| Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes | 
  | 23 January |  France | Jolly, Leathers & Barton | Liverpool | Nemesis | Enterprise-class frigate | For Royal Navy. | 
  | 24 January | .svg.png) Great Britain | Peter Baker | Liverpool | Adamant | Portland-class frigate | For Royal Navy. | 
  | 27 January |  Kingdom of France | Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb | Toulon | Terrible | Terrible-class ship of the line | For French Navy.[1] | 
  | 11 February |  Kingdom of France | Dujardin | Saint-Malo | Aigle | Privateer | For M. Clonard. | 
  | 22 February | .svg.png) Great Britain | John Randall | Rotherhithe | Bellmont | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.[2] | 
  | 7 March | .svg.png) Great Britain | Barnard | Harwich | Inflexible | Inflexible-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. | 
  | 20 March |  Kingdom of France | Jean-Denis Chevillard | Rochefort | Invincible | First rate | For French Navy.[3] | 
  | 20 March |  Kingdom of France |  | Lorient | Friponne | Fifth rate | For French Navy.[4] | 
  | 20 March |  Kingdom of France | Pierre-Alexander Forfait | Brest | Royal Louis | Ship of the line | For French Navy.[5] | 
  | 20 March | .svg.png) Great Britain | Wells | Rotherhithe | Vansittart | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. | 
  | 23 March | .svg.png) Great Britain | John Randall | Rotherhithe | Fortitude | Albion-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. | 
  | 10 April | .svg.png) United States | Wharton & Humphries | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Saratoga | Sloop-of-war | For Continental Navy. | 
  | 19 April |  Kingdom of France | Charles Etienne Bombelle | Rochefort | Fée | Fifth rate | For French Navy.[6] | 
  | 20 April | .svg.png) Great Britain | John Randall | Rotherhithe | Assurance | Roebuck-class ship | For Royal Navy.[7] | 
  | April |  Kingdom of France |  | Saint-Malo | Duc de Chartres | Privateer | For private owner.[8] | 
  | April |  Republic of Venice |  |  | Cupid | Xebec | For Venetian Navy.[9] | 
  | April |  Republic of Venice |  |  | Mercurio | Xebec | For Venetian Navy.[10] | 
  | 3 May |  Kingdom of France | Jacques-Noël Sané | Brest | Northumberland | Annibal-class ship of the line | For French Navy.[11] | 
  | 6 May | .svg.png) Great Britain | Adam Hayes | Deptford Dockyard | Flora | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy.[12] | 
  | 10 May | .svg.png) Province of Georgia | Jonathon Coleman | Carleton Island | Ontario | Sixth rate | For Provincial Marine.[13] | 
  | 12 May |  Russia | M. D. Portnov | Archangelsk | Ne Tron Menia | Aziia-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[14] | 
  | 12 May | .svg.png) Great Britain | I. V. James | Archangelsk | Sviatoi Ianuarii | Aziia-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[15] | 
  | 16 May |  Kingdom of France | Pierre-Augustin Lamonthe Kercaradec | Brest | Astrée | Nymphe-class frigate | For French Navy.[16] | 
  | 20 May | .svg.png) Great Britain | John Fisher | Liverpool | Daedalus | Active-class frigate | For Royal Navy. | 
  | 2 June | .svg.png) Great Britain | George Parsons | Bursledon | Fox | Active-class frigate | For Royal Navy. | 
  | 2 June | .svg.png) Great Britain | Adams & Barnard | Deptford | Orpheus | Amazon-class frigate | For Royal Navy. | 
  | 3 June | .svg.png) Great Britain | John Jenner | Woolwich Dockyard | Minerva | Minerva-class frigate | For Royal Navy.[17] | 
  | 3 June | .svg.png) Great Britain |  | Deptford | Orpheus | Amazon-class frigate | For Royal Navy.[18] | 
  | 5 June | .svg.png) Great Britain | John Perry | Blackwall Yard | Belliqueux | Ardent-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. | 
  | 16 June |  Kingdom of France | Daniel & Jacques Denys | Dunkerque | Pandour | Mutin-class Cutter (boat) | For French Navy. | 
  | 18 June |  Kingdom of France | Denys | Dunkerque | Clairvoyant | Mutin-class Cutter (boat) | For French Navy. | 
  | 1 July | .svg.png) Great Britain | Israel Pownoll & Nicholas Phillips | Chatham Dockyard | Leander | Fourth rate | For Royal Navy. | 
  | 6 July |  Russia | A. S. Katsanov | Cronstadt | Perun | Perun-class bomb vessel | For Imperial Russian Navy.[19] | 
  | 19 July |  Kingdom of France |  | Boulogne | Le Comte d'Avaux | Privateer | For private owner.[20] | 
