List of ship launches in 1798

The list of ship launches in 1798 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1798.

Date	Country	Builder	Location	Ship	Class	Notes
3 January	France		Rochefort	Africaine	Preneuse-class frigate	For French Navy.
4 January	Great Britain	John Wells	Deptford	Dover Castle	East Indiaman	For British East India Company. [1]
17 January	Great Britain	Thomas Pollard	Deptford Dockyard	Diomede	Diomede-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy. [2]
17 January	Great Britain	John Perry	Blackwall Yard	Kent	Ajax-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy. [3]
17 January	Great Britain	Perry	Blackwall	Lord Duncan	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
31 January	France	Louis Crucy	Nantes	L'Heureuse	Heureuse-class frigate	For French Navy. [4]
1 February	France		Lorient	Quatorze Juillet	Téméraire-class ship of the line	For French Navy.
2 February	Great Britain	Barnard	Deptford Wharf	Northumberland	America-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy.
3 March	Great Britain	John Randall	Rotherhithe	Ajax	Ajax-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy.
3 March	Great Britain	Perry	Blackwall	Walpole	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
19 March	Great Britain	James Betts	Mistleythorn	Amphion	Fifth rate	For Royal Navy. [5]
19 March	Great Britain	Thomas Pitcher	Northfleet	Superb	Pompée-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy. [6]
31 March	Great Britain	John Wells	Deptford	Calcutta	East Indiaman	For British East India Company. [7]
31 March	Great Britain	Plymouth Dockyard	Plymouth	Foudroyant	Third rate	For Royal Navy.
2 April	Great Britain	William Wells	Rotherhithe	Dragon	Third rate	For Royal Navy. [8]
16 April	Great Britain	Cleverley Bros.	Gravesend	Achille	Pompée-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy.
17 April	Great Britain	Edwards	Shoreham-by-Sea	Pheasant	Merlin-class sloop	For Royal Navy. [9]
23 April	Batavian Republic	Peter Glavimans	Rotterdam	Kortenaer	Third rate	For Batavian Navy. [10]
24 April	Russia	A. G. Stepanov	Kazan	Frigate No.1	Kavkaz-class frigate	For Imperial Russian Navy. [11]
24 April	Russia	A. G. Stepanov	Kazan	Frigate No.2	Kavkaz-class frigate	For Imperial Russian Navy. [12]
29 April	France	Antoine & Louis Crucy	Nantes	Aréthuse	Corvette	For French Navy.
April	Great Britain	Hobbs & Hellyer	Redbridge	Netley	Gunboat	For Royal Navy.
2 May	France	Honoré Garnier Saint-Maurice	Toulon	Ligurienne	Corvette	For French Navy.
2 May	Great Britain	John Dudman	Deptford Wharf	Renown	America-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy. [13]
16 May	Great Britain	Hill & Mellish	Limehouse	Porpoise	Storeship	For Royal Navy.
19 May	Russia		Arkhangelsk	Kildyuin	Armed storeship	For Imperial Russian Navy. [14]
19 May	Russia	G. Ignatyev	Archangelsk	Pospeshnyi	Fifth rate	For Imperial Russian Navy. [15]
19 May	Russia	G. Ignatyev	Archangelsk	Schastlivyi	Arkhangel Mikhail-class frigate	For Imperial Russian Navy. [16]
7 June	United States	James Hacket	Kittery, Maine	Portsmouth	Unrated	For United States Navy.
20 June	Russia	A. S. Katsanov	Kherson	Sviatoi Mikhail	Sviatoi Pyotr-class ship of the line	For Imperial Russian Navy. [17]
28 June	Spain	Julian Martin de Retamosa	El Ferrol	Argonauta	Montañés-class ship of the line	For Spanish Navy. [18]
30 June	Batavian Republic		Rotterdam	Johan de Witt	Third rate	For Dutch East India Company. [19]
June	Nova Scotia	Snow Parker	Liverpool	Charles Mary Wentworth	Privateer	For Joseph Barss Sr., William Lawson, Snow Parker and Simeon Perkins.
14 July	Great Britain	Randall, Brent & Sons	Rotherhithe	Sarah Christiana	Merchantman	For Robert Charnock.
28 July	Batavian Republic	R. Dorman	Amsterdam	Wreker	Wreker-class ship of the line	For Batavian Navy. [20]
11 August	United States	James Hackett	Kittery, Maine	Scammel	Topsail schooner	For Revenue Cutter Service.
13 August	India	Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia	Bombay	Scaleby Castle	Full-rigged ship	For Bruce, Fawcett & Co. [21]
13 August	France	Charles-Henri Tellier	Havre de Grâce	Valeureuse	Seine-class frigate	For French Navy.
18 August	France		Brest	Biche	Agile-class schooner	For French Navy.
2 September	Russia	A. I. Melikhov	Saint Petersburg	Bogoiavlenie Gospodne	Aleksandr-class rowing frigate	For Imperial Russian Navy. [22]
9 September	France		Saint-Malo	Le Décidé	Privateer	For Havard et Compagnie. [23]
11 September	Great Britain	Chatham Dockyard	Chatham	Temeraire	Neptune-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy.
