	Randall & Brent	Rotherhithe	Pigot	East Indiaman	Purchased by Royal Navy.
7 February	Great Britain	Mrs Frances Barnard & Co.	Deptford	Crash	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.
13 February	Great Britain	George Parsons	Bursledon	Cambrian	Fifth rate	For Royal Navy.
13 February	Great Britain	Randall	Rotherhithe	Coutts	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
13 February	Great Britain	John Wells	Deptford	Ganges	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.[3]
22 February	Ottoman Empire	Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine	Constantinople	Selimiye	First rate	For Ottoman Navy.[4]
27 February	Great Britain	Hall & Co.	Limehouse	Naiad	Amazon-class frigate	For Royal Navy.[5]
11 March	Great Britain	Josiah & Thomas Brindley	King's Lynn	Victor	Snake-class sloop	For Royal Navy.[6]
13 March	Great Britain	Richard Wells	Rotherhithe	GB No. 10	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[7]
13 March	Great Britain	Thomas Pitcher	Northfleet	Hope	Merchantman	For Alexander Hume.
13 March	Great Britain	William Cleverley	Gravesend	Hydra	Fifth rate	For Royal Navy.
14 March	Great Britain	John Randall & Co.	Rotherhithe	Acasta	Acasta-class frigate	For Royal Navy
14 March	Great Britain	Woolwich Dockyard	Woolwich	Centaur	Mars-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy.
14 March	Great Britain	Joseph Graham	Harwich	Ethalion	Artois-class frigate	For Royal Navy.
14 March	Great Britain	John Troughton	Chester	Eurydice	Merchantman	For John St Barbe.
29 March	Great Britain	John Randall & Co.	Rotherhithe	Endymion	Endymion-class frigate	For Royal Navy.
29 March	Great Britain	John Perry	Blackwall	GB No. 22	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[8]
31 March	Great Britain	John Perry	Blackwall	GB No. 23	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[9]
1 April	Great Britain	John Perry	Blackwall	GB No. 24	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[10]
4 April	Great Britain	Temple shipbuilders	South Shields	Northumberland	Merchantman	For J. Lyall.
5 April	Great Britain	Mrs. Frances Barnard & Co.	Deptford	Crash	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.
10 April	Great Britain	John Randall	Rotherhithe	Asp	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.
10 April	Great Britain	Perry & Co.	Blackwall	Furnace	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.
10 April	Great Britain	John Randall	Rotherhithe	GB No. 4	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[11]
10 April	Great Britain	Thomas Pitcher	Northfleet	Griper	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.
10 April	Great Britain	Thomas Pitcher	Northfleet	Growler	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.
11 April	Great Britain	Richard Wells	Rotherhithe	GB No. 9	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[12]
11 April	Great Britain	Richard Wells	Rotherhithe	GB No. 11	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[13]
11 April	Great Britain	Frances Barnard	Deptford	GB No. 16	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[14]
12 April	Great Britain	Melhuish	Limehouse	Admiral Gardner	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
12 April	Great Britain	Balthazar Adams	Bucklers Hard	Boadicea	Frigate	For Royal Navy.[15]
12 April	Great Britain	John Dudman	Deptford	Sirius	Fifth rate	For Royal Navy.[16]
14 April	Great Britain	John Dudman & Co.	Deptford	Blazer	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.
15 April	Great Britain	William Cleverley	Gravesend	GB No. 30	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[17]
22 April	Great Britain	Frances Barnard	Deptford	GB No. 17	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[18]
24 April	Great Britain	Frances Barnard	Deptford	GB No. 18	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[19]
24 April	Great Britain	Hill & Mellish	Limehouse	GB No. 19	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.
25 April	Great Britain	Robert Hill	Limehouse	GB No. 20	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[20]
25 April	Great Britain	John Dudman & Co.	Deptford	Cracker	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.
28 April	Great Britain		Sunderland	Clinker	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy. Subcontracted from John Dudman, Deptford.[21][22]
April	Great Britain	John Randall	Rotherhithe	Acute	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.
April	Great Britain	John Randall	Deptford	GB No. 7	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.
April	Great Britain	Richard Wells	Rotherhithe	GB No. 8	Acute-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[23]
April	Great Britain	Thomas Pitcher	Northfleet	GB No. 28	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[24]
April	Great Britain	Thomas Pitcher	Northfleet	GB No. 29	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[25]
April	Great Britain	William Cleverley	Gravesend	GB No. 31	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[26]
