List of ship launches in 1831
The list of ship launches in 1831 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1831.
| Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 January | Wilson | Tophill | Rapid | Passage boat | For private owner.[1] | |
| 30 January | Plymouth Dockyard | Saracen | -class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. | ||
| 31 January | Portsmouth Dockyard | Actaeon | Sixth rate | For Royal Navy. | ||
| January | William Gales | Sunderland | Earl Grey | Merchantman | For White & Sons.[2][3] | |
| January | John M. Gales | Sunderland | Jane Dunn | Merchantman | For W. Dunn.[2][3] | |
| 15 February | Wallace | Blackwall, London | Nicholas the First | Steamship | For Lubec Steamship Company.[4] | |
| 16 February | Richard Pearson & Co. | Thorne | Transit | Steamship | For private owner.[5] | |
| 27 February | Portsmouth Dockyard | Charybdis | -class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy.[6] | ||
| 28 February | Newcastle upon Tyne | Duke of Northumberland | Full-rigged ship | For T. & W. Smith.[7] | ||
| February | J. Brunton | Sunderland | John White | Merchantman | For White & Co.[2] | |
| 14 March | Bombay Dockyard | Calcutta | Second rate | For Royal Navy. | ||
| 14 March | Henry Gilbert | Parramatta River | Surprise | Paddle steamer | For private owner. | |
| 16 March | Dikes and Gibson | Kingston upon Hull | Amulet | Brig | For Ralph Wilkinson & Son.[8] | |
| 30 March | Adamson | Grangemouth | Francis Jeffrey | Schooner | For private owner.[9] | |
| March | Horatio Ross | Peg a Ramsey | Schooner yacht | For Horatio Ross.[10] | ||
| March | William Gales | Sunderland | Reform | Merchantman | For Gales & Co.[2] | |
| March | William Gales | South Hylton | Thomas & Joseph | Merchantman | For Parkin & Co.[2][3] | |
| 9 April | Okell | Northwich | Belgrave | Merchantman | For private owner.[11] | |
| 9 April | Okell | Northwich | Grosvenor | Merchantman | For private owner.[11] | |
| 13 April | Young & Son | South Shields | Elizabeth | Brig | For Messrs. Drybrough & Co.[12] | |
| 13 April | George Kell & Sons | South Shields | Lord John Russel | Merchantman | For private owner.[13] | |
| 13 April | Young & Sons | South Shields | Speedwell | Merchantman | For private owner.[13] | |
| 14 April | Steele & Co. | Liverpool | Cordelia | East Indiaman | For private owner.[14] | |
| 14 April | Green, Wigram's & Green | Blackwall | Duke of Buccleugh | East Indiaman | For Robert Green. | |
| 14 April | Ritchie & McLaine | Belfast | Water Witch | Yacht | For John Echlin Matthews.[15] | |
| 26 April | Bolton & Humphrey | Hull | Sovereign | Steamship | For Messrs. Robert Keddy & Co.[16] | |
| 27 April | George Black and John Saxton Campbell | Quebec | Royal William | Paddle steamer | For Quebec and Halifax Steam Navigation Company. | |
| 28 April | Woolwich Dockyard | Pluto | Paddle steamer | For Royal Navy.[17] | ||
| 29 April | Duffus & Co. | Aberdeen | William the Fourth | Steamship | For private owner.[18] | |
| April | Aberdeen | Sophia | Schooner | For private owner.[18] | ||
| April | Aberdeen | William | Schooner | For private owner.[18] | ||
| 12 May | Pembroke Dockyard | Viper | -class schooner | For Royal Navy. | ||
| 27 May | R. & N. Campion | Whitby | Queen Adelaide | Brig | For private owner.[19] | |
| 30 May | Holme | Belfast | Don Juan | Schooner | For private owner.[20] | |
| 16 June | H. Smith | Gainsborough | Adelaide | Steamship | For private owner.[21] | |
| 24 June | Pembroke Dockyard | Imogene | -class corvette | For Royal Navy. | ||
| 5 July | Bristol | Albion | Steamship | For Bristol Steam Packet Company.[22] | ||
| 11 July | Limehouse | Firebrand | -class paddle steamer | For Royal Navy. | ||
| 27 July | Chaloner, Son & Co. | Liverpool | Frank | Brig | For private owner.[23] | |
| 27 July | John Wood & Co. | Port Glasgow | Mona | Paddle steamer | For Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. | |
| 25 August | Pembroke Dockyard | Fly | -class ship-sloop | For Royal Navy. | ||
| 8 August | William Mulvey | Chester | Lapwing | Schooner | For private owner.[24] | |
| 23 August | Saint Servan | La Sapho | -class corvette | For French Navy.[25] | ||
| 26 August | Smith | Gainsborough | Template:Ss | Steamship | For private owner.[26] | |
| August | George Frater & Co. | Sunderland | Eleanor | Merchantman | For Mr. Ledbetter.[2][3] | |
| August | Chatham Dockyard | Hornet | Schooner | For Royal Navy.[27] | ||
| August | William Gales | Sunderland | Thomas & Hannah | Merchantman | For Mr. Longstaff.[2][3] | |
| 7 September | Edwards | South Shields | Matthew Plummer | Barque | For Plummer & Greenwell.[28] | |
