# List of ship launches in 1797

The list of ship launches in 1797 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1797.
| | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 12 January | Great Britain | Perry | Blackwall | Earl Talbot | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 28 January | Great Britain | Perry | Blackwall | Ceres | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 28 January | Batavian Republic | | Rotterdam | Eendracht | Fifth rate | For Batavian Navy. |
| 28 January | Great Britain | Deptford Dockyard | Deptford | Neptune | Neptune-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. |
| 28 January | Batavian Republic | | Rotterdam | Oldenbarneveldt | Third rate | For Dutch East India Company. |
| 29 January | Great Britain | Randall & Brent | Rotherhithe | Pigot | East Indiaman | Purchased by Royal Navy. |
| 7 February | Great Britain | Mrs Frances Barnard & Co. | Deptford | Crash | Acute-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 13 February | Great Britain | George Parsons | Bursledon | Cambrian | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 13 February | Great Britain | Randall | Rotherhithe | Coutts | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 13 February | Great Britain | John Wells | Deptford | Ganges | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 22 February | Ottoman Empire | Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine | Constantinople | Selimiye | First rate | For Ottoman Navy. |
| 27 February | Great Britain | Hall & Co. | Limehouse | Naiad | Amazon-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 11 March | Great Britain | Josiah & Thomas Brindley | King's Lynn | Victor | Snake-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 13 March | Great Britain | Richard Wells | Rotherhithe | GB No. 10 | Acute-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 13 March | Great Britain | Thomas Pitcher | Northfleet | Hope | Merchantman | For Alexander Hume. |
| 13 March | Great Britain | William Cleverley | Gravesend | Hydra | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 14 March | Great Britain | John Randall & Co. | Rotherhithe | Acasta | Acasta-class frigate | For Royal Navy |
| 14 March | Great Britain | Woolwich Dockyard | Woolwich | Centaur | Mars-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. |
| 14 March | Great Britain | Joseph Graham | Harwich | Ethalion | Artois-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 14 March | Great Britain | John Troughton | Chester | Eurydice | Merchantman | For John St Barbe. |
| 29 March | Great Britain | John Randall & Co. | Rotherhithe | Endymion | Endymion-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 29 March | Great Britain | John Perry | Blackwall | GB No. 22 | Courser-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 31 March | Great Britain | John Perry | Blackwall | GB No. 23 | Courser-class Gunvessel | For Royal Navy. |
| 1 April | Great Britain | John Perry | Blackwall | GB No. 24 | Courser-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 4 April | Great Britain | Temple shipbuilders | South Shields | Northumberland | Merchantman | For J. Lyall. |
| 5 April | Great Britain | Mrs. Frances Barnard & Co. | Deptford | Crash | Acute-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 10 April | Great Britain | John Randall | Rotherhithe | Asp | Acute-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 10 April | Great Britain | Perry & Co. | Blackwall | Furnace | Courser-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 10 April | Great Britain | John Randall | Rotherhithe | GB No. 4 | Acute-class gunvessel | For Royal Navy. |
| 10 April | Great Britain | Thomas Pitcher | Northfleet | Griper | Courser-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 10 April | Great Britain | Thomas Pitcher | Northfleet | Growler | Courser-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 11 April | Great Britain | Richard Wells | Rotherhithe | GB No. 9 | Acute-class gunvessel | For Royal Navy. |
| 11 April | Great Britain | Richard Wells | Rotherhithe | GB No. 11 | Acute-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 11 April | Great Britain | Frances Barnard | Deptford | GB No. 16 | Acute-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 12 April | Great Britain | Melhuish | Limehouse | Admiral Gardner | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 12 April | Great Britain | Balthazar Adams | Bucklers Hard | Boadicea | Frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 12 April | Great Britain | John Dudman | Deptford | Sirius | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 14 April | Great Britain | John Dudman & Co. | Deptford | Blazer | Acute-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 15 April | Great Britain | William Cleverley | Gravesend | GB No. 30 | Courser-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 22 April | Great Britain | Frances Barnard | Deptford | GB No. 17 | Acute-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 24 April | Great Britain | Frances Barnard | Deptford | GB No. 18 | Acute-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 24 April | Great Britain | Hill & Mellish | Limehouse | GB No. 19 | Courser-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 25 April | Great Britain | Robert Hill | Limehouse | GB No. 20 | Courser-class gunvessel | For Royal Navy. |
| 25 April | Great Britain | John Dudman & Co. | Deptford | Cracker | Acute-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 28 April | Great Britain | | Sunderland | Clinker | Acute-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. Subcontracted from John Dudman, Deptford. |
| April | Great Britain | John Randall | Rotherhithe | Acute | Acute-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| April | Great Britain | John Randall | Deptford | GB No. 7 | Acute-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| April | Great Britain | Richard Wells | Rotherhithe | GB No. 8 | Acute-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| April | Great Britain | Thomas Pitcher | Northfleet | GB No. 28 | Courser-class gunbrig | For Navy. |
| April | Great Britain | Thomas Pitcher | Northfleet | GB No. 29 | Courser-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| April | Great Britain | William Cleverley | Gravesend | GB No. 31 | Courser-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 1 May | Great Britain | John Nicholson | Rochester | GB No. 44 | Gunvessel | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 May | Great Britain | John Wilson & Co. | Frindsbury | GB No. 32 | Courser-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 May | Russia | G. Ignatyev | Archangelsk | Severnyi Oryol | Iaroslav-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| 10 May | United States | Joshua Humphreys | Philadelphia | United States | Heavy frigate | For United States Navy |
| 21 May | Great Britain | Hill & Mellish | Limehouse | Defender | Courser-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy |
| 26 May | Russia | G. Ignatyev | Archangelsk | Pobeda | Aziia-class ship of the line | For French Navy. |
| 25 June | France | Jean-Jacques Aubazir | Toulon | Franklin | Third rate | For French Navy. |
| 27 June | France | Antoine & Louis Crucy | Nantes | Créole | Frigate | For French Navy. |
| 29 June | United States | | Portsmouth, New Hampshire | Crescent | Fifth rate | For Algerian Navy. |
| June | Great Britain | John Wilson & Co | Frindsbury | GB No. 33 | Courser-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| June | France | | | L'Oiseau | Privateer | For private owner. |
| 19 July | Russia | A. S. Katsanov | Kherson | Simion i Anna | Sviatoi Pyotr-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy. |
| 22 August | Republic of Venice | | Venice | Muiron | Frigate | For French Navy |
| 7 September | United States | David Stodder | Baltimore | Constellation | Frigate | For United States Navy |
| 11 September | Great Britain | Thomas Pitcher | Northfleet | Tigress | Courser-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 22 September | France | | Cherbourg | Furieuse | Seine-class frigate | For French Navy. |
| September | Great Britain | Thomas King | Dover | Echo | Echo-class brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 5 October | France | | Lorient | Hercule | Téméraire-class ship of the line | For French Navy. |
| 7 October | Great Britain | Thomas Pitcher | Northfleet | Osprey | Sloop-of-war | For Royal Navy. |
| 17 October | France | | Bayonne | Franchise | Coquille-class frigate | For French Navy. |
| 21 October | United States | Edmund Hartt | Boston | Constitution | United States-class frigate | For United States Navy |
| 30 November | Batavian Republic | | Amsterdam | Amphitrite | Fifth rate | For Batavian Navy. |
| 3 November | Great Britain | John Dudman | Deptford | Buffalo | Storeship | For Royal Navy. |
| 9 November | Spain | Julian Martin de Retamosa | El Ferrol | Medea | Fifth rate | For Spanish Navy. |
| 20 November | Great Britain | Joseph Graham | Harwich | Busy | Brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 24 November | France | | Toulon | Spartiate | Téméraire-class ship of the line | For French Navy. |
| November | France | | Bordeaux | Confiance | Corvette | For French Navy. |
| 18 December | Great Britain | Balthazar & Edward Adams | Bucklers Hard | Snake | Snake-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 20 December | Great Britain | Stephen Teague | Ipswich | Cruizer | Cruizer-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy |
| December | France | Jean Baudry | Bayonne | Dédaigneuse | Coquille-class frigate | For French Navy. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | Nicholas Bools & William Good | Bridport | Active | Brigantine | For Arthur Wishart and others. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Sunderland | Albion | Merchantman | For W. Robson. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Alfred | Brig | For Matthew Robson. |
| Unknown date | India | | Bombay Dockyard | Asia | Full-rigged ship | For British East India Company. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | W. J. Bottomley | King's Lynn | Auspicious | East Indiaman | For S. Baker. |
| Unknown date | Ottoman Empire | Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine | Constantinople | Badi-i Nusret | Second rate | For Ottoman Navy. |
| Unknown date | France | | Bordeaux | Bellone | Sixth rate | For French Navy. |
| Unknown date | Ottoman Empire | Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine | Constantinople | Beşaretnüma | Third rate | For Ottoman Navy. |
| Unknown date | India | | Calcutta | Bhavani | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | France | | Nantes | Brave | Privateer | For Benoit Boucard and others. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | Frances Barnard | River Thames | Caledonian | Full-rigged ship | For Robert Charnock. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Whitby | Cambridge | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Ottoman Empire | Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine | Constantinople | Cengaver | Sixth rate | For Ottoman Navy. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Teignmouth | Commerce | Brig | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | France | | | Cornélie | Virginie-class frigate | For French Navy. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Dane | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | | John Outerbridge | Bermuda | Dasher | Dasher-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | Bermuda | Nathaniel Tynes | Bermuda | Driver | Dasher-class sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Liverpool | Hannah | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Lower Canada | | Quebec City | Harbinger | Brig | For Michel Hogan. |
| Unknown date | United States | | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Hassan Bashaw | Sixth rate | For Algerian Navy. |
| Unknown date | Ottoman Empire | Mustafa Molla | Sinop | Hediyyetü'l Müluk | Fifth rate | For Ottoman Navy. |
| Unknown date | United States | | Newburyport, Massachusetts | Herald | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | Thomas Hearn | North Shields | Hermes | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Batavian Republic | | Vlissingen | Hippomenes | Corvette | For Batavian Navy. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Aberdeen | Jane | Whaler | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Lancaster | Juno | Merchantman | For Mr. Hausman. |
| Unknown date | Sweden | | Umeå | Kongen af Assianthe | Slave ship | For Jeppe Prætorius & Co. |
| Unknown date | Brazil | | São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos | Le Buonaparte | Privateer | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | France | | | La Caroline | Privateer | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Republic of Venice | | Venice | La Harpe | Third rate | Under construction for French Navy, seized by the Habsburg monarchy in November on the formation of the Venetian Province. Entered service with the Austrian Navy in 1799. |
| Unknown date | Republic of Venice | | Venice | La Muiron | Third rate | Under construction for French Navy, seized by the Habsburg monarchy in November on the formation of the Venetian Province. Entered service with the Austrian Navy in 1799. |
| Unknown date | Republic of Venice | | Venice | Le Beyrand | Third rate | Under construction for French Navy, seized by the Habsburg monarchy in November on the formation of the Venetian Province. Entered service with the Austrian Navy in 1799. |
| Unknown date | Republic of Venice | | Venice | Le Stengel | Third rate | Under construction for French Navy, seized by the Habsburg monarchy in November on the formation of the Venetian Province. Entered service with the Austrian Navy in 1799. |
| Unknown date | United States | | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Lelah Eisha | Schooner | For Algerian Navy. |
| Unknown date | France | | | Le President Parker | Privateer | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | Nicholas Bools & William Good | Bridport | Lively | Sloop | For John Bagwell, Nicholas Bools, William Good and Thomas Swain. |
| Unknown date | United States | | | Malta | Schooner | For Spanish Navy. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Hull | Mildred | Merchantman | For Moxon & Co. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | Hobbs & Hellyer | Redbridge | Millbrook | Schooner | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | Lower Canada | Patrick Beatson | Quebec City | Neptune | Merchantman | For Mr. Davidson. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Sunderland | Nowa | Merchantman | Forprivate owner. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Broadstairs | Olive Branch | West Indiaman | For T. Brown. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Liverpool | Otter | West Indiaman | For Mr. Molyneux. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | John Wright | Liverpool | Parr | Slave ship | For Thomas Parr. |
| Unknown date | Brazil | | Pará | Pérola | Fifth rate | For Portuguese Navy. |
| Unknown date | | | Pará | Princesa Real | Sixth rate | For Portuguese Navy. |
| Unknown date | France | | | Renard | Privateer | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Hull | Roselle | West Indiaman | For Sibbald & Co. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | Nicholas Bools & William Good | Bridport | Rutland | Cutter | For N. Awigly. |
| Unknown date | Ottoman Empire | Dimitri Kalfa | Ereğli | Şahin-i Derya | Fourth rate | For Ottoman Navy. |
| Unknown date | Brazil | | Pará | Sao Joao Magnânimo | Sixth rate | For Portuguese Navy. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Liverpool | Sarah | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Ottoman Empire | Venetian Josef Kalfa | Dardanelles | Sayyad-i Bahri | Third rate | For Ottoman Navy. |
| Unknown date | Batavian Republic | | Rotterdam | Scipio | Corvette | For Batavian Navy. |
| Unknown date | United States | | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Skjoldebrand | Sixth rate | For Algerian Navy. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | River Thames | Speculator | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Cowes | Speedwell | Cutter | For Board of Customs. |
| Unknown date | United States | | St. Marys, Georgia | St. Mary's | Galley | For United States Navy. |
| Unknown date | Ottoman Empire | Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte Catherine | Constantinople | Şuca-ı Bahri | Sixth rate | For Ottoman Navy. |
| Unknown date | Ottoman Greece | Antuvan Kalfa | Rhodes | Tiz Hareket | Fifth rate | For Ottoman Navy. |
| Unknown date | France | Bourmaud Frères | Nantes | Vautour | Privateer | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | | | Vigilant | Cutter | For Revenue-Marine. |
| Unknown date | United States | | | Virginia | Cutter | For Revenue-Marine. |
| Unknown date | Province of Quebec | | | Wanton | Schooner | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Whitby | Whydah | West Indiaman | For Mr. Fletcher. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Liverpool | Will | Slave ship | For Aspinall & Co. |
| Unknown date | Unknown | | France or Spain | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Batavian Republic | | | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Spain | | | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | | Plymouth, Massachusetts | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Unknown | | South America | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | France | | | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | | | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Unknown | | Stettin or Sweden | Name unknown | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Brazil | | | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |