List of ship launches in 1818
The list of ship launches in 1818 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1818.
| Date | Ship | Class | Builder | Location | Country | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 January | Centaure | Bucentaure-class ship of the line | Jean Michel Segondat | Cherbourg | United Kingdom | For French Navy.[1] |
| 9 January | Isabella | Full-rigged ship | John Warwick | Rotherhithe | United Kingdom | For private owner. |
| January | Agenoria | Brig | J. Morrice | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For J. Barker.[2][3] |
| 24 February | William Etherington | Full-rigged ship | Messrs. Smith | Gainsborough | United Kingdom | For private owner.[4] |
| February | Barbara | Brig | Aberdeen | United Kingdom | For private owner.[5] | |
| February | Castle Forbes | Full-rigged ship | Aberdeen | United Kingdom | For private owner.[5] | |
| February | Mary Ann | Schooner | Liverpool | United Kingdom | For private owner.[6] | |
| February | Norval | Brig | Aberdeen | United Kingdom | For private owner.[5] | |
| February | Resolution | Brig | Aberdeen | United Kingdom | For private owner.[5] | |
| 2 March | Sesostris | Merchantman | James Shepherd | Paull | United Kingdom | For Mr. Staniforth. |
| 21 March | Neptune | Bucentaure-class ship of the line | Aimé Jean Louis Nicholas René Le Dean | Lorient | France | For French Navy.[7] |
| 23 March | Lucy Davidson | Indiaman | John & Mark Richards | Southampton | United Kingdom | For private owner.[8] |
| 24 March | George Canning | Merchantman | Mottershead & Heyes | Liverpool | United Kingdom | For private owner.[9] |
| 6 April | Iris | Iris-class schooner | Rochefort | France | For French Navy.[10] | |
| 8 April | Rockingham | East Indiaman | Philip Laing | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For John Laing. |
| 27 April | Sisters | Brig | Steemson | Hull | United Kingdom | For John Marshall.[11] |
| 27 April | Stedcombe | Schooner | Lyme Regis | United Kingdom | For private owner. | |
| 1 May | Oktrytie | Kamchatka-class frigate | B. F. Stoke | Saint Petersburg | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[12] |
| 2 May | Olive Branch | Snow | Thomas White | Cowes | United Kingdom | For Brown Mount. |
| 7 May | Flora | Fourth rate | A. I. Melikhov | Nicholaieff | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[13] |
| 8 May | Skoryi | Anapa-class ship of the line | M. K. Surovtsov | Kherson | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[14] |
| 14 May | Vulcan | Steamboat | Messrs. Wilson & Smillie | Falkirk | United Kingdom | For Forth & Clyde Canal Co.[15] |
| 20 May | Retvizan | Selafail-class ship of the line | A. M. Kurochkin | Arkhangelsk | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[16] |
| 28 May | Walk-in-the-Water | Paddle steamer | Noah Brown | Black Rock, New York | United States | For Lake Erie Steamboat Company. |
| May | Fanny | Brig | Monkwearmouth | United Kingdom | For private owner.[17] | |
| 3 June | Racer | Nightingale-class cutter | Pembroke Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy. | |
| 3 June | Sprightly | Nightingale-class cutter | Pembroke Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy. | |
| 10 June | Diana | Amfitrada-class frigate | A. M. Kurochkin | Arkhangelsk | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[18] |
| 18 June | Duc de Berry | Téméraire-class ship of the line | Aimé Jean Louis Nicholas René Le Dean | Rochefort | France | For French Navy.[19] |
| 18 June | Ladoga | Transport ship | Y. A. Kolodkin | Lodeynoye Pole | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[20] |
| 24 June | Unnamed | Steamship | Naples | Kingdom of the Two Sicilies | For private owner.[21] | |
| June | Ann | Merchantman | J. Watson & P. Mills | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For R. Denton.[2][22] |
| June | Antelope | Sailboat | United Kingdom | For private owner.[23] | ||
| June | Barretto Junior | Merchantman | Michael Smith | Howrah | India | For R. Ford & Co. |
| 1 July | Raduga | Schooner | B. F. Stoke | Saint Petersburg | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[24] |
