# List of ship launches in 1826

The list of ship launches in 1826 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1826.
| Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 4 January | United Kingdom | Smith | Gainsborough | Bradford | Steamship | For private owner. |
| 7 January | United Kingdom | Worthington & Ashburner | Skerton | William Wise | Brig | For Messrs. John Winder & Co. |
| 11 January | United Kingdom | Dikes and Gibson | Hull | Falcon | Merchantman | For W. Rooth, E. Thompson and T. Wharton. |
| 23 January | India | J. Mackenzie | Sulkea | Gunjava | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 24 January | New Zealand | | Paihia | Herald | Schooner | For New Zealand Church Missionary Society. |
| 26 January | United Kingdom | | Chatham Dockyard | Sulphur | Hecla-class bomb vessel | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 February | United Kingdom | | Harwich | Dolphin | Steamship | For Post Office Packet Service. |
| 3 February | United Kingdom | W. Simons & Co. | Greenock | Fingal | Steam yacht | For private owner. |
| 9 February | United Kingdom | Johnson | Walberswick | The Norfolk | Schooner | For H. Ringwood. |
| 11 February | United Kingdom | John Wilson | Chester, Cheshire | Kingstown | Steamship | For St George Steam Packet Company. |
| 17 February | United Kingdom | Nichol Reid | Aberdeen | Albuera | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 23 February | United Kingdom | Robert Menzies & Sons | Leith | Forth | Merchantman | For Mr. Duncanson. |
| February | United Kingdom | E. & R. Lumsden | Sunderland | Vintage | Merchantman | For D. Simmons. |
| 9 March | United States | | New York Navy Yard | Lexington | Lexington-class sloop | For United States Navy. |
| 12 March | United Kingdom | Fletcher, Sons & Furnell | Limehouse | Shannon | Steamship | For Dublin and London Steam Company. |
| 17 March | United Kingdom | | Arbroath | Brechin Castle | Brig | For private owner. |
| 25 March | United Kingdom | Dawson & Co | Liverpool | Manchester | Steamship | For City of Dublin Company. |
| 25 March | United Kingdom | J. Scott & Sons. | Greenock | Meta | Brig | For McWhiter & Co. |
| 27 March | United Kingdom | M'Milland & Hunter | Greenock | Clydesdale | Steamship | For private owner. |
| 27 March | France | | Toulon | L'Alcibiade | Cygne-class brig | For French Navy. |
| 7 April | United Kingdom | James Bayley | Woodbridge | Jane | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 8 April | United Kingdom | Samuel S. Walton | Hull | Faxfleet Hall | Brig | For F. Cattley. |
| 8 April | United Kingdom | Bolton and Humphrey | Hull | Coriolanus | Brig | For William Hopwood. |
| 8 April | United Kingdom | Bolton and Humphrey | Hull | Rimswell | Full-rigged ship | For C. Thompson. |
| 10 April | United Kingdom | George Bayley & Co | Ipswich | The Magnet | Cutter | For private owner. |
| 12 April | United Kingdom | John Wood & Co | Port Glasgow | St. George | Steamboat | For Lochgoil and Lochlong Steam Boat Company. |
| 15 April | France | | Toulon | La Comète | Gazelle-class schooner | For French Navy. |
| 25 April | United Kingdom | | Chatham Dockyard | Fairy | Cherokee-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 25 April | United Kingdom | R. Steele & Son | Greenock | United Kingdom | Steam yacht | For private owner. |
| 26 April | Upper Canada | | Quebec | Manlius | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 27 April | United States | | Brooklyn Navy Yard | Vincennes | Boston-class sloop-of-war | For United States Navy. |
| 29 April | United Kingdom | William Denny | Dumbarton | Belfast | Steamship | For private owner. |
| 29 April | United Kingdom | William Denny | Dumbarton | Dunoon Castle | Steamship | For private owner. |
| April | Netherlands | Smit | Alblasserdam | Friedrich Wilhelm | Paddle steamer | For Dampschiffarts-Gesellschaft von Rhein und Main. |
| 6 May | United Kingdom | William Mellanby | Stockton-on-Tees | Englishman | Brig | For J. Bockerby and others. |
| 6 May | United Kingdom | | Pembroke Dockyard | Skylark | Cherokee-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 9 May | United Kingdom | | Chatham Dockyard | Espoir | Cherokee-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 9 May | United Kingdom | Buckle & Davies | Chepstow | Phœnix | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 9 May | United Kingdom | Graham | Harwich | Watersprite | Steamship | For private owner. |
