List of ship launches in 1794

The list of ship launches in 1794 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1794.

Date	Country	Builder	Location	Ship	Class	Notes
2 January	Kingdom of Great Britain	Randall & Brent	Rotherhithe	Cormorant	Cormorant-class ship sloop	For Royal Navy.
3 January	Great Britain	Richard Wells	Rotherhithe	Artois	Artois-class frigate	For Royal Navy. [1]
3 January	France		Bordeaux	Républicaine française	Galathée-class frigate	For French Navy.
4 January	France		Cherbourg	Chalier	Chalier-class brick cannoniere	For French Navy.
5 January	France	Jacques, Nicholas and Pierre Fortier	Honfleur	Mutine	Belliqueuse-class corvette	For French Navy.
6 January	India		Calcutta	Lady Shore	Merchantman	For James Willcocks.
16 January	France	Jean Fouache	Havre de Grâce	Unité	Unité-class corvette	For French Navy.
17 January	France		Brest	Diligente	Naïade-class corvette	For French Navy.
22 January	France		Rochefort	Jemmapes	Téméraire-class ship of the line	For Navy.
28 January	Cuba	Real Astillero de la Habana	Havana	Principe de Asturias	Santa Ana-class ship of the line	For Spanish Navy.
January	France		Bayonne	Atalante	Brig-sloop	For French Navy.
January	France	Le Marchant	Saint-Malo	La Foudre	Vésuve-class gunboat	For French Navy. [2]
January	France		Bordeaux	Vengeance	Corvette	For French Navy.
1 February	Great Britain	Randall & Brent	Rotherhithe	Favourite	Cormorant-class sloop	For Royal Navy.
3 February	Great Britain	Marmaduke Stalkart	Rotherhithe	Hornet	Cormorant-class sloop	For Royal Navy.
4 February	France	Jacques, Nicholas, and Pierre Fortier	Honfleur	Jalouse	Belliqueuse-class corvette	For French Navy.
14 February	Great Britain	William Cleverley	Gravesend	Lynx	Cormorant-class sloop	For Royal Navy.
15 February	Great Britain	Thomas Pitcher	Northfleet	Lark	Cormorant-class sloop	For Royal Navy.
15 February	France		Rochefort	Preneuse	Preneuse-class frigate	For French Navy.
February	France		Cherbourg	Crachefeu	Chalier-class gun-brig	For French Navy. [3]
3 March	Great Britain	Randall & Brent	Rotherhithe	Diana	Artois-class frigate	For Royal Navy.
3 March	Great Britain	Peter Everitt Mestaer	Rotherhithe	Duff	Full-rigged ship	For J. Carbine.
3 March	Great Britain	Josiah & Thomas Brindley	Frindsbury	Hazard	Cormorant-class sloop	For Royal Navy.
11 March	Great Britain	Thomas Fishburn	Whitby	Ceres	Merchantman	For private owner.
17 March	Great Britain	William Barnard	Deptford	Diamond	Artois-class frigate	For Royal Navy. [4]
17 March	Spain	Reales Astilleros de Esteiro	El Ferrol	Monarca	Montañés-class ship of the line	For Spanish Navy.
18 March	Great Britain	Perry & Hankey	Blackwall	Apollo	Artois-class frigate	For Royal Navy.
19 March	Great Britain	Mellish Hill	Limehouse	Ranger	Pylades-class ship-sloop	For Royal Navy. [5]
23 March	France		Toulon	Barra	Téméraire-class ship of the line	For French Navy.
30 March	France	Antoine & Louis Crucy, and Jean Baudet	Nantes	Bonheur	Corvette	For French Navy.
30 March	France		Nantes	Jacobin	Sixth rate	For French Navy. [6]
31 March	Republic of Venice	Andrea Chiribiri	Venice	Gloria Veneta	Fama-class ship of the line	For Venetian Navy. [7]
March	France		Boulogne	Requin	Requin-class cutter	For French Navy.
1 April	France	Pierre Alexander Forfait	Honfleur	Victorieuse	Belliqueuse-class corvette	For FrenchNavy. [8]
3 April	Great Britain	John Dudman	Deptford	Jason	Artois-class frigate	For Royal Navy.
3 April	Great Britain	John Wilson	Frindsbury	Peterel	Pylades-class ship-sloop	For Royal Navy.
29 April	France		Rochefort	Marat	Téméraire-class ship of the line	For French Navy.
29 April	France		Saint-Malo	Cocarde	Cocarde-class frigate	For French Navy.
April	Great Britain	Peter Everitt Mestaer	Rotherhithe	Pylades	Pylades-class ship-sloop	For Royal Navy. [9]
