List of ship launches in 1803

The list of ship launches in 1803 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1803.

Date	Country	Builder	Location	Ship	Class	Notes
8 January	United Kingdom	Perry, Wells & Green	Blackwall	Huddart	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
8 January	United Kingdom	Randall	Rotherhithe	Lady Castlereagh	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
8 January	United Kingdom	Randall	Rotherhithe	Union	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
24 January	France		Lorient	Brutus	Téméraire-class ship of the line	For French Navy. [1]
24 January	India		Bombay	Cumbrian	Merchantman	For Bruce, Fawcett & Co.
25 January	United Kingdom	Perry	Blackwall	Europe	East Indiaman	For British East India Company. [2]
January	United Kingdom	John Allan	Glasgow	Charlotte Dundas	Paddle steamer	For William Symington.
5 February	United Kingdom	Pitcher	Northfleet	Ceylon	East Indiaman	For British East India Company. [3]
7 February	United Kingdom	Perry	Blackwall	Essex	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
8 February	India	Hudson, Bacon & Co	Calcutta	Mangles	Merchantman	For Buckles & Co.
8 February	United Kingdom	Peter Everitt Mestaer	Rotherhithe	Prince of Wales	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
February	United Kingdom		Whitby	Betsey and Sally	Fishing vessel	For private owner. [4]
February	United Kingdom		Whitby	Brotherly Love's Increase	Merchantman	For private owner. [4]
February	United Kingdom		Whitby	Nercus	West Indiaman	For private owner. [4]
February	United Kingdom		Whitby	Neva	Merchantman	For private owner. [4]
February	United Kingdom		Whitby	Resolution	Whaler	For private owner. [4]
February	United Kingdom		Whitby	Robert and Ann	Collier	For private owner. [4]
February	United Kingdom		Whitby	Sally	Fishing vessel	For private owner. [4]
February	United Kingdom		Whitby	Sovereign	Merchantman	For private owner. [4]
February	United Kingdom		Whitby	Visitor	collier	For private owner. [4]
9 March	United Kingdom	Dudman	Deptford	Lord Melville	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
22 April	United Kingdom	Grayson	Liverpool	Alexander	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
22 April	United Kingdom	Mr. Bradley	King's Lynn	Patent	Merchantman	For private owner. [5]
23 April	United Kingdom	Sir Henry Peake	Deptford Dockyard	Colossus	Colossus-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy. [6]
7 May	Russia	G. Ignatyev	Solombala Shipyard, Archangelsk	Liogkii	Speshni-class frigate	For Imperial Russian Navy.
6 June	United Kingdom	Balthazar & Edward Adams	Bucklers Hard	Euryalus	Apollo-class frigate	For Royal Navy.
7 June	United Kingdom	Francis Hurry & Co.	Newcastle upon Tyne	Euphrates	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
25 June	United States	William Price	Baltimore, Maryland	Vixen	Schooner	For United States Navy.
June	United Kingdom	W. & J. Richards	Hythe	Cumberland	Merchantman	For private owner. [7]
June	United Kingdom	W. Potts	Sunderland	Zephyrus	Brig	For private owner. [8]
5 Juy	United Kingdom		Bursledon	Tribune	Fifth rate	For Royal Navy. [9]
13 July	France	Arsenal de Toulon	Toulon	Bucentaure	Bucentaure-class ship of the line	For French Navy. [10]
18 July	France	Pierre Ozanne	Brest	Vétéran	Téméraire-class ship of the line	For French Navy. [11]
20 July	France	Mathurin Crucy	Nantes	Gloire	Frigate	For French Navy. [12]
21 July	United Kingdom	Barnard and Roberts	Deptford	Repulse	Repulse-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy. [13]
26 July	Denmark-Norway		Copenhagen	Christian VII	Second rate	For Dano-Norwegian Navy. [14]
July	United Kingdom			Expedition	Full-rigged ship	For private owner. [15]
July	United Kingdom		Lympstone	Isla	Brig	For private owner. [16]
6 August	India	Hudson, Bacon & Co.	Calcutta	Suffolk	Merchantman	For private owner.
6 August	United States	Nathaniel Hutton	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Syren	Brig	For United States Navy.
