Created by Ajay Kumar
Last edited August 25, 2023

The list of ship launches in 1812 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1812.

Date Country Builder Location Ship Class Notes
1 January Template:Flagcountry John King Upnor Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[1]
1 January Template:Flagcountry Gibson Hull Sceptre Merchantman For Messrs. James Featherstone and Son.[2]
3 January Template:Flagcountry Thomas Steemson Paull Template:Ship Merchantman For John Staniforth.
7 January Template:Flag La Ciotat Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.
16 January Template:Flagcountry Frances Barnard Deptford Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[3]
30 January Template:Flagcountry Dudman Deptford Template:Ship East Indiaman For British East India Company.
January Template:Flag Marseille Le Jean Bart Privateer For private owner.[4]
13 February Template:Flagcountry Smith, Timbrell & Co. Northfleet Template:Ship Full-rigged ship For British East India Company.[5]
13 February Template:Flagcountry Samuel Brent Rotherhithe Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[6]
14 February Template:Flagcountry Woolwich Dockyard Template:HMS Third rate For Royal Navy.
23 February Template:Flag Genoa Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.
26 February Template:Flag Pierre Jacques Guillaume Lair Antwerp Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.[7]
27 February Template:Flagcountry Thomas Pitcher Northfleet Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[8]
28 February Template:Flagcountry Kirkwall Pallas' Brig For Thomas and William Trails.[9]
25 March Template:Flag Pierre Jacques Guillaume Lair Antwerp Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.[10]
29 March Template:Flagcountry Joseph Graham Harwich Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[11]
March Template:Flag Thomas Kemp Baltimore, Maryland Template:HMS Schooner For Isaac McKim.
10 April Template:Flagcountry Sir Robert Seppings Chatham Dockyard Template:HMS Fifth rate For Royal Navy.[12][13]
11 April Template:Flag Mathurin Crucy Nantes Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.[14]
11 April Template:Flagcountry Chatham Dockyard Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.
11 April Template:Flagcountry Isaac Blackburn Turnchapel Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[15]
13 April Template:Flagcountry Edward Adams Bucklers Hard Template:Ship West Indiaman For Chalmers & Co.
13 April Template:Flagcountry George Parsons Bursledon Template:HMS Fifth rate For Royal Navy.
14 April Template:Flag Antwerp Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.
27 April Template:Flag Pierre Jacques Guillaume Lair Antwerp Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.[16]
27 April India James Bonner & James Horsburgh Calcutta Template:Ship Merchantman For private owner.
27 April India Matthew Smith Calcutta Template:Ship Merchantman For James Haig.
27 April Template:Flagcountry Ramsey Boston Witham Schooner For Messrs. Gee & Clark.[17]
27 April Template:Flagcountry James Fairnie Burntisland Name unknown Merchantman For private owner.[18]
27 April Template:Flagcountry James Fairnie Burntisland Name unknown Merchantman For private owner.[18]
27 April Template:Flagcountry James Fairnie Burntisland Name unknown Merchantman For private owner.[18]
2 May Template:Flagicon French First Empire Jean François Guillemand Amsterdam Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.[19]
5 May Template:Flag Mathurin François Boucher Genoa Template:Ship Fifth rate For French Navy.[20]
9 May Template:Flagicon French First Empire Alexandre Notaire-Granville Rotterdam Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.[21]
11 May Template:Flagcountry Thomas Steemson Hull Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[22]
12 May Template:Flagicon French First Empire Jean-François Guillemand Amsterdam Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.
