# List of ship launches in 1805

The list of ship launches in 1805 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1805.
| Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 1 January | United Kingdom | Benjamin Tanner | Dartmouth | Martin | Merlin-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 January | United Kingdom | Thomas White | Broadstairs | Desperate | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 4 January | United Kingdom | Joseph Todd | Berwick upon Tweed | Forward | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 5 January | India | Thomas Hawkins | Calcutta | Marchioness Wellesley | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 14 January | United Kingdom | Dudman | Deptford | Jane, Duchess of Gordon | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 15 January | India | Michael Smith | Calcutta | Forbes | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 16 January | United Kingdom | Menzies & Goalen | Leith | Earnest | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 16 January | France | | Havre de Grâce | Oreste | Oreste-class brig | For French Navy. |
| 16 January | United Kingdom | Menzies & Goalen | Leith | Woodlark | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 17 January | New South Wales | Isaac Nichols | Sydney | Governor Hunter | Schooner | For private owner. |
| 17 January | United Kingdom | Brockman | Lancaster | Neptune | West Indiaman | For private owner. |
| 17 January | India | Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia | Calcutta | Pitt | Perseverance-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 17 January | United Kingdom | Josiah & Thomas Brindley | Frindsbury | Pomone | Leda-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 17 January | France | | Toulon | Pluton | Téméraire-class ship of the line | For French Navy. |
| 31 January | United Kingdom | Symons | Falmouth | Avon | Cruizer-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| January | United Kingdom | Benjamin Tanner | Dartmouth | Martin | Merlin-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| January | United Kingdom | Obadiah Ayles | Topsham | Surinam | Cruizer-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| January | United Kingdom | Thomas Owen | Topsham | Weazel | Cruizer-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 1 February | United Kingdom | Matthew Warren | Brightlingsea | Protector | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 February | United Kingdom | John Dudman | Deptford | Calypso | Cruizer-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 February | United Kingdom | Balthazar & Edward Adams | Buckler's Hard | Dexterous | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 February | United Kingdom | Francis Hurry | Newcastle upon Tyne | Northumberland | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 2 February | United Kingdom | Matthew Warren | Brightlingsea | Sharpshooter | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 10 February | Ligurian Republic | | Genoa | Pomone | Hortense-class frigate | For French Navy. |
| 15 February | France | Lerond Campion et Cie. | Granville | Nisus | Palinure-class brig | For French Navy. |
| 1 March | United States | William Price | Baltimore, Maryland | Gunboat No. 5 | Gunboat | For United States Navy. |
| 1 March | France | | Nantes | Topaze | Gloire-class frigate | For French Navy. |
| 1 March | United Kingdom | Thomas Owen | Topsham | Wolverine | Cruizer-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 March | United Kingdom | Peter Atkinson | Hull | Otter | Merlin-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 21 March | Bermuda | Goodrich & Co. | Bermuda | Haddock | Ballahoo-class schooner | For Royal Navy. |
| 30 March | United Kingdom | Frances Barnard, Son & Roberts | Deptford | William Pitt | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 12 April | United Kingdom | Jabez Bailey | Ipswich | Hearty | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 12 April | France | | Lorient | Régulus | Téméraire-class ship of the line | For French Navy. |
| 13 April | United Kingdom | | Chatham Dockyard | Revenge | Third rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 13 April | United Kingdom | Dudman | Deptford | Streatham | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 17 April | United Kingdom | Charles Ross | Rochester | Martial | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 17 April | France | | Havre de Grâce | Pylade | Brig | For French Navy. |
| 17 April | United Kingdom | John King | Dover | Resolute | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 27 April | United Kingdom | John Preston | Great Yarmouth | Redbreast | Archer-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| April | United Kingdom | Benjamin Tanner | Dartmouth | Brisk | Merlin-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| April | United Kingdom | Robert Adams | Southampton | Confounder | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| April | New South Wales | Underwood & Cable | Sydney | King George | Full-rigged ship | For Simeon Lord. |
| 2 May | United Kingdom | John Preston | Yarmouth | Exertion | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 10 May | United Kingdom | Robert Davy | Topsham | Conflict | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 13 May | United Kingdom | Nicholas Bools & William Good | Bridport | Indignant | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 16 May | United Kingdom | Robert Guillaume | Northam | Encounter | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 16 May | United Kingdom | William Rowe | Newcastle upon Tyne | Strenuous | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 18 May | United Kingdom | William Rule | Hastings | Rose | Merlin-class ship-sloop | For Royaln Navy. |