| 4 July | Guard | Schooner | Gibson | Hull | United Kingdom | For Gee, Loft & Co.[25] |
| 4 July | Vostok | Sloop-of-war | B. F. Stoke | Saint Petersburg | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[26] |
| 15 July | Diana | Frigate | Copenhagen | Denmark | For Royal Danish Navy.[27] | |
| 27 July | Gonets | Feniks-class sloop | A. I. Melikhov | Saint Petersburg | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[28] |
| July | Curacio | Corvette | Forman Cheeseman | Corlear's Hook, New York | United States | For Paul Delano. |
| July | Hippomene | Merchantman | Nantes | France | For private owner.[29] | |
| 3 August | Svir | Mirnyi-class transport ship | Y. A. Kolodkin | Lodeynoye Pole | Russia | For Imperil Russian Navy.[30] |
| 5 August | Dauntless | Merchantman | Steemson | Hull | United Kingdom | For Messrs. Eggington & Beadle.[31] |
| 17 August | Pegas | Vestnik-class cutter |
B. F. Stoke | Saint Petersburg | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[32] |
| August | Emulous | Brig | J. Bell | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For B. Roberts & Co.[2][33] |
| August | Constance | Frigate | Brest | France | For French Navy.[34] | |
| August | Savannah | Paddle steamer | Fickett & Crockett | New York | United States | For Savannah Steamship Company. |
| 3 September | Malay | Merchantman | John Scott & Sons | Greenock | United Kingdom | For Roger Sinclair. |
| 16 September | Bussorah Merchant | Merchantman | J. Thomas | Howrah | India | For W. Bruce & Co. |
| 18 September | Asiya | Fifth rate | Egypt | For Egyptian Navy.[35] | ||
| September | Nimrod | Smack | Richard Bussell | Lyme Regis | United Kingdom | For Thompson, Lumsden & Catto.[36] |
| 1 October | Thames | East Indiaman | John Blackett | Poplar | United Kingdom | For John Blackett. |
| 2 October | Albion | East Indiaman | Robert Steele | Greenock | United Kingdom | For private owner.[37] |
| 2 October | Christian | Merchantman | John Scott & Sons | Greenock | United Kingdom | For private owner.[37] |
| 3 October | Fame | Merchantman | H. J. W. Pitcher | Northfleet | United Kingdom | For private owner. |
| 15 October | Talavera | Repulse-class ship of the line | Henry Canham | Woolwich Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[38] |
| 16 October | Waterloo | Third rate | Nicholas Diddams | Portsmouth Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[39] |
| 29 October | Providence Good Intent | Merchantman | Rolletts | Grimsby | United Kingdom | For private owner.[40] |
| 31 October | Annan | Sloop | Annan Well | United Kingdom | For private owner.[41] | |
| 5 November | Katherine Stewart Forbes | Full-rigged ship | Henry & William Pitcher | Northfleet | United Kingdom | For A. Chapman & Co. |
| November | Enterprise | Steamship | Connecticut Steam Boat Company | Hartford, Connecticut | United States | For private owner. |
| 12 December | Bustard | Cherokee-class brig-sloop | Chatham Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[42] | |
| 16 December | Abberton | West Indiaman | Jabez Bayley | Ipswich | United Kingdom | For British East India Company.[43][44] |
| 28 December | Malabar | Repulse-class ship of the line | Bombay Dockyard | India | For Royal Navy. | |
| 29 December | Alacrity | Cherokee-class brig-sloop | deptford Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[45] | |
| December | Henry and William | Brig | Southwick | United Kingdom | For private owner.[46] | |
| Unknown date | Acasta | Brig | T. R. Greenwell | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For T. R. Greenwell.[2] |
| Unknown date | Alejandro I | Third rate | Spain | For Royal Spanish Navy.[47] | ||
| Unknown date | Alfred | Merchantman | James Macrae | Chittagong | India | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Anglesea | Yacht | Southampton | United Kingdom | For Charles Paget.[48] | |
| Unknown date | Asia | Merchantman | Cochar & Hall. | Aberdeen | United Kingdom | For George McInnes.[49][50] |
| Unknown date | Bencoolen | East Indiaman | Liverpool | United Kingdom | For Jones & Co.[51] | |
| Unknown date | Brothers | Snow | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For John M. & William Gales.[2] |
| Unknown date | Cadmus | Merchantman | New York | United States | For Whitlock Line. | |
| Unknown date | Castle Forbes | Merchantman | Robert Gibbon & Sons | Aberdeen | United Kingdom | For Robert Gibbon & Sons. |
| Unknown date | Dart | Brig | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date | Diana | Merchantman | John Peter Fearon | Cochin | India | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Dolfijn | Sixth rate | Dunkirk | France | For Royal Netherlands Navy.[52] | |
| Unknown date | Earl Strathmore | Brig | Oswald Partis | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For John White.[2][53] |
| Unknown date | Enchantress | Merchantman | Plymouth | United Kingdom | For B. Roberts. | |
| Unknown date | Exmouth | Brig | North Shields | United Kingdom | For Wright & Co. | |
| Unknown date | Felicitas | Merchantman | James Macrae | Chittagong | India | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Friends | Snow | Monkwearmouth | United Kingdom | For J. Clyne & Co.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Galathe | Sixth rate | Dunkirk | France | For Royal Netherlands Navy.[54] | |
| Unknown date | Gier | Full-rigged ship | Rotterdam | Netherlands | For Royal Netherlands Navy.[55] | |
| Unknown date | John | Snow | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For private owner.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Koerier | Full-rigged ship | Vlissingen | Netherlands | For Royal Netherlands Navy.[56] | |
| Unknown date | Komeet | Sixth rate | Rotterdam | Netherlands | For Royal Netherlands Navy.[57] | |
| Unknown date | Levant | Merchantman | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For John M. & William Gales.[2] |
| Unknown date | London Engineer | Paddle steamer | D. Brent | Rotherhithe | United Kingdom | For T. Bramah, W. Bovill, A. Galloway and others.[58] |
| Unknown date | Lovely Ann | Brig | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For Samuel Bryan.[2] |
| Unknown date | Luna | Brig | John M & William Gales | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For Robert Knox.[2] |
| Unknown date | Lynx | Sixth rate | Dunkirk | France | For Royal Netherlands Navy.[59] | |
| Unknown date | Mediterranean | Brig | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For John M. & William Gales.[2] |
| Unknown date | Milo | Merchantman | Reay | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For private owner.[2] |
| Unknown date | New Albion | Brig | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For John Bishop.[2] |
| Unknown date | Orpheus | Merchantman | Southampton | United Kingdom | For John St Barbe & Co. | |
| Unknown date | Placidia | Snow | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For Mr. Oswald.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Rob Roy | Paddle steamer | William Denny | Dumbarton | United Kingdom | For David Napier. |
| Unknown date | Rosetta | Snow | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For Ridley & Co.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Royalist | Merchantman | W. & J. Pile | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For Mr. Robson.[2] |
| Unknown date | Skelton | Merchantman | Holt & Richardson | Whitby | United Kingdom | For Dixon & Co. |
| Unknown date | Thames | Brig | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For John White.[2] |
| Unknown date | Union | Yacht | Southampton | United Kingdom | For Arthur Paget.[48] | |
| Unknown date | Velasco | Third rate | Spain | For Royal Spanish Navy.[60] | ||
| Unknown date | Victory | Paddle steamer | Elias Evans | Frindsbury | United Kingdom | For Elias Evans.[61] |
| Unknown date | William and Ann | Snow | Bermuda | Bermuda | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date | William Shand | Merchantman | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For Lumsden & Co.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Zebra | Full-rigged ship | Unknown | For private owner. | ||
| Unknown date | Zoroaster | Merchantman | Hull | United Kingdom | For Eggington & Co. |
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