1 May	Great Britain	John & William Scott	Greenock	Caledonian	Merchantman	For Hunter & Co.
1 May	France		Havre de Grâce	La Constance	Sixth rate	For French Navy. [10]
5 May	Russia	Vasily Vlasov	Kazan	Kizliar	Kizliar-class bomb vessel	For Imperial Russian Navy. [11]
12 May	Great Britain	John Perry	Blackwall	Aimwell	Conquest-class gunvessel	For Royal Navy. [12]
12 May	Great Britain	John Perry	Blackwall	Pelter	Conquest-class gunvessel	For Royal Navy. [13]
17 May	Great Britain	John Randall	Rotherhithe	Borer	Conquest-class gunvessel	For Royal Navy. [14]
17 May	Great Britain	George Parsons	Bursledon	Galatea	Fifth rate	For Royal Navy. [15]
17 May	Great Britain	John Randall	Rotherhithe	Plumper	Conquest-class gunvessel	For Royal Navy. [16]
26 May	Great Britain	John Dudman	Deptford	Teazser	Conquest-class gunvessel	For Royal Navy. [17]
28 May	France		Havre de Grâce	Révolutionnaire	Seine-class frigate	For French Navy.
28 May	Great Britain	Mellish Hill	Limehouse	Tickler	Conquest-class gunvessel	For Royal Navy. [18]
29 May	France		Lorient	Droits de l'Homme	Téméraire-class ship of the line	For French Navy.
31 May	Great Britain	John Tovery	Woolwich	Bravo	Firm-class floating battery	For Royal Navy.
31 May	Great Britain	Martin Ware	Deptford	Firm	Firm-class floating battery	For Royal Navy.
31 May	Great Britain	Mellish Hill	Limehouse	Swinger	Conquest-class gunvessel	For Royal Navy. [19]
May	Spain		El Ferrol	Montañés	Montañés-class ship of the line	For Spanish Navy.
2 June	Great Britain	King	Dover	Piercer	Conquest-class gunvessel	For Royal Navy. [20]
11 June	Great Britain	Marmaduke Stalkartt	Rotherhithe	Seahorse	Artois-class frigate	For Royal Navy.
14 June	Great Britain	William Barnard	Deptford	Spanker	Spanker-class floating battery	For Royal Navy. [21]
18 June	Republic of Venice			Cerere	Sixth rate	For Venetian Navy. [22]
28 June	Great Britain	John Wilson & Co.	Frindsbury	Attack	Conquest-class gunvessel	For Royal Navy.
28 June	Great Britain		Portsmouth Dockyard	Prince of Wales	Boyne-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy.
28 June	Great Britain	Thomas Pollard	Chatham Dockyard	Stag	Fifth rate	For Royal Navy.
28 June	France		Lorient	Vertu	Frigate	For French Navy.
June	Great Britain	William Cleverley	Gravesend	Fearless	Conquest-class gunvessel	For Royal Navy. [23]
12 July	France		Lorient	Berceau	Corvette	For French Navy.
12 July	Great Britain	John Nelson and Thomas Pollars	Chatham Dockyard	Unicorn	Pallas-class frigate	For Royal Navy.
26 July	France		Brest	Virginie	Virginie-class frigate	For French Navy.
July	Great Britain	Josiah & Thomas Brindley	Frindsbury	Conquest	Conquest-class gunvessel	For Royal Navy. [24]
9 August	Russia	S. I. Afasaneyev	Nicholaieff	Sviatoi Pavel	Second rate	For Imperial Russian Navy. [25]
25 August	Russia	D. Masalsky	Saint Petersburg	Sviataia Elisaveta	Aleksandr-class rowing frigate	For Imperial Russian Navy. [26]
25 August	Russia	D. Masalsky	Saint Petersburg	Sviataia Mariia	Aleksandr-class rowing frigate	For Imperial Russian Navy. [27]
27 August	Great Britain	Thomas Pitcher	Northfleet	Britannia	Brig	For H. Jackson. [28]
August	France	Jacques-Noël Sané	Brest	Courageuse	Virginie-class frigate	For French Navy.
5 September	France	Joseph-Marie Blaise Coulomb	Toulon	Minerve	Minerve-class frigate	For French Navy. [29]
23 September	Great Britain	Jacob Preston	Great Yarmouth	Princess Royal	West Indiaman	For Simms & Co.
24 September	India	Gabriel Gillett	Calcutta	Gabriel	Full-rigged ship	For Hamilton & Co. [30]
25 September	France		Toulon	Artémise	Magicienne-class frigate	For French Navy.
25 September	Great Britain	Adams	Buckler's Hard	Cerberus	Alcmene-class frigate	For Royal Navy. [31]
26 September	France		Lorient	Forte	Forte-class frigate	For French Navy.
27 September	Denmark-Norway	Ernst Wilhelm Stibolt	Copenhagen	Danmark	Third rate	For Dano-Norwegian Navy. [32]
1 October	France		Havre de Grâce	Romaine	Romaine-class frigate	For French Navy.
6 October	Great Britain	G. & N. Langborne	Whitby	Ariadne	Full-rigged ship	For Lacy Lotherington. [33]
6 October	Great Britain	William Barnard	Deptford	Arniston	East Indiaman	For British East India Company. [34]
8 October	France		Lorient	Wattignies	Téméraire-class ship of the line	For French Navy.
10 October	France	Pierre Guibert	Bordeaux	Décade	Galathée-class frigate	For French Navy.
23 October	Great Britain	John Nowlan	Northam	Lively	Alcmene-class frigate	For Royal Navy.
25 October	Great Britain	Martin Ware	Deptford Dockyard	Mars	Mars-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy. [35]
October	France		Bayonne	Coquille	Coquille-class frigate	For Navy.
October	France	Raymond-Antoine Haran	Bayonne	La Patriote	Patriote-class frigate	For French Navy. [36]
1 November	Russia			Kotka	Kotka-class brig	For Imperial Russian Navy. [37]
1 November	Russia			Kutsal Mulim	Kotka-class brig	For Imperial Russian Navy. [38]
1 November	France		Saint-Malo	Régénérée	Cocarde-class frigate	For French Navy.
5 November	Russia	A. S. Katsanov	Kherson	Sviatoi Pyotr	Sviatoi Pyotr-class ship of the line	For Imperial Russian Navy. [39]
8 November	Great Britain	Joseph Graham	Harwich	Alcmene	Alcmene-class frigate	For Royal Navy. [40]
8 November	France		Paimboeuf	Vengeance	Vengeance-class frigate	For French Navy.
Summer	Russian America		Voskresenskaia	Phoenix	Merchantman	For Shelikhov-Golikov Company.
Unknown date	Great Britain	John & Philip Laing	Sunderland	Affiance	Merchantman	For private owner. [41]
Unknown date	Hamburg		Hamburg	Amphitrite	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Ottoman Empire	Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine	Constantinople	Arslan-ı Bahri	Third rate	For Ottoman Navy. [42]
Unknown date	Great Britain		Liverpool	Barton	West Indiaman	For Barten & Co.
Unknown date	Sweden	Fredrik Henrik af Chapman	Karlskrona	Bellona	Bellona-class frigate	For Royal Swedish Navy. [43]
Unknown date	Great Britain		Liverpool	Benson	West Indiaman	For Benson & Co.
Unknown date	France			Bonne Citoyenne	Bonne Citoyenne-class corvette	For French Navy.
Unknown date	India		Calcutta	Calcutta	Full-rigged ship	For private owner. [44] [45]
Unknown date	Great Britain		Caldicot	Caldicot Castle	Merchantman	For H. Wife.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Liverpool	Chambers	Merchantman	For Robert Bent.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Berwick upon Tweed	Coldstream Packet	Smack	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Plymouth	Cornwall	Full-rigged ship	Private owner
Unknown date	Great Britain	Nicholas Bools	Bridport	Dandy	Schooner	For Ord & Co. [46]
Unknown date	Great Britain	Young	Rotherhithe	Dart	Packet boat	For British East India Company.
Unknown date	Great Britain	Robert Batson	Limehouse	Lord Howe	East Indiaman	For British East India Company. [47]
Unknown date	Great Britain			Experiment	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain	Thomas Pitcher	Northfleet	Force	Conquest-class gunvessel	For Royal Navy. [48]
Unknown date	Great Britain	George Parsons	Bursledon	Galatea	Fifth rate	For Royal Navy.
Unknown date	United States		Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Ganges	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	India		Bombay	Ganges	Brig	For Bengal Pilot Service.
Unknown date	United States		New England	Harmony	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	India		Bombay	Hooghly	Brig	For Bombay Pilot Service. [49]
Unknown date	Great Britain	John & Philip Laing	Sunderland	Horta	Brig	For Captain Forster. [41] [50]
Unknown date	France			Lacédémonienne	Privateer	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Leith	Lady Cathcart	Merchantman	For R. Bruce.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Bristol	Lapwing	West Indiaman	For G. Fisher.
Unknown date	France		location	Le Volontaire	Fifth rate	For French Navy. [51]
Unknown date	Dutch Republic		Vlissingen	Nehalannia	Sixth rate	For Dutch Navy. [52]
Unknown date	Dutch Republic		Amsterdam	Nieuwland	East Indiaman	For Dutch East India Company.
Unknown date	United States			Nonsuch	Schooner	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain		South Shields	Ocean	Merchantman	For Hurry & Co.
Unknown date	Great Britain	John Troughton	Chester	Orpheus	Merchantman	For John St Barbe & Co.
Unknown date	Spain		El Ferrol	Pomona	Fifth rate	For Spanish Navy. [53]
Unknown date	Great Britain	Scotts	Greenock	Prince of Wales	Cutter	For Board of Customs.
Unknown date	United States		New Bedford, Massachusetts	Renown	Whaler	For private owner.
Unknown date	United States		New England	Roebuck	Merchantman	For S. Hughes.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Sunderland	Royalist	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain	Wells & Co.	Deptford	Sandfly	Musquito-class floating battery	For Royal Navy.
Unknown date	Great Britain		London	Thames	Merchantman	For Mr. Tranham.
Unknown date	India		Chittagong	Thetis	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Bristol	Union Island	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Spain		Cádiz	Vivo	Brig	For Spanish Navy.
Unknown date	Great Britain	Thomas Hearn	North Shields	Wright	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Whitby	Young William	Full-rigged ship	For private owner.
Unknown date	France			Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Spain			Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Unknown		Spain or Brazil	Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Spain			Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	France			Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.

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