9 August	United Kingdom		Thorpe St Andrew	Name unknown	Brig	For private owner. [17]
15 August	France		Paris	La Parisienne	Gunboat	For French Navy. [18] [19]
15 August	France		Toulon	Neptune	Bucentaure-class ship of the line	For French Navy. [20]
18 August	United Kingdom	Perry	Blackwall	Hero	Fame-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy.
18 August	France		Rochefort	Magnanime	Téméraire-class ship of the line	For French Navy.
21 August	United States	Edmund Hartt	Boston, Massachusetts	Argus	Brig	For United States Navy.
August	United Kingdom			Harmony	Brigantine	For private owner. [21]
2 September	United Kingdom	Josiah and Thomas Brindley	Frindsbury	Shannon	Perseverance-class frigate	For Royal Navy.
3 September	United Kingdom	Randall & Brent	Rotherhithe	Illustrious	Fame-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy.
17 September	France	Mathurin Crucy	Lorient	Suffren	Téméraire-class ship of the line	For French Navy. [22]
24 September	France	Pierre Ozanne	Brest	Cassard	Third rate	For French Navy. [23]
24 September	India		Calcutta	Matilda	Merchantman	For private owner.
1 October	India	Breen	Chittagong	Hebe	Full-rigged ship	For private owner.
1 October	France		Brest	Vengeur	Océan-class ship of the line	For French Navy.
3 October	United Kingdom	Fletcher & Co.	Maryport	Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner. [24]
6 October	United Kingdom	Simon Temple Jr.	South Shields	Indus	Merchantman	For private owner.
13 October	Viceroyalty of Peru		Guayaquil	Extremeña	Schooner	For Spanish Navy.
15 October	United Kingdom	Perry, Wells & Green	Blackwall	Winchelsea	East Indiaman	For British East India Company.
17 October	United Kingdom	John King	Dover	Scorpion	Cruizer-class brig-sloop	For Royal Navy.
28 October	France		Havre de Grâce	338	Pinnace	For French Navy. [25]
31 October	United Kingdom	Troughton	Chester	Lord Forbes	West Indiaman	For Forbes & Co.
31 October	United Kingdom	R. Reay	South Hylton	Woodhouse	Merchantman	For Messrs. Terry & Sons. [26]
October	Batavian Republic		Vlissingen	Aurora	Frigate	For Batavian Navy. [27]
14 November	Batavian Republic		Amsterdam	Iris	Frigate	For Batavian Navy. [28] [29]
14 November	Batavian Republic		Amsterdam	Orpheus	Fifth rate	For Dutch Navy. [30] [29]
15 November	France	Antoine Geoffroy	Lorient	Hermione	Fifth rate	For French Navy.
30 November	India		Bombay	James Sibbald	Merchantman	For private owner.
31 December	United Kingdom	John Scott and Sons	Greenock	Elisabeth	Merchantman	For Messrs. Stirling, Gordon & Co. [31]
December	United Kingdom		Southwold	Name unknown	Brigantine	For private owner. [32]
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Peterhead	Active	Brigantine	For private owner. [33]
Unknown date	France		Dieppe	Adolphe	Lugger	For M. Merlin-Dubreuil.
Unknown date	France			Adventure	Privateer	For private owner.
Unknown date	India		Bombay	Alexander	Full-rigged ship	For Charles Forbes & Co.
Unknown date	France			Alsace	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Sunderland	Ann	Merchantman	For private owner. [8]
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Cowes	Ariadne	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Cowes	Badger	Cutter	For Board of Customs.
Unknown date	Location unknown			Bedford	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	India		Chittagong	Betsey	Merchantman	For Hogur & Co.
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Bloys	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [34]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Brakel	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [35]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	J. Laing	Sunderland	Britannia	Merchantman	For private owner. [8]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Lockwood Brodrick	South Shield	British Tar	Merchantman	For T. Forrest.
Unknown date	India		Bombay	Cambrian	Full-rigged ship	For private owner. [36]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Francis Hurry	Howdon	Cambridge	Merchantman	For Lord Camelford.
Unknown date	India		Bombay	Charlotte	Merchantman	For Alex Adamson.
Unknown date	New South Wales		Sydney	Charlotte	Sloop	For Robert Inch.
Unknown date	Lower Canada	Henry Baldwin	Quebec City	City of Edinburgh	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Das	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [37]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Simon Temple	South Shields	Defence	Transport ship	For Mr. Duncan.
