| Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class | Notes |
| 6 January | United Kingdom | Melling, Watson & Co. | Liverpool | James Harris | West Indiaman | For private owner.[1] |
| 8 January | United Kingdom | Richard Chapman | Bideford | Falmouth | Cyrus-class ship-sloop | For Royal Navy.[2] |
| 8 January | United Kingdom | James Warwick | Eling | Spey | Cyrus-class ship-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 24 January | United Kingdom | Josiah and Thomas Brindley | Frindsbury | Lee | Cyrus-class post ship | For Royal Navy. |
| 29 January | India | Matthew Smith | Sulkea | Juliana | Barque | For private owner. |
| January | United Kingdom | | Sunderland | Earl of Fife | Whaler | For private owner.[3] |
| 7 February | United Kingdom | Thomas Steemson | Paull | Brunswick | Whaler | For James Shrapnell Bowden & Willia Wright. |
| 12 February | United Kingdom | Wigram & Green | Blackwall | Glasgow | Endymion-class frigate | For Royal Navy.[4] |
| 19 February | United Kingdom | Thomas Burn | Sunderland | Prince of Orange | West Indiaman | For private owner. |
| 20 February | United Kingdom | | River Tyne | The Tyne Steam Boat | Steamboat | For private owner.[5] |
| 21 February | United Kingdom | Wigram, Wells & Green | Blackwall Yard | Liverpool | Endymion-class frigate | For Royal Navy. |
| February | United Kingdom | Barkworth & Co. | Hessle | Bedford | West Indiaman | For private owner.[6] |
| February | United Kingdom | Barkworth & Co. | Hessle | Camillus | West Indiaman | For M. Metcalf & Sons.[6] |
| 8 March | United Kingdom | Robert Davy | Topsham | Hind | Cyrus-class post ship | For Royal Navy.[7] |
| 8 March | United Kingdom | William Bottomley | King's Lynn | Larne | Cyrus-class post ship | For Royal Navy.[8] |
| 10 March | United Kingdom | John Pelham | Frindsbury | Conway | Conway-class post ship | For Royal Navy. |
| 23 March | United Kingdom | Josiah & Thomas Brindley | Frindsbury | Tamar | Conway-class post ship | For Royal Navy. |
| 24 March | United Kingdom | Birnie | Montrose | Lively | Smack | For private owner.[9] |
| 24 March | United Kingdom | Wilson | Liverpool | Marchioness of Queensbury | Packet ship | For private owner.[10] |
| 25 March | India | John White | Chittagong | Kent | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| March | United Kingdom | T. R. Greenwell | Sunderland | Eclipse | Merchantman | For T. R. Greenwell.[11][12] |
| March | United Kingdom | William Courtney | Chester | Mersey | Conway-class post ship | For Royal Navy. |
| March | United Kingdom | Gilkieson, Mair & Co. | Irvine | Montreal | Full-rigged ship | For private owner.[13] |
| March | United Kingdom | James Munn | Greenock | Princess Charlotte | Paddle steamer | For private owner.[14] |
| 4 April | United Kingdom | Mary Ross | Rochester | Fury | Hecla-class bomb vessel | For Royal Navy. |
| 5 April | | Josiah Brindley | Frindsbury | Menai | Conway-class post ship | For Royal Navy.[15] |
| 6 April | United Kingdom | William Wallis | Blackwall | Alpheus | Scamander-class frigate | For Royal Navy.[16] |
| 6 April | United Kingdom | William Stone | Deptford | Tartar | Apollo-class frigate | For Royal Navy.[17] |
| 7 April | United States | Henry Eckford | Sackett's Harbor, New York | Jefferson | Brig | For United States Navy.[18] |
| 7 April | Russia | B. F. Stoke | Saint Petersburg | Tserber | Lugger | For Imperial Russian Navy.[19] |
| 10 April | United States | Henry Eckford | Sackett's Harbor, New York | Jones | Brig | For United States Navy.[20] |
| 11 April | United States | Adam and Noah Brown | Vergennes, Vermont | Saratoga | Corvette | For United States Navy. |
| 14 April | Upper Canada | Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard | Kingston | Prince Regent | Fourth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 14 April | Upper Canada | Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard | Kingston, Ontario | Princess Charlotte | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 21 April | United Kingdom | Hutchison | Kirkcaldy | Name unknown | Brig | For Robert & William Russell.[21] |
| 22 April | United Kingdom | John Scott | Sunderland | Blucher | Merchantman | For J. Hurry & Co. |
| 25 April | United Kingdom | Titterton | Storkwith | John | Brig | For private owner.[22] |
| April | Upper Canada | | Île aux Noix | Niagara | Brig | For Royal Navy. |
| 2 May | United States | Henry Eckford | Sackett's Harbor, New York | Superior | Frigate | For United States Navy. |
| 5 May | United Kingdom | Jabez Bayley | Ipswich | Dee | Conway-class post ship | For Royal Navy.[23] |
| 6 May | United Kingdom | Balthazar Adams | Bucklers Hard | Towey | Conway-class post ship | For Royal Navy.[24] |
| 14 May | United Kingdom | Archibald McLauchlin & William Denny | Dumbarton | Trusty | Paddle steamer | For private owner. |
| 19 May | United Kingdom | William Courtney | Chester | Eden | Conway-class post ship | For Royal Navy.[26] |
| 20 May | United Kingdom | Robert Davy | Topsham | Tyne | Conway-class post ship | For Royal Navy. |
| 21 May | United Kingdom | Edward Sison | Woolwich Dockyard | Forte | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy.[27] |
| May | United States | Daniel French | Brownsville, Pennsylvania | Enterprise | Sternwheeler | For Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company. |
| May | United Kingdom | | Sunderland | Henry | Brig | For private owner.[28] |
| May | United Kingdom | Fyffe | Fairlie | Industry | Paddle steamer | For Mr. Cochrane.[29][30] |
| May | United Kingdom | Hustwick | River Spey | Jessy | Brig | For private owner.[31] |
| 3 June | United Kingdom | | Portobello | Blucher | Merchantman | For private owner.[32] |
| 4 June | United Kingdom | Richard Chapman | Bideford | Cyrene | Cyrus-class post ship | For Royal Navy.[33] |
| 8 June | United Kingdom | John King | Upnor | Bann | Sixth rate | For Royal Navy.[34] |
| 11 June | United States | Henry Eckford | Sackett's Harbor, New York | Mohawk | Frigate | For United States Navy. |
| 18 June | United Kingdom | Edward Larking & William Sprong | King's Lynn | Belette | Cruizer-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy.[35] |
| 20 June | French First Republic | | Genoa | Brilliant | Apollo-class frigate | For Royal Navy.[36] |
| 20 June | United States | Francis & Joseph Grice | Philadelphia Navy Yard | Guerriere | Frigate | For United States Navy. |
| 21 June | United Kingdom | William Stone | Deptford Dockyard | Salisbury | Salisbury-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy.[37] |
| 22 June | United States | Josiah Barker | Boston Navy Yard | Independence | Third rate | For United States Navy.[38] |
| 23 June | Russia | A. K. Kaverznev | Saint Petersburg | Rossiya | Rossiya-class frigate | For Imperial Russian Navy.[39] |
| 27 June | United Kingdom | Hustwick | River Spey | Mary | Brig | For private owner.[31] |
| June | United Kingdom | | River Clyde | Argyll | Paddle steamer | For private owner.[30] |
| June | United Kingdom | Archibald McLachlan | Dumbarton | Margery | Paddle steamer | For William Anderson, John McCubbin and others.[40] |
| June | United Kingdom | | River Cluyde | Princess of Orange | Paddle steamer | For private owner.[30] |
| June | United Kingdom | W. S. Chapman | Whitby | Stakesby | Merchantman | For Edward Chapman, W. S. Chapman, and Henry Simpson. |
| 4 July | United Kingdom | Edward Sison | Woolwich Dockyard | Nelson | Nelson-class ship of the line | For Royal Navy.[41] |
| 5 July | France | | Antwerp | Superbe | Téméraire-class ship of the line | For French Navy. |
| 11 July | United Kingdom | William Gibson & Son | Hull | Princess Charlotte | West Indiaman | For James Burton.[42] |
| 18 July | United Kingdom | Robert Menzies | Leith | Duke of Wellington | West Indiaman | Built on speculation.[43] |
| 19 July | United Kingdom | Alexander Hall & Co. | Aberdeen | Brilliant | Full-rigged ship | For private owner.[44] |
| 19 July | United Kingdom | John & Robert Davison | Sunderland | Hyperion | Merchantman | For J. Davidson. |