  | 5 August |  Kingdom of France | François-Guillaume Clairain des Lauriers | Toulon | Badine | Coquette-class corvette | For French Navy.[21] | 
  | 11 August |  Kingdom of France | Chevalier Antoine Groignard | Toulon | Sémillante | Coquette-class corvette | For French Navy.[22] | 
  | 30 August | .svg.png) Great Britain | Edward Hunt | Northam | Active | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy.[23] | 
  | 31 August | .svg.png) Great Britain | William Cleverley | Gravesend | Zebra | Zebra-class sloop | For Royal Navy. | 
  | August | .svg.png) United States |  |  | Fair American | Privateer | For United States Navy.[24] | 
  | August | .svg.png) Great Britain | Joshua Stewart | Sandgaet | Fortune | Sloop-of-war | For Royal Navy.[25] | 
  | 16 September |  Kingdom of France | Jean-Joseph Ginoux | Havre de Grâce | Abondance | Baleine-class gabarre | For French Navy. | 
  | 16 September |  Russia | A. S. Katsanov | Cronstadt | Sviatoi Georgii Pobedonosets | Aziia-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[26] | 
  | 20 September | .svg.png) Great Britain | James Betts | Mistleythorn | Iphigenia | Amazon-class frigate | For Royal Navy. | 
  | 21 September |  Kingdom of France | Pierre-Augustin Lamonthe Kercaradec | Brest | Sceptre | Second rate | For French Navy.[27] | 
  | 30 September | .svg.png) Great Britain | Robert Batson & Co. | Limehouse | Juno | Amazon-class frigate | For Royal Navy. | 
  | 14 October |  Kingdom of France | Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb | Toulon | Vestale | Magicienne-class frigate | For French Navy.[28] | 
  | 14 October | .svg.png) Great Britain | Adam Hayes | Deptford Dockyard | Magnanime | Intrepid-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy.[29] | 
  | 16 October |  Kingdom of France |  | Havre de Grâce | Nourrice | Baleine-class gabarre | For French Navy.[30] | 
  | 28 October |  Kingdom of France | Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb | Toulon | Alceste | Magicienne-class frigate | For French Navy.[31] | 
  | October | .svg.png) Great Britain | John Perry | Blackwall | Essex | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. | 
  | October | .svg.png) Great Britain | Thomas King | Dover | Merlin | Sloop-of-war | For Royal Navy.[32] | 
  | October | .svg.png) Great Britain | Perry, or Randall | Blackwall | Valentine | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. | 
  | 11 November | .svg.png) Great Britain | John Fisher | Liverpool | Alligator | Swan-class sloop | For Royal Navy.[33] | 
  | 13 November |  Kingdom of France | Arnous-Dessaulays | Lorient | Téméraire | Facteur-class Cutter (boat) | For French Navy. | 
  | 17 November |  Kingdom of France | Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb | Toulon | Majestueux | Terrible-class ship of the line | For French Navy.[34] | 
  | 28 November | .svg.png) Great Britain | Fabian | East Cowes | Repulse | Intrepid-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy. | 
  | November | .svg.png) Great Britain | John Perry | Blackwall | Asia | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. | 
  | 21 December |  Kingdom of France |  | Toulon | Naïade | Coquette-class corvette | For French Navy. | 
  | 27 December | .svg.png) Great Britain |  | Chatham Dockyard | Amphion | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy. | 
  | 31 December | .svg.png) Great Britain | Barnard |  | Antelope | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. | 
  | December | .svg.png) Great Britain | Wells | Deptford | Northumberland | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Great Britain |  | River Thames | Antelope | Packet ship | For Post Office Packet Service. | 
  | Unknown date | Unknown |  |  | Arbuthnot | Galley | For Royal Navy. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) United States |  |  | Aurora | Letter of marque | For Mungo Mackay & Thomas Dennie. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Great Britain | Watson | Rotherhithe | Berwick | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Great Britain | John Randall | Rotherhithe | Blandford | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.[35] | 
  | Unknown date |  Kingdom of France |  | Bordeaux | Brutus | Merchantman | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown date |  Dutch Republic |  | Rotterdam | Catharina Wilhelmina | East Indiaman | For Dutch East India Company.[36] | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) India |  | Bombay | Defence | Luggage boat | For British East India Company.[37] | 
  | Unknown date |  Denmark-Norway |  |  | Ditmarsken | Indfødsretten-class ship of the line | For Dano-Norwegian Navy.[38] | 
  | Unknown date |  Dutch Republic |  | Amsterdam | Dolfijn | Sixth rate | For Dutch Navy. | 
  | Unknown date |  Kingdom of France |  | Havre de Grâce | Duc de Chartres | Privateer | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Great Britain |  | Whitby | Fishburn | Merchantman | For Leighton & Co. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Great Britain | Wells | Deptford | Fortitude | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) United States |  | Newburyport, Massachusetts | Hannibal | Privateer | For Massachusetts State Navy.[39] | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) India |  | Bombay | Hermanis | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.[37] | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Ottoman Greece | builder | Rhodes | Hifz-i Huda | Fourth rate | For Ottoman Navy.[40] | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) India |  | Bombay | Hornby | full-rigged ship | For private owner.[37] | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) India |  | Bombay | Intrepid | Snow | For Bombay Marine. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Great Britain |  | Bristol | Kingston | West Indiaman | For J. Collard. | 
  | Unknown date |  Kingdom of France |  | Saint-Malo | L'Epervier | Privateer | For Cornich, Cornic & Le Jeune.[41] | 
  | Unknown date |  Kingdom of France |  | Saint-Malo | Le Pilote | Privateer | For private owner.[42] | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Great Britain | Wells | Deptford | Osterley | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Great Britain | Perry | Blackwall Yard | Pigot | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) United States | John Peck | Plymouth, Massachusetts | Rattlesnake | Privateer | For Massachusetts State Navy. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) United States |  |  | Rhodes | Privateer | For Massachusetts State Navy.[43] | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Great Britain |  | Whitby | Russian Merchant | Merchantman | For Leighton & Co. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Spain |  | El Ferrol | Santa Natalia | Sixth rate | For Spanish Navy.[44] | 
  | Unknown date |  Russia |  | Kazan | Ship Sloop No. 3 | Caspian Sea-class ship sloop | For Imperial Russian Navy.[45] | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Great Britain | Calvert & Co. | Shoreham-by-Sea | Surprize | Merchantman | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Kingdom of Great Britain |  | Glasgow | Tarleton | Merchantman | For Mr. Crosbie. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Ottoman Greece | builder | Rhodes | Tevfikü'llah | Fourth rate | For Ottoman Navy.[46] | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) India |  | Calcutta | Trial | Packet ship | For British East India Company. | 
  | Unknown date |  Kingdom of France |  | Saint-Malo | Vénus | Vénus-class frigate | For French Navy. | 
  | Unknown date |  Dutch Republic | J. Hand | Enkhuizen | Vlieger | Full-rigged ship | For Dutch Navy.[47] | 
  | Unknown date |  Russia |  | Kazan | Unnamed | Bomb vessel | For Imperial Russian Navy.[48] | 
  | Unknown date |  Kingdom of France |  |  | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown date |  Kingdom of France |  |  | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Great Britain |  | Folkestone | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) Great Britain |  |  | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown date |  Russia |  | Archangelsk | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown | .svg.png) Spain |  |  | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) United States |  |  | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) United States |  |  | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) United States |  | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown date | Unknown |  |  | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. | 
  | Unknown date | .svg.png) United States |  |  | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |