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 |
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 |
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. |
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 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 |