Global InformationList of ship launches in 1786 information
The list of ship launches in 1786 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1786.
| Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 January |  Cuba
|
Havana | Mexicano | Santa Ana-class ship of the line | For Spanish Navy. | |
| 5 February |  Great Britain
|
Itchenor | Hartwell | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.[1] | |
| 23 February |  Kingdom of France
|
Toulon | Réunion | Magicienne-class frigate | For French Navy.[2] | |
| February | Great Britain
|
William Barnard | Deptford | Bridgewater | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.[3] |
| 18 March | Kingdom of France
|
Toulon | Modeste | Magicienne-class frigate | For French Navy.[4] | |
| 11 April |  Russia
|
S. I. Afanaseyev | Kherson | Saint Alexander | Slava Ekateriny-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[5][6] |
| 13 April | Russia
|
S. I. Afanaseyev | Kherson | Apostolov Andrei | Frigate | For Imperial Russian Navy.[7] |
| 15 April | Great Britain
|
Perry | Blackwall Yard | Hannibal | Arrogant-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. |
| 15 April | Great Britain
|
Deptford Dockyard | Impregnable | London-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. | |
| 28 April | Kingdom of France
|
Benjamin Dunbois | Saint-Malo | Le Papillon | Brig of war | For French Navy.[8] |
| 29 April | Great Britain
|
Hilhouse | Bristol | Severn | Adventure-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy.[9] |
| 3 May |  Republic of Venice
|
Piero Beltrame | Venice | Pallade | Pallade-class frigate | For Venetian Navy.[10] |
| 14 May | Russia
|
M. D. Portnov | Archangelsk | Panteleimon | Aziia-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[11] |
| 14 May | Russia
|
M. D. Portnov | Archangelsk | Sviatoi Piotr | Iaroslav-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[12] |
| 16 May | Russia
|
M. D. Portnov | Archangelsk | Kir Ioann | Iaroslav-class ship of the line | For Navy.[13] |
| 17 May | Russia
|
M. D. Portnov | Archangelsk | Nadezhda Blagopoluchiia | Modified Pavel-class frigate | For Imperial Russian Navy.[14] |
| 30 May | Republic of Venice
|
Girardo Minao | Venice | Venere | Pallade-class frigate | For Venetian Navy.[15] |
| May | Great Britain
|
George Parsons | Bursledon | Dover | Adventure-class ship | For Royal Navy.[16] |
| 10 July | Great Britain
|
Thomas Calhoun & John Nowlan | Bursledon | Blanche | Hermione-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 26 July |  Dutch Republic
|
John May | Amsterdam | Leiden | Third rate | For Dutch Navy.[17] |
| 14 August | Kingdom of France
|
Toulon | Junon | Minerve-class frigate | For French Navy. | |
| 24 August | Great Britain
|
George Parsons | Bursledon | Elephant | Arrogant-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. |
| 11 September | Great Britain
|
Thomas Pollard | Plymouth Dockyard | Royal Sovereign | First rate | For Royal Navy.[18] |
| 25 September | Great Britain
|
John Perry | Blackwall Yard | Theseus | Culloden-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. |
| 25 September | Great Britain
|
Perry | Blackwall | Thetis | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 2 October | Dutch Republic
|
Amsterdam | Zephier | Fifth rate | For Dutch Navy.[19] | |
| 6 October | Great Britain
|
Edward Greaves & Co. | Frindsbury | Bellerophon | Arrogant-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. |
| 16 October | Great Britain
|
Rotherhithe | Sugar Cane | Merchantman | For Turner & Co. | |
| 20 October | Russia
|
D. Masalsky | Saint Petersburg | Vestnik | Cutter | For Imperial Russian Navy.[20] |
| October | Great Britain
|
William Barnard | Deptford | Melville Castle | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| October | Great Britain
|
Wells | Princess Royal | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. | |
| 4 November | Cuba
|
Havana | Conde de Regla | Santa Ana-class ship of the line | For Spanish Navy. | |
| 8 November | Great Britain
|
Barnard & Dudman, or Randall | Deptford | Princess Amelia | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 20 November | Kingdom of France
|
Lorient | Capricieuse | Capricieuse-class frigate | For French Navy.[21] | |
| 22 November | Great Britain
|
Raymond | Northam | Saturn | Arrogant-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. |
| 23 November | Great Britain
|
Edward Hunt | Rotherhithe | Aquilon | Hermione-class frigate | For Royal Navy.[22] |
| November | Great Britain
|
Smallshaw & Rogers | Liverpool | Earl of Wycombe | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| November | Great Britain
|
Perry | Blackwall | Henry Dundas | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| November | Great Britain
|
Perry | Blackwall | Minerva | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| November | Great Britain
|
Wells | Deptford | Rose | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 21 December | Spain
|
Carthagena | Santa Florentina | Frigate | For Royal Navy. | |
| 21 December | Great Britain
|
Wells | Deptford | Woodcot | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| Unknown date | Russia
|
Gnilotonskaya | Berislav | Kinburn-class frigate | For Imperial Russian Navy.[23] | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
North Shields | Broderick | Whaler | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date | Dutch Republic
|
Rotterdam | Castor | Fifth rate | For Dutch Navy. | |
| Unknown date | Bermuda
|
Bermuda | Commerce | Merchantman | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date |  Ireland
|
Dublin | Duchess of Rutland | Merchantman | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Barnard | Deptford | Earl Fitzwilliam | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| Unknown date | Russia
|
Gnilotonskaya | Fanagoriia | Kinburn-class frigate | For Imperial Russian Navy.[24] | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Teignmouth | Golden Grove | West Indiaman | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Liverpool | Hannah | Slave ship | For Benjamin Heywood. | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Liverpool | Harriot | West Indiaman | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date |  Denmark-Norway
|
Indfødsretten | Indfødsretten-class ship of the line | For Dano-Norwegian Navy.[25] | ||
| Unknown date | Kingdom of France
|
Bayonne | Jean Bart | Corvette | For French Navy. | |
| Unknown date | Russia
|
Gnilotonskaya | Kinburn | Kinburn-class frigate | For Imperial Russian Navy.[26] | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Edward Greaves | River Thames | Lady Penrhyn | Slave ship | For Curtis & Co. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Newcastle upon Tyne | Latona | Merchantman | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Great Yarmouth | Lord Walsingham | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Topsham | Mercury | Merchantman | For John St Barbe. | |
| Unknown date |  India
|
Bombay Dockyard | Milford | Merchantman | For Pestonjee Bomanjee.[27] | |
| Unknown date | Cuba
|
Havana | Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes | Frigate | For Spanish Navy. | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Liverpool | Othello | Slave ship | For Mr. Earle. | |
| Unknown date |  Kingdom of Sicily
|
Antonio Imbert | Castellamare del Golfo | Partenope | Third rate | For Royal Sicilian Navy.[28] |
| Unknown date | Dutch Republic
|
J. Hand | Medemblik | Pluto | Third rate | For Dutch Navy.[29] |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Whitby | Selby | Merchantman | For private owner.[30] | |
| Unknown date | Dutch Republic
|
Harlingen | Sireene | Ship-sloop | For Dutch Navy. | |
| Unknown date | Dutch Republic
|
Staaten Generaal | Third rate | For Dutch Navy. | ||
| Unknown date | Dutch Republic
|
J. Hand | Enkhuizen | Waakzaamheid | Sixth rate | For Dutch Navy.[31] |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
William Cleverley | Gravesend | Woolwich Chain Boat | Chain boat | For Royal Navy.[32] |
| Unknown date | Spain
|
Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | ||
| Unknown date | Bermuda
|
Bermuda | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date | Great Britain
|
Liverpool | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date |  Sweden
|
Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | ||
| Unknown date | Spain
|
Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
- ^ "Extract of a letter from Chichester, dated Feb. 9". Daily Universal Register. No. 626. London. 15 February 1786. p. 3.
- ^ "French Fifth Rate frigate 'Reunion' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "British Merchant east indiaman 'Bridgewater' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Modeste' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Russian Third Rate ship of the line 'Alexander' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ Chernyshev, Alexander Alekseevich (2012). Погибли без боя. Катастрофы русских кораблей XVIII–XX вв [They died without a fight. Catastrophes of Russian ships of the XVIII-XX centuries] (in Russian). Veche.
- ^ "Russian Fifth Rate frigate 'Apostolov Andrei' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "French brig 'Le Papillon' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "British Fifth Rate ship of the line 'Severn' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Venetian Sixth Rate frigate 'Pallade' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Russian Third Rate ship of the line 'Panteleimon' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Russian Third Rate ship of the line 'Sviatoi Piotr' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Russian Third Rate ship of the line 'Kir Ioann' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Russian Fifth Rate frigate 'Nadezhda Blagopoluchiia' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Venetian Sixth Rate frigate 'Venere' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "British Fifth Rate ship 'Dover' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Dutch Third Rate ship of the line 'Leiden' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "British First Rate ship of the line 'Royal Sovereign' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Dutch Fifth Rate frigate 'Zephier' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Russian cutter 'Vestnik' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "French Fifth Rate frigate 'La Capricieuse' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "British Fifth Rate frigate 'Aquilon' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Russian Fifth Rate frigate 'Berislav' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Russian Fifth Rate frigate 'Fanagoriia' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Danish Third Rate ship of the line 'Indfødsretten' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Russian Fifth Rate frigate 'Kinburn' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ Wadia, R. A. (1986) [1957]. The Bombay Dockyard and the Wadia Master Builders. Bombay: Foudroyant Committee of The Society for Nautical Research. p. 334.
- ^ "Sicilian Third Rate ship of the line 'Partenope' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Dutch Third Rate ship of the line 'Pluto' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "British Merchant ship 'Selby' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Dutch Sixth Rate frigate 'Waakzaamheid' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "British Other Vessels 'Woolwich Chain Boat' (1786)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 October 2021.