:List of ship launches in 1855

| McKay

| For Black Ball Line.{{Cite news |title=Another Clipper Ship for the "Black Ball" Line |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 January 1855 |issue=2656 }}

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! 4 January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. T. Metcalfe & Sons

| Mary Russell Mitford

| For Messrs. T. Metcalfe & Sons.{{Cite news |title=By Electric Telegraph |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=12 January 1855 |issue=9397 }}

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! 4 January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Wigram's

| Poplar

| Southern Cross

| Missionary ship

| For George Selwyn.{{Cite news |title=Launch of the "Southern Cross." |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=5 January 1855 |issue=2693 }}

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! 10 January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Charles Hill & Sons

| Bristol

| Naparina

| West Indiaman

| For Messrs. Scrutton, Son, & Co.{{Cite news |title=Ship Launch |newspaper=Bristol Mercury |location=Bristol |date=6 January 1855 |issue=3381 }}

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! 15 January

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Thomas Stack

| Williamsburg, New York

| {{ship

Ellwood Walter

2}}

| For John B. Sandy.{{Cite news |title=Foreign Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 February 1855 |issue=2660 }}

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! 16 January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{ship|HMY|Victoria and Albert|1855|2}}

| Royal yacht

| For Queen Victoria.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval and Military Intelligence |date=15 January 1855 |page=10 |issue=21951 |column=C-D }}

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! 17 January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Cork Steamship Company

| Cork

| {{SS|Dodo|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Launch at Cork of the Dodo |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=23 January 1855 |issue=27481 }}

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! 18 January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Richard Wilkinson

| Agamemnon

| For Potts Bros.

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! 18 January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| James & R. Mills

| Bosworth

| For Messrs. Wood, Spence & Blair.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland069.html |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 23 |publisher=Searle |accessdate=25 November 2023 }}

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! 18 January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| John Smith

| Sir James

| For Tyler & Co.{{cite news |title=Launches on the Wear |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=26 January 1855 |issue= |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/images16/sirjames1.jpg }}

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! 18 January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Sykes & Garbutt

| Hylton

| Snaresbrook

| For John Briggs.

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! 18 January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| James Laing

| {{SS|Wearmouth|1855|2}}

| Collier

| For Bell & Co.

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! 19 January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Napier

| {{SS|Fiery Cross|1855|2}}

| For Matheson & Co.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=22 January 1855 |issue=5424 }}

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! 20 January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{SS|City of Baltimore|1855|2}}

| For Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.{{Cite news |title=Launch of the Largest Ship ever Built in Scotland |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=22 January 1855 |issue=20469 }}

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! 27 January

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Jacob Aaron Westervelt

| New York City

| {{SS|Arago|1855|2}}

| For New York and Havre Steam Navigation Company.

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! 29 January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Dewdney

| Brixham

| Dauntless

| Brig

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Brixham |newspaper=Trewman's Exeter Flying Post |location=Exeter |date=1 February 1855 |issue=4633 }}

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! January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| James Hardie

| Alma

| For Messrs. Haddock & Co.{{cite news |title=Ship Launches on the Wear |newspaper=Newcastle Journal |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=20 January 1855 |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/images16/alma1.jpg }}{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland059.html |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 17 |publisher=Searle |accessdate=25 November 2023 }}

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! January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Mills Brothers

| Bosworth

| For Messrs Woods, Spence and Blair.

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! January

| {{flagicon|UKGBI}} Province of Canada

| Quebec City

| Chance

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Advertisements & Notices |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=12 January 1855 |issue=5421 }}

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! January

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| {{ship

Donald McKay|clipper|2}}

| For Black Ball Line.

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! January

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Great Republic

| Relaunched, having caught fire December 27, 1853, shortly after first launch.{{Cite news | title = THE GREAT CONFLAGRATION.; THREE CLIPPER-SHIPS DESTROYED. TOTAL LOSS OF THE GREAT REPUBLIC. Burning of the White Squall, and Joseph Walker. NINE BUILDINGS DESTROYED ON FRONT-ST. LOSS, $1,500,000. INSURANCE, $500,000 to $700,000. Additional Fire--Incendiarism, & c. | newspaper = The New York Times | location = New York | page = 1 | date = December 28, 1853 | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E01E7D6143EE13AA1575BC2A9649D946292D7CF | accessdate = 15 March 2010 }}

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! January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| W. Petrie

| Henrietta Brewis

| For Robert Brewis.

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! January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| River Clyde

| Napoleon III

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Advertisements & Notices |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=19 January 1855 |issue=5423 }}

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! January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| T. D. Marshall

| {{SS|Propeller|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Naval and Military |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=9 January 1855 |issue=2696 }}

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! January

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Fleetwood

| Wyre

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Fleetwood |newspaper=Preston Chronicle |location=Preston |date=27 June 1857 |issue=2339 }}

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! 3 February

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. C. Mitchell & Co.

| {{SS|Jackal|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=By Electric Telegraph |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=9 February 1855 |issue=9401 }}

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! 3 February

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| New York Navy Yard

| {{USS|Sabine|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Brandywine|frigate}}

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! 5 February

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Rodeur|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express From Paris |date=19 November 1855 |page=8 |issue=22215 |column=A-B }}

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! 15 February

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Albert White

| Waterford

| Avoca

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Launch of the Avoca |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=21 February 1855 }}

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! 15 February

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Cunningham

| Kensington

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=By Electric Telegraph |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=23 February 1855 |issue=9403 }}{{Cite news |title=Newcastle - Exports - Continued |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=23 February 1855 |issue=9403 }}

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! 16 February

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Portsmouth Navy Yard

| {{USS|Santee|1855|2}}

| Frigate

| For United States Navy

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! 17 February

| {{flag|France}}

| Brest Arsenal

| {{ship|French ship|Bretagne|1855|2}}

| Ship of the Line

| For French Navy.

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! 17 February

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Parry

| Hirael

| Maid of Glan Ogwen

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Ship Launch |newspaper=North Wales Chronicle |location=Bangor |date=24 February 1855 |issue=1459 }}

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! 17 February

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Scott

| Inverkeithing

| Precursor

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Inverkeithing |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=22 February 1855 |issue=20478 }}

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! 17 February

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{HMS|Resolute|1855|2}}

| Troopship

| For Royal Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval and Military Intelligence |date=6 April 1855 |page=10 |issue=22021 |column=A-B }}{{Cite news |title=Launch of an Admiralty Troop Ship |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 February 1855 |issue=2666 }}

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! 20 February

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| George Worthy

| William Leckie

| For John Nicholson, William Nicholson & William Nicholson Jr.

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! 23 February

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| New York Navy Yard

| {{USS|Niagara|1855|2}}

| Steam frigate

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! 27 February

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{HMS|Victor Emmanuel|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Agamemnon|ship of the line}}

| For Royal Navy.

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! February

| {{flag|Portugal|1830}}

| Caminha

| Dipomata

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Advertisements & Notices |newspaper=Bristol Mercury |location=Bristol |date=30 August 1856 |issue=3467 }}

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! February

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| R. Barclay & Curle

| Stobcross

| {{SS|White Eagle|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Avertisements & Notices |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=19 February 1855 |issue=5432 }}

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! February

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Alexander Stephen & Sons

| Kelvinside

| White Eagle

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Advertisements & Notices |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=2 March 1855 |issue=5435 }}

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! 4 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Bank Quay Foundry Company

| Startled Fawn

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 March 1855 |issue=2669 }}

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! 5 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. A. Duthie & Co.

| Heather Bell

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=7 March 1855 |issue=5591 }}

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! 6 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Watt

| Dysart

| Saint Clair

| For Fraser, Murdoch & Boyd.{{Cite news |title=Law Reports |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=26 June 1856 |issue=20826 }}

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! 7 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Turnbull & Craggs

| Stockton-on-Tees

| Euxine

| Brig

| For Mr. Hutton.{{Cite news |title=By Electric Telegraph |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=16 March 1855 |issue=9406 }}

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! 7 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| J. & R. White

| West Cowes

| {{HMS|Grinder|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Dapper|gunboat}}

| For Royal Navy.

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! 16 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Richard Williamson & Sons

| Harrington

| Herald of Fame

| Messrs. William Denny & Bros.

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=By Electric Telegraph |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=23 March 1855 |issue=9407 }}

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! 17 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Dumbarton

| {{SS|Caledonia|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. Miller & Sons.{{Cite news |title=Another Auxiliary to the Transport Service - Launch at Dumbarton |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=19 March 1855 |issue=5440 }}

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! 17 March

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ironclad floating battery|Tonnante

2}}

| {{sclass|Dévastation|ironclad floating battery|1}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=France |date=21 March 1855 |page=9 |issue=22007 |column=B-C }}

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! 18 March

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Étincelle|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Étincelle|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.

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! 19 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Watson & Allsup

| Preston

| {{SS|Lady Lindsay1855|2}}

| For Messrs. Pearce, Rawcliffe & Co.{{Cite news |title=Launch of the First Iron Screw Steamer Built in Preston |newspaper=Preston Chronicle |location=Preston |date=17 March 1855 |issue=2220 }}{{Cite news |title=Launch of the "Lady Lindsay." |newspaper=Preston Chronicle |location=Preston |date=24 March 1855 |issue=2221 }}

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! 19 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Harvey & Co.

| Hayle

| Nicholas Harvey

| For private owner.

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! 19 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{ship|French ship|Volta|1855|2}}

| Corvette

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=France |date=23 March 1855 |page=7 |issue=22009 |column=E-F }}

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! 19 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. P. Chaloner, Sons, & Co.

| West Derby

| For Messrs. Brown & Co.{{Cite news |title=Ship Launch |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 March 1855 |issue=2673 }}

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! 20 March

| {{flag|France}}

| Toulon Naval Yard

| {{ship|French ship|Arcole|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Algésiras|ship of the line}}

| For French Navy. Also reported as built at Cherbourg.

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! 20 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Cato, Miller & Co.

| Conquest

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Local Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=23 March 1855 |issue=2674 }}

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! 20 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| David Griffiths

| Cardigan

| Elizabeth Anne

| Brig

| For private owner.

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! 20 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. John & Robert White

| Heroes of Alma

| For James Shepherd.{{Cite news |title=Isle of Wight |newspaper=Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=18 March 1855 |issue=2893 }}{{Cite news |title=Launches |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=23 March 1855 |issue=27532 }}

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! 20 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Samuelson & Co.

| Hull

| {{SS|Lord Cardigan|1855|2}}

| Jacob A. Westervelt, Sons, & Co.

| For Messrs. Gee & Co.{{Cite news |title=Iron Steam Ship Launches |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=23 March 1855 |issue=3663 }}

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! 22 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Samuelson & Co.

| Hull

| {{PS|Lord Worsley|1855|2}}

| Paddle Steamer

| For Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.

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! 27 March

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| New HYork

| {{ship

Edwin Forrest|pilot boat|2}}

| For New York Pilots.

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! 31 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Neptune Iron Works

| Waterford

| {{SS|Norah|1855|2}}

| For Waterford Steamship Company.{{Cite news |title=Launch of an Iron Steam-ship at Waterford |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=6 April 1855 |issue=2771 }}

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! 31 March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Money, Wigram & Son

| Blackwall Yard

| {{HMS|Surly|1855|2}}

| Bomb vessel

| For Royal Navy.