| 22 September | woolwich Dockyard | Thunderer | -class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. | ||
| 23 September | Cherbourg | Généreux | -class ship of the line | For French Navy. | ||
| 23 September | Henry & George Barrick | Whitby | Magnet | Brig | For Gideon Smales.[29] | |
| 24 September | John Longhorne & Co. | Hull | Ocean Queen | Full-rigged ship | For private owner.[29] | |
| 6 October | Andreas Schifter | Gammelholm | Template:HDMS | Corvette | For Royal Danish Navy. | |
| 22 October | Jean Michel Segondat | Cherbourg | Jupiter | -class ship of the line | For French Navy.[30] | |
| 26 October | New York Navy Yard | Template:USS | Schooner | For United States Navy. | ||
| October | J. Burdon | Sunderland | Echo | Merchantman | For private owner.[2][31] | |
| 8 November | Pembroke Dockyard | Harrier | -class ship-sloop | For Royal Navy. | ||
| 21 November | Wilson & Sons | Liverpool | St. George | Steamship | For St. George Steam Packet Company.[32][33] | |
| 22 November | Boston Navy Yard | Template:USS | Schooner | For United States Navy. | ||
| November | Maria | Market boat | For private owner.[34] | |||
| Unknown date | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Template:USS | Sternwheeler | For private owner. | ||
| Unknown date | Robert & Thomas Brown Jr. | Jarrow | Africaine | Barque | For Mr. Fenwick. | |
| Unknown date | W. and A. Adamson & Bell | Sunderland | Alston | Snow | For W. Bell.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Peter Austin | Sunderland | Beatitude | Snow | For .[2] | |
| Unknown date | North Hylton | Blackaller | Merchantman | For Mr. Blackaller.[2][35] | ||
| Unknown date | Philip Laing | Sunderland | Castor | Merchantman | For Philip Laing.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Sunderland | Eleanor | Merchantman | For Mr. Smith.[2] | ||
| Unknown date | J. Brunton | Sunderland | Eliza Ann | Merchantman | For private owner.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Template:HDMS | Second rate | For Royal Danish Navy.[36] | |||
| Unknown date | Philip Laing | Sunderland | Guiana | Merchantman | For Philip Laing.[2] | |
| Unknown date | New York Navy Yard | Hamilton | Cutter | For United States Revenue Cutter Service.[37] | ||
| Unknown date | William Gales | Sunderland | Ianthe | Merchantman | For Robert Ord.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Hylton | Jane Shirrefs | Merchantman | For Smith & Co.[2] | ||
| Unknown date | William Gales | Sunderland | John Frederick | Schooner | For William Gales.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Peter Austin | Sunderland | Lavinia | Merchantman | For private owner.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Allison | Sunderland | Lord Brougham | Merchantman | For private owner.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Michael McDonald | Sunderland | Mary Ann | Schooner | For private owner.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Webb and Allen | New York | Morris | -class cutter | For United States Revenue Cutter Service. | |
| Unknown date | W. Chilton | Sunderland | Naiad | Snow | For Hunter & Co.[2] | |
| Unknown date | New York | North America | Packet ship | For Liverpool and Havre Line.[38] | ||
| Unknown date | Philip Laing | Sunderland | Osbert | Merchantman | For Philip Laing.[2] | |
| Unknown date | G. Potts | Sunderland | Template:PS | Paddle tug | For private owner.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Rowntree | Sunderland | Red Rover | Brig | For private owner.[2] | |
| Unknown date | William Potts | Sunderland | Redwing | Snow | For William Potts.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Bristol | Reliance | Merchantman | For G. Hilhouse & Co. | ||
| Unknown date | William Gales | Sunderland | Renovation | Brig | For Mr. Young.[2] | |
| Unknown date | J. Hall | Sunderland | Reward | Brig | For Parker & Co.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Peter Austin | Sunderland | Robert Raikes | Snow | For Thomas Speeding.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Sunderland | Robert Taylor | Merchantman | For private owner.[2] | ||
| Unknown date | William Gales | Sunderland | Rose | Merchantman | For John Thompson.[2] | |
| Unknown date | W. and A. Adamson & Bell | Sunderland | Royal Mint | Barque | For Bell & Co.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Webb and Allen | New York | Rush | -class cutter | For United States Revenue Cutter Service. | |
| Unknown date | Dorgin & Baily | Baltimore, Maryland | Sarah Ann | Schooner | For private owner. | |
| Unknown date | W. Wilkinson | Sunderland | Sedgefield | Merchantman | For T. Reed.[2][39] | |
| Unknown date | J. Watson | Sunderland | Sharp | Snow | For C. Sharp.[2] | |