1 May	Great Britain	John Nicholson	Rochester	GB No. 44	Gunvessel	For Royal Navy.
2 May	Great Britain	John Wilson & Co.	Frindsbury	GB No. 32	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[27]
2 May	Russia	G. Ignatyev	Archangelsk	Severnyi Oryol	Iaroslav-class ship of the line	For Imperial Russian Navy.[28]
10 May	United States	Joshua Humphreys	Philadelphia	United States	Heavy frigate	For United States Navy
21 May	Great Britain	Hill & Mellish	Limehouse	Defender	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy
26 May	Russia	G. Ignatyev	Archangelsk	Pobeda	Aziia-class ship of the line	For French Navy.[29]
25 June	France	Jean-Jacques Aubazir	Toulon	Franklin	Third rate	For French Navy.[30]
27 June	France	Antoine & Louis Crucy	Nantes	Créole	Frigate	For French Navy.
29 June	United States		Portsmouth, New Hampshire	Crescent	Fifth rate	For Algerian Navy.[31]
June	Great Britain	John Wilson & Co	Frindsbury	GB No. 33	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.[32]
June	France			L'Oiseau	Privateer	For private owner.[33]
19 July	Russia	A. S. Katsanov	Kherson	Simion i Anna	Sviatoi Pyotr-class ship of the line	For Imperial Russian Navy.[34]
22 August	Republic of Venice		Venice	Muiron	Frigate	For French Navy
7 September	United States	David Stodder	Baltimore	Constellation	Frigate	For United States Navy
11 September	Great Britain	Thomas Pitcher	Northfleet	Tigress	Courser-class gunbrig	For Royal Navy.
22 September	France		Cherbourg	Furieuse	Seine-class frigate	For French Navy.
September	Great Britain	Thomas King	Dover	Echo	Echo-class brig	For Royal Navy.
5 October	France		Lorient	Hercule	Téméraire-class ship of the line	For French Navy.
7 October	Great Britain	Thomas Pitcher	Northfleet	Osprey	Sloop-of-war	For Royal Navy.[35]
17 October	France		Bayonne	Franchise	Coquille-class frigate	For French Navy.
21 October	United States	Edmund Hartt	Boston	Constitution	United States-class frigate	For United States Navy
30 November	Batavian Republic		Amsterdam	Amphitrite	Fifth rate	For Batavian Navy.[36]
3 November	Great Britain	John Dudman	Deptford	Buffalo	Storeship	For Royal Navy.
9 November	Spain	Julian Martin de Retamosa	El Ferrol	Medea	Fifth rate	For Spanish Navy.[37]
20 November	Great Britain	Joseph Graham	Harwich	Busy	Brig-sloop	For Royal Navy.
24 November	France		Toulon	Spartiate	Téméraire-class ship of the line	For French Navy.
November	France		Bordeaux	Confiance	Corvette	For French Navy.
18 December	Great Britain	Balthazar & Edward Adams	Bucklers Hard	Snake	Snake-class brig-sloop	For Royal Navy.
20 December	Great Britain	Stephen Teague	Ipswich	Cruizer	Cruizer-class brig-sloop	For Royal Navy
December	France	Jean Baudry	Bayonne	Dédaigneuse	Coquille-class frigate	For French Navy.
Unknown date	Great Britain	Nicholas Bools & William Good	Bridport	Active	Brigantine	For Arthur Wishart and others.[38]
Unknown date	Great Britain		Sunderland	Albion	Merchantman	For W. Robson.
Unknown date	Great Britain	John & Philip Laing	Sunderland	Alfred	Brig	For Matthew Robson.[21]
Unknown date	India		Bombay Dockyard	Asia	Full-rigged ship	For British East India Company.[39]
Unknown date	Great Britain	W. J. Bottomley	King's Lynn	Auspicious	East Indiaman	For S. Baker.[40]
Unknown date	Ottoman Empire	Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine	Constantinople	Badi-i Nusret	Second rate	For Ottoman Navy.[41]
Unknown date	France		Bordeaux	Bellone	Sixth rate	For French Navy.
Unknown date	Ottoman Empire	Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine	Constantinople	Beşaretnüma	Third rate	For Ottoman Navy.[42]
Unknown date	India		Calcutta	Bhavani	Full-rigged ship	For private owner.
Unknown date	France		Nantes	Brave	Privateer	For Benoit Boucard and others.
Unknown date	Great Britain	Frances Barnard	River Thames	Caledonian	Full-rigged ship	For Robert Charnock.[43]
Unknown date	Great Britain		Whitby	Cambridge	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Ottoman Empire	Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine	Constantinople	Cengaver	Sixth rate	For Ottoman Navy.[44]
Unknown date	Great Britain		Teignmouth	Commerce	Brig	For private owner.
Unknown date	France			Cornélie	Virginie-class frigate	For French Navy.
Unknown date	Great Britain	John & Philip Laing	Sunderland	Dane	Merchantman	For private owner.[21]
Unknown date		John Outerbridge	Bermuda	Dasher	Dasher-class sloop	For Royal Navy.[45]
Unknown date	Bermuda	Nathaniel Tynes	Bermuda	Driver	Dasher-class sloop	For Royal Navy.[46]
Unknown date	Great Britain		Liverpool	Hannah	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Lower Canada		Quebec City	Harbinger	Brig	For Michel Hogan.
Unknown date	United States		Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Hassan Bashaw	Sixth rate	For Algerian Navy.[47]
Unknown date	Ottoman Empire	Mustafa Molla	Sinop	Hediyyetü'l Müluk	Fifth rate	For Ottoman Navy.[48]
Unknown date	United States		Newburyport, Massachusetts	Herald	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain	Thomas Hearn	North Shields	Hermes	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Batavian Republic		Vlissingen	Hippomenes	Corvette	For Batavian Navy.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Aberdeen	Jane	Whaler	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Lancaster	Juno	Merchantman	For Mr. Hausman.
Unknown date	Sweden		Umeå	Kongen af Assianthe	Slave ship	For Jeppe Prætorius & Co.
Unknown date	Brazil		São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos	Le Buonaparte	Privateer	For private owner.[49]
Unknown date	France			La Caroline	Privateer	For private owner.[50]
Unknown date	Republic of Venice		Venice	Laharpe	Third rate	Under construction for French Navy, seized by the Habsburg monarchy in November on the formation of the Venetian Province. Entered service with the Austrian Navy in 1799.[51]
Unknown date	Republic of Venice		Venice	Beyrand	Third rate	Under construction for French Navy, seized by the Habsburg monarchy in November on the formation of the Venetian Province. Entered service with the Austrian Navy in 1799.[52]
Unknown date	Republic of Venice		Venice	Stengel	Third rate	Under construction for French Navy, seized by the Habsburg monarchy in November on the formation of the Venetian Province. Entered service with the Austrian Navy in 1799.[53]
Unknown date	United States		Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Lelah Eisha	Schooner	For Algerian Navy.[54]
Unknown date	France			Le President Parker	Privateer	For private owner.[55]
Unknown date	Great Britain	Nicholas Bools & William Good	Bridport	Lively	Sloop	For John Bagwell, Nicholas Bools, William Good and Thomas Swain.[56]
Unknown date	United States			Malta	Schooner	For Spanish Navy.[57]
Unknown date	Great Britain		Hull	Mildred	Merchantman	For Moxon & Co.
Unknown date	Great Britain	Hobbs & Hellyer	Redbridge	Millbrook	Schooner	For Royal Navy.[58]
Unknown date	Lower Canada	Patrick Beatson	Quebec City	Neptune	Merchantman	For Mr. Davidson.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Sunderland	Nowa	Merchantman	Forprivate owner.[21]
Unknown date	Great Britain		Broadstairs	Olive Branch	West Indiaman	For T. Brown.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Liverpool	Otter	West Indiaman	For Mr. Molyneux.
Unknown date	Great Britain	John Wright	Liverpool	Parr	Slave ship	For Thomas Parr.
Unknown date	Brazil		Pará	Pérola	Fifth rate	For Portuguese Navy.[59]
Unknown date			Pará	Princesa Real	Sixth rate	For Portuguese Navy.[60]
Unknown date	France			Renard	Privateer	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Hull	Roselle	West Indiaman	For Sibbald & Co.
Unknown date	Great Britain	Nicholas Bools & William Good	Bridport	Rutland	Cutter	For N. Awigly.[61]
Unknown date	Ottoman Empire	Dimitri Kalfa	Ereğli	Şahin-i Derya	Fourth rate	For Ottoman Navy.[62]
Unknown date	Brazil		Pará	Sao Joao Magnânimo	Sixth rate	For Portuguese Navy.[63]
Unknown date	Great Britain		Liverpool	Sarah	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Ottoman Empire	Venetian Josef Kalfa	Dardanelles	Sayyad-i Bahri	Third rate	For Ottoman Navy.[64]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic		Rotterdam	Scipio	Corvette	For Batavian Navy.[65]
Unknown date	United States		Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Skjoldebrand	Sixth rate	For Algerian Navy.[66]
Unknown date	Great Britain		River Thames	Speculator	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Cowes	Speedwell	Cutter	For Board of Customs.[67]
Unknown date	United States		St. Marys, Georgia	St. Mary's	Galley	For United States Navy.
Unknown date	Ottoman Empire	Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine	Constantinople	Şuca-ı Bahri	Sixth rate	For Ottoman Navy.[68]
Unknown date	Ottoman Greece	Antuvan Kalfa	Rhodes	Tiz Hareket	Fifth rate	For Ottoman Navy.[69]
Unknown date	France	Bourmaud Frères	Nantes	Vautour	Privateer	For private owner.
Unknown date	United States			Vigilant	Cutter	For Revenue-Marine.
Unknown date	United States			Virginia	Cutter	For Revenue-Marine.
Unknown date	Province of Quebec			Wanton	Schooner	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Whitby	Whydah	West Indiaman	For Mr. Fletcher.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Liverpool	Will	Slave ship	For Aspinall & Co.
Unknown date	Unknown		France or Spain	Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Spain			Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	United States		Plymouth, Massachusetts	Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Unknown		South America	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.
Unknown date	Unknown		Stettin or Sweden	Name unknown	Full-rigged ship	For private owner.
Unknown date	Brazil			Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.