List of ship launches in 1823
The list of ship launches in 1823 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1823.
| Date | Ship | Class | Builder | Location | Country | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 January | Bridgend | Brig | Bridgend | United Kingdom | For George Hurlow.[1] | |
| 30 January | William Mab | Snow | Samuel Standidge-Walton | Hull | United Kingdom | For private owner.[2] |
| 16 February | La Cazelda | Corvette | Cartagena | Spain | For Spanish Navy.[3] | |
| 22 February | Canada | Packet ship | Brown & Bell | Manhattan Island, New York | United States | For private owner.[4] |
| 26 February | Don Giovanni | Yacht | Gravesend | United Kingdom | For private owner.[5] | |
| 27 February | Palinurus | Survey ship | Bombay Dockyard | India | For Bombay Marine. | |
| 11 March | Kingfisher | Cherokee-class brig-sloop | Woolwich Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[6] | |
| 13 March | Magnet | Cherokee-class brig-sloop | Woolwich Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[7] | |
| 17 March | Netley | Cutter | Plymouth | United Kingdom | For Board of Customs.[8] | |
| 19 March | Britannia | Steamship | Dover | United Kingdom | For private owner.[9] | |
| 1 April | Vénus | Vestale-class frigate | Lorient | France | For French Navy.[10] | |
| 12 April | Fairy | Brig | W. and C. Boulton | Hull | United Kingdom | For private owner.[11] |
| 12 April | John & Mary | Full-rigged ship | Brodrick | Whitby | United Kingdom | For Thomas Marshall.[12] |
| 12 April | Magicienne | Armide-class frigate | Jean-Baptiste Hubert | Rochefort | France | For French Navy.[13][14] |
| 12 April | Prince Regent | Caledonia-class ship of the line | Chatham Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy. | |
| 13 April | Bressane | Alsacienne-class gun-brig | Cherbourg | France | For French Navy.[15] | |
| 13 April | Alsacienne | Alsacienne-class gun-brig | Cherbourg | France | For French Navy.[16] | |
| 14 April | Tweed | Atholl-class corvette | Portsmouth Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[17] | |
| 22 April | Malouine | Alsacienne-class gun-brig | Lorient | France | For French Navy.[18] | |
| 23 April | Lilloise | Alsacienne-class gun-brig | Lorient | France | For French Navy.[19] | |
| 28 April | Philomel | Cherokee-class brig-sloop | Portsmouth Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[17] | |
| April | Toulonnaise | Iris-class schooner | Toulon | France | For French Navy.[20] | |
| 7 May | Predpriiatie | Sixth rate | A. A. Popov | Saint Petersburg | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[21] |
| 10 May | Emerald Isle | Steamship | Mottershead & Heyes | Liverpool | United Kingdom | For St. George Steam Packet Company.[22] |
| 12 May | Royalist | Cherokee-class brig-sloop | Portsmouth Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[17] | |
| 22 May | Kastor | Provornyi-class frigate | B. F. Stoke | Saint Petersburg | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[23] |
| 23 May | Prokhor | Selafail-class ship of the line | A. M. Kurochkin | Arkhangelsk | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[24] |
| May | Echo | Merchantman | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For John M. & William Gales.[25][26] |
| May | Vind Khund | Provornyi-class frigate | A. M. Kurochkin | Arkhangelsk | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[27] |
| 8 June | Antilope | Gazelle-class schooner | Bayonne | France | For French Navy.[28] | |
| 10 June | Algerine | Cherokee-class brig-sloop | Deptford Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[29] | |
| 21 June | The Glamorgan | Schooner | William Ruff | Cardiff | United Kingdom | For private owner.[30] |
| 25 June | Dauphinoise | Iris-class schooner | Bayonne | France | For French Navy.[31] | |
| 25 June | Artésienne | Iris-class schooner | Bayonne | France | For French Navy.[32] | |
| 25 June | Meteor | Hecla-class bomb vessel | Pembroke Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy. | |
| 26 June | Norna | Merchantman | Morton | Leith | United Kingdom | For private owner.[33] |
| 26 June | Quentin Durward | Paddle steamer | Sime & Rankine | Leith | United Kingdom | For R. Ogilvie & G. Crichton. |
| 10 July | Henry Bell | Steamship | Wilson & Co. | Liverpool | United Kingdom | For private owner.[34] |
| 12 July | Diana | Paddle steamer | Kyd & Co | Kidderpore | India | For British East India Company. |
| 12 July | Mirnyi | Bodryi-class rowing frigate | I. V. Kurepanov | Saint Petersburg | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[35] |
| 15 July | Soho | Steamship | Blackwall | United Kingdom | For London and Edinburgh Steam Packet Company.[36] | |
| 19 July | Cicero | Brig | Thomas Barrick | Whitby | United Kingdom | For George Stephens.[37] |
| 23 July | Sir Francis Drake | Steamship | Plymouth | United Kingdom | For private owner.[38] | |
| 25 July | Hamadryad | Modified Leda-class frigate | Pembroke Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy. | |
| 25 July | Sirène | Vestale-class frigate | Garnier Saint-Maurice & Pestel | Toulon | France | For French Navy. |
| July | Mesange | Iris-class schooner | Toulon | France | For French Navy.[39] | |
| 7 August | Deft | Schooner | Cordingley | Ipswich | United Kingdom | For private owner.[40] |
| 7 August | Lowther | Paddle steamer | Hull | United Kingdom | For private owner.[41] | |
| 12 August | Tagus | Schooner | Jabez Bayley | Ipswich | United Kingdom | For private owner.[40] |
| 21 August | Algésiras | Bucentaure-class ship of the line | Lorient | France | For French Navy. | |
| 21 August | Mary | Sloop | William Bailey | Woodbridge | United Kingdom | For private owner.[42] |
| 21 August | Thames | Fifth rate | Chatham Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[43] | |
| 22 August | Lancaster | Southampton-class frigate | Edward Churchill | Plymouth Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[44][45] |
| August | Active | Sloop | Grimsby | United Kingdom | For John Todd & Co.[46] | |
| 2 September | Pimen | Third rate | A. K. Kaverznev | Kherson | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[47] |
| 6 September | Boode | West Indiaman | Mottershead & Heyes | Liverpool | United Kingdom | For Sandbach, Tinne & Co.[48] |
| 19 September | Lightning | Lightning-class paddle steamer | Deptford Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[49] | |
| 20 September | Sandwich | Brig | White | Cowes | United Kingdom | For Joseph Marryatt.[50] |
| 22 September | Elizabeth | Full-rigged ship | J. & R. Fisher | Liverpool | United Kingdom | For Messrs. C. Fletcher & Co.[51] |
| 22 September | Triton | Téméraire-class ship of the line | Rochefort | France | For French Navy. | |
| 24 September | Diana | Sloop | I. Y. Osminin | Sevastopol | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[52] |
| 27 September | Lord Melville | Packet ship | R. Symons | Falmouth, Cornwall | United Kingdom | For Admiralty.[53] |
| 4 October | City of Dublin | Steamship | Dawson and Pearson | Liverpool | United Kingdom | For private owner.[54] |
| 7 October | Eclipse | Schooner | Newport | United Kingdom | For Messrs. Jones & Co.[55] | |
| 10 October | Francis I | Steamboat | de Girard | Tischamend | Austrian Empire | For private owner.[56] |
| 18 October | Parmen | Third rate | I. S. Razumov | Nicholaieff | Russia | For Imperial Russian Navy.[57] |
| 21 October | Carnatic | Third rate | James Taylor | Portsmouth Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[58] |
| October | Alice | Sloop | "Low Lights" | United Kingdom | For private owner.[59] | |
| 1 November | Zephyr | Cherokee-class brig-sloop | Pembroke Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy. | |
| 12 November | Helen | Brig | Easton | Hereford | United Kingdom | For private owner.[60] |
| 18 November | John Catto | Brig | Adamson | Aberdeen | United Kingdom | For private owner.[61] |
| 19 November | Grocer | Sloop | Gatenby | Selby | United Kingdom | For private owner.[62] |
| 20 November | Rainbow | Sixth rate | Chatham Dockyard | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[63] | |
| 24 November | Aladdin | Steamship | Simmons | Little Falmouth | United Kingdom | For private owner.[64] |