12 September	India		Calcutta	Cuvera	East Indiaman	For Lambert, Ross & Co.
24 September	Russia	G. Ignatyev	Archangelsk	Feodosii Totemskii	Feodosii Totemskii-class frigate	For Imperial Russian Navy. [24]
26 September	Great Britain	George Parsons	Bursledon	Penelope	Penelope-class frigate	For Royal Navy. [25]
27 September	Great Britain	Randall & Brent	Rotherhithe	Etingdon	West Indiaman	For Hayman & Co.
27 September	Great Britain	Randall & Brent	Rotherhithe	Phoenix	Merchantman	For Hibbert & Co.
12 October	United States	Association of Newburyport Shipwrights	Newburyport, Massachusetts	Merrimack	Sixth rate	Presented to United States Navy. [26]
20 October	Great Britain	Almon Hill & Sons	Limehouse	Diadem	Sloop-of-war	For Royal Navy.
25 October	Nova Scotia	Lowdon	Pictou	Harriet	Merchantman	For private owner.
October	Malta	La Valette	Valetta	Athénien	Third rate	For French Navy.
October	France		Bordeaux	Foudroyant	Privateer	For private owner. [27]
6 December	Great Britain	Humble	Liverpool	Charlton	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
8 December	Great Britain	Humble	Liverpool	Asia	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
10 December	Great Britain	Frances Barnard, Son, & Roberts	Deptford	Preston	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
22 December	France	Pierre-Elisabeth Rolland	Lorient	Argonaute	Téméraire-class ship of the line	For French Navy. [28]
22 December	Ottoman Empire	Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine	Constantinople	Ateş Feşan	Sixth rate	For Ottoman Navy. [29]
22 December	Ottoman Empire	Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine	Constantinople	Saika Bar	Sixth rate	For Ottoman Navy. [30]
22 December	Ottoman Empire	Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine	Constantinople	Tavus-i Bahri	Second rate	For Ottoman Navy. [31]
Unknown date	Great Britain			Adamant	Merchantman	For M. Warren.
Unknown date	Great Britain	Edward Mosley	North Shields	Admiral Duncan	Merchantman	For Mr. Holand.
Unknown date	France		Dunkerque	Anacréon	Privateer	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Poole	Andersons	Slave ship	For John Anderson.
Unknown date	Bermuda		Bermuda	Apollo	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	France		Bordeaux	Argus	Privateer	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Dartmouth	Backhouse	Slave ship	For Daniel Backhouse & John Tarleton.
Unknown date	United States	Joseph Caverley	Baltimore, Maryland	Baltimore	Frigate	For United States Navy.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Berwick upon Tweed	Berwick Packet	Smack	For Mr. Patterson.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Kirkcaldy	Britannia	West Indiaman	For Mr. M'Neil.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Leith	Bush & Dreghorn	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	India			Chance	East Indiaman	For British East India Company. [32]
Unknown date	United States		Charleston, South Carolina	Charleston	Row galley	For United States Navy.
Unknown date	India		Bombay Dockyard	Comet	Brig	For Bombay Marine.
Unknown date	France			Courageaux	Privateer	For private owner.
Unknown date	Lower Canada	Patrick Beatson	Quebec City	Diamond	Merchantman	For Beatson & Co.
Unknown date	Batavian Republic		Rotterdam	Doggersbank	Third rate	For Batavian Navy. [33]
Unknown date	Great Britain		Woolwich Dockyard	Dover	Gunboat	For Royal Navy. [34]
Unknown date	United States		Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Eagle	Schooner	For Revenue Cutter Service
Unknown date	Great Britain	=	Gatcombe	Earl St Vincent	Merchantman	For Wade & Co.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Great Yarmouth	Earl St Vincent	Merchantman	For J. Sayers.
Unknown date	Hamburg		Hamburg	Elizabeth	Merchantman	For B. Bosen & Co.
Unknown date	Bermuda		Bermuda	Ellice	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain	Thomas Haw	Stockton-on-Tees	Experiment	Merchantman	For Robert Wigram.
Unknwn date	Great Britain		Great Yarmouth	Flora	Merchantman	For Mr. Heathfield.
Unknown date	Great Britain			Fowey	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	United States		Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Ganges	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	United States			Governor Davie	Full-rigged ship	For United States Navy. [35]
Unknown date	United States			Governor Jay	Full-rigged ship	For United States Navy. [36]
Unknown date	United States			Governor Williams	Full-rigged ship	For United States Navy. [37]
Unknown date	France		Bordeaux	Guêpe	Sloop-of-war	For French Navy.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Lancaster	Harmony	West Indiaman	For Mr. Ritchie
Unknown date	Batavian Republic		Rotterdam	Hersteller	Third rate	For Batavian Navy. [38]
Unknown date	India		Calcutta	Highland Chief	Merchantman	For Lennox & Co.
Unknown date	France		Bordeaux	Huit Amis	Privateer	For private owner.
Unknown date	Denmark-Norway	Frantz Hohlenberg	Nyholm	Hvide Ørn	Frigate	For Dano-Norwegian Navy.
