# List of ship launches in 1744

The list of ship launches in 1744 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1744.
| Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| January | Mauritius | Nicholas Levesque | Port-Louis | L'Insulaire | Frigate | For Compagnie des Indes. |
| 17 February | Great Britain | John Buxton | Deptford Dockyard | Swallow | Merlin-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 20 March | Great Britain | Greville & Whetstone | Limehouse | Merlin | Merlin-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 19 April | Great Britain | Philemon Perry | Blackwall | Hind | Hind-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 3 May | Great Britain | Bird | Rotherhithe | Winchester | Fourth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 4 May | Great Britain | John Greaves | Limehouse | Vulture | Hind-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 11 May | Kingdom of France | Jacques-Luc Coulomb | Brest | Le Vigilant | Third rate | For French Navy. |
| 13 May | New France | Rene-Nicholas Levasseur | Quebec City | Le Caribou | Fourth rate | For French Navy. |
| 27 May | Kingdom of France | Pierre Chaillé Fils | Havre de Grâce | Fine | Fifth rate | For French Navy. |
| 31 May | Great Britain | John Reed | Hull | Shoreham | Sixth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 June | Great Britain | John Quallett | Rotherhithe | Wager | Sixth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 16 June | Great Britain | Henry Bird | Rotherhithe | Mary Galley | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 29 June | Great Britain | John Okill | Liverpool | Pearl | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 30 June | Great Britain | Richard Golightly | Liverpool | Lark | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 1 July | Great Britain | Carter | Limehouse | Princess Louisa | Fourth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 17 July | Great Britain | Joseph Allin | Deptford | Jamaica | Hind-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 17 July | Great Britain | | Deptford Dockyard | Trial | Hind-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 31 July | Great Britain | James Taylor | Rotherhithe | Ludlow Castle | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 14 August | Great Britain | Barnard | Harwich | Colchester | Fourth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 14 August | Great Britain | Blaydes | Hull | Fowey | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| August | Kingdom of France | Pierre Chaillé Fils | Havre de Grâce | Emeraude | Frigate | For French Navy. |
| 11 October | Great Britain | Snellgrove | Limehouse | Portland | Fourth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 12 October | Great Britain | West | Deptford | Defiance | Fourth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 12 October | Great Britain | Wells | Rotherhithe | Maidstone | Fourth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 13 October | Great Britain | George Rowcliffe | Northam | Bridgewater | Sixth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 21 October | Kingdom of France | Pierre Morineau | Rochefort | Invincible | Third rate | For French Navy. |
| 30 October | Kingdom of France | Pierre-Blaise Coulomb | Toulon | Oriflamme | Ship of the line | For French Navy. |
| 9 November | Great Britain | John Buxton | Deptford | Speedwell | Merlin-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 12 November | Great Britain | John Barnard | location | Falcon | Merlin-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 22 November | Kingdom of France | Blaise Geslain | Rochefort | Magnanime | Third rate | For French Navy. |
| 11 December | Great Britain | John Buxton, Sr. | Rotherhithe | Hazard | Merlin-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | Kingdom of France | Jean Reynoir | Marseille | L'Ambitieuse | France-class galley | For French Navy. |
| Unknown date | Denmark–Norway | | | København | Third rate | For Dano-Norwegian Navy. |
| Unknown date | Kingdom of France | | Saint-Malo | Le Grand Turque | Full-rigged ship | For Private owner. |
| Unknown date | Kingdom of France | | Saint-Malo | Le Lis | Privateer | For private owner |
| Unknown date | Kingdom of France | | Rochefort | Le Singe | Catboat | For French Navy. |
| Unknown date | Kingdom of France | | Rochefort | Le Tigre | Catboat | For French Navy. |