Global InformationList of ship launches in 1780 information
The list of ship launches in 1780 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1780.
| Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 January |  France
|
Jolly, Leathers & Barton | Liverpool | Nemesis | Enterprise-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 24 January |  Great Britain
|
Peter Baker | Liverpool | Adamant | Portland-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 27 January | Kingdom of France
|
Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb | Toulon | Terrible | Terrible-class ship of the line | For French Navy.[1] |
| 11 February | Kingdom of France
|
Dujardin | Saint-Malo | Aigle | Privateer | For M. Clonard. |
| 22 February | Great Britain
|
John Randall | Rotherhithe | Bellmont | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.[2] |
| 7 March | Great Britain
|
Barnard | Harwich | Inflexible | Inflexible-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. |
| 20 March | Kingdom of France
|
Jean-Denis Chevillard | Rochefort | Invincible | First rate | For French Navy.[3] |
| 20 March | Kingdom of France
|
Lorient | La Friponne | Fifth rate | For French Navy.[4] | |
| 20 March | Kingdom of France
|
Pierre-Alexander Forfait | Brest | Royal Louis | Ship of the line | For French Navy.[5] |
| 20 March | Great Britain
|
Wells | Rotherhithe | Vansittart | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 23 March | Great Britain
|
John Randall | Rotherhithe | Fortitude | Albion-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. |
| 10 April |  United States
|
Wharton & Humphries | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Saratoga | Sloop-of-war | For Continental Navy. |
| 19 April | Kingdom of France
|
Charles Etienne Bombelle | Rochefort | La Fée | Fifth rate | For French Navy.[6] |
| 20 April | Great Britain
|
John Randall | Rotherhithe | Assurance | Roebuck-class ship | For Royal Navy.[7] |
| April | Kingdom of France
|
Saint-Malo | Duc de Chartres | Privateer | For private owner.[8] | |
| April |  Republic of Venice
|
Cupid | Xebec | For Venetian Navy.[9] | ||
| April | Republic of Venice
|
Mercurio | Xebec | For Venetian Navy.[10] | ||
| 3 May | Kingdom of France
|
Jacques-Noël Sané | Brest | Northumberland | Annibal-class ship of the line | For French Navy.[11] |
| 6 May | Great Britain
|
Adam Hayes | Deptford Dockyard | Flora | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy.[12] |
| 10 May | Province of Georgia
|
Jonathon Coleman | Carleton Island | Ontario | Sixth rate | For Provincial Marine.[13] |
| 12 May |  Russia
|
M. D. Portnov | Archangelsk | Ne Tron Menia | Aziia-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[14] |
| 12 May | Great Britain
|
I. V. James | Archangelsk | Sviatoi Ianuarii | Aziia-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[15] |
| 16 May | Kingdom of France
|
Pierre-Augustin Lamonthe Kercaradec | Brest | Astrée | Nymphe-class frigate | For French Navy.[16] |
| 20 May | Great Britain
|
John Fisher | Liverpool | Daedalus | Active-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 June | Great Britain
|
George Parsons | Bursledon | Fox | Active-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 June | Great Britain
|
Adams & Barnard | Deptford | Orpheus | Amazon-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 3 June | Great Britain
|
John Jenner | Woolwich Dockyard | Minerva | Minerva-class frigate | For Royal Navy.[17] |
| 3 June | Great Britain
|
Deptford | Orpheus | Amazon-class frigate | For Royal Navy.[18] | |
| 5 June | Great Britain
|
John Perry | Blackwall Yard | Belliqueux | Ardent-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. |
| 16 June | Kingdom of France
|
Daniel & Jacques Denys | Dunkerque | Pandour | Mutin-class Cutter (boat) | For French Navy. |
| 18 June | Kingdom of France
|
Denys | Dunkerque | Clairvoyant | Mutin-class Cutter (boat) | For French Navy. |
| 1 July | Great Britain
|
Israel Pownoll & Nicholas Phillips | Chatham Dockyard | Leander | Fourth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 6 July | Russia
|
A. S. Katsanov | Cronstadt | Perun | Perun-class bomb vessel | For Imperial Russian Navy.[19] |
| 19 July | Kingdom of France
|
Boulogne | Le Comte d'Avaux | Privateer | For private owner.[20] | |
| 5 August | Kingdom of France
|
François-Guillaume Clairain des Lauriers | Toulon | La Badine | Coquette-class corvette | For French Navy.[21] |
| 11 August | Kingdom of France
|
Chevalier Antoine Groignard | Toulone | La Semillante | Coquette-class corvette | For Navy.[22] |
| 30 August | Great Britain
|
Edward Hunt | Northam | Active | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy.[23] |
| 31 August | Great Britain
|
William Cleverley | Gravesend | Zebra | Zebra-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| August | United States
|
Fair American | Privateer | For Navy.[24] | ||
| August | Great Britain
|
Joshua Stewart | Sandgaet | Fortune | Sloop-of-war | For Royal Navy.[25] |
| 16 September | Kingdom of France
|
Jean-Joseph Ginoux | Havre de Grâce | Abondance | Baleine-class gabarre | For French Navy. |
| 16 September | Russia
|
A. S. Katsanov | Cronstadt | Sviatoi Georgii Pobedonosets | Aziia-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[26] |
| 20 September | Great Britain
|
James Betts | Mistleythorn | Iphigenia | Amazon-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 21 September | Kingdom of France
|
Pierre-Augustin Lamonthe Kercaradec | Brest | Sceptre | Second rate | For French Navy.[27] |
| 30 September | Great Britain
|
Robert Batson & Co. | Limehouse | Juno | Amazon-class frigate | For Navy. |
| 14 October | Kingdom of France
|
Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb | Toulon | Vestale | Magicienne-class frigate | For French Navy.[28] |
| 14 October | Great Britain
|
Adam Hayes | Deptford Dockyard | Magnanime | Intrepid-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy.[29] |
| 16 October | Kingdom of France
|
Havre de Grâce | La Nourrice | Baleine-class gabarre | For French Navy.[30] | |
| 28 October | Kingdom of France
|
Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb | Toulon | Alceste | Magicienne-class frigate | For French Navy.[31] |
| October | Great Britain
|
John Perry | Blackwall | Essex | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| October | Great Britain
|
Thomas King | Dover | Merlin | Sloop-of-war | For Royal Navy.[32] |
| October | Great Britain
|
Perry, or Randall | Blackwall | Valentine | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 11 November | Great Britain
|
John Fisher | Liverpool | Alligator | Swan-class sloop | For Royal Navy.[33] |
| 13 November | Kingdom of France
|
Arnous-Dessaulays | Lorient | Téméraire | Facteur-class Cutter (boat) | For French Navy. |
| 17 November | Kingdom of France
|
Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb | Toulon | Majestueux | Terrible-class ship of the line | For French Navy.[34] |
| 28 November | Great Britain
|
Fabian | East Cowes | Repulse | Intrepid-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. |
| November | Great Britain
|
John Perry | Blackwall | Asia | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 21 December | Kingdom of France
|
Toulon | Naïade | Coquette-class corvette | For French Navy. | |
| 27 December | Great Britain
|
Chatham Dockyard | Amphion | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy. | |
| 31 December | Great Britain
|
Barnard | Antelope | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. | |
| December | Great Britain
|
Wells | Deptford | Northumberland | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
River Thames | Antelope | Packet ship | For Post Office Packet Service. | |
| Unknown date | Unknown | Arbuthnot | Galley | For Royal Navy. | ||
| Unknown date | United States
|
Aurora | Letter of marque | For Mungo Mackay & Thomas Dennie. | ||
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Watson | Rotherhithe | Berwick | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
John Randall | Rotherhithe | Blandford | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.[35] |
| Unknown date | Kingdom of France
|
Bordeaux | Brutus | Merchantman | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date |  Dutch Republic
|
Rotterdam | Catharina Wilhelmina | East Indiaman | For Dutch East India Company.[36] | |
| Unknown date |  India
|
Bombay | Defence | Luggage boat | For British East India Company.[37] | |
| Unknown date |  Denmark-Norway
|
Ditmarsken | Indfødsretten-class ship of the line | For Dano-Norwegian Navy.[38] | ||
| Unknown date | Dutch Republic
|
Amsterdam | Dolfijn | Sixth rate | For Dutch Navy. | |
| Unknown date | Kingdom of France
|
Havre de Grâce | Duc de Chartres | Privateer | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Whitby | Fishburn | Merchantman | For Leighton & Co. | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Wells | Deptford | Fortitude | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| Unknown date | United States
|
Newburyport, Massachusetts | Hannibal | Privateer | For Massachusetts State Navy.[39] | |
| Unknown date | India
|
Bombay | Hermanis | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.[37] | |
| Unknown date |  Ottoman Greece
|
builder | Rhodes | Hifz-i Huda | Fourth rate | For Ottoman Navy.[40] |
| Unknown date | India
|
Bombay | Hornby | full-rigged ship | For private owner.[37] | |
| Unknown date | India
|
Bombay | Intrepid | Snow | For Bombay Marine. | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Bristol | Kingston | West Indiaman | For J. Collard. | |
| Unknown date | Kingdom of France
|
Saint-Malo | L'Epervier | Privateer | For Cornich, Cornic & Le Jeune.[41] | |
| Unknown date | Kingdom of France
|
Saint-Malo | Le Pilote | Privateer | For private owner.[42] | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Wells | Deptford | Osterley | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Perry | Blackwall Yard | Pigot | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| Unknown date | United States
|
John Peck | Plymouth, Massachusetts | Rattlesnake | Privateer | For Massachusetts State Navy. |
| Unknown date | United States
|
Rhodes | Privateer | For Massachusetts State Navy.[43] | ||
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Whitby | Russian Merchant | Merchantman | For Leighton & Co. | |
| Unknown date |  Spain
|
El Ferrol | Santa Natalia | Sixth rate | For Spanish Navy.[44] | |
| Unknown date | Russia
|
Kazan | Ship Sloop No. 3 | Caspian Sea-class ship sloop | For Imperial Russian Navy.[45] | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Calvert & Co. | Shoreham-by-Sea | Surprize | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Kingdom of Great Britain
|
Glasgow | Tarleton | Merchantman | For Mr. Crosbie. | |
| Unknown date | Ottoman Greece
|
builder | Rhodes | Tevfikü'llah | Fourth rate | For Ottoman Navy.[46] |
| Unknown date | India
|
Calcutta | Trial | Packet ship | For British East India Company. | |
| Unknown date | Kingdom of France
|
Saint-Malo | Vénus | Vénus-class frigate | For French Navy. | |
| Unknown date | Dutch Republic
|
J. Hand | Enkhuizen | Vlieger | Full-rigged ship | For Dutch Navy.[47] |
| Unknown date | Russia
|
Kazan | Unnamed | Bomb vessel | For Imperial Russian Navy.[48] | |
| Unknown date | Kingdom of France
|
Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | ||
| Unknown date | Kingdom of France
|
Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | ||
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Folkestone | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | ||
| Unknown date | Russia
|
Archangelsk | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | |
| Unknown | Spain
|
Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | ||
| Unknown date | United States
|
Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | ||
| Unknown date | United States
|
Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | ||
| Unknown date | United States
|
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date | Unknown | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | ||
| Unknown date | United States
|
Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
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- ^ "British Merchant east indiaman 'Bellmont' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "French First Rate ship of the line 'L'Invincible' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Friponne' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "French First Rate ship of the line 'Le Royal Louis' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Fée' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "British Fifth Rate ship of the line 'Assurance' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "French Privateer brig 'Duc de Cgartres' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "Venetian xebec 'Cupido' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "Venetian xebec 'Mercurio' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "French Third Rate ship of the line 'Northumberland' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "British Fifth Rate frigate 'Flora' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "British sloop 'Ontario' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
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- ^ "Russian Third Rate ship of the line 'Sviatoi Ianuarii' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "French Fifth Rate frigate 'Astrée' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "British Fifth Rate frigate 'Minerva' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
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- ^ "French Sixth Rate corvette 'La Semillante' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "British Fifth Rate frigate 'Active' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "American Privateer 'Fair American' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "British sloop 'Fortune' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
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- ^ "French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Vestale' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "British Third Rate ship of the line 'Magnamine' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "French Sixth Rate gabarre 'La Nourrice' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "French Fifth Rate frigate 'Alceste' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "British sloop 'Merlin' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "British sloop 'Alligator' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "French First Rate ship of the line 'Majestueux' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "British Merchant east indiaman 'Blandford' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "Dutch Privateer east indiaman 'Catharina Wilhelmina' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
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- ^ "Danish Third Rate ship of the line 'Ditmarsken' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "American Privateer ship 'Hannibal' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "Turkish Fourth Rate ship of the line 'Hifz-i Huda' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "French Privateer cutter 'L'Epervier' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "French Privateer 'Le Pilote' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "American Privateer 'Rhodes' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "Spanish Sixth Rate sloop 'Santa Natalia' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "Russian Sixth Rate sloop 'Ship Sloop No. 3' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "Turkish Fourth Rate ship of the line 'Tevfikü'llah' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "Dutch ship 'Vlieger' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "Russian bomb vessel 'Unnamed' (1780)". Threedecks. Retrieved 2 October 2021.