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! March

| {{flag|France}}

| Arsenal de Toulon

| {{ship|French ship|Algésiras|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Algésiras|ship of the line}}

| For French Navy.

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! March

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Irons & Grinell

| Mystic, Connecticut

| {{ship

Andrew Jackson|clipper|2}}

| For John H. Brower & Co.

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! March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| River Tyne

| {{PS|Camoens|1855|2}}

| For Tagus Steam Navigation Company.

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! March

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Flamme|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Étincelle|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite news |title=Express from Paris |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=10 April 1855 |issue=27547 |edition=Second }}

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! March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Watson & Allsop

| {{SS|Lady Lindsay|1855|2}}

| For Rawcliffe, Pease, Whitehead and Moore & Sons.{{Cite news |title=Supposed Loss of a Preston Steamer and Fourteen Lives |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury etc |location=Liverpool |date=9 November 1855 |issue=2745 |edition=Second }}

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! March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Michael Byers

| Northumbrian

| Messrs. John Scott & Sons

| For Scott & Co.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland049.html |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 9 |publisher=Searle |accessdate=26 November 2023 }}

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! March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{SS|Oneida|1855|2}}

| For Canada Ocean Steamship Company.{{Cite news |title=Greenock and Coast News |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=16 July 1856 |issue=5633 }}

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! March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{SS|Rosedal|1855|2}}

| For private owner.

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! March

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Mare & Co.

| {{HMS|Transit|1855|2}}

| Troopship

| For Royal Navy.{{Cite news |title=Naval and Military Intelligence |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=30 March 1855 |issue=3664 }}

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! 2 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| C. J. Mare

| {{HMS|Urgent|1855|2}}

| Troopship

| For Royal Navy.

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! 3 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Leighton & Co.

| Providence

| Brig

| For private owner.

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! 3 April

| {{flagicon|UKGBI}} New South Wales

| Cuthberts Shipyard

| Port Jackson

| {{HMCS|Spitfire

2}}

| For Colony of New South Wales.

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! 3 April

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Tempête|1855|2}}

| {{Sclass|Poudre|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.

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! 3 April

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Tocsin|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Bombe|mortar vessel}}

| For French Navy.{{cite web |url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=30524 |title=French mortar vessel 'Le Tocsin' (1855) |publisher=Threedecks |accessdate=28 November 2023 }}

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! 3 April

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Tourmente|1855|2}}

| {{Sclass|Poudre|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express from Paris |date=7 April 1855 |page=7 |issue=22022 |column=A-C }}

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! 3 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Not named

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Launches by Mr. Laird |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=6 April 1855 |issue=2678 }}

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! 4 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| John Smith

| Sebastian

| For Joyce & Co.

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! 4 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Alexander Hall & Co.

| {{ship

Schomberg|1855|2}}

| For Black Ball Line.{{Cite news |title=Launch of the Australian Clipper-ship "Schomberg," the largest ever built in Aberdeen |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=4 April 1855 |issue=5595 |edition=Second }}

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! 5 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{SS|Assistance|1855|2}}

| For British Government.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval and Military Intelligence |date=17 September 1855 |page=10 |issue=22161 |column=B-C }}

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! 5 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Pickersgill & Miller

| Enchantress

| For J. A. Marks.{{cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Journal |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=7 April 1855 |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/images16/enchantress2.jpg }}

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! 5 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Scott & Co.

| {{ship

Madagascar|1855 ship|2}}

| For J. Rennie & Co.{{cite web |url=http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=19941 |title=Madagascar |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Heritage Trust |accessdate=26 June 2019}}

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! 5 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Alexander Hall & Co.

| Schomberg

| For Black Ball Line.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Launch at Aberdeen of the Schomberg |date=9 April 1855 |page=9 |issue=22023 |column=F }}

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! 8 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{SS|Carbon|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=10 April 1855 |issue=27547 }}

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! 12 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Smith & Rodgers

| {{SS|Armenian|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. Lewis Potter & Co.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 April 1855 |issue=2682 }}

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! 16 April

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Marne|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.

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! 17 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Haswell

| Caribbean

| For John Hay.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=20 April 1855 |issue=9411 }}

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! 17 April

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ironclad floating battery|Dévastation

2}}

| {{Sclass|Dévastation|ironclad floating battery|1}}

| For French Navy.

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! 17 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Mare & Co.

| {{HMS|Meteor|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Aetna|ironclad floating battery|1}}

| For Royal Navy.{{Cite news |title=Naval and Military |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=18 April 1855 |issue=2781 }}

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! 17 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Derwenlas

| Miss Evans

| For R. Evans.{{Cite news |title=Launch at Machynlleth |newspaper=North Wales Chronicle |location=Bangor |date=21 April 1855 |issue=1467 }}

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! 17 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{HMS|Sutlej|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Constance|frigate}}

| For Royal Navy.

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! 17 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. C. J. Mars & Sons

| {{HMS|Thunder|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Aetna|ironclad floating battery|1}}

| For Royal Navy.

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! 18 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Bowman and Drummond

| Aln

| For G. Bowman & T. Drummond.{{cite web |url=http://shippingandshipbuilding.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=10061&a1Page=4&ref=204979&vessel=ALN |title=Aln |publisher=Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust |accessdate=3 October 2024 }}

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! 18 April

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Eclair|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.

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! 18 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. R. & H. Green

| {{HMS|Glatton|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Aetna|ironclad floating battery|1}}

| For Royal Navy.{{Cite news |title=The Baltic Fleet |newspaper=Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=21 April 1855 |issue=2898 }}

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! 18 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Mr. Thomas

| Conway

| Penelope

| For Cropper & Bell.{{Cite news |title=Conway. - Launch of the "Penelope." |newspaper=North Wales Chronicle |location=London |date=21 April 1855 |issue=1467 }}

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! 18 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. R. & H. Green

| {{HMS|Trusty|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Aetna|ironclad floating battery|1}}

| For Royal Navy.