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			De Gelder	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [38]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			De Haan	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [39]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			De Haas	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [40]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			De Liefde	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [41]
Unknown date	France			Déterminé	Brig	For private owner.
Unknown date	India		Bombay	Estombole	Full-rigged ship	For private owner. [36]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Evertsen	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [42]
Unknown date	India	Matthew Smith	Calcutta	Fame	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Bools & Good	Bridport	Frisk	Cutter	For private owner.
Unknown date	New South Wales	Henry Kable & James Underwood	Sydney	Governor King	Schooner	For Henry Kable & James Underwood.
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Broadstairs	Harriot	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Heemskerck	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [43]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Hulst	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [44]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Simon Temple Jr.	South Shields	Intrepid	Merchantman	For Simon Temple Jr.
Unknown date	United Kingdom	William Rowe	Newcastle upon Tyne	Jason	Ship-sloop	For W. Row.
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Kemphaan	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [45]
Unknown date	France	Jean-Baptiste Collet	Saint-Servan	Le Courrier de Terre Neuve	Privateer	For private owner. [46]
Unknown date	India	P. Tonks	Cochin	Lord Castlereagh	Merchantman	For Bruce, Fawcett & Co.
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Lancaster	Macclesfield	Slave ship	For Mr. Taylor.
Unknown date	Ottoman Empire			Mansuriye	Third rate	For Ottoman Navy. [47]
Unknown date	New South Wales	Kable & Co	Hawkesbury River	Nancy	Sloop	For private owner.
Unknown date	United Kingdom	builder	Sunderland	Œconomy	Merchantman	For private owner. [8]
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Howdon Pans	Oxford	Collier	For private owner.
Unknown date	India		Bombay	Pack-Horse	Luggage boat	For British East India Company. [36]
Unknown date	United States		Portsmouth, New Hampshire	Paragon	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	United Kingdom		King's Lynn	Patent	Merchantman	For Mr. Gillespie.
Unknown date	France		Dunkerque	Pieter Floriszoon	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [48]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Reynst	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [49]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Roemer Vlack	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [50]
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Hull	Rosina	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Cowes	Royal George	Brig-sloop	For Board of Customs.
Unknown date	France		Bordeaux	Saint Pierre	Slave ship	For private owner.
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Liverpool	Sarah	Merchantman	For R. Kitchen.
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Schram	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [51]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Schrijver	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [52]
Unknown date	India		Calcutta	Sir William Burroughs	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Staghouwer	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [53]
Unknown date	Ottoman Greece		Rhodes	Tevfiknüma	Second rate	For Ottoman Navy. [54]
Unknown date	United Kingdom		River Thames	Thames	Collier	For private owner.
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Sunderland	Thomas	Schooner	For private owner. [8]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	John & Philip Laing	Sunderland	Thomas & Anne	Merchantman	For Mr. Matthews. [8]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Tjerk Hiddes de Vries	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [55]
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Belfast	Trial	Coaster	For private owner.
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Triton	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [56]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Tromp	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [57]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Robert Newman	Dartmouth	Two Uncles	Schooner	For private owner. [58]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Alexander Doeg	Gateshead	Tyne Packet	Schooner	For private owner.
Unknown date	United Kingdom	John & Philip Laing	Sunderland	Ulysses	Merchantman	For John & Philip Laing. [8]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Van Der Does	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [59]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Van Gendt	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [60]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Van Nes	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [61]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Vlug	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [62]
Unknown date	United Kingdom		South Shields	Volunteer	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Warmond	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [63]
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Wassenaar	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [64]
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Liverpool	William Pitt	West Indiaman	For James Loughan.
Unknown date	Batavian Republic			Witte Cornelisz	Full-rigged ship	For Batavian Navy. [65]
Unknown date	France			Name unknown	Schooner	For private owner.
Unknown date	United States			Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Cowes	Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Spain			Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Batavian Republic		Rotterdam	Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	Spain			Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Hull	Name unknown	Merchantman	For private owner.

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Ship events in 1803
Ship launches:	1798	1799	1800	1801	1802	1803	1804	1805	1806	1807	1808
Ship commissionings:	1798	1799	1800	1801	1802	1803	1804	1805	1806	1807	1808
Ship decommissionings:	1798	1799	1800	1801	1802	1803	1804	1805	1806	1807	1808
Shipwrecks:	1798	1799	1800	1801	1802	1803	1804	1805	1806	1807	1808