17 May Template:Flag François-Fréderic Poncet Toulon Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.[23]
25 May Template:Flagcountry Jabez Bayley Ipswich Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.
25 May Template:Flag Antoine Crucy Nantes Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.
26 May India Anthony Blackmore Howrah Template:Ship Merchantman For Sedgewicke & Hearne.
26 May Template:Flagicon French First Empire Alexandre Notaire-Granville Rotterdam Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.[24]
27 May Template:Flagcountry William Good & Co. Bridport Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.
31 May Template:Flag Toulon Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.
May Template:Flagcountry Hutchinson & Brown Sunderland Wear Brig or snow For T. Hudson.[25]
4 June Template:Flagcountry B. F. Stoke Saint Petersburg Template:Ship Fifth rate For Imperial Russian Navy.[26]
9 June Template:Flagcountry M. K. Surovtsov Kherson Template:Ship Template:Sclass For Imperial Russian Navy.[27]
11 June Template:Flagcountry William Taylor Bideford Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[28]
18 June Template:Flagcountry I. S. Razumov Saint Petersburg Template:Ship Template:Sclass For Imperial Russian Navy.[29]
24 June Template:Flag Antoine Nicholas François Bonjean Lorient Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.[30]
26 June Template:Flagcountry Tyson & Blake Bursledon Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.
27 June Template:Flagcountry Syme & Co Leith Cleopatra Brig For private owner.[31]
27 June Template:Flagcountry Wigram, Wells & Green Blackwall Yard Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.
9 July Template:Flagcountry Nicholas Diddams Portsmouth Dockyard Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.
9 July Template:Flagcountry James Hutcheson Peterhead Union Brig For private owner.[32]
9 July Template:Flagcountry Robert Davy Topsham Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[33]
13 July Template:Flagcountry Thomas Hills Sandwich Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.
13 July Template:Flagcountry Mary Ross Rochester Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.
24 July Template:Flagcountry John Wood & Co. Port Glasgow Template:PS Paddle steamer For Henry Bell.
25 July Template:Flagcountry Tyson & Blake Bursledon Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.
25 July Template:Flagcountry Bools & Good Bridport Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.
25 July Template:Flagcountry Russel and Son Lyme Regis Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[34]
25 July Template:Flagcountry William Stone Milford Haven Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[35]
27 July Template:Flagcountry Tyson & Blake Bursledon Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.
1 August Kingdom of Naples Castellamare di Stabia Template:Ship Template:Sclass For Royal Neapolitan Navy.
2 August Template:Flag Jean Marguerite Tupinier Venice Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.[36]
8 August Template:Flagcountry Daniel List Binstead Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[37]
8 August Template:Flagcountry Richard Blake & John Scott Bursledon Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.
8 August Template:Flagcountry Edward Larking King's Lynn Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[38]
10 August Template:Flagcountry Jabez Bayley Ipswich Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[39]
10 August Template:Flagicon Upper Canada Baldwin & Co. Île d'Orléans Template:Ship Merchantman For private owner.
12 August Template:Flag Brest Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.[40]
15 August Template:Flag Jean Marguerite Tupinier Venice Template:Ship Frigate For Royal Italian Navy.[41]
15 August Template:Flag Venice Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.
15 August Template:Flag Fonda Venice Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.[42]
15 August Template:Flag Toulon Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.
22 August Template:Flagcountry John Pelham Frindsbury Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.
24 August Template:Flagcountry Brockbank Lancaster Template:Ship West Indiaman For Messrs. Bolton & Littledale.
26 August Template:Flagcountry Robert Hill Sandwich Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[43]
August Template:Flagicon Upper Canada Quebec City Benson Full-rigged ship For private owner.[44]
August Template:Flagicon Upper Canada Quebec City Gowdies Full-rigged ship For private owner.[44]
August Template:Flagicon Upper Canada Quebec City Mary Full-rigged ship For private owner.[44]
August Template:Flagcountry Robert Davy Topsham Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.
7 September Template:Flagcountry G. S. Isakov Saint Petersburg Template:Ship Template:Sclass For Imperial Russian Navy.[45]
7 September Template:Flagcountry Alexander Syme & Co. Leith Minerva Merchantman For private owner.[46]
8 September Template:Flagcountry Peter Everitt Mastaer London West Indiaman For private owner.[47]
23 September Template:Flagcountry Barnard Deptford Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.
26 September Template:Flagcountry William Good Bridport Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[48]
26 September Template:Flagcountry Robert John Nelson Deptford Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[49]
4 October Template:Flag Mathurin François Boucher Genoa Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.[50]
5 October Template:Flagcountry Randall, Brent & Gray Rotherhithe Template:Ship East Indiaman For British East India Company.
