List of ship launches in 1879
Columns: Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class / type
United Kingdom | Samuda Brothers | Poplar, London | Orion | Belleisle-class ironclad | United Kingdom | John Elder and Co | Govan , Scotland | Arizona | Passenger ship | Germany | Schichauwerft | Danzig | Gneisenau | Three masted full rigged ship | United Kingdom | Chatham Dockyard | Chatham, Kent | Agamemnon | Ajax-class ironclad | United Kingdom | Sheerness Dockyard | Sheerness | Kingfisher | Sloop