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! 19 April

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Bombe|1855|2}}

| {{Sclass|Bombe|mortar vessel}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express from Paris |date=23 April 1855 |page=9 |issue=22035 |column=C-E }}{{cite web |url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=30522 |title=French mortar vessel 'La Bombe' (1855) |publisher=Threedecks |accessdate=28 November 2023 }}

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! 19 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Palmer Bros.

| {{SS|Elba|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. R. S. Newall & Co.{{Cite news |title=Launch of a Screw Steamer |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=26 April 1855 |issue=2788 }}

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! 19 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Alloa

| George Kydd

| For Bailie Kydd.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=30 April 1855 |issue=20497 }}

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! 19 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Thomas Vernon & Sons

| Harvest Home

| For Messrs. Henry Moore & Co.{{Cite news |title=Launch of the Harvest Home |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 April 1855 |issue=2682 }}

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! 19 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. George Milne & Co.

| Nightingale

| Brig

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=25 April 1855 |issue=5598 }}

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! 24 April

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Fournaise|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Bombe|mortar vessel}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express from Paris |date=27 April 1855 |page=7 |issue=22039 |column=B-C }}{{cite web |url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=30523 |title=French mortar vessel 'La Fournaise' (1855) |publisher=Threedecks |accessdate=28 November 2023 }}

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! 25 April

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|St. Louis|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express from Paris |date=7 January 1856 |page=7 |issue=22257 |column=A-F |edition=Third }}

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! 25 April

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Hayden & Cudworth

| {{ship

Thatcher Magoun|clipper|2}}

| For Thatcher Magoun.{{sfn|Crothers|1997|p=not cited}}{{sfn|Gleason|1937|p=78}}

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! 26 April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Edward Potts

| Seaham

| Wynyard

| Snow

| For M. Moore.

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! 30 April

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Poudre|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Poudre|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite news |title=France |newspaper=Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=5 May 1855 |issue=2900 }}

----

! 30 April

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Sainte Barbe|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Poudre|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.

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! April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Rennie, Johnson & Rankin

| {{SS|Empress Eugenie|1855|2}}

| For North and West of France Steam Navigation Company.

----

! April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Scott & Co.

| {{SS|European|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=The Court |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=25 April 1855 |issue=2787 }}

----

! April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Rennie, Johnson & Rankin

| Fusileer

| For Messrs. Colesworth, Wynne & Lyne.

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! April

| {{flagicon|UKGBI}} Colony of Nova Scotia

| Glenalmond

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Aedvertisements & Notices |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=9 January 1856 |issue=5552 }}

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! April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{SS|Jourdain|1855|2}}

| For Compagnie des Messageries Imperiales.

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! April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| T. D. Marshall

| {{SS|Powerful|1855|2}}

| For North of Europe Steam Navigation Company.{{Cite news |title=Iron Shipbuilding |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=20 April 1855 |issue=9411 }}

----

! April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Tayleur & Co

| {{SS|Retreiver|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Ship Launches on the Mersey |newspaper=Manchester Times |location=Manchester |date=21 April 1855 |issue=675 }}

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! April

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| T. D. Marshall

| {{SS|Urina|1855|2}}

| For private owner.

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! 1 May

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Lance|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Poudre|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.

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! 1 May

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Redoute|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Poudre|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.

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! 1 May

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Torche|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Bombe|mortar vessel}}

| For French Navy.{{cite web |url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=30525 |title=French mortar vessle 'La Torche' (1855) |publisher=Threedecks |accessdate=28 November 2023 }}

----

! 2 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI

}

| Devonport Dockyard

| {{HMS|Conqueror|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Conqueror|ship of the line}}

| For Royal Navy.

|-----

! 2 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| John O'Gaunt

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 May 1855 |issue=2687 }}

|-----

! 3 May

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Alarme|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express From Paris |date=5 May 1855 |page=9 |issue=22046 |column=E-F }}

|-----

! 3 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Tod & McGregor

| {{SS|Ava|1855|2}}

| Passenger ship

| For Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.

|-----

! 3 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Arrow Leithead

| Coringa

| For John Hay.

|-----

! 3 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Samuelson & Co.

| Hull

| {{SS|Ernestine|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Launch of the Ernestine |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=4 May 1855 |issue=3669 }}

|-----

! 3 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. John Scott Russell & Co.

| Millwall

| {{HMS|Etna|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Aetna|ironclad floating battery|1}}

| For Royal Navy. Caught fire and self-launched, damaged beyond repair.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Great Fire At Millwall |date=4 May 1855 |page=10 |issue=22045 |column=E }}

|-----

! 3 May

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Meurthe|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.

|-----

! 3 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Ferguson, McCallum, & Baird

| Flint

| Sarah Ellen

| Brigantine

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Ship Launch |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 May 1855 |issue=2687 }}

|-----

! 4 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| John Watson

| Banff

| The Banffshire

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Launch at Banff |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=16 May 1855 |issue=5601 }}

|-----

! 5 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. C. Hill & Sons

| Bristol

| Fontabelle

| West Indiaman

| For Charles Dawson.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Bristol Mercury |location=Bristol |date=5 May 1855 |issue=3398 }}

|-----

! 5 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. W. C. Miller & Son

| Toxteth

| {{SS|Labuan|1855|2}}

| For Eastern Archipelago Company.{{Cite news |title=Launch of the Steam-ship Labuan |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 May 1855 |issue=2687 }}

|-----

! 5 May

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Trombe|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Bombe|mortar vessel}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite news |title=France |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=11 June 1855 |issue=5464 }}{{cite web |url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=30526 |title=French mortar vessel 'La Trombe' (1855) |publisher=Threedecks |accessdate=28 November 2023 }}

|-----

! 9 May

| {{flag|France}}

| Toulon Naval Yard

| {{ship|French gunboat|Flèche|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Alarme|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=France |date=14 May 1855 |page=9 |issue=22063 |column=D-F }}{{Cite news |title=France |newspaper=Daily News |location=Londopn |date=14 May 1855 |issue=2803 }}

|-----

! 9 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Holyhead

| The Mermaid

| Yacht

| For Thomas Hirste.{{Cite news |title=Launch at Holyhead |newspaper=North Wales Chronicle |location=Bangor |date=12 May 1855 |issue=1470 }}

|-----

! 10 May

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Alerte|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Alerte|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.