8 October Template:Flagcountry Thomas Steemson Paull Template:Ship East Indiaman For British East India Company.
9 October Template:Flagcountry Daniel List Fishbourne Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[51]
21 October Template:Flagcountry Robert John Nelson Deptford Dockyard Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[52]
22 October Template:Flagcountry John King Upnor Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[53]
24 October Template:Flagcountry William Good Bridport Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[54]
October Template:Flagcountry Aberdeen Template:Ship Merchantman For private owner.
6 November India Kyd & Co. Kidderpore Template:Ship East Indiaman For British East India Company.
6 November Template:Flagcountry Bligh Falmouth Template:Ship Packet ship For Post Office Packet Service.
10 November Template:Flag Charleston, South Carolina Template:USS schooner For United States Navy.[55]
19 November Template:Flagcountry Thomas Pitcher Northfleet Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[56]
20 November Template:Flagcountry John Sutton Ringmore Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[57]
24 November Template:Flagcountry George Parkin Portsmouth Dockyard Template:HMS Fifth rate For Royal Navy.[58][59]
26 November Template:Flag Henry Eckford Sackets Harbor, New York Template:USS Corvette For United States Navy.
2 December Template:Flagcountry Mary Ross Rochester Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[60]
6 December Template:Flag Antoine Arnoud Toulon Template:Ship Template:Sclass For French Navy.[61][62]
7 December Template:Flagcountry John King Upnor Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[63]
12 December Template:Flagcountry Thomas Kemp Fell's Point, Maryland Template:Ship Baltimore Clipper For William Hollins.
19 December Template:Flagcountry John Dudman Blackwall Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[64][65]
26 December Template:Flag Constantinople Template:Ship First rate For Ottoman Navy.[66]
30 December India James Scott & John Hunter Calcutta Template:Ship Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date India Michael Smith Howrah Template:Ship Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flag Middletown, Connecticut Template:HMS Brig-sloop For New York State Navy.[67]
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry Thomas Richardson Hull Template:Ship Whaler For Mr. Marshall.
Unknown date India Bombay Ann Full-rigged ship For Pestonjee Bomanjee.[68]
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry Stockton-on-tees Template:Ship Transport ship For Mr. Grayham.
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry Fishburn & Broderick Whitby Template:Ship Merchantman For Fishburn & Broderick.
Unknown date Template:Flag Template:Ship Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry Monkwearmouth Cheerful Brig For private owner.[25]
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry John & Philip Laine Sunderland Clitus Merchantman For Laing & Co.[25]
Unknown date Template:Flag Baltimore, Maryland Template:Ship Schooner For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flagicon Bermuda New Providence Template:Ship Brig For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry Sunderland Template:Ship Brig For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flag Baltimore, Maryland Template:Ship Merchantman For John Gooding, William T. Graham and James Williams.
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry Plymouth Coventry Brig For private owner.[69]
Unknown date India Michael Smith Calcutta Template:Ship Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flag Edward Brig For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry Liverpool Template:Ship Snow For W. Hurry.
Unknown date Template:Flagicon Lower Canada Quebec Template:Ship Merchantman For Mr. Linthorne.
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry Daniel Brent Rotherhithe Template:Ship East Indiaman For British East India Company.[70]
Unknown date Template:Flag Kemp Baltimore, Maryland Grampus Schooner For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flag Template:USS Sloop-of-war For United States Navy.[71]
Unknown date India Bombay Template:Ship Full-rigged ship For British East India Company.[68]
Unknown date Template:Flag Talbot County, Maryland Template:Ship Privateer For John Hollins, John Smith Hollins, William Hollins and Michael McBlair.
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry Template:Ship Brig For J. Foster & Co.
