List of ship launches in 1857
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The list of ship launches in 1857 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1857.
Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class / type | 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 | Pearl-class corvette | For Royal Navy |
7 March | United Kingdom | R & H Green | Blackwall | Jaseur | Algerine-class gunboat | For Royal Navy |
27 March | France | Rochefort | Alexandre | Suffren-class ship of the line | 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 | Intrepid-class gunvessel | 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 Kingdom | David Swan | Glasgow | Glasgow | Clyde puffer | For private owner. |
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[edit]
- ^ “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.
- Sources
- Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA (1990). The Empire Ships (Second ed.). London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd’s of London Press Ltd. ISBN 1-85044-275-4.
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