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 Gunvessel 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 gunvessel 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 gunvessel 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 gunvessel 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 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 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.[38]
Unknown date  Great Britain W. J. Bottomley King's Lynn Auspicious East Indiaman For S. Baker.[39]
Unknown date  Ottoman Empire Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine Constantinople Badi-i Nusret Second rate For Ottoman Navy.[40]
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.[41]
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.[42]
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.[43]
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 Kingdom of Great Britain John Outerbridge Bermuda Dasher Dasher-class sloop For Royal Navy.[44]
Unknown date Kingdom of Great Britain Bermuda Nathaniel Tynes Bermuda Driver Dasher-class sloop For Royal Navy.[45]
Unknown date  Great Britain Liverpool Hannah Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date Kingdom of Great Britain Lower Canada Quebec City Harbinger Brig For Michel Hogan.
Unknown date  United States Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Hassan Bashaw Sixth rate For Algerian Navy.[46]
Unknown date  Ottoman Empire Mustafa Molla Sinop Hediyyetü'l Müluk Fifth rate For Ottoman Navy.[47]
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 Sweden-Finland Umeå Kongen af Assianthe Slave ship For Jeppe Prætorius & Co.
Unknown date Portugal Brazil São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos Le Buonaparte Privateer For private owner.[48]
Unknown date  France La Caroline Privateer For private owner.[49]
Unknown date Republic of Venice Venice La Harpe 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.[50]
Unknown date Republic of Venice Venice La Muiron 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 Le 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 Le 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  United States Malta Schooner For Spanish Navy.[56]
Unknown date  Great Britain Hull Mildred Merchantman For Moxon & Co.
Unknown date  Great Britain Hobbs & Hellyer Redbridge Millbrook Schooner For Royal Navy.[57]
Unknown date Kingdom of Great Britain 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 Portugal Brazil Pará Pérola Fifth rate For Portuguese Navy.[58]
Unknown date Portugal Pará Princesa Real Sixth rate For Portuguese Navy.[59]
Unknown date  France Renard Privateer For private owner.
Unknown date  Great Britain Hull Roselle West Indiaman For Sibbald & Co.
Unknown date  Ottoman Empire Dimitri Kalfa Ereğli Şahin-i Derya Fourth rate For Ottoman Navy.[60]
Unknown date Portugal Brazil Pará Sao Joao Magnânimo Sixth rate For Portuguese Navy.[61]
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.[62]
Unknown date  Batavian Republic Rotterdam Scipio Corvette For Batavian Navy.[63]
Unknown date  United States Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Skjoldebrand Sixth rate For Algerian Navy.[64]
Unknown date  Great Britain River Thames Speculator Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date  Great Britain Cowes Speedwell Cutter For Board of Customs.[65]
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.[66]
Unknown date Ottoman Empire Ottoman Greece Antuvan Kalfa Rhodes Tiz Hareket Fifth rate For Ottoman Navy.[67]
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 Kingdom of Great Britain 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-Finland Name unknown Full-rigged ship For private owner.
Unknown date Portugal Brazil Name unknown Merchantman For private owner.

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