| Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 7 January | France | | Brest | Immortalité | Romaine-class frigate | For French Navy. |
| January | Great Britain | H. Rudd | Monkwearmouth | Xenophon | Brig | For private owner.[1] |
| 7 February | Great Britain | Francis Hurry | Howden | Brunswick | Merchantman | For private owner.[2] |
| 12 March | France | | Lorient | Impatiente | Romaine-class frigate | For French Navy. |
| 17 March | France | Jean-Jacques Abauzir | Toulon | Formidable | Tonnant-class ship of the line | For French Navy.[3] |
| 21 March | Great Britain | Thomas Raymond | Southampton | Rattler | Sloop-of-war | For Royal Navy.[4] |
| 6 April | Great Britain | John Randall | Rotherhithe | Cirencester | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 15 April | Great Britain | Hill & Mellish | Limehouse | Tickler | Conquest-class gunbrig | For Royal Navy. |
| 20 April | Great Britain | Thomas Haw | Stockton-on-Tees | Princess of Wales | Merchantman | For R. Webster. |
| April | France | André-François & Joseph-Augustin Normand | Honfleur | Etna | Etna-class corvette | For French Navy. |
| April | France | | Honfleur | Torche | Etna-class corvette | For French Navy.[5] |
| 2 May | France | | Lorient | Cassard | Téméraire-class ship of the line | For French Navy. |
| 8 May | Russia | Vasily Vlasov | Kazan | Mozdol | Kizliar-class bomb vessel | For Imperial Russian Navy.[6] |
| 9 May | Great Britain | Perry & Co. | Blackwall | Winterton | East Indiaman | Purchased on the stocks by the Royal Navy. |
| 17 May | France | Louis-Jacques & Ozanne Normand | Cherbourg | Colombe | Brig | For French Navy.[7] |
| 18 May | Russia | Vasily Vlasov | Kazan | Tsaritsyn | Rowing frigate | For Imperial Russian Navy.[8] |
| 20 May | France | | Dieppe | Incorruptible | Romaine-class frigate | For French Navy.[9] |
| May | France | | Havre de Grâce | Cérès | Etna-class corvette | For French Navy. |
| 4 June | Great Britain | William Barnard | Deptford | Dryad | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 17 June | Great Britain | John Randall | Rotherhithe | Caroline | Phoebe-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 17 June | Great Britain | John Perry | Blackwall | Pelican | Albatross-class sloop | For Royal Navy.[10] |
| June | France | | Bayonne | Perçante | Bonne Citoyenne-class corvette | For French Navy.[11] |
| 4 July | Great Britain | Wells & Co. | Rotherhithe | Amazon | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 4 July | Great Britain | Wells & Co, | Rotherhithe | Lascelles | East Indiaman | Purchased on the stocks by the Royal Navy. |
| 16 July | Great Britain | John Randall & Co. | Rotherhithe | Curlew | Diligence-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 17 July | India | Edwards, Gillett & Larkins | Calcutta | Eliza Ann | Merchantman | For Lennox & Co. |
| 17 July | Great Britain | | Chatham Dockyard | Ville de Paris | First rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 18 July | France | | Dieppe | Affronteur | Affronteur-class lugger | For French Navy. |
| 18 July | Great Britain | Perry | Blackwall | Earl Spencer | East Indiaman | For British East India Company. |
| 21 July | India | | Bombay | Anna | Full-rigged ship | For private owner.[12] |
| 21 July | France | | Toulon | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Téméraire-class ship of the line | For French Navy. |
| 31 July | Great Britain | Thomas Pitcher | Northfleet | Emerald | Amazon-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| July | Great Britain | Frances Barnard | Deptford | Kite | Sloop-of-war | For Royal Navy.[13] |
| July | France | | Bordeaux | Volage | Corvette | For French Navy.[14] |
| July | Great Britain | John & William Wells | Deptford | Seagull | Diligence-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 1 August | Russia | A. S. Katsanov | Kherson | Zakharii i Elisavet | Sviatoi Pyotr-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[15] |
| 7 August | France | Denise | Honfleur | Vésuve | Corvette | For French Navy. |
| 17 August | Great Britain | Ing. Eskdale | Whitby | Pursuit | Merchantman | For Atty & Co. |
| 18 August | Russia | | Sevastopol | Schooner No. 1 | Schooner | For Imperial Russian Navy.[16] |
| 27 August | France | Fouache & Reine | Honfleur | Étonnante | Etna-class corvette | For French Navy. |
| 29 August | Great Britain | John Perry | Blackwall | Star | Albatross-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy.[17] |
| 31 August | Great Britain | William Cleverley | Gravesend | Doris | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy.[18] |
| 31 August | France | | Dieppe | Revanche | Romaine-class frigate | For French Navy. |
| 3 September | Great Britain | Frances Barnard | Deptford Dockyard | Sylph | Albatross-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy.[19] |
| 6 September | Russia | M. Sarychev | Saint Petersburg | Elisaveta | Third rate | For Imperial Russian Navy.[20] |
| 10 September | Great Britain | Perry & Hanley | Blackwall | Swallow | Albatross-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 12 September | France | | Havre de Grâce | Menaçente | Salamandre-class gun-corvette | For French Navy. |
| 21 September | India | David Glass & John Wood | Calcutta | Berwick | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 24 September | Great Britain | John Dudman | Deptford | Phoebe | Phoebe-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| 26 September | Denmark-Norway | Ernst Wilhelm Stibolt | Copenhagen | Sejeren | Third rate | For Dano-Norwegian Navy.[21] |
| 28 September | France | | Lorient | Viala | Téméraire-class ship of the line | For French Navy.[22] |
| 29 September | Great Britain | Joseph Graham | Harwich | Beaver | Sloop-of-war | For Royal Navy.[23] |
| 30 September | Great Britain | Wells & Co. | Rotherhithe | Earl of Mansfield | East Indiaman | Purchased on the stocks by the Royal Navy. |
| 30 September | Great Britain | John & William Wells | Deptford | Kangaroo | Diligence-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 8 October | France | | Brest | Décius | Société populaire-class corvette | For French Navy. |
| 14 October | Great Britain | John Randall | Rotherhithe | Cameleon | Diligence-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 14 October | Denmark-Norway | Ernst Wilhelm Stibolt | Copenhagen | Iris | Fifth rate | For Dano-Norwegian Navy.[24] |
| 14 October | Great Britain | John Randall | Rotherhithe | Racoon | Diligence-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 15 October | France | Pierre Ozanne, and Jean-François Lafosse | Cherbourg | Mignonne | Corvette | For French Navy. |
| 21 October | France | Jean-Jacques Abauzir | Toulon | Guillaume Tell | Third rate | For French Navy.[25] |
| 29 October | Great Britain | Fishburn & Brodrick | Whitby | Coverdale | Merchantman | For Norrison Coverdale. |
| 19 November | Russia | | Sevastopol | Schooner No. 2 | Schooner | For Imperial Russian Navy.[26] |
| 24 November | Great Britain | John Parsons | Bursledon | Diligence | Diligence-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 26 November | Spain | Royal Dockyard | El Ferrol | Neptuno | Montañes-class ship of the line | For Spanish Navy.[27] |
| 28 November | France | | Paimbœuf | Résistance | Vengeance-class frigate | For French Navy. |
| November | France | | Saint-Servan | Bravoure | Cocarde-class frigate | For French Navy. |
| 12 December | India | Mackenzie | Calcutta | Harriet | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 12 December | Great Britain | Thomas Pollard | Deptford Dockyard | Maidstone | Maidstone-class frigate | For Royal Navy.[28] |
| 15 December | Great Britain | Samuel Nicholson | Chatham | Dispatch | Albatross-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy, but sold to Imperial Russian Navy before commissioning. |
| 29 December | France | Jacques, Nicholas & Pierre Fortier | Honfleur | Bacchante | Serpente-class corvette | For French Navy. |
| 30 December | Great Britain | Charles Ross | Rochester | Albatross | Albatross-class sloop | For Royal Navy.[29] |
| Unknown date | India | Foreman & Bacon | Calcutta | Abercromby | Merchantman | For Fairlie & Co.[30] |
| Unknown date | India | | Bombay | Alert | East Indiaman | For British East India Company.[31] |
| Unknown date | Kingdom of Sicily | Antonio Imbert | Castellamare del Golfo | Archimede | Third rate | For Royal Sicilian Navy.[32] |
| Unknown date | United States | | Newbury, Massachusetts | Ariadne | Slave ship | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | Nicholas Bools | Bridport | Atkinson | Sloop | For James Atkinson, Jenny Tucker and others.[33] |
| Unknown date | Ottoman Empire | | | Bahr-i Amik | Fifth rate | For Ottoman Navy.[34] |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | John Barry | Whitby | Battalion | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Bermuda | | Bermuda | Bermuda | Brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Betsey | Merchantman | For Mr. Caithness.[1] |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Howden | Brunswick | Merchantman | For Hurry & Co. |
| Unknown date | India | | Calcutta | Caledonia | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | India | | | Chichester | Full-rigged ship | For Blake & Co.[35] |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Dove | Merchantman | For private owner.[1] |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | Nicholas Bools | Bridport | Earl of Chesterfield | Cutter | For James Wood.[36] |
| Unknown date | Batavian Republic | | Rotterdam | Embuscade | Fifth rate | For Batavian Navy.[37] |
| Unknown date | Spain | | Cartagena | Fama | Fifth rate | For Spanish Navy. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Monkwearmouth | Fram | Collier | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Franklin | Brig | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Batavian Republic | | Rotterdam | Galathe | Brig | For Batavian Navy.[38] |
| Unknown date | Spain | Royal Dockyard | El Ferrol | Galgo | Corvette | For Spanish Navy. |
| Unknown date | Republic of Venice | | | Giasone | Brig | For Venetian Navy. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Liverpool | Hannah | Slave ship | For Robert Bent. |
| Unknown date | Russia | G. Ignatyev | Archangelsk | Isidor | Iaroslav-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[39] |
| Unknown date | France | | Bayonne | Tapageuse | Brig-corvette | For French Navy.[40] |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | Thomas Hearn | North Shields | Leander | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | Nicholas Bools & William Good | Bridport | London Packet | Sloop | For Simon Lee and others.[41] |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Plymouth | Maria | Merchantman | For J. Potts. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Lancaster | Minerva | West Indiaman | For Danson & Co. |
| Unknown date | Spain | | Mahón | Ninfa | Fifth rate | For Spanish Navy.[42] |
| Unknown date | United States | | Amesbury, Massachusetts | Otter | Merchantman | For Ebenezer Dorr. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Princess Royal | Merchantman | For W. Wheatley.[1] |
| Unknown date | Lower Canada | | | Queen | Merchantman | For Stewart & Co. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Bristol | Rachel | Brig | For Mr. Prothero. |
| Unknown date | Ottoman Empire | Jacques Balthazar Brun de Sainte-Catherine | Constantinople | Selabetnüma | Sixth rate | For Ottoman Navy.[43] |
| Unknown date | France | | Bayonne | Sirène | Coquille-class frigate | For French Navy. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | Shields | Newcastle upon Tyne | Suffolk | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Newcastle upon Tyne | Trojan | Merchantman | For French Navy. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | Hill & Mellish | Limehouse | Walsingham | Packet boat | For General Post Office. |
| Unknown date | France | | | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Great Britain | | Monkwearmouth | William | Full-rigged ship | For private owner.[1] |
| Unknown date | Batavian Republic | | | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | France | | | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Spain | | | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |