List of ship launches in 1797

The list of ship launches in 1797 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 1797.

	Country	Builder	Location	Ship	Class	Notes
28 January	Great Britain	Deptford Dockyard	Deptford	Neptune	Neptune-class ship of the line
29 January	Great Britain	Randall	Rotherhithe	Lancaster	64-gun ship of the line
7 February	Great Britain	Mrs Frances Barnard & Co.	Deptford	Crash	Acute-class gun-brig
13 March	Great Britain	William Cleverley	Gravesend	Hydra	28-gun frigate
14 March	Great Britain	John Randall & Co.	Rotherhithe	Acasta	Acasta-class frigate
14 March	Great Britain	Woolwich Dockyard	Woolwich	Centaur	Mars-class ship of the line
14 March	Great Britain	Joseph Graham	Harwich	Ethalion	Artois-class frigate
29 March	Great Britain	John Randall & Co.	Rotherhithe	Endymion	Endymion-class frigate
12 April	Great Britain	Dudman	Deptford	Sirius	36-gun frigate
30 April	Great Britain	Adams	Bucklers Hard	Boadicea	38-gun frigate
10 May	United States	Joshua Humphreys	Philadelphia	United States	44-gun frigate
21 May	Great Britain	Hill & Mellish	Limehouse	Defender	Courser-class gun-brig
22 August	Austria		Venice	Muiron	44-gun frigate	entered service with the French Navy
7 September	United States	David Stodder	Baltimore	Constellation	38-gun frigate
17 October	France		Bayonne	Franchise	Coquille-class frigate
21 October	United States	Edmund Hartt	Boston	Constitution	44-gun frigate
20 December	Great Britain	Stephen Teague	Ipswich	Cruizer	Cruizer-class brig-sloop
Unknown	Great Britain	Hall & Co.	Limehouse	Naiad	Fifth-rate frigate
Unknown	Spain			San José	114-gun ship of the line
Unknown	France			Sparti	Téméraire-class ship of the line

See also

Ship events in 1797
Ship launches:	1792	1793	1794	1795	1796	1797	1798	1799	1800	1801	1802
Ship commissionings:	1792	1793	1794	1795	1796	1797	1798	1799	1800	1801	1802
Ship decommissionings:	1792	1793	1794	1795	1796	1797	1798	1799	1800	1801	1802
Shipwrecks:	1792	1793	1794	1795	1796	1797	1798	1799	1800	1801	1802