Unknown date	India		Calcutta	Indian Chief	Merchantman	For Mr. Thompson
Unknown date	France		Nantes	Infatigable	Privateer	For private owner.
Unknown date	France		Bayonne	La Cantabré	Privateer	For private owner. [39]
Unknown date	France	Raymond-Antoine Haran	Bayonne	La Dédaigneuse	Patriote-class frigate	For French Navy. [40]
Unknown date	France			La Résolue	Privateer	For private owner. [41]
Unknown date	France			La Ressource	Privateer	For private owner. [42]
Unknown date	France			Le Baret	Privateer	For private owner. [43]
Unknown date	France			Le Bordelais	Privateer	For private owner. [44]
Unknown date	Guadeloupe		Guadeloupe	Le Dix Août	Privateer	For private owner. [45]
Unknown date	Guadeloupe		Guadeloupe	Le Sauveur	Privateer	For private owner. [46]
Unknown date	France			Le Scoevola	Privateer	For private owner. [47]
Unknown date	France		Dunkerque	Le Vigilant	Privateer	For private owner. [48]
Unknown date	Guadeloupe		Guadeloupe	L'Intrepide	Privateer	For private owner. [49]
Unknown date	France			L'Invariable	Privateer	For private owner. [50]
Unknown date	France		Bordeaux	L'Invincible Général Bonaparte	Privateer	For private owner. [51]
Unknown date	Great Britain	Thomas King	Dover	Lord Duncan	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	New Brunswick			Lord Duncan	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Sunderland	Lord Duncan	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Liverpool	Lord Nelson	Slave ship	For James Bold and Robert Bibby.
Unknown date	Great Britain	John Smith	Gainsborough	Maria	West Indiaman	For private owner.
Unknown date	France		Bordeaux	La Détérminee	Privateer	For private owner. [52]
Unknown date	France		Bordeaux	Mars	Privateer	For private owner.
Unknown date	Ottoman Empire			Menba-ı Nusret	Third rate	For Ottoman Navy. [53]
Unknown date	Ottoman Empire	Jean-Baptiste Benoit	Constantinople	Mesudiye	First rate	For Ottoman Navy. [54]
Unknown date	Great Britain	Hobbs & Hellyer	Redbridge	Milbrook	Gunboat	For Royal Navy.
Unknown date	France			Mosambique	Privateer	For private owner.
Unknown date	Batavian Republic		Rotterdam	Neptunus	Third rate	For Batavian Navy. [55]
Unknown date	Great Britain	Edward Mosley & Co.	Howdon	Nile}	Merchantman	For Francis & Thomas Hurry.
Unknown date	Norfolk Island		Norfolk Island	Norfolk	Sloop	For John Hunter.
Unknown date	United States		Norfolk, Virginia	Norfolk	Brig	For United States Navy.
Unknown date	India		Bombay	Philip Dundas	Brig	For Bombay Pilot Service. [21]
Unknown date	United States		Newburyport, Massachusetts	Pickering	Topsail schooner	For United States Navy.
Unknown date	United States			Pinckney	Full-rigged ship	For United States Navy. [56]
Unknown date	United States			Protector	Full-rigged ship	For United States Navy. [57]
Unknown date	France	Antoine & Louis Crucy	Nantes	Psyché	Privateer	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain	Hobbs & Hellyer	Redbridge	Redbridge	Gunboat	For Royal Navy.
Unknown date	United States		Norfolk, Virginia	Richmond	Brig	For United States Navy.
Unknown date	France		La Ciotat	Sans Pareille	Privateer	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain	John & Philip Laing	Sunderland	Sarah	Merchantman	For Mr. Scaling. [58]
Unknown date	United States	John Patterson	Savannah, Georgia	Savannah	Row galley	For United States Navy. [59]
Unknown date	United States			South Carolina	Full-rigged ship	For United States Navy. [60]
Unknown date	Upper Canada	Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard	Kingston	Speedy	Gunboat	For Provincial Marine.
Unknown date	Great Britain	J. Blenkinsop	Monkwearmouth	Spring	Brig	For J. Blenkinsop. [58]
Unknown date	Great Britain			Telegraph	Brig	For private owner.
Unknown date	Great Britain		Whitby	Tom	West Indiaman	For private owner.
Unknown datedate	New Brunswick			Trelawney Planter	Merchantman	For Mr. Fleming.
Unknown date	Great Britain	Ann Brodrick	South Shields	Tyne	Merchantman	For Mr. Simpson.
Unknown date	Great Britain	John & Philip Laing	Sunderland	Vertumnus	Merchantman	For J. Poditch. [58]
Unknown date	Denmark-Norway		Copenhagen	Waldemar	Third rate	For Dano-Norwegian Navy. [61]
Unknown date	United States		Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Netherlands East Indies		Batavia	Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	France			Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Unknown		France or Spain	Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Spain			Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	France			Name unknown	Ketch	For private owner.
Unknown date	United States		Boston, Massachusetts	Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	France			Name unknown	Schooner	For private owner.
Unknown date	United States		New York	Name unknown	Snow	For private owner.

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