List of ship launches in 1821

The list of ship launches in 1821 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1821.

Date	Country	Builder	Location	Ship	Class	Notes
9 January	France		Brest	La Jeanne d'Arc	Jeanne d'Arc-class frigate	For French Navy. [1]
15 January	France		Cherbourg	La Clorinde	Fourth rate	For French Navy. [2]
19 January	United Kingdom	James Lang	Dumbarton	Surprise	Steamship	For private owner. [3]
27 January	United Kingdom	Thomas White	Cowes	Ogle Castle	Merchantman	For Mr. Brown.
January	United Kingdom	Fishburn & Brodrick	Witby	Terrys	Full-rigged ship	For private owner. [4]
16 February	United Kingdom	R. & A. Carswell	Greenock	Mountaineer	Steamship	For private owner. [5]
3 March	Russia	A. I. Melikhov	Nicholaieff	Orfei	Brig	For Imperial Russian Navy. [6]
29 March	United Kingdom	India	Cochin	Alligator	Atholl-class corvette	For Royal Navy.
4 April	United Kingdom	James Brown	Perth	Tourist	Steam yacht	For Leith and Aberdeen Steam Yacht Company. [7] [8] [9]
7 April	United Kingdom	Wigram & Green	Blackwall	City of Edinburgh	Paddle steamer	For private owner. [10] [11]
19 April	United Kingdom	John Scott & Co.	Greenock	Majestic	Steamship	For Glasgow and Liverpool Steam Packet Company. [12] [13]
April	United Kingdom	John M. & William Gales	Sunderland	Lady Frances	Snow	For R. Scurfield & Co. [14] [15]
April	United Kingdom		Macduff	Macduff	Sloop	For private owner. [16]
1 May	United Kingdom	William Denny	Dumbarton	Velocity	Steam yacht	For Aberdeen, Leith and Clyde Shipping Company. [17] [18]
2 May	United Kingdom	Humble and Hurry	Liverpool	Ellen Mar	Full-rigged ship	For private owner. [19]
3 May	United Kingdom	Clarke and Dixon	Liverpool	Hardware	Brig	For private owner. [19]
3 May	United Kingdom	James	Liverpool	Pacific	Brig	For private owner. [19]
4 May	India		Sulkea	Eleanor	Merchantman	For private owner.
7 May	Russia	B. F. Stoke	Saint Petersburg	Apollon	Sloop	For Imperial Russian Navy. [20]
7 May	Russia	K. A. Glazyrin	Saint Petersburg	Riga	Sloop	For Imperial Russian Navy. [21]
8 May	United States	Sidney Wright	New York	James Cropper	Merchantman	For private owner. [22]
15 May	Russia	A. P. Antipev	Kazan	Baku	Brig	For Imperial Russian Navy. [23]
16 May	Russia		Kazan	Muravei	Tender	For Imperial Russian Navy. [24]
17 May	United States		Washington Navy Yard	Shark	Schooner	For United States Navy. [25]
18 May	Russia	A. M. Kurochkin	Archangelsk	Kreiser	Provornyi-class frigate	For Imperial Russian Navy. [26]
18 May	United Kingdom		Portsmouth Dockyard	Martin	Martin-class sloop	For Royal Navy. [27]
18 May	Russia	A. M. Kurochkin	Archangelsk	Sviatoi Andrei	Selafail-class ship of the line	For Imperial Russian Navy. [28]
31 May	France		Bayonne	La Lyonnaise	Iris-class schooner	For French Navy. [29]
31 May	United Kingdom	Cortney	Chester	The Liverpool	Full-rigged ship	For private owner. [30]
May	United Kingdom			Hope	Schooner	For private owner. [31]
1 June	United Kingdom		Plymouth Dockyard	Lyra	Cherokee-class brig-sloop	For Royal Navy. [32]
1 June	United Kingdom		Portsmouth Dockyard	Rose	Sloop	For Royal Navy. [33]
2 June	United Kingdom	James Lang	Dumbarton	Brilliant	Steam yacht	For Leith and Aberdeen Steam Yacht Company. [34]
9 June	United Kingdom	Richards	Hythe	Highland Lassy	Yacht	For General Mackenzie. [35]
14 June	France		Bayonne	La Provencale	Iris-class schooner	For French Navy. [36]
16 June	United Kingdom	George Parkin	Chatham Dockyard	Latona	Leda-class frigate	For Royal Navy. [37]
17 June	United Kingdom	Menzies & Son	Leith	Queen Margaret	Steamship	For private owner. [38]
18 June	United Kingdom	J. Wood & Co.	Port Glasgow	James Watt	Paddle steamer	For London and Edinburgh Steam Packet Company. [39] [40] [11]