|-----

! 12 May

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Bourrasque|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Alerte|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite news |title=France |newspaper=Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=19 May 1855 |issue=2902 }}

|-----

! 12 May

| {{flag|France}}

| {{abbr|M.|Monsieur}} Normand

| {{ship|French ship|Dragonne|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express From Paris |date=16 May 1855 |pages=9-10 |issue=22055 |column=F, A }}

|-----

! 14 May

| {{flag|France}}

| {{abbr|M.|Monsieur}} Normand

| {{ship|French ship|Aigrette|1855|2}}

| {{Sclass|Alarme|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.

|-----

! 15 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| John Roberts

| Holyhead

| Jane and Anne

| For W. Hurlbutt.{{Cite news |title=Launch at Holyhead |newspaper=North Wales Chronicle |location=Bangor |date=19 May 1855 |issue=1471 }}{{Cite news |title=Launch at Holyhead |newspaper=North Wales Chronicle |location=London |date=26 May 1855 |issue=1472 }}

|-----

! 16 May

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Couleuvrine|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Alerte|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.

|-----

! 16 May

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Fusée|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express From Paris |date=21 May 1855 |page=9 |issue=22059 |column=B-C }}

|-----

! 17 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. White

| East Cowes

| Cecile

| For Marquess of Conynghm.{{Cite news |title=Aquatics |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=21 May 1855 }}

|-----

! 17 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Toward

| {{ship|ST|Great Conquest|1855|2}}

| Tug

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=By Electric Telegraph |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=25 May 1855 |issue=9416 }}

|-----

! 17 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| W. Pile

| Kelso

| For John R. Kelso.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland075.html |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 26 |publisher=Searle |accessdate=26 November 2023 }}

|-----

! 17 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{SS|Marquez d'Olinda|1855|2}}

| For R. Rawsthorne.{{Cite news |title=Launch of a Screw Steamer |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 May 1855 |issue=2690 }}

|-----

! 17 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| James Robinson, or J. & J. Robinson

| Viscount Canning

| For J. Prowse.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland076.html |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 27 |publisher=Searle |accessdate=26 November 2023 }}

|-----

! 19 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. J. W. Hoby & Co.

| Renfrew

| {{ship|ST|Rattler|1855|2}}

| Tug

| For Liverpool Tug Company.{{Cite news |title=Launch at Renfrew |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=21 May 1855 |issue=5458 }}

|-----

! 20 May

| {{flag|France}}

| {{abbr|M.|Monsieur}} Normand

| {{ship|French ship|Fulminante|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Alarme|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite news |title=Naval and Military News |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=25 May 1855 |issue=27585 }}

|-----

! 22 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| George Cox

| Bideford

| Sarah Newmann

| For John Leech.{{Cite news |title=Shipbuilding in Devonshire |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=26 May 1855 |issue=2814 }}

|-----

! 24 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Napier

| {{SS|Earl of Erne|1855|2}}

| For Liverpool and Dundalk Steam Packet Company.{{Cite news |title=New Steamer for the Dundalk Trade |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=29 May 1855 |issue=2693 }}

|-----

! 26 May

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Avalanche|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Alarme|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express From Paris |date=29 May 1855 |page=9 |issue=22066 |column=E-F }}

|-----

! 26 May

| {{flag|France}}

| Lorient Naval Yard

| {{ship|French ironclad floating battery|Lave||2}}

| {{sclass|Dévastation|ironclad floating battery|1}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express From Paris |date=29 May 1855 |page=9 |issue=22065 |column=A-B |edition=Second }}

|-----

! 31 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Samuda Brothers

| Cubitt Town

| {{ship||Alhambra|1855|2}}

| For Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.

|-----

! 31 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| W. Wilkinson

| Deptford

| Caroline Coventree

| For Conventree Dundass.{{cite news |title=Launches on the Wear |newspaper=Newcastle Journal |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=2 June 1855 |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/images16/carolinecoventry1.jpg }}

|-----

! 31 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Gibson

| Electra

| For Joseph Shield, Son, & Co.

|-----

! 31 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Lightfoot

| Hylton Dene

| Gem of the Nith

| For John Morton.

|-----

! 31 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| James Briggs

| Queen of the North

| For Messrs. Bradley & Potts.

|-----

! 31 May

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| John Watson

| Queen of the South

| For John Morton, or Martin & Co.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland095.html |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 36 |publisher=Searle |accessdate=26 November 2023 }}

|-----

! May

| {{flag|France}}

| Le Mourillon

| {{ship|French ship|Mitraille|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Alarme|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite news |title=France |newspaper=Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=2 June 1855 |issue=2904 }}

|-----

! 1 June

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Congreve|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Dévastation|ironclad floating battery}}

| For French Navy.

|-----

! 2 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{HMS|Brunswick|1855|2}}

| Modified {{sclass|Vanguard|ship of the line}}

| For Royal Navy.{{Cite news |title=The War |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=8 June 1855 |issue=20508 }}

|-----

! 2 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Samuelson & Co.

| Hull

| {{SS|Manchester|1855|2}}

| For Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.{{Cite news |title=Ship Launch |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=8 June 1855 |issue=3674 }}

|-----

! 2 June

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Strident|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite news |title=Foreign Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 June 1855 |issue=2695 }}

|-----

! 2 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{SS|Vigo|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Launch of a Screw Steamer |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 June 1855 |issue=2695 }}

|-----

! 4 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Blackwood & Gordon

| Paisley

| {{PS|Ant|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. Hetherington.{{Cite news |title=Launch of a Vessel for the Rock Ferry |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 June 1855 |issue=2698 }}

|-----

! 7 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Robinson & Co.

| Cork

| {{SS|Flora|1855|2}}

| For Joseph Malcolmson.{{Cite news |title=Ship Launch at Cork |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=16 June 1855 }}

|-----

! 9 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| John Anderton

| Borland

| Brig

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Multum in Parvo |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 June 1855 |issue=2698 }}

|-----

! 15 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Webster

| Fraserburgh

| Florence Nightingale, or Nightingale

| Brig

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Fraserburgh |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=20 June 1855 |issue=5606 }}{{Cite news |title=Fraserburgh |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=20 June 1855 |issue=5606 }}

|-----

! 15 June

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Charleston Navy Yard

| {{USS|Merrimack|1855|2}}

| Steam frigate

| For United States Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=America |date=2 July 1855 |page=11 |issue=22095 |column=B }}

|-----

! 16 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. James & George Thomson

| {{SS|Clansman|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. David Hutcheson & Co.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 June 1855 |issue=5466 }}

|-----

! 17 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| John Pile

| Hartlepool

| {{ship||Fanny Nicholson||2}}

| For John McArthur & William Andrews.

|-----

! 18 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Follett

| Teighmouth

| Ellen Radford

| Brig

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Teignmouth |newspaper=Trewman's Exeter Flying Post |location=Exeter |date=21 June 1855 |issue=4653 }}

|-----

! 26 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| William Pitcher

| {{ship|Chilean corvette|Esmeralda||2}}

| Corvette

| For Chilean Navy.

|-----

! 30 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Harvey

| Ipswich

| Inkermann

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Ship Launch |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=7 July 1855 |issue=6061 }}

|-----

! 30 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Edward Jones

| Pwllheli

| Newnham

| Brig

| For Le Maistre & Co.{{Cite news |title=Pwllheli - Ship Launch |newspaper=North Wales Chronicle |location=Bangor |date=7 July 1855 |issue=1478 }}

|-----

! 30 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Paisley

| Passage West

| Queenstown

| For Messrs. Scott & Co.{{Cite news |title=Launch at Passage |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=dublin |date=3 July 1855 }}

|-----

! 30 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. J. & G. Thomson

| {{SS|Thessalia|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. Papayanni & Mussabini.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=3 July 1855 |issue=20518 }}

|-----

! 30 June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Young, Magny & Co.

| Limehouse

| {{HMVS|Victoria|1855|2}}

| Sloop of War

| For Colony of Victoria.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Launch of an Australian War Steamer |date=2 July 1855 |page=10 |issue=22095 |column=D }}

|-----

! June

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| W. Wilkinson

| Catherine

| Snow

| For Mr. Ingram.

|-----

! June

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ironclad floating battery|Foudroyante||2}}

| {{sclass|Dévastation|ironclad floating battery|1}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express From Paris |date=2 June 1855 |page=9 |issue=22070 |column=A-C }}

|-----

! 2 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Stephen & Sons

| Dundee

| Beemah

| For Messrs. Willis and Company.{{Cite news |title=Shipbuilding in Dundee |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=4 July 1855 |issue=20519 }}

|-----

! 3 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Robert Napier and Sons

| {{RMS|Persia||2}}

| For Cunard Line.{{Cite news |title=Advertisements & Notices |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=29 June 1855 |issue=5469 }}{{Cite news |title=Approaching Launch of the Persia |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=2 July 1855 |issue=5470 }}

|-----

! 3 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Hall

| Sea Star

| For D. Louttit.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=4 July 1855 |issue=5608 }}

|-----

! 4 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Thomas Wingate & Co.

| Whiteinch

| {{SS|Dredger No. 6|1855|2}}

| Dredger

| For Clyde Trust.{{Cite news |title=Launch at Whiteinch |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=9 July 1855 |issue=5473 }}

|-----

! 7 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Stothert & Fripp

| Hotwells

| {{SS|Araxes|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Launch of a Fine Iron Steamer |newspaper=Bristol Mercury |location=Bristol |date=14 July 1855 |issue=3408 }}

|-----

! 12 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{ship|SY|Finnart|1855|2}}

| Steam Yacht

| For Mr. McGregor.{{Cite news |title=New Screw Steam Yacht |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=14 July 1855 |issue=20528 }}

|-----

! 14 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Richard Green

| Agamemnon

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Launch at Blackwall |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=16 July 1855 |issue=27629 }}

|-----

! 16 July

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Durant|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express From Paris |date=19 July 1855 |page= |issue=22110 |column=A-C }}

|-----

! 16 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Lawrence, Hill & Co.

| Port Glasgow

| {{SS|Gambia|1855|2}}

| For African Steam Ship Company.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 July 1855 |issue=5477 }}

|-----

! 16 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| James Geddie

| Garmouth

| Grace

| For Messrs. Forrest & Florence.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=25 July 1855 |issue=5611 }}

|-----

! 16 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| James Laing

| {{ship||La Hogue|1855|2}}

| For Duncan Dunbar.