| Unknown date | J. Hutchinson | Sunderland | Spring | Snow | For Hick & Co.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Currie & Co | Sulkea | Sylph | Opium clipper | For Rustomjee Cowasjee and others. | |
| Unknown date | L. Crown | Sunderland | Theodosia | Snow | For H. Metcalf.[2] | |
| Unknown date | William Potts | Sunderland | Thomas Ferguson | Snow | For private owner.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Dickes & Gibson | Hull | William Lee | Whaler | For Lee & Co. | |
| Unknown date | Marshall & Lowe | Erringhi | Template:PS | Paddle steamer | For Joseph Hickey Grose. | |
| Unknown date | L. Crown | Sunderland | Willey | Snow | For M. Willey.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Harrison & Oliver | Sunderland | William Henry | Snow | For private owner.[2] | |
| Unknown date | Webb and Allen | New York | Wolcott | -class cutter | For United States Revenue Cutter Service. | |
| Unknown date | Dunkerque | Template:HNLMS | Fourth rate | For Royal Netherlands Navy.[40] |
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "Iron Passage Boat". Morning Chronicle. No. 19169. London. 3 February 1831.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 2.38 "SHIPS BUILT IN THE 1830s". Searle. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 16". Searle. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
- ↑ "Launch of a Steam Vessel". Morning Chronicle. No. 19180. London. 16 February 1831.
- ↑ "New Steam Ship". Hull Packet. No. 2414. Hull. 22 February 1831.
- ↑ "British sloop 'Charybdis' (1831)". Threedecks. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
- ↑ "British Merchant merchantman 'Duke of Northumberland' (1831)". Threedecks. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
- ↑ "(untitled)". Hull Packet. No. 2418. Hull. 22 March 1831.
- ↑ "Edinburgh News Continued". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17116. Edinburgh. 2 April 1831.
- ↑ "(advertisement)". The Times. No. 14662. London. 8 October 1831. col B, p. 8.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Patriotism Rewarded". Liverpool Mercury. No. 1041. Liverpool. 15 April 1831.
- ↑ "(untitled)". Caledonian Mercury. No. 1725. Edinburgh. 23 April 1831.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Marine Intelligence". Newcastle Courant. No. 8151. Newcastle upon Tyne. 16 April 1831.
- ↑ "Launch". Liverpool Mercury. No. 1041. Liverpool. 15 April 1831.
- ↑ "Launch". Belfast News-Letter. No. 9792. Belfast. 19 April 1831.
- ↑ ")untitled)". The Hull Packet. No. 2424. Hull. 3 May 1831.
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- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 "Shipping Intelligence". Aberdeen Journal. No. 4347. Aberdeen. 4 May 1831.
- ↑ "(untitled)". Hull Packet. No. 2428. Hull. 31 May 1831.
- ↑ "Belfast". Freeman's Journal. Belfast. 1 June 1831.
- ↑ "(untitled)". Hull Packet. No. 2431. Hull. 21 June 1831.
- ↑ "(untitled)". Bristol Mercury. No. 2149. Bristol. 5 July 1831.
- ↑ "Launch". Liverpool Mercury. No. 1055. Liverpool. 22 July 1831.
- ↑ "Launch". Liverpool Mercury. No. 1057. Liverpool. 5 August 1831.
- ↑ "French corvette 'La Sapho' (1831)". Threedecks. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
- ↑ "(untitled)". Hull Packet. No. 2442. Hull. 6 September 1831.
- ↑ "Postscript". Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph. No. 1665. Portsmouth. 5 September 1831.
- ↑ "Marine Intelligence". Newcastle Courant. No. 8173. Newcastle upon Tyne. 17 September 1831.
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 "(untitled)". Hull Packet. No. 2446. Hull. 4 October 1831.
- ↑ "French Second Rate ship of the line 'Le Jupiter' (1831)". Threedecks. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
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- ↑ "Launch". Liverpool Mercury. No. 1072. Liverpool. 18 November 1831.
- ↑ "Multum in Parvo". Newcastle Courant. No. 8183. Newcastle upon Tyne. 26 November 1831.
- ↑ "Advertisements & Notices". Hull Packet. No. 2504. Hull. 13 November 1832.
- ↑ "SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 37". Searle. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
- ↑ "Danish Second Rate ship of the line 'Frederick VI' (1831)". Threedecks. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
- ↑ "American Other Vessels cutter 'Hamilton' (1831)". Threedecks. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
- ↑ "Packet-ship North America". Liverpool Mercury. No. 1076. Liverpool. 16 December 1831.
- ↑ "SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 36". Searle. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
- ↑ "Dutch Fourth Rate ship 'Zaan' (1831)". Threedecks. Retrieved 3 October 2023.