20 June	United Kingdom	R. Steele & Son	Greenock	Eclipse	Steamship	For Napier & Langtry. [41]
23 June	United States		Philadelphia Navy Yard	Dolphin	Schooner	For United States Navy.
25 June	Russia	A. I. Mekikhov	Kherson	Imperator Frants	First rate	For Imperial Russian Navy. [42]
29 June	United Kingdom	Smith	Eastham	Lady Stanley	Steamship	For private owner. [43]
30 June	United Kingdom		Portsmouth Dockyard	Plover	Cherokee-class brig-sloop	For Royal Navy. [44]
June	United Kingdom			Relief	Brig	For private owner. [45]
1 July	France		Bresst	L'Amazone	Jeanne d'Arc-class frigate	For French Navy. [46]
17 July	United Kingdom	Buckle and Davies	Chepstow	Edward Protheroe	Merchantman	For private owner. [47]
20 July	United Kingdom		Pembroke Dockyard	Nereus	Modified Leda-class frigate	For Royal Navy.
31 July	United Kingdom		Deptford Dockyard	Woodlark	Quail-class schooner	For Royal Navy. [48]
7 August	Russia	I. Y. Osminin	Sevastopol	Sokol	Cutter	For Imperial Russian Navy. [49]
11 August	Russia	B. F. Stoke	Saint Petersburg	Alexander Nevskii	Provornyi-class frigate	For Imperial Russian Navy. [50]
15 August	United Kingdom	Francis Symons	Falmouth	George the Fourth	Packet ship	For private owner. [51]
27 August	Netherlands		Amsterdam	Algiers	Frigate	For Royal Netherlands Navy. [52]
28 August	France		Cherbourg	La Pomone	Pomone-class corvette	For French Navy. [53]
29 August	United Kingdom	Sandon	Stourport-on-Severn	Sovereign	Steam yacht	For Captain Sandon. [54] [55]
August	United Kingdom	Philip Laing	Sunderland	Cecrops	Full-rigged ship	For Fletcher Bros. [14]
August	United States		Washington Navy Yard	Grampus	Schooner	For Royal Navy.
11 September	United Kingdom		Harwich	Essex	Lifeboat	For Harwich Lifeboat Company. [56] [57]
13 September	United Kingdom	Jabez Bayley	Ipswich	Sir David Scott	East Indiaman	For British East India Company. [58] [59]
27 September	United Kingdom	Jabez Bayley	Ipswich	William Fairlie	East Indiaman	For British East India Company. [60] [61]
11 October	United Kingdom	Charles David Gordon	Deptford	Berwickshire	East Indiaman	For British East India Company. [62] [63]
12 October	United Kingdom		Portsmouth Dockyard	Ferret	Cherokee-class brig-sloop	For Royal Navy. [64]
13 October	United Kingdom	Brindley	Frindsbury	Macqueen	East Indiaman	For British East India Company. [65] [66]
18 October	United States		New York	William Tell	Merchantman	For Samuel Hicks. [67]
26 October	United Kingdom		Pembroke Dockyard	Reynard	Cherokee-class brig-sloop	For Royal Navy.
28 October	Russia	B. F. Stoke	Saint Petersburg	Okhtenka	Aiaks-class sloop	For Imperial Russian Navy. [68]
30 October	India	J. Thomas	Howrah	Recovery	Merchantman	For private owner.
31 October	United Kingdom	India	Calcutta	Calder	Brig	For Barretto & Sons.
October	United Kingdom	W. Wake	Sunderland	Storey	Schooner	For private owner [14]
2 November	Russia	A. I. Melikhov	Nicholaieff	Pospeshnyi	Fourth rate	For Imperial Russian Navy. [69]
10 November	United Kingdom	Money Wigram	Blackwall Yard	Duchess of Athol	East Indiaman	For British East India Company. [70]
10 November	India	Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia	Bombay Dockyard	Ganges	Canopus-class ship of the line	For Royal Navy.
14 November	United Kingdom	Ritchie and Laine	Lough Neagh	Marchioness of Donegall	Steamship	For private owner. [71]
November	United Kingdom	L. Crown	Sunderland	Erato	Merchantman	For Blair & Co.. [14] [72]
11 December	India	John Scott & Co.	Calcutta	Nimrod	Merchantman	For John Scott & Co.
11 December	United Kingdom		Sheerness Dockyard	Opossum	Cherokee-class brig-sloop	For Royal Navy. [73]
22 December	United States		New York	Columbia	Merchantman	For private owner. [74]
25 December	United States	Smith, Blossom, and Denman	New York	Florida	Merchantman	For private owner. [74]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Aaron Manby	Tipton and Rotherhithe	Aaron Manby	Paddle steamer	For Charles Napier.
Unknown date	United Kingdom	R. Spearman	Sunderland	Albany	Schooner	For private owner. [14]
Unknown date	India		Bombay	Bombay	Gunboat	For British East India Company. [75]
Unknown date	Unknown			City of Kingston	Schooner	For private owner.
Unknown date	United Kingdom	T. Brocklebank	Deptford	Eagle	Paddle steamer	For C. Bell, T. Brocklebank and others. [76]
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Newcastle upon Tyne	Florentia	Full-rigged ship	For British East India Company. [77]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	John M. & William Gales	Sunderland	Ford	Snow	For Thomas Allen. [14]
Unknown date	India		Bombay	Hastings	Frigate	For British East India Company. [75]
Unknown date	Netherlands		Rotterdam	Hekla	Sixth rate	For Royal Netherlands Navy. [78]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	J. Bankham	Frindsbury	Hero	Paddle steamer	For W. Cawthorn, R. Cheeswright, J. Pearson & others. [79]
Unknown date	Netherlands		Rotterdam	Kemphaan	Full-rigged ship	For Royal Netherlands Navy. [80]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	John M. & William Gales	Sunderland	Lady Louisa	Snow	For John M. & William Gales. [14]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Elias Evans	Frindsbury	Lightning	Paddle steamer	For private owner. [11]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Elias Evans	Frindsbury	Medusa	Paddle steamer	For private owner. [11]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Elias Evans	Frindsbury	Meteor	Paddle steamer	For private owner. [11]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Mr. Evans	Rotherhithe	Monkey	Paddle tug	For Royal Navy. [11]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Philip Laing	Sunderland	Nepos	Merchantman	For Trader & Co. [14]
Unknown date	France		Dunkerque	Pellikaan	Full-rigged ship	For Royal Netherlands Navy. [81]
Unknown date	United States		Rochester, Massachusetts	Phoenix	Whaler	For private owner.
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Falmouth	Prince Regent	Packet ship	For Post Office Packet Service.
Unknown date	Netherlands		Rotterdam	Proserpina	Sixth rate	For Royal Netherlands Navy. [82]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	T. Burn	Sunderland	Rose	Brig	For G. Hogg. [14]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	John M. & William Gales	Sunderland	Sisters	Snow	For John M. & William Gales. [14]
Unknown date	United Kingdom		Southwick	Susan	Merchantman	For private owner. [14]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	W. Adamson	Sunderland	Sylph	brig	For W. Adamson. [14]
date	United Kingdom	builder	location	Error: {{SS}} missing name (help)	Steamship	For . [11]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Elias Evans	Frindsbury	Union	Paddle steamer	For private owner. [11]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	John M. & William Gales	Sunderland	Vasic	Snow	For R. Scurfield [14]
Unknown date	United Kingdom	Philip Laing	Sunderland	Zeno	Merchantman	For Mr. Murray. [14]

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