List of ship launches in 1856

The list of ship launches in 1856 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1856.

Date Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes
19 January  United Kingdom Pembroke Dockyard Pembroke Pioneer Intrepid-class gunvessel For Royal Navy.
22 January  France Brest Audacieuse Ardente-class frigate For French Navy.
9 February  United Kingdom Young, Magnay & Co. Limehouse Sparrowhawk Vigilant-class gunvessel For Royal Navy.
13 February  United Kingdom T. & W. Smith North Shields Sepoy Albacore-class gunboat For Royal Navy.
28 February  United Kingdom Richardson, Duck and Company Stockton-on-Tees Tasmanian Maid Paddle steamer For F. A Ducroz.
6 March  United Kingdom Money Wigram & Sons Blackwall Surprise Vigilant-class gunvessel For Royal Navy.
29 March  United Kingdom Money Wigram & Sons Blackwall Grappler Albacore-class gunboat For Royal Navy.
12 May  United States William Jones Black River, Ohio Kyle Spangler Schooner For B. L Spangler Company.
15 May  France Eylau Hercule-class ship of the line For French Navy
20 May  United Kingdom Royal Navy Dockyard Pembroke Dock Alert Cruizer-class sloop For Royal Navy
19 June  United States Norfolk Navy Yard Norfolk, Virginia Colorado Frigate For United States Navy.
3 July  United Kingdom Pembroke Dockyard Pembroke Cordelia Racer-class sloop For Royal Navy.
25 July  United Kingdom Robert Napier and Sons Glasgow Persia Passenger liner For Cunard Line.
4 August  United Kingdom Caird & Company Greenock Teutonia Steamship For Hamburg-Brazilian Line.
28 August  United Kingdom Scott & Co. Greenock Courrier du Maroc Steamship For Bazin, Leon, Gay & Co.[1]
1 September United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British North America Saint Charles River Sangeen Barque Ran aground on being launched.[2]
30 September  United Kingdom Deptford Dockyard Deptford Fawn Cruizer-class sloop For Royal Navy.
29 December  United States William H. Webb New York City Black Hawk Medium clipper For Bucklin & Crane, New York. Generally listed as launched in 1857.<ref>Bruzelius, Lars (20 February 1999). "Clipper Ships: "Black Hawk" (1856)". Black Hawk. The Maritime History Virtual Archives. Retrieved 19 February 2010.[3]
Unknown date  United Kingdom William Denny and Brothers Dumbarton Anglo Saxon Steamship For Montreal Ocean Steamship Company.
Unknown date  United Kingdom R. & H. Green Blackwall Banryū Paddle steamer For Tokugawa Navy.
Unknown date  United States New Albany, Indiana 'Bloomer Sternwheeler
Unknown date  United States Williamsburg, New York Bohio Brig
Unknown date  United States J. J. Abrahams Baltimore, Maryland Braziliera Barque
Unknown date  United States Keyport, New Jersey Ceres Paddle steamer
Unknown date  United States New Albany, Indiana Choctaw Paddle steamer
Unknown date  United States Harlan & Hollingsworth Wilmington, Delaware Curlew Paddle steamer For Thomas D. Warren.
Unknown date  United States Samuel Sneden Greenpoint, New York Curlew Steamboat For Commercial Steamboat Company
Unknown date  United States New York Everglade Steamship
Unknown date  United States Mobile, Alabama Florida Coaster
Unknown date  United States William Cheney Vermillion, Ohio F. T. Barney Schooner For Lewis Wells
Unknown date  United Kingdom T. & W. Smith North Shields Gosforth East Indiaman
Unknown date  United States McKeesport, Pennsylvania Grampus Sternwheeler
Unknown date  United States D. Weymouth Alna, Maine King Philip Medium clipper For Glidden & William.
Unknown date  United Kingdom William Pile Sunderland Lammermuir Extreme clipper For John Willis & Son.
Unknown date  United States Cincinnati, Ohio Laurent Millaudon Steamboat
Unknown date  United Kingdom Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd. Greenock Lord of the Isles Clipper For private owner.[4]
Unknown date United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British North America William and Richard Wright Wilmot, Nova Scotia Morning Light Sailing ship For William and Richard Wright.
Unknown date  United States Philadelphia, Pennsylvania M. W. Chapin Tug
Unknown date  United States New Albany, Indiana New Era Ferry
Unknown date  United Kingdom Alexander Hall and Sons Aberdeen Robin Hood Clipper
Unknown date  United States Thomas Collyer New York Roebuck Barque
Unknown date  United Kingdom Henry Balfour Methil Santiago Barque For Balfour Williamson.
Unknown date  Norway Skibladner Paddle steamer
Unknown date  United States Baltimore, Maryland Two Sisters Schooner
Unknown date  United Kingdom Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Greenock Waldensian Steamship
Unknown date  United States Brooklyn, New York Western World Steamship
Unknown date  United States William Henry Webb New York William H. Webb Steamship
Unknown date  Netherlands C. Gips & Zonen Dordrecht Yedo Corvette For Tokugawa Navy.

References
  1. "Courrier du Maroc". Caledonian Maritime Heritage Trust. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  2. "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury etc. No. 2882. Liverpool. 24 September 1856.
  3. Crothers 1997, p. xii.
  4. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 375.
Sources
  • Crothers, William L. (1997). The American-Built Clipper Ship, 1850–1856: Characteristics, Construction, Details. Camden, ME: International Marine. pp. xii. ISBN 0-07-014501-6.
  • Howe, Octavius T; Matthews, Frederick C. (1986) [Reprint of 1926–1927 ed.]. American Clipper Ships 1833-1858. Volume 1, Adelaide-Lotus. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0486251158.
  • Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA (1990). The Empire Ships (Second ed.). London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's of London Press Ltd. ISBN 1-85044-275-4.

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