| 20 July | United Kingdom | A. Hall & Co. | Aberdeen | Brilliant | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| July | United Kingdom | Gilderdale, Pearson & Co | Thorne | Alexander | Full-rigged ship | For private owner.[42] |
| 1 August | United Kingdom | Mark Richards & Co. | Hythe | Duke of Wellington | West Indiaman | For private owner.[45] |
| 1 August | United States | | Baltimore, Maryland | Java | Frigate | For United States Navy.[46] |
| 1 August | United Kingdom | Wigram & Green | Blackwall Yard | St Helena | Schooner | For British East India Company. |
| 3 August | United Kingdom | Bunney & Firbank | Hull | Alexander | Full-rigged ship | For private owner.[47] |
| 3 August | United Kingdom | Barnes, Dikes, and King | Hull | Kirkella | Full-rigged ship | For Messrs. Eggington.[47] |
| 5 August | United Kingdom | James Crown | Monkwearmouth | Stentor | Full-rigged ship | For private owner.[11] |
| 6 August | United Kingdom | Jacobs | Milford Haven | Rochfort | Third rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 6 August | Ottoman Empire | | Constantinople | Unnamed | Brig | For Ottoman Navy.[48] |
| 6 August | Ottoman Empire | | Constantinople | Unnamed | Frigate | For Ottoman Navy.[48] |
| 6 August | Ottoman Empire | | Constantinople | Unnamed | Gunboat | For Ottoman Navy.[48] |
| 7 August | Russia | B. F. Stoke | Saint Petersburg | Ianus | Vestnik-class cutter | For Imperial Russian Navy.[49] |
| 7 August | Russia | B. F. Stoke | Saint Petersburg | Khameleon | Vestnik-class cutter | For Imperial Russian Navy.[50] |
| 11 August | United States | Adam and Noah Brown | Vergennes, Vermont | Surprise | Brig | For United States Navy. |
| 17 August | United Kingdom | Hobbs & Hellyer | Redbridge | Wye | Sixth rate | For Royal Navy.[51] |
| 18 August | United Kingdom | Nicholas Diddams | Portsmouth Dockyard | Icarus | Brig-sloop | For Royal Navy.[52] |
| 20 August | Russia | B. F. Stoke | Saint Petersburg | Finland | Trekh Sviatitelei-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[53][54] |
| 20 August | Russia | I. V. Kurepanov | Saint Petersburg | Piotr | Trekh Sviatitelei-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[53][55] |
| 25 August | Lower Canada | Ile aux Noix | Quebec | Confiance | Fifth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 30 August | France | | Rochefort | Iéna | Commerce de Paris-class ship of the line | For French Navy. |
| August | Danzig | | Danzig | Prince Blucher | Merchantman | For private owner.[56] |
| 2 September | India | J. Scott & Co. | Calcutta | Lady Nugent | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 10 September | Upper Canada | Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard | Kingston | St Lawrence | First rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 13 September | United Kingdom | Preston | Great Yarmouth | Duckenfield | West Indiaman | For C. Nockels. |
| 14 September | French First Republic | | Rotterdam | Amstel | Pallas-class frigate | For Dutch Navy.[57] |
| 14 September | United Kingdom | William Brenner | Aberdeen | The Aboyne | Merchantman | For private owner.[58] |
| 16 September | United Kingdom | Edward Sison | Woolwich Dockyard | Wolf | Crocus-class brig-sloop | For Royal Navy. |
| 1 October | United States | Portsmouth Navy Yard | Portsmouth, New Hampshire | Washington | Independence-class ship of the line | For United States Navy.[59] |
| 27 October | India | Matthew Smith | Sulkea | Lord Lyndoch | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 29 October | United States | Adam and Noah Brown | New York | Fulton | Floating battery | For United States Navy.[60] |
| 29 October | United Kingdom | Brocklebank | Lancaster | Layton | West Indiaman | For private owner. |
| 29 October | France | | Lorient | Magnifique | Bucentaure-class ship of the line | For French Navy. |
| 29 October | India | Matthew Smith | Calcutta | Orient | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 29 October | India | Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia | Bombay | Victor | Sloop-of-war | For Royal Navy.[61][62] |
| 31 October | India | R. Kyd & W. Richardson | Kidderpore | Lord Hungerford | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| 12 November | India | J. Scott & Co. | Calcutta | Albion | Merchantman | For J. Hunter. |
| 13 November | United Kingdom | Edward Larking | King's Lynn | Gannet | Sloop | For Royal Navy.[63] |
| 22 November | United Kingdom | William Smith & Co. | Newcastle upon Tyne | Busiris | West Indiaman | For private owner. |
| 22 November | Russia | M. K. Surovtsov | Kherson | Parizh | Poltava-class ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy.[64] |
| 6 December | United Kingdom | Barkworth & Hawkes | Hessle | Potton | Merchantman | For John Barkworth. |
| 15 December | United States | Adam Brown | Sacketts Harbor, New York | Chippewa | Chippewa-class ship of the line | For United States Navy.[65] |
| 25 December | Upper Canada | Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard | Kingston | Psyche | Fourth rate | For Royal Navy. |
| 27 December | United Kingdom | W. and M. Moody | Gainsborough | Esther | Brig | For private owner.[66] |
| 27 December | India | Gilmore & Co. | Calcutta | Hercules | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Sunderland | Aboyne | Merchantman | For private owner.[11] |
| Unknown date | United States | Adam and Noah Brown | Vergennes, Vermont | Allen | Row galley | For United States Navy. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | James Thompson | Sunderland | Ariadne | Brig | For James Thompson.[11] |
| Unknown date | France | | Antwerp | Batavia | Third rate | For Dutch Navy.[67] |
| Unknown date | United States | Noah Brown | Vergennes, Vermont | Borer | Galley | For United States Navy.[68] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Whitby | British Tar | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | | Vergennes, Vermont | Burrows | Full-rigged ship | For United States Navy.[69] |
| Unknown date | India | | Bombay | Caroline | Frigate | For Imaum of Muscat.[61] |
| Unknown date | United States | | | Centipede | Full-rigged ship | For United States Navy.[70] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Portland | Countess of Liverpool | Cutter | For Robert Naylor. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Monkwearmouth | Deveron | Snow | For Mr. Wilson. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Jabez Bayley | Ipswich | Diligence | Storeship | For Royal Navy.[71] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Duke of Wellington | Merchantman | For Park & Co.[11] |
| Unknown date | Lower Canada | D. Munn | Montreal | Earl of Buckinghamshire | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | Netherlands | | | Eendracht | Sixth rate | For Dutch Navy.[72] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Sunderland | Emperor Alexander | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United States | | | Firefly | Ful-rigged ship | For United States Navy.[73] |
| Unknown date | United States | | | Flambeau | Full-rigged ship | For United States Navy.[74] |
| Unknown date | India | | Bombay | Flora | Brig | For Bombay Pilot Service.[61] |
| Unknown date | Netherlands | | | Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina | Pallas-class frigate | For Dutch Navy.[75] |
| Unknown date | India | | Calcutta | Glaphyra | Barque | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Monkwearmouth | Grampian | Brig | For private owner.[11] |
| Unknown date | India | | Bombay | Guide | Brig | For Bombay Pilot Service.[61] |
| Unknown date | Lower Canada | J. Munn | Quebec | Hadlow | Full-rigged ship | For W. Parker & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Halifax Packet | Merchantman | For Mr. Sanderson.[11] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Hebe | Merchantman | For Mr. Saunders.[11] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | Hilton | Brig | For J. H. Henzell.[11] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John Barry | Whitby | John Barry | Merchantman | For John Barry. |