| 4 December | The Mary of London | Schooner | Jabez Bayley | Ipswich | United Kingdom | For private owner.[65] |
| Unknown date | Auspicious | Merchantman | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For E. B. Ord & Co.[25] | |
| Unknown date | Bellona | Fourth rate | Dunkirk | France | For Royal Netherlands Navy.[66] | |
| Unknown date | Catherine | Brig | Good & Son | Hyther | United Kingdom | For private owner.[67] |
| Unknown date | Charles Henry | Merchantman | L. Crown | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For Lees & Co.[25] |
| Unknown date | Columbine | Barque | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For private owner.[25] | |
| Unknown date | Dandy | Paddle steamer | John Bowlt | Newcastle upon Tyne | United Kingdom | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Decoy | Full-rigged ship | United States | For United States Navy.[68] | ||
| Unknown date | Diadem | Merchantman | Philip Laing | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For Mr. Scaling.[25] |
| Unknown date | Diamond | Full-rigged ship | New York | United States | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date | Effort | Snow | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For private owner.[25] | |
| Unknown date | Henry | Snow | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For Thomas Young & others.[25] |
| Unknown date | Henry Seton | Merchantman | Philip Laing | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For private owner.[25] |
| Unknown date | Hope | Snow | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For J. Ormiston.[25] | |
| Unknown date | Hylton | Brig | John M & William Gales | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For Gales & Co.[25] |
| Unknown date | Isabella | Brig | Redbridge | United Kingdom | For Mr. Maughan. | |
| Unknown date | Maria | Brigantine | Dublin | United Kingdom | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date | New York Packet | Barque | Bristol | United Kingdom | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date | Paragon | Merchantman | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For private owner.[25] | |
| Unknown date | Pero | Brig | J. Hall | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For W. Rutter.[25] |
| Unknown date | Pomona | Schooner | Earton | Hereford | United Kingdom | For private owner.[69] |
| Unknown date | Plutus | Merchantman | Philip Laing | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For private owner.[25] |
| Unknown date | Prince Frederick | Steamship | Thorne | United Kingdom | For private owner.[70] | |
| Unknown date | Rebecca | Brig | J. Storey | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For Storey & Co.[25] |
| Unknown date | Research | Survey ship | J. Scott & Co | Calcutta | India | For British East India Company. |
| Unknown date | Russell | Snow | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For R. Scurfield.[25] |
| Unknown date | Sons of the Wear | Merchantman | T. Elliot | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For private owner.[25] |
| Unknown date | Sprightly | Paddle tug | Wigram & Green | Blackwall | United Kingdom | For Royal Navy.[71] |
| Unknown date | Starling | Snow | Monkwearmouth | United Kingdom | For private owner.[25] | |
| Unknown date | Thorny Close | Snow | J. Watson | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For private owner.[25] |
| Unknown date | Unity | Snow | Oswald Partis | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For Mr. Havelock.[25] |
| Unknown date | Vesper | Merchantman | Philip Laing | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For Philip Laing.[25] |
| Unknown date | White | Snow | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For John Robinson.[25] |
| Unknown date | XL | Snow | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | United Kingdom | For John M. & William Gales.[25] |
| Unknown date | Zeemeeuw | Full-rigged ship | Netherlands | For Royal Netherlands Navy.[72] |
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