The list of ship launches in 1837 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1837.
Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
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4 January |
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Bombay | Krishna | Brig | For Bombay Pilot Service. [1] | |
4 January | ![]() |
William Bayley | Ipswich | Swallow | Sloop | For Mr. Garrod. [2] |
7 January | ![]() |
Messrs. Swift | Brockweir | Tintern | Merchantman | For private owner. [3] |
19 January | ![]() |
Green & Wigram | location | Neptune | Steamship | For General Steam Navigation Company. [4] |
24 January | ![]() |
George & Henry Barrick | Whitby | Whitby | Full-rigged ship | For John Chapman & Co. [5] |
January |
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Calcutta | Anna Maria | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. [6] | |
January | ![]() |
El Ferrol | Reina Maria Cristina | Frigate | For Spanish Navy. [7] [8] | |
3 February | ![]() |
Devonport Dockyard | Sappho | Racer-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. | |
4 February | ![]() |
Messrs. Hooper's | Ouseburn | Vesta | Steamship | For Newcastle Steam Navigation Company. [9] |
7 February | ![]() |
John Young | Newport | Amelia | Barque | For private owner. [10] |
7 February | ![]() |
Chatham Dockyard | Mercury | Cutter | For Royal Navy. [11] | |
7 February | ![]() |
Butement & Young | North Leith | Pomona | Merchantman | For private owner. [12] |
23 February | ![]() |
Messrs. L. Rose & Son | Leith | City of London | Chinaman | For private owner. [13] |
February | ![]() |
G. Johnson, or G. Johnson, N. Davies and T. Davies | Sunderland | Isabella & Louisa | Snow | For J. Ritson. [14] |
7 March | ![]() |
William Jones | Port Madoc | Fair Trader | Smack | For private owner. [15] |
8 March | ![]() |
Wallis | Blackwall, London | City of Kingston | Steamship | For Jamaica Steam Navigation Company. [16] |
8 March | ![]() |
William Jones | Port Madoc | Eagle | Schooner | For private owner. [15] |
8 March | ![]() |
Messrs. Garland & Horsbrugh | Dundee | Warrior | East Indiaman | For Mr. Blain. [17] |
11 March | ![]() |
Jabez & Edward F. Williams | Greenpoint, New York | Independence | Schooner | For private owner. |
25 March | ![]() |
Bally | Shoreham-by-Sea | Margaret | Brig | For private owner. [18] |
27 March | ![]() |
L. H. Duncan | Baltimore, Maryland | Woodbury | Revenue cutter | For United States Revenue Cutter Service. |
March | ![]() |
William Gales | Sunderland | Lawsons | Merchantman | For Lawson & Co. [14] |
6 April | ![]() |
Messrs. Menzies | Leith | Leith | Steamship | For General Steam Navigation Company. [19] |
7 April | ![]() |
John Ball | Salcombe | Era | Schooner | For private owner. [20] |
8 April | ![]() |
John Scott & Sons | Greenock | Montrose | Steamship | For private owner. [21] |
8 April | ![]() |
Green, Wigram & Green | Blackwall | Seringapatam | Passenger ship | For private owner. [22] |
14 April | ![]() |
S. G. Bebikhov | Astrakhan | Mangishlak | Mangishlak-class brig | For Imperial Russian Navy. [23] |
19 April | ![]() |
Fletcher & Fearnall | Limehouse | Eagle | Paddle steamer | For Eagle Steam Packet Company. [24] [25] |
19 April | ![]() |
Fletcher & Fearnall | Blackwall | Falcon | Paddle steamer | For Eagle Steam Packet Company. [24] [26] |
20 April | ![]() |
Saint-Malo | L'Embuscade | Ariane-class corvette | For Royal Navy. [27] | |
20 April | ![]() |
Messrs. Read & Pahe | Ipswich | Orwell | Sloop | For private owner. [28] |
21 April | ![]() |
Portsmouth Dockyard | Hazard | Favorite-class sloop | For Royal Navy. | |
22 April | ![]() |
Parry | Hirnel | Chester Trader | Smack | For private owner. [29] |
April | ![]() |
Kirkbride & Carruthers | Sunderland | Aimwell | Snow | For General Shipping Company. [14] [30] |
April | ![]() |
J. Carr | Sunderland | Ann Elliot | Snow | For M. Elliot. [14] |
April | ![]() |
Belfast | Horsford | Brigantine | For private owner. [31] | |
April | ![]() |
G. Frater & Co | Sunderland | Messenger | Snow | For Mr. Thompson. [14] [32] |
April | ![]() |
J. Watson | Sunderland | Olive Branch | Barque | For Mr. Greenwell. [14] [33] |
5 May | ![]() |
James Crave | Wakefield | Magnet | Sloop | For Messrs. R. Dunn & Co. [34] |
6 May | ![]() |
Laird & Co. | Birkenhead | L'Egyptien | Steam yacht | For Pacha of Egypt. [35] |
18 May | ![]() |
Brooklyn Navy Yard | Fulton | Paddle steamer | For United States Navy. | |
18 May | ![]() |
Reed, Denton & Co | Sunderland | Ocean Bride | Snow | For Gales & Co. [14] |
20 May | ![]() |
William Gibson | Hull | Helen | Brig | For Messrs. Priest & Lambert. [36] |
20 May | ![]() |
Rochefort | Le Touvre | Transport ship | For French Navy. [37] | |
22 May | ![]() |
W. & T. Wilson | Liverpool | Royal Victoria | Steamship | For Carlisle, Annan and Liverpool Steam Navigation Company. [38] |
22 May | ![]() |
Messrs. Curling, Young & Co. | Limehouse | William Wilberforce | Steamship | For Humber Union Steam Company. [39] |
30 May | ![]() |
Green | Bristol | Clifton | Merchantman | For private owner. [40] |
May | ![]() |
W. Potts | Sunderland | Cornelius | Merchantman | For W. Potts. [14] [41] |
May | ![]() |
Peter Austin & Sons | Sunderland | Emerald | Merchantman | For Peter Austin & Sons. [14] [42] |
May | ![]() |
Dixon | Sunderland | Houghton-le-Spring | Barque | For R. Brown. [14] [43] |
May | ![]() |
Kirkbride & partners | Sunderland | Sarepta | Snow | For Mr. Nicholson. [14] |
6 June | ![]() |
Bauckham | Gravesend | Hercules | Steamship | For Llanelly Railway and Dock Company. [44] |
6 June |
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Quebec | Josepha | Barque | For private owner. [45] | |
19 June | ![]() |
Laing & Simey | Sunderland | Mandane | Barque | For Mr. Wilkinson. [14] |
19 June | ![]() |
Medley | River Humber | Victoria | Paddle Steamer | For Messrs. Brownlow, Pearson & Co. [46] [47] |
20 June | ![]() |
Adamson | Dundee | Bonnie Dundee | Steamship | For Leith Steam Packet Company. [48] |
20 June | ![]() |
W. J. & R. Tindall | Scarborough | Samuel | Barque | For Samuel Smith. [49] |
24 June |
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Tynemouth | England | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. [50] | |
June | ![]() |
Blackwall | Sir Lionel Smith | Steamship | For private owner. [51] | |
June | ![]() |
John M. Gales | Sunderland | Grove | Merchantman | For private owner. [14] [32] |
6 July | ![]() |
Charles Connell and Company | Scotstoun | Queen Victoria | Paddle steamer | For Down and Liverpool Company. [52] |
18 July | ![]() |
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard | Pennsylvania | Chippewa-class ship of the line | For United States Navy. [53] | |
19 July | ![]() |
Patterson & Mercer | Bristol | Great Western | Paddle steamer | For Great Western Steamship Company. |
19 July | ![]() |
London | Thalali | Royal barge | For Queen Victoria. [54] | |
19 July | ![]() |
Edward Gibson & Son | Hull | Tiger | Paddle steamer | For St George Steam Packet Company. [55] [56] |
July | ![]() |
T. Rowntree | Sunderland | Brown | Merchantman | For T. Brown. [14] [57] |
July | ![]() |
W. Chilton | Sunderland | Hannah | Snow | For Ranson & Co. [14] [58] |
July | ![]() |
James Leithead | Southwick | John George | Barque | For John Abbott & Co. [14] |
July | ![]() |
J. Mills, or J. & G. Mills | Sunderland | Queen Victoria | Snow | For Mr. Thompson. [14] [59] |
5 August | ![]() |
Wells-next-the-Sea | The Hannah | Schooner | For Joseph Fletcher. [60] | |
16 August | ![]() |
Gutteridge | Selby | Thetis | Brig | For Messrs. Standering & Co. [61] |
17 August | ![]() |
Sheerness Dockyard | Megaera | Hermes-class sloop | For Royal Navy. | |
19 August | ![]() |
Messrs. Wilson | Liverpool | Queen Victoria | Steamship | For City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. [62] |
31 August | ![]() |
Pembroke Dockyard | Gorgon | Paddle sloop | For Royal Navy. | |
August | ![]() |
S. &. P. Mills | Sunderland | Judith Milbanke | Merchantman | For private owner. [14] [59] |
August | ![]() |
R. Reed | Sunderland | Luna | Merchantman | For private owner. [14] [41] |
2 September | ![]() |
R. & W. Campion | Whitby | Aid | Brig | For private owner. [63] |
2 September | ![]() |
Messrs. Miller & Co | River Humber | Fanny | Barque | For Messrs. Andres & Co. [64] |
9 September | ![]() |
David Brown & Jacob Bell | New York | James Avery | Pilot boat | For private owners. |
12 September | ![]() |
Chatham Dockyard | Widgeon | Paddle steamer | For Royal Navy. [11] | |
14 September | ![]() |
Messrs. Smith & Son | Gainsborough | The New Ebor | Steamship | For York Steam Packet Company. [65] |
16 September | ![]() |
Antwerp | Antwerpen | Steamship | For private owner. [66] | |
25 September | ![]() |
Pembroke Dockyard | Cambria | Merchantman | For private owner. [67] | |
26 September | ![]() |
Messrs. Fairbairne's | Isle of Dogs | Sirius | Steamship | For private owner. [68] [69] |
28 September | ![]() |
Portsmouth Dockyard | Electra | Comet-class ship-sloop | For Royal Navy. [70] | |
28 September | ![]() |
Pembroke Dockyard | Lily | Racer-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. | |
30 September | ![]() |
Messrs. Humphrey & Co. | Hull | China | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. [71] |
30 September | ![]() |
Edward Ellis | Garth | Mona | Sloop | For private owners. [72] |
30 September | Colony of Prince Edward Island | William & Elizabeth | Barque | For private owner. [73] | ||
2 October | ![]() |
Muris & Clarke | Glasgow | Forth | Merchantman | For private owner. [74] |
2 October | ![]() |
Atkinson | Goole | The Ivanhoe | Brig | For Messrs. William Hudson & Co. [75] |
5 October | ![]() |
Sheerness Dockyard | Calliope | Andromache-class frigate | For Royal Navy. | |
14 October | ![]() |
Humble & Milcrest | Liverpool | Liverpool | Paddle steamer | For Sir John Tobin. [76] |
14 October | ![]() |
John Laird | Birkenhead | Rainbow | Paddle steamer | For General Steam Navigation Company. [77] [78] |
16 October | ![]() |
Messrs. Menzies & Sons | Leith | Guave | West Indiaman | For private owner. [79] |
16 October | ![]() |
Beaumaris | The Lady Bulkeley | Sloop | For private owner. [80] | |
17 October | ![]() |
Messrs. Humphrey & Co. | Hull | Queen Victoria | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. [81] |
19 October | ![]() |
Adams | Grangemouth | Hercules | Dredger | For private owner. [82] |
23 October | ![]() |
New Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg | Vola | Imperatritsa Aleksandra-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy. | |
31 October | ![]() |
Woolwich Dockyard | Modeste | Modeste-class corvette | For Royal Navy. [83] | |
October | ![]() |
Medway | Steamship | For private owner. [84] | ||
October | ![]() |
H. Dobbinson | Sunderland | Miriam | Snow | For Penman & Co. [14] [43] |
October | ![]() |
North Biddick | Newburn | Brig | For private owner. [85] | |
October | ![]() |
J. Crown | Sunderland | Ocean | Merhantman | For Mr. Richardson. [14] |
1 November | ![]() |
Messrs. A. McFarlane & Co. | Dumbarton | Chieftain | Barque | For D M'Larty. [86] |
11 November | ![]() |
William Hey Mellanby | Newcastle upon Tyne | William Skinner | Merchantman | For General Shipping Company. [87] |
22 November | ![]() |
Isaac Preston | Southtown | Harlequin | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. [88] |
1 December | ![]() |
John Wood | Port Glasgow | Falcon | Barque | For private owner. [89] |
2 December | ![]() |
Boston Navy Yard | Cyane | Cyane-class sloop | For United States Navy. [90] | |
12 December | ![]() |
Rochefort | Gloire | Frigate | For French Navy. | |
14 December | ![]() |
John Laird & Sons | North Birkenhead | Voador | Steamship | For private owner. [91] |
16 December | ![]() |
Saint Petersburg | Konstantin | Ferzhampenuaz-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy. | |
28 December | ![]() |
New York Navy Yard | Levant | Cyane-class sloop | For United States Navy. [92] | |
30 December | ![]() |
Clarke & Sons | Liverpool | Jamaica | Full-rigged ship | For Joseph Brookes Yates. [93] |
December | ![]() |
G. Johnson, N. Davies and T. Davies | Sunderland | Albatross | Snow | For private owner. [14] |
December | ![]() |
Ipswich | Betsey & Ann | Schooner | For private owner. [94] | |
December | ![]() |
Southwick | Cleopatra | Barque | For Colling & Co. [14] [95] | |
December | ![]() |
location | Dasher | Paddle steamer | For Royal Navy. [11] | |
December | ![]() |
Ipswich | Wrestler | Schooner | For private owner. [94] | |
December | ![]() |
Ipswich | Water Witch | Schooner | For W. May. [94] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Sunderland | Addison Brown | Snow | For Addison Brown. [14] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
S. & P. Mills | Sunderland | Adrastrus | Merchantman | For private owner. [14] |
Unknown date |
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Quebec | Agitator | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. [96] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Laing & Simey | Sunderland | Air | Merchantman | For P. Laing. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
P. Wood | Sunderland | Alderman Thompson | Brig | For private owner. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Samuel L. Hubbell | Perrysburg, Ohio | Anthony Wayne | Paddle steamer | For Perrysburgh & Miami Steam Boat Company. |
Unknown date | ![]() |
T. Lanchester | Sunderland | Arab | Snow | For private owner. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
G. Thompson | Sunderland | Atkin | Snow | For J. Atkin. [14] [97] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Archibald P. MacFarlane Jr. & Co | Dumbarton | Bengalee | Barque | For Hamlin & Co. |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Peter Austin | Sunderland | Braganza | Merchantman | For Gray & Co. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
S. & P. Mills | Sunderland | Dorothy | Snow | For Mr. Thompson. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
River Wear | Duchess of Kent | Schooner | For John Barry. [14] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
J. & G. Mills | Sunderland | Elizabeth & Catherine | Snow | For Potts & Co. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Joseph Helmsley | Sunderland | Emma | Snow | For Dunford & Co. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
H. Dobbinson | Sunderland | Flora | Schooner | For P. Welch. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
T. S. Dixon | Sunderland | Friendship | Snow | For Lamb & Co. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
J. H. Robson | Sunderland | Gem | Merchantman | For private owner. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
J. Rodgerson | Sunderland | George Welsford | Barque | For Mr. Welsford. [14] [57] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Laing & Simey | Sunderland | Gilbert Henderson | Merchantman | For Mr. Henderson. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Peter Austin | Sunderland | Glencoe | Snow | For John Campbell. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Sunderland | Houghton-le-Skerne | Merchantman | For private owner. [14] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Monkwearmouth | Indus | Snow | For Walker & Co. [14] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
H. Dobbinson | Sunderland | Jane and Ann | Snow | For Mr. Hodgson. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Sunderland | John Botcherby | Merchantman | For Mr. Botcherby. [14] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Sunderland | John White | Snow | For R. White. [14] [98] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Rowntree | Sunderland | Lord Mulgrave | Merchantman | For Foster & Co. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
R. & T. Andrews | Sunderland | Loyal Packet | Snow | For M. Reed. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Wigram & Green | Blackwall | Madagascar | Blackwall frigate | For George & Henry Green. |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Sunderland | Margarets | Merchantman | For private owner. [14] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Joseph Helmsley | Sunderland | May | Snow | For Mr. Middleton. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
South Shields | Neptune | Steamship | For Newcastle and Hull Steam Packet Company. [99] [100] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Poros | Maximilianos | Steamship | For Royal Hellenic Navy. | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Nantucket, Massachusetts | Nantucket | Whaler | For private owner. | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
New York | Paddle steamer | For New York and Charleston Steam Packet Company. | ||
Unknown date | ![]() |
Baltimore, Maryland | Powhattan | Full-rigged ship | For W. Graham. | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
J.& G. Mills | Sunderland | Prospect | Snow | For private owner. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Sunderland | Queen | Snow | For private owner. [14] | |
Unknown date |
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Bombay | Rajastan | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. [1] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Sunderland | Ralph Wylam | Snow | For Wylam & Co. [14] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
T. & W. Dixon | Sunderland | Sarah | Schooner | For Graham & Co. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
James Leithead | Sunderland | Sarah | Schooner | For Walford & Co. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Robert Menzies & Sons | Leith | Sirius | Paddle steamer | For St George Steam Packet Company. |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Sunderland | Sir John St. Aubyn | Steamship | For private owner. [14] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
George Worthy | Sunderland | Star | Schooner | For Ord & Co. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Rotterdam | Sylph | full-rigged ship | For Royal Netherlands Navy. [101] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Sunderland | Syren | Snow | For private owner. [14] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
J. Storey | Sunderland | Tar | Schooner | For J. Storey. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Tophill | Sloop | For private owner. [102] | ||
Unknown date | ![]() |
J. Naisby | Sunderland | Traveller | Merchantman | For Mr. Thompson. [14] [59] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Peterhead | Union | Smack | For private owner. [103] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Sunderland | Warwick | Merchantman | For private owner. [14] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
George Thompson | Sunderland | William & Jane | Merchantman | For Mr. Thompson. [14] [97] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Washington | Revenue cutter | For United States Revenue Cutter Service. | ||
Unknown date | ![]() |
William Gales | Sunderland | William Gales | Barque | For Gales & Co. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
W. Wilkinson | Sunderland | William Thompson | Snow | For Hartlepool Ship Company. [14] |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Sunderland | Wilsons | Merchantman | For private owner. [14] | |
Unknown date | ![]() |
Rodham & Todd | Sunderland | Young Queen | Snow | For private owner. [14] |