| 22 May | United Kingdom | | Sheerness Dockyard | Daedalus | Modified Leda-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 22 May | United Kingdom | Haselden | Liverpool | George IV | Steamship | For Liverpool and Newry Steam Navigation Company. |
| 22 May | France | | Bayonne | Le Volcan | Vésuve-class bomb vessel | For French Navy. |
| 22 May | France | | Bayonne | L'Hecla | Vésuve-class bomb vessel | For French Navy. |
| 24 May | United Kingdom | Thomas Brodrick | Whitby | Foster | Full-rigged ship | For executors of Joel Foster. |
| May | United Kingdom | E. & R. Lumsden | Sunderland | Hymen | Barque | For E. & R. Lumsden. |
| May | Colony of Prince Edward Island | | | Salus | Brig | For private owner. |
| 1 June | United Kingdom | | Aberdeen | Eagle | Schooner | For private owner. |
| 1 June | United Kingdom | Adamson | Aberdeen | Sprightly | Brig | For private owner. |
| 2 June | United Kingdom | Laurie & Co. | Aberdeen | Gipsy | Sloop | For private owner. |
| 6 June | United Kingdom | Nicol, Reid & Co. | Aberdeen | Lion | Snow | For private owner. |
| 7 June | United Kingdom | Alexander Gray | Kincardine | Albion | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 7 June | Russia | A. M. Kurochkin and V. A. Yershov | Archangelsk | Azov | Ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| 7 June | United Kingdom | | Pembroke Dockyard | Erebus | Hecla-class bomb vessel | For Royal Navy. |
| 7 June | United Kingdom | Alexander Gray | Kincardine | Rose | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 12 June | United Kingdom | Daniel List | Fishbourne | Lord Yarborough | Steamship | For private owner. |
| 20 June | United Kingdom | | Great Yarmouth | Jean Hastie | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 20 June | United Kingdom | William Newham | Scarborough | Woodbine | Brig | For Messrs. Fullerine, Owston and Fowler. |
| 21 June | United Kingdom | R. Campion | Whitby | Captain Cook | Merchantman | For R. Campion. |
| 26 June | United Kingdom | Sime & Rankin | Leith | Fifeshire | Smack | For Kirkcaldy and London Shipping Company. |
| June | Colony of Prince Edward Island | | | Anne Comer | Brig | For private owner. |
| June | Jamaica | Maclean | Jamaica | Magpie | Magpie-class schooner | For Royal Navy. |
| June | Colony of New Brunswick | | Miramichi | Phœnix | Brig | For private owner. |
| June | United Kingdom | Bawden | Topsham | Thames | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 4 July | United Kingdom | | Harwich Dockyard | Escape | Steamship | For private owner. |
| 5 July | France | | Lorient | Le Nisus | Cygne-class brig | For French Navy. |
| 7 July | United Kingdom | Sime & Rankin | Leith | Arcturus | Brig | For private owner. |
| 8 July | United Kingdom | Mottershead & Heyes | Liverpool | Gipsy | Steamship | For Sir J. Tobin. |
| 11 July | United Kingdom | G. W. Forritt | Scarborough | Anthony | Merchantman | For Messrs. Beswicks & Hesp. |
| 14 July | United Kingdom | Alexander Wright | Findhorn | Findhorn | Brig | For private owner. |
| 20 July | United Kingdom | Jabez Bayley | Ipswich | Fortitude | Schooner | For private owner. |
| 20 July | France | | Bayonne | La Cigogne | Gazelle-class schooner | For French Navy. |
| 20 July | France | | Bayonne | L'Eclipse | Gazelle-class schooner | For French Navy. |
| 22 July | United Kingdom | William Seddon & Co. | North Birkenhead | Nora Cruna | Steamship | For Waterford and Bristol Steam Packet Company. |
| July | Netherlands | Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij | Rotterdam | Concordia | Paddle steamer | For Dampschiffarts-Gesellschaft von Rhein und Main. |
| July | Colony of New Brunswick | | Miramichi | Nelson Village | Brig | For private owner. |
| 2 August | United Kingdom | Daniel List | Fishbourne | Coquette | Brig | For Mr. Thorold. |
| 5 August | United Kingdom | Henry Smith | Gainsborough | Dart | Steamship | For private owner. |
| 7 August | United Kingdom | Morton | Dublin | Marchioness Wellesley | Paddle steamer | For Dublin and Wexford Steam Co. |
| 18 August | United Kingdom | McNelland & Mustard | Alloa | The Lord Abercromby | Brig | For Messrs. MacNellan, Beattie and Black. |
| 19 August | United Kingdom | | Chatham Dockyard | Calypso | Cherokee-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 19 August | United Kingdom | | Pembroke Dockyard | Nemesis | Seringapatam-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| August | United Kingdom | | | Cepheus | Snow | For private owner. |