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry William & John M. Gales Sunderland Latona Brig For Rowland Webster.[25]
Unknown date Template:Flag Saint-Malo La Ville de Caen Lugger For Robert Surcouf.[72]
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry John & Philip Laing Sunderland Leda Merchantman For John Hubbard.[25]
Unknown date Template:Flag Template:Ship Third rate For French Navy.[73]
Unknown date Template:Flag Template:Ship Third rate For French Navy.[74]
Unknown date Template:Flag New Orleans, Louisiana Template:USS Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flag Thomas Kemp Fells Point, Maryland Lynx Topsail schooner For United States Navy.
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry Heward Benj Sunderland Meanwell Full-rigged ship For J. Phillips & Co.[25]
Unknown date Template:Flag Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Template:Ship Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flag Dorchester County, Maryland Template:Ship Schooner For James & William Bosley.
Unknown date Template:Flag Baltimore, Maryland Template:USS Schooner For George Stiles.
Unknown date Template:Flagicon Upper Canada John Dennis York Template:Ship Schooner For Provincial Marine.
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry Whitehaven Template:Ship West Indiaman For Mr. Bowen.
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry Bottomley & Co. King's Lynn Template:Ship Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flag Template:Ship Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flag Charles Turner Medford, Massachusetts Rambler Brig For Benjamin Rich.
Unknown date Template:Flag Saint-Malo Template:Ship Cutter For Robert Surcouf.
Unknown date Template:Flag Baltimore, Maryland Template:USS Privateer For private owner.[75]
Unknown date Template:Flag William Flanaghan Baltimore, Maryland Siro Schooner For George Stiles.
Unknown date Template:Flag New York Template:Ship Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flagicon Upper Canada Montreal Template:Ship Merchantman For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flagicon Bermuda Nathaniel Tynes Bermuda Template:HMS Template:Sclass For Royal Navy.[76]
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry John & Philip Laing Sunderland Tay Merchantman For private owner.[25]
Unknown date Template:Flag New York Vengeance Schooner For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry Sunderland Union Brig For private owner.[25]
Unknown date Template:Flagcountry Forsyth & Co. South Shields Template:Ship Transport ship For private owner.
Unknown date Template:Flag New York William Bayard Merchantman For Roy Bayard, William Bayard, Enoch Conklin, Allyn Mather, & M.Sims.
Unknown date Template:Flag Name unknown Schooner For private owner.

References

  1. British Third Rate ship of the line 'Mulgrave' (1812). Threedecks.
  2. [{{{url}}} Ship News]. Hull Packet(7 January 1812).
  3. British Third Rate ship of the line 'Cornwall' (1812). Threedecks.
  4. Template:London Gazette
  5. [{{{url}}} (untitled)]. Morning Chronicle(14 February 1812).
  6. British Third Rate ship of the line 'Dublin' (1812). Threedecks.
  7. French Fifth Rate frigate 'Le Terpsichore' (1812). Threedecks.
  8. British Third Rate ship of the line 'Gloucester' (1812). Threedecks.
  9. [{{{url}}} Aberdeen]. Aberdeen Journal(15 April 1812).
  10. French Fifth Rate frigate 'L'Erigone' (1812). Threedecks.
  11. British Third Rate ship of the line 'Scarborough' (1812). Threedecks.
  12. Template:Cite newspaper The Times
  13. British Fifth Rate frigate 'Tenedos' (1812). Threedecks.
  14. French Fifth Rate frigate 'L'Aréthuse' (1812). Threedecks.
  15. British Third Rate ship of the line 'Clarence' (1812). Threedecks.
  16. French Second Rate ship of the line 'Le Conquérant' (1812). Threedecks.
  17. [{{{url}}} Ship News]. Hull Packet(5 May 1812).
  18. 18.0 18.1 18.2 [{{{url}}} Burntisland]. Caledonian Mercury(4 May 1812).
  19. French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Trave' (1812). Threedecks.
  20. French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Galatée' (1812). Threedecks.
  21. French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Jahde' (1812). Threedecks.
  22. British Third Rate ship of the line 'Anson' (1812). Threedecks.
  23. French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Melpomène' (1812). Threedecks.
  24. French Fifth Rate frigate 'L'Ems' (1812). Threedecks.
  25. 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 25.5 25.6 25.7 SHIPS BUILT IN THE 1810s. Searle.
  26. Russian Fifth Rate frigate 'Poluks' (1812). Threedecks.
  27. Russian Third Rate ship of the line 'Maksim Ispovednik' (1812). Threedecks.
  28. British sloop 'Fairy' (1812). Threedecks.
  29. Russian Third Rate ship of the line 'Neptunus' (1812). Threedecks.
  30. French Fifth Rate frigate 'L'Atalante' (1812). Threedecks.
  31. [{{{url}}} Edinburgh News Continued]. Caledonian Mercury(4 July 1812).
  32. [{{{url}}} Aberdeen]. Aberdeen Journal(15 July 1812).
  33. British sloop 'Wasp' (1812). Threedecks.
  34. British sloop 'Snap' (1812). Threedecks.
  35. British Fifth Rate frigate 'Surprise' (1812). Threedecks.
  36. French Third Rate ship of the line 'Castiglione' (1812). Threedecks.
  37. British Fifth Rate frigate 'Magicienne' (1812). Threedecks.
  38. British sloop 'Shamrock' (1812). Threedecks.
  39. [{{{url}}} Ipswich, August 15]. Ipswich Journal(15 August 1812).
  40. French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Cérès' (1812). Threedecks.
  41. Italian Fifth Rate frigate 'Piave' (1812). Threedecks.
  42. Italian Third Rate ship of the line 'Real Italiano' (1812). Threedecks.
  43. British gun-brig 'Hasty' (1812). Threedecks.
  44. 44.0 44.1 44.2 [{{{url}}} Advertisements & Notices]. Liverpool Mercury(4 December 1812).
  45. Russian Third Rate ship of the line 'Iupiter' (1812). Threedecks.
  46. [{{{url}}} Private Correspondence]. Caledonian Mercury(19 September 1812).
  47. Template:Cite newspaper The Times
  48. British sloop 'Conflict' (1812). Threedecks.
  49. British Fifth Rate frigate 'Stag' (1812). Threedecks.
  50. French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Dryade' (1812). Threedecks.
  51. British sloop 'Satellite' (1812). Threedecks.
  52. British Fifth Rate frigate 'Barrosa' (1812). Threedecks.
  53. British sloop 'Heron' (1812). Threedecks.
  54. British sloop 'Contest' (1812). Threedecks.
  55. American schooner 'Carolina' (1812). Threedecks.
  56. British Third Rate ship of the line 'Medway' (1812). Threedecks.
  57. British Sixth Rate post ship 'Perseus' (1812). Threedecks.
  58. [{{{url}}} Ship News]. Morning Chronicle(26 November 1812).
  59. British Fifth Rate frigate 'Lacedaemonian' (1812). Threedecks.
  60. British sloop 'Epervier' (1812). Threedecks.
  61. Template:Cite newspaper The Times
  62. French First Rate ship of the line 'Montebello' (1812). Threedecks.
  63. British sloop 'Despatch' (1812). Threedecks.
  64. Template:Cite newspaper The Times
  65. British Third Rate ship of the line 'Indus' (1812). Threedecks.
  66. Turkish First Rate ship of the line 'Mahmudiye' (1812). Threedecks.
  67. American Privateer brig 'Anaconda' (1812). Threedecks.
  68. 68.0 68.1 The Bombay Dockyard and the Wadia Master Builders{{#if:Wadia|, Wadia}(1986)
  69. [{{{url}}} Ship News]. Morning Chronicle(22 October 1812).
  70. British Merchant east indiaman 'General Harris' (1812). Threedecks.
  71. American ship 'Growler' (1812). Threedecks.
  72. French Privateer lugger 'La Ville de Caen' (1812). Threedecks.
  73. French Third Rate ship of the line 'Le Fougueux' (1812). Threedecks.
  74. French Third Rate ship of the line 'L'Impétueux' (1812). Threedecks.
  75. American Privateer schooner 'Revenge' (1812). Threedecks.
  76. British sloop 'Sylph' (1812). Threedecks.

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