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The list of ship launches in 1857 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1857.
Date
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Country
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Builder
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Location
|
Ship
|
Class / type
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Notes
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27 January
|
United Kingdom
|
Harrington and Workington Shipbuilding and Ropemaking Co
|
Workington
|
Kamehameha IV
|
Full-rigged ship
|
For Messrs. Bushby & Co.[1]
|
5 February
|
United Kingdom
|
Devonport Dockyard
|
Devonport
|
Pelorus
|
Template:Sclass-
|
For Royal Navy
|
7 March
|
United Kingdom
|
R & H Green
|
Blackwall
|
Jaseur
|
Template:Sclass-
|
For Royal Navy
|
27 March
|
France
|
|
Rochefort
|
Alexandre
|
Template:Sclass-
|
For French Navy
|
9 April
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Hartlepool
|
Armenian
|
Steamship
|
Drove ashore on launch and was damaged.[2][3]
|
25 April
|
United Kingdom
|
Portsmouth Dockyard
|
Portsmouth
|
Royal Sovereign
|
First rate ship of the line
|
For Royal Navy
|
April
|
United States
|
Westervelt & Co.
|
New York City
|
Queen of the Pacific
|
Sidewheeler
|
For Morgan & Garrison
|
18 May
|
United Kingdom
|
James Laing
|
Sunderland, County Durham
|
Duncan Dunbar
|
Clipper
|
For Gellatly, Hankey & Sewell
|
May
|
United States
|
|
Murfreesboro, North Carolina
|
Chowan
|
Steamship
|
For North Carolina and New York Steamship Co.
|
May
|
British North America
|
|
Quebec City
|
Grace Vernon
|
|
Capsized on launch. Righted and found to be severely hogged.[4]
|
23 June
|
United Kingdom
|
Caird & Company
|
Greenock
|
Austria
|
Steamship, auxiliary sails
|
For Hamburg America Line
|
August
|
United States
|
Reaney, Neafie & Co.
|
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
Explorer
|
Sternwheeler
|
For Joseph Christmas Ives
|
8 September
|
United States
|
|
Canemah, Oregon
|
Elk
|
Sternwheeler
|
For Pease, Matthieu and others
|
17 September
|
United Kingdom
|
Lawrence Hill & Co.
|
Port Glasgow
|
Admella
|
Steamship, auxiliary sails
|
|
29 October
|
Russia
|
Nikolaev Admiralty shipyard
|
Nikolaev
|
Tsesarevich
|
First rate ship of the line
|
For Imperial Russian Navy
|
2 November
|
United Kingdom
|
Money Wigram & Son
|
Blackwall
|
Victor
|
Template:Sclass-
|
For Royal Navy
|
10 December
|
United States
|
Jacob Aaron Westervelt
|
New York City
|
Huntsville
|
Steamship
|
For H. B. Cromwell & Co.
|
Unknown date
|
United States
|
|
Jeffersonville, Indiana
|
A. Child
|
Paddle steamer
|
|
Unknown date
|
United States
|
|
Cincinnati, Ohio
|
A. O. Tyler
|
Sidewheeler
|
|
Unknown date
|
United States
|
Peck and Masters
|
Cleveland, Ohio
|
Comet
|
Steamboat
|
For New York Central Railroad
|
Unknown date
|
United States
|
|
|
Croquette
|
Brig
|
For J. Crosby
|
Unknown date
|
United States
|
Samuel Sneden
|
New York City
|
Dawn
|
Steamship
|
|
Unknown date
|
Province of Canada
|
George T Davie & Sons
|
Lauzon
|
Gananoque
|
Clipper
|
|
Unknown date
|
United States
|
|
Cincinnati, Ohio
|
Great Western
|
Sidewheeler
|
|
Unknown date
|
Netherlands
|
F. Smit
|
Kinderdijk
|
Japan
|
Corvette
|
For Imperial Japanese Navy
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
|
|
Minnehaha
|
Barque
|
For Richard Hughes & Co.
|
Unknown date
|
United States
|
S. Gildersleeve & Sons
|
Portland, Connecticut
|
National Guard
|
Steamship
|
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
|
|
Newcastle
|
Clipper
|
For Green Blackwall Line
|
Unknown date
|
United States
|
|
Williamsburg, New York
|
Oliver M. Pettit
|
Steamship
|
|
Unknown date
|
United States
|
|
Cincinnati, Ohio
|
Peosta
|
Sidewheeler
|
|
Unknown date
|
United States
|
Philadelphia Navy Yard
|
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
Shubrick
|
Lighthouse tender
|
For United States Lighthouse Board
|
Unknown date
|
United States
|
John English
|
Brooklyn, New York
|
Southfield
|
Ferry
|
For New York Ferry Company
|
Unknown date
|
United States
|
Silas E. Smith & George Anson Pease
|
Tualatin River
|
Swan
|
Sternwheeler
|
|
Unknown date
|
United States
|
Jeremiah Simonson
|
Greenpoint, New York
|
Vanderbilt
|
Passenger ship
|
For North Atlantic Mail Steamship Line
|
Unknown date
|
United States
|
Joseph Rowland
|
Setauket, New York
|
Wanderer
|
Schooner
|
For John Johnson
|
Unknown date
|
United States
|
|
Brooklyn, New York
|
William G. Putnam
|
Paddle tug
|
|
Unknown date
|
United Kingdom
|
William Pile
|
Sunderland, County Durham
|
Windsor Castle
|
Full-rigged ship
|
For Richard Green
|
References
- ^ "Local Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury etc. No. 3067. Liverpool. 30 November 1857.
- ^ "Marine Intelligence". The Newcastle Courant etc. No. 9503. Newcastle upon Tyne. 17 April 1857.
- ^ "Marine Intelligence". The Newcastle Courant etc. No. 9506. Newcastle upon Tyne. 8 May 1857.
- ^ "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury etc. No. 2993. Liverpool. 10 June 1857.