| August | United Kingdom | | Dumfries | Elizabeth Gillespie | Brigantine | For private owner. |
| 4 September | United Kingdom | Menzies & Sons | Leith | Royal Sovereign | Smack | For London and Edinburgh Shipping Company. |
| 5 September | United Kingdom | Caleb & James Smith | Liverpool | Earl of Roden | Steamship | For St George Steam Packet Company. |
| 5 September | United Kingdom | Smith | Newcastle upon Tyne | John Renwick | West Indiaman | For John Renwick. |
| 16 September | United Kingdom | C. Gale | Whitby | Gale | Schooner | For private owner. |
| 16 September | United Kingdom | | Woolwich Dockyard | Tyrian | Cherokee-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 23 September | Russia | I. S. Razumov | Nicholaieff | Derbent | First rate | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| September | Colony of New Brunswick | | | Spray | Brig | For private owner. |
| 3 October | France | Louis-Charles Léfebure de Censy | Marseille | Murshid al-Jihad | Fourth rate | For Egyptian Navy. |
| 3 October | United Kingdom | Robert Seppings | Pembroke Dockyard | Satellite | Satellite-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| October | New South Wales | | Paterson Plains | Currency Lass | Schooner | For Thomas Winder & others. |
| October | United Kingdom | | Liverpool | Indian Chief | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. |
| 1 November | United Kingdom | Thomas Brodrick | Whitby | Avon | Full-rigged ship | For R. W. Haden. |
| 7 November | United Kingdom | Steele | Greenock | Mountstewart Elphinstone | Full-rigged ship | For John Fleming. |
| 10 November | India | | Bombay | Liverpool | Third rate | For Imaum of Muscat. |
| 14 November | United Kingdom | | Portsmouth Dockyard | Challenger | Sixth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 16 November | United Kingdom | | Chatham Dockyard | Acorn | Satellite-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 29 November | United States | | Charlestown Navy Yard | Warren | Lexington-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 30 November | United Kingdom | Wilson | Chester | The St. George | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 30 November | United Kingdom | | Woolwich Dockyard | Tyne | Sixth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| November | United Kingdom | | | Ant | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| November | United Kingdom | | Shoreham-by-Sea | Paul Pry | Schooner | For private owner. |
| 1 December | United Kingdom | | Portsmouth Dockyard | Columbine | Columbine-class ship-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 1 December | United Kingdom | | Portsmouth Dockyard | Wolf | Wolf-class ship-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 5 December | Colony of New Brunswick | | St. Martins | Sincapore | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 14 December | United Kingdom | | | Duke of Sussex | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 14 December | United Kingdom | Henry Canham | Woolwich Dockyard | Hebe | Leda-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 21 December | United Kingdom | Gordon | Deptford | The Sussex | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 27 December | United Kingdom | | Deptford Dockyard | Alban | Alban-class paddle steamer | For Royal Navy. |
| Summer | Unknown | | | Foveran | Barque | For private owner. |
| Autumn | Upper Canada | | Pictou | Earl Dalhousie | Brig | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Sunderland | Abeona | Barque | For Thomas Watson and James Watt. |
| Unknown date | Russia | | Saint Petersburg | Alexander Nevskii | Third rate | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| Unknown date | United States | | New York | Amazonas | Fifth rate | For Imperial Brazilian Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | Anns | Schooner | For J. Cook. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Sunderland | Argus | Brig | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Rowntree | Sunderland | Autumn | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | Bell | Merchantman | For Turner Thompson. |
| Unknown date | United States | | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Benjamin Morgan | Schooner | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | Briton | Barque | For John M. & William Gales. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | J. Storey | Sunderland | Captain Cook | Snow | For Fleck & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Sunderland | Ceres | Snow | For W. Bagge & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Philip Laing | Sunderland | Charles Kerr | Merchantman | For Pirie & Co. |
| Unknown date | India | | Bombay | Clive | Sloop | For British East India Company. |
| Unknown date | Upper Canada | | Portland | Comet | Merchantman | For Muir & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | | Constitutionen | Paddle steamer | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Holyhead | Cumberland | Steamship | For Liverpool Steam Company. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | R. Watson & Waters | Sunderland | Dragon | Tug | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Sweden | | | Dristigheten | Man of war | For Royal Swedish Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Robert Thomson | Troon | Duchess of Portland | West Indiaman | For J. Hill. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Fletcher, Son & Fearnall | River Thames | Eden | Merchantman | For Colvile Wedderburn & Co. |
| Unknown date | Upper Canada | | Quebec | Egyptian | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Sunderland | Elbe | Merchantman | For Mr. Maughan. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Philip Laing | Sunderland | Eliza Dick | Merchantman | For Philip Laing. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | | George IV | Snow | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Upper Canada | William Newton | Quebec | Georgiana | Barque | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Colony of New Brunswick | | Norton | Hannah | Brig | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | | New York | Hope | Frigate | For Hellenic Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Edward Adams | Bucklers Hard | Henry | Barque | For Mr. Row. |
| Unknown date | Colony of New Brunswick | | Letang | Jessie | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Frederick Baddeley | Brixham | Kite | Full-rigged ship | For Frederick Baddeley. |
| Unknown date | United States | Seth and Samuel Foster | Norwell, Massachusetts | Lagoda | Whaler | For Ezra Weston II. |
| Unknown date | United States | Smith & Dimon | New York | Liberator | Frigate | For Hellenic Navy, who were unable to pay for her. To United States Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | T. Barrick | Whitby | Lotus | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | George Burton | Knottingley | Luna | Yorkshire Billyboy | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Monkwearmouth | Manchester | Snow | For Mr. McCulloch. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Richard Bussell | Lyme Regis | Mary | Schooner | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Jamaica | McLean | Jamaica | Monkey | Magpie-class schooner | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | India | Steel & Son | Bombay | Mount Stewart Elphinstone | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | J. Hall | Sunderland | Paley | Snow | For Hall & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | D. Brent | Rotherhithe | Perseverance | Paddle steamer | For F. A. Hastings. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Rowntree | Sunderland | Pleiades | Brig | For Hogg & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | Priscilla | Merchantman | For John Craig. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Monkwearmouth | Rachel | Brig | For Withel & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Great Yarmouth | Rapid | Brig | For Priest & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | Renown | Snow | For Peter Jackson. |
| Unknown date | Spain | | | Restoracion | Frigate | For Spanish Navy. |
| Unknown date | Netherlands | | Rotterdam | Rotterdam | Fourth rate | For Royal Netherlands Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Robert Steele & Co. | Greenock | Sappho | Brig | For Stewart & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | J. & R. Lightfoot | Sunderland | Sarah | Schooner | For B. Dunnington. |
| Unknown date | Upper Canada | | Quebec | Sophia | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Perth | The Skeen | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Tiffin | Sunderland | Thetis | Brig | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Edward Gibson | Hull | Thomas Jackson | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Colony of New Brunswick | | Saint John | Wanstead | West Indiaman | For Gale & Son. |