| 21 May | United Kingdom | Guillaume | Southampton | Encounter | Gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 28 May | | Upper Canada | Kingston, Ontario | Moira | Schooner | For Royal Navy. |
| 28 May | United Kingdom | John Dudman | Deptford | Wrangler | Archer-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 30 May | United Kingdom | Nicholas Bools & William Good | Bridport | Inveterate | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 30 May | United Kingdom | John Davidson | Hythe | Rebuff | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| May | United Kingdom | William Rowe | Newcastle upon Tyne | Starling | Confounder-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 14 June | United Kingdom | Josiah & Thomas Brindley | King's Lynn | Minorca | Cruizer-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 17 June | Russia | M. Sarychev | Archangelsk | Shpitsbergen | Fifth rate | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| 27 June | United Kingdom | George Parsons | Bursledon | Apollo | Lively-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 27 June | France | | Toulon | Borée | Téméraire-class ship of the line | For French Navy. |
| 28 June | United States | William Price | Baltimore, Maryland | Hornet | Sloop-of-war | For United States Navy. |
| June | United Kingdom | Josiah and Thomas Brindley | King's Lynn | Minorca | Cruizer-class brig-sloop | For Roya Navy. |
| 1 July | United Kingdom | John King | Dover | Seagull | Seagull-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 1 July | Russia | A. M. Kurochkin | Archangelsk | Solombal | Sixth rate | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| 4 July | Russia | Lukmanov | Astrakhan | Grom | Bomb vessel | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| 9 July | United Kingdom | Simon Temple | South Shields | Jupiter | Merchantman | For Mr. Bousfield. |
| 11 July | United Kingdom | Jabez Bayley | Ipswich | Imogen | Seagull-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 16 July | United Kingdom | Matthew Warren | Brightlingsea | Kite | Fly-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 17 July | Russia | A. M. Kurochkin | Archangelsk | Moshchnyi | Third rate | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| 17 July | United Kingdom | Benmamin Tanner | Dartmouth | Turbulent | Confounder-class gun-brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 18 July | Russia | M. Sarychev | Saint Petersburg | Neva | Sixth rate | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| 18 July | Russia | A. M. Kurochkin | Archangelsk | Skoryi | Third rate | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| 18 July | Russia | A. I. Melikhov | Archangelsk | Tvyordyi | Urill-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| 20 July | Denmark-Norway | Ernst Wilhelm Stibolt | Copenhagen | Lougen | Lougen-class brig | For Dano-Norwegian Navy. |
| 20 July | United Kingdom | Robert Adams | Southampton | Savage | Seagull-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 25 July | United Kingdom | William Stone & Mr. Custuno | Great Yarmouth | Havock | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 26 July | United Kingdom | Benjamin Tanner | Dartmouth | Starr | Merlin-class ship-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 28 July | Denmark-Norway | Ernst Wilhelm Stibolt | Copenhagen | Delphinen | Lougen-class brig | For Dano-Norwegian Navy. |
| 28 July | United States | | Baltimore, Maryland | Hornet | Sloop-of-war | For United States Navy. |
| 28 July | Russia | M. K. Surovtsov | Kherson | Kherson | Transport ship | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| 29 July | United Kingdom | Thomas King | Dover | Nightingale | Brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 29 July | United Kingdom | John Preston | Great Yarmouth | Sparrow | Fly-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 29 July | United Kingdom | Graham | Harwich | Virginie | Frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 10 August | United Kingdom | Charles Ross | Chatham Dockyard | Resistance | Lively-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 12 August | United Kingdom | Obadiah Ayles | Topsham | Bustler | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 12 August | United Kingdom | Matthew Warren | Brightlingsea | Raven | Fly-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 13 August | United Kingdom | James Shepherd | Sutton-on-Hull | Oberon | Seagull-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 16 August | Ligurian Republic | Muzzio & Mignone | Genoa | Génois | Téméraire-class ship of the line | For French Navy. |
| 24 August | United Kingdom | William Osborne | Kingston | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 26 August | United Kingdom | Nicholas Bools & William Good | Bridport | Intelligent | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 7 September | United Kingdom | Henry Peake | Deptford | Arrow | Schooner | For Royal Navy. |
| 9 September | France | Jean-Charles Rigoult de Genouilly | Rochefort | Minerve | Fifth rate | For Navy. |
| 19 September | United Kingdom | Joseph Brindley | King's Lynn | Kangaroo | Sloop-of-war | For Royal Navy. |
| 21 September | Denmark-Norway | | Copenhagen | Prindsesse Caroline | Prindsesse Caroline-class ship of the line | For Dano-Norwegian Navy. |
| 23 September | France | Louis Jean Baptiste Bretocq | Dunkerque | Milanaise | Milanaise-class frigate | For French Navy. |
| 23 September | United Kingdom | Benjamin Tanner | Dartmouth | Virago | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 24 September | United Kingdom | Gleed | Weymouth | Royal Yeoman | West Indiaman | For Mr. Willis. |
| 8 October | United Kingdom | Elias Bird | Deptford Dockyard | Fame | Fame-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. |
| 23 October | United Kingdom | Jabez Bayley | Ipswich | Orestes | Seagull-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 24 October | United Kingdom | Nicholas Bools & William Good | Bridport | Fly | Fly-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 24 October | United Kingdom | Edward Sison | Woolwich Dockyard | Ocean | Second rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 24 October | United Kingdom | Robert Seppings | Chatham Dockyard | Thames | Thames-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 25 October | United Kingdom | Henry Peake | Deptford Dockyard | Minerva | Thames-class Frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| October | Bermuda | Robert Shedden | Bermuda | Indian | Bermuda-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 9 November | United Kingdom | Obadiah Ayles | Topsham | Adder | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 9 November | United Kingdom | Ayles | Wapping | Lord Collingwood | West Indiaman | For private owner. |
| November | Bermuda | Goodrich & Co. | Bermuda | Whiting | Ballahoo-class schooner | For Royal Navy. |
| November | United Kingdom | Thomas Sutton | Ringmore | Wizard | Fly-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 7 December | United Kingdom | Robert Guillaume | Northam | Paulina | Seagull-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 16 December | United Kingdom | | Whitehaven | David Shaw | Merchantman | For Stitt & Co. |
| 17 December | United Kingdom | Robert Guillaume | Northam | Paulina | Seagull-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 24 December | United Kingdom | Benjamin Tanner | Dartmouth | Swallow | Cruizer-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 30 December | Kingdom of Holland | | Rotterdam | Diana | Frigate | For Royal Netherlands Navy. |
| December | United Kingdom | Robert Adams | Southampton | Dapper | Confounder-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | India | Michael Smith | Calcutta | Albion | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | India | Cooper | Calcutta | Alexander Brodie | Merchantman | For Thomas Garland Murray. |
| Unknown date | United States | | | Austerlitz | Privateer | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | Eckford & Beebe | New York | Beaver | Barque | For John Jacob Astor. |
| Unknown date | Bermuda | | Bermuda | Bermuda | Bermuda-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Betsey or Betsy | Brig | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Betsey, Betsy or Betsys | Brig | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Liverpool | Bootle | Slave ship | For Mr. Kitchen. |
| Unknown date | India | John Harvey & John Fostger | Calcutta | Caroline | Merchantman | For Clastelin & Co. |
| Unknown date | France | | | Dame Ernouf | Privateer | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Nicholas Bools & William Good | Bridport | Despatch | Smack | For Nicholas Bools & William Good. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Dartmouth | Elizabeth | Barque | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | | Gunboat No. 1 | 1805-class gunboat | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | | Gunboat No. 2 | 1805-class gunboat | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | | Gunboat No. 3 | 1805-class gunboat | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | | Gunboat No. 4 | 1805-class gunboat | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | | Gunboat No. 5 | 1805-class gunboat | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | | Gunboat No. 6 | 1805-class gunboat | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | | Gunboat No. 7 | 1805-class gunboat | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | Russia | | Kherson | Iason | Brig | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Isabella | Merchantman | For J. & P. Laing. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | James | Merhantman | For J. Laing. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Liverpool | Jane | Slave ship | For Falkner & Co. |
| Unknown date | Upper Canada | | Quebec City | Leeds | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John Ball | Salcombe | Lord Hobart | Brig | For Mr. Deake. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Falmouth | Manchester | Packet ship | For Post Office Packet Service. |
| Unknown date | United States | Edward W. Tupper | Marietta, Ohio | Marietta | Gunboat | For United States Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Brocklebank | Lancaster | Minerva | West Indiaman | For Stuart Donaldson. |
| Unknown date | France | | | Mohawk | Privateer | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Lancaster | Neptune | West Indiaman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Penelope | Brig | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Bermuda | Goodrich & Co. | Bermuda | Pilchard | Ballahoo-class schooner | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | India | | Bombay | Prince of Wales | Sloop | For British East India Company. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Cowes | Princess Charlotte | Schooner | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | | | Remittance | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Holt & Richardson | Whitby | Resource | Merchantman | For Mr. Harrison. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Whitby | Shipley | Merchantman | For Shipley, Williams & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | | Sinclair | Merchantman | For W. Osborn. |
| Unknown date | Bermuda | Goodrich & Co. | Bermuda | Snapper | Ballahoo-class schooner | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Liverpool | Union | Slave ship | For Mr Thompson. |
| Unknown date | United States | | | Vengeance | Full-rigged ship | For United States Navy. |
| Unknown date | United States | | | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | France | | | Name unknown | Brig | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | | Name unknown | Schooner | For private owner. |