| Unknown date | New South Wales | J. & W. Jenkins | Cockle Bay | John Palmer | Schooner | For D. H. Smith. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Kent | Merchantman | For private owner.[11] |
| Unknown date | France | | | La Vaillante | Full-rigged ship | For Dutch Navy.[76] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John Brockbank | Lancaster | Layton | Merchantman | For private owner.[77] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | Leda | Brig | For W. Alexander.[11] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Hylton[a] | London | Brig | For private owner.[11] |
| Unknown date | United States | James Owner | Georgetown, Maryland | Lynx | Baltimore Clipper | For United States Navy. |
| Unknown date | United States | | Vergennes, Vermont | Nettle | Full-rigged ship | For United States Navy.[78] |
| Unknown date | India | M. Smith | Calcutta | New Carmo | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Littlehampton | Norfolk | West Indiaman | For Corney & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Sunderland | Oscar | Merchantman | For Booth & Co. |
| Unknown date | Upper Canada | | New Liverpool, Quebec | Ottawa | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Sunderland | Palladium | Brig | For private owner.[11] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | Peace | Brig | For John White.[11] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Polly | Brig | For W. Wheatley.[11] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Bristol | Princess Charlotte | West Indiaman | For G. Hillhouse, Sons & Co. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | R. & J. Bulmer | South Shields | Princess Charlotte | West Indiaman | For Mr. Bulmer. |
| Unknown date | United States | | | Ranger | Full-rigged ship | For United States Navy.[79] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | T. Barrick | Whitby | Regret | Merchantman | For George Barrick Jr., Henry Barrick and John Watson. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | J. Booth | Sunderland | Releif | Merchantman | For private owner.[11] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John Brockbank | Lancaster | Richard | Merchantman | For private owner.[80] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Liverpool | Robert Quayle | Snow | For Mr. Davidson. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Sunderland | Royalist | Merchantman | For private owner.[11] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | Sunderland | Sarah | Snow | For private owner.[11] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John & Philip Laing | Sunderland | Seneca | Merchantman | For private owner.[11] |
| Unknown date | India | | Bombay | Sophia | Brig | For Bombay Pilot Service.[61] |
| Unknown date | France | | | Spion | Full-rigged ship | For Dutch Navy.[81] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Richard Bussell | Lyme Regis | Superior | Smack | For private owner.[82] |
| Unknown date | India | | Bombay | Thames | Ketch | For British East India Company.[61] |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | John M. & William Gales | Sunderland | Thames | Brig | For Andrew & John White.[11] |
| Unknown date | United States | | Vergennes, Vermont | Ticonderoga | Steamboat | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | Robert Gibbons & others | Aberdeen | Timandra | Merchantman | For W. Gibbon. |
| Unknown date | Netherlands | | Rotterdam | Van der Werff | Fourth rate | For Dutch Navy.[83] |
| Unknown date | United States | | Vergennes, Vermont | Viper | Row galley | For United States Navy. |
| Unknown date | France | | Dunkerque | Wilhelmina | Pallas-class frigate | For Dutch Navy.[84] |
| Unknown date | United States | | New York | Name unknown | Merchantman | For private owner. |
| Unknown date | United Kingdom | | | Name unknown | Smack | For private owner. |