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