|-----

! 16 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Humphrey & Son

| Hull

| Robert Keddey

| For Thomas Colgan.{{Cite news |title=Launch of a London Trader |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=20 July 1855 |issue=3680 }}

|-----

! 17 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Bowman and Drummond

| Eugenie

| For Dawson & Co.{{cite web |url=http://shippingandshipbuilding.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=10061&a1Page=4&ref=207962&vessel=EUGENIE |title=Eugenie |publisher=Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust |accessdate=3 October 2024 }}

|-----

! 21 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Alexander Denny

| Dumbarton

| {{SS|Rob Roy|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=New Steamer for Loch Katrine |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=27 July 1855 |issue=5481 }}

|-----

! 29 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Cork Steamship Company

| Cork

| {{SS|Osprey|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Launch of an Iron Screw Steamer |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=31 July 1855 }}

|-----

! 29 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Henry Balfour & Co.

| Fife

| {{PS|Primer Argentino|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. Joseph Green & Co.{{Cite news |title=Local Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=10 August 1855 |issue=2713 }}

|-----

! 30 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| William Adamson

| Ann Adamson

| For William Adamson.{{cite news |title=Ship Launches on the Wear |newspaper=Newcastle Journal |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=4 August 1855 |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/images16/annadamson1.jpg }}

|-----

! 30 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| George Barker

| Monkwearmouth

| Ann Elizabeth, or Ann & Elizabeth

| For Mr. Wright.

|-----

! 30 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Michael Byers & Co.

| Monkwearmouth

| Constantia

| For H. Parker.

|-----

! 30 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. John Davidson & Co.

| 'Cosmos

| For R. J. Brown.

|-----

! 30 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Sykes, Talbot & Sykes

| Day Star

| Snow

| For William Allen.

|-----

! 30 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Ray & Sons

| Portsmouth

| Duchess of Marlborough

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=The Two "Marlboroughs." |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=6 August 1855 |issue=27647 }}

|-----

! 30 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Thomas Henderson

| {{SS|Indomitable|1855|2}}

| For R. J. Brown.

|-----

! 30 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Naizby

| Hylton

| Isabella

| For G. Smith.

|-----

! 30 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. R. H. Potts & Bros

| Penguin

| For Messrs. R. H. Potts & Bros.

|-----

! 30 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| George Bartram & Sons

| Progress

| For George Lawson.

|-----

! 30 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Forrest & Jackson

| Not named

| For Messrs. Forrest & Jackson.

|-----

! 31 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Cormorin

| For private owner.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=2 August 1855 |page=12 |issue=22122 |column=B }}

|-----

! 31 July

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Croiseur|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.

|-----

! 31 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Mark Pearson

| Goole

| Fanny

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Ship Launches |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=4 August 1855 |issue=6359 }}

|-----

! 31 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Portsmouth Dockyard

| {{HMS|Marlborough|1855|2}}

| First rate

| For Royal Navy.

|-----

! 31 July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Sandycroft

|{{ship||Royal Charter|ship|2}}

| For Australian Screw Steamship Company.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Auxiliary Steampower To Australia |date=15 December 1855 |page=7 |issue=22238 |column=F }} Sank on being launched. Later refloated.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=29 August 1855 |issue=9690 }}{{Cite news |title=Miscellanea |newspaper=Trewman's Exeter Flying Post |location=Exeter |date=20 October 1859 |issue=4880 }}

|-----

! July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Earle

| Hull

| {{SS|Alert|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. Ringrose.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=6 July 1855 |issue=3678 }}

|-----

! July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Austin & Mills

| Bittern

| For William Snowball & John Murch.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland044.html |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 5 |publisher=Searle |accessdate=25 November 2023 }}

|-----

! July

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Duthie & Cochar

| Montrose

| Minorva

| For Messrs. Collie & Co.{{Cite news |title=Launches |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=2 August 1855 |issue=27644 }}

|-----

! July

| {{flagicon|UKGBI}} Colony of Prince Edward Island

| Georgetown

| Peri

| Brigantine

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Advertisements & Notices |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=31 August 1855 |issue=12236 }}

|-----

! 1 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Blackwood & Gordon

| Paisley

| {{PS|Bee|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. Hetherington.{{Cite news |title=Launches on the Clyde |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=7 August 1855 |issue=2712 }}

|-----

! 1 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{SS|City of Washington|1855|2}}

| For Liverpool and Philadelphia Line.{{Cite news |title=Launch on Wednesday First |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=30 July 1855 |issue=5482 }}

|-----

! 1 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Comorin, or Coromine

| East Indiaman

| For Messrs. Thomas Brocklebank & Co.

|-----

! 1 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Rennie, Johnson & Rankin

| Fiery Cross

| For Messrs. John & James Campbell.

|-----

! 1 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Fletchers

| Goole

| Lizzy

| For private owner.

|-----

! 1 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Thomas Vernon & Sons

| {{PS|Prince Patrick|1855|2}}

| For North Lancashire Steam Navigation Company.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=31 July 1855 |issue=2711 }}

|-----

! 1 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Bank Quay Foundry

| Sarah Palmer

| For Messrs. Jones, Palmer & Co.{{Cite news |title=Launches |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 August 1855 |issue=2872 }}

|-----

! 2 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Westaway

| Lowestoft

| Pauline

| Brig

| For Mr. Andrews and others.{{Cite news |title=Lowestoft |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=11 August 1855 |issue=6066 }}

|-----

! 3 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| James Laing

| {{SS|Vedra|1855|2}}

| Collier

| For W. Stobart.{{cite news |title=Launch of the "Vedra," an Iron Collier |newspaper=North & South Shields Gazette, and Northumberland and Durham Advertiser |date=16 August 1855 |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/images17/vedra6.jpg }}

|-----

! 14 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{ship|French ship|Dialmath|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.

|-----

! 14 August

| {{flagicon|UKGBI}} Province of Canada

| T. C. Lee

| Hare Point

| Meteor

| For Messrs. Funck, Meinke & Co.{{Cite news |title=Launch of First Vessel Built in Canada on Foreign Account |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=4 September 1855 |issue=27672 }}

|-----

! 14 August

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Podor|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express From Paris |date=18 August 1855 |page=9 |issue=22136 |column=B-D }}

|-----

! 15 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. J. & R. White

| Red Coat

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Cowes |newspaper=Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=18 August 1855 |issue=2915 }}

|-----

! 16 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Bayley & Sons

| Ipswich

| Alarm

| For Edward & George Johnson.{{Cite news |title=Ipswich, Saturday, August 18 |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=18 August 1855 |issue=6067 }}

|-----

! 16 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Brownlow & Lumsden

| Hull

| {{SS|Martlet|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. Brownlow & Co.{{Cite news |title=Another Launch |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=17 August 1855 |issue=3684 }}{{Cite news |title=The Martlet Steamer |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=14 September 1855 |issue=3688 }}{{cite web |url=http://shippingandshipbuilding.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=10034&ref=222703&vessel=MARTLET |title=Martlet |publisher=Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust |accessdate=6 October 2024 }}

|-----

! 17 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{PS|Moss|1855|2}}

| For Moss Steamboat Company.

|-----

! 17 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{SS|Nordstjernon|1855|2}}

| For Bergen Steam Packet Company.{{Cite news |title=Launches at Greenock |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=24 August 1855 |issue=27663 }}

|-----

! 24 August

| {{flag|Prussia}}

| Lübke

| Wolgast

| {{SMS|Frauenlob|1855|2}}

| For Prussian Navy.

|-----

! 27 August

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Isère|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express From Paris |date=30 August 1855 |page=7 |issue=22146 |column=C-E }}

|-----

! 28 august

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Earle

| Hull

| {{SS|North Sea|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. Thomas Wilson, Sons, & Co.{{Cite news |title=Launch of the North Sea |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=24 August 1855 |issue=3685 }}

|-----

! 28 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| William Pile Jr.

| {{ship||Walmer Castle|1855 ship|2}}

| East Indiaman

| For Green & Co.

|-----

! 29 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| T. R. Carke Jr.

| Georgina

| West Indiaman

| For Messrs. Yates, Brown & Co.{{Cite news |title=Ship Launch |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=31 August 1855 |issue=2719 }}{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=31 August 1855 |issue=27669 }}

|-----

! 29 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Hugh Banister

| Tarleton

| Mary and Jane

| For Thomas Harrison & James Taylor.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Preston Chronicle |location=Preston |date=1 September 1855 |issue=2244 }}

|-----

! 29 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| John Lugars

| King's Lynn

| Royal Arthur

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=3 September 1855 |issue=27671 }}

|-----

! 29 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Bayled & Sons

| Ipswich

| Siam

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Ship Launch |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=1 September 1855 |issue=6069 }}

|-----

! 29 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Canada Works

| {{SS|Victoria|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 September 1855 |issue=2720 }}

|-----

! 30 August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Sandycroft Ironworks

| Deeside

| {{ship||Royal Charter|ship|2}}

| Auxiliary clipper

| For Liverpool & Australian Steamship Navigation Company.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Electric Telegraph Despatches |date=30 August 1855 |page=7 |issue=22146 |column=F }}

|-----

! August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Jobling & Co., or Jobling & Willoughby

| Alliance

| For Gray & Co.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland060.html |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 18 |publisher=Searle |accessdate=25 November 2023 }}

|-----

! August

| {{flag|Netherlands}}

| Lemmer

| Eliza

| Brig

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Advertisements & Notices |newspaper=Ipswich Journal |location=Ipswich |date=16 February 1856 |issue=6093 }}

|-----

! August

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Emerald

| For Messrs. Howland & Ridgway.{{Cite news |title=The New Packet Ship Emerald |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=Londopn |date=4 September 1855 |issue=27672 }}

|-----

! August

| {{flagicon|UKGBI}} Colony of Nova Scotia

| Florence Nightingale

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Advertisements & Notices |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=23 November 1855 |issue=5532 }}

|-----

! August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Princess Maria

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=19 March 1856 |issue=5582 }}

|-----

! August

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Mansfield

| Teignmouth

| Regina

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Teignmouth |newspaper=Trewman's Exeter Flying Post |location=Exeter |date=23 August 1855 |issue=4662 }}

|-----

! 1 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{SS|Barcelona|1855|2}}

| For Linea de Vapores Correos Españoles Transatlanticos.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Liverpool, Sept. 1 |date=3 September 1855 |page=9 |issue=22149 |column=B }}

|-----

! 2 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Pitcher

| {{HMS|Sandfly|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Albacore|gunboat|||1855}}

| For Royal Navy.{{Cite news |title=Reinforcements and Supplies for the Crimea |newspaper=Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=1 September 1855 |issue=2917 }}

|-----

! 2 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Pitcher

| Smith and Dimon Shipyard

| {{HMS|Sheldrake|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Albacore|gunboat|||1855}}

| For Royal Navy.

|-----

! 4 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| New York

| {{SS|Fulton|1855|2}}

| For New York and Havre Steam Navigation Company.

|-----

! 8 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Pitcher

| {{HMS|Plover|1855|2}}

| {{Sclass|Albacore|gunboat|||1855}}

| For Royal Navy.

|-----

! 8 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Pitcher

| {{HMS|Tickler|1855|2}}

| {{Sclass|Albacore|gunboat|||1855}}

| For Royal Navy.{{Cite news |title=Reinforcements and Supplies for the Crimea |newspaper=Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=8 September 1855 |issue=2918 }}

|-----

! 12 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{HMS|Chesapeake|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Forte|frigate}}

| For Royal Navy.

|-----

! 12 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Robert Thompson

| Jessamine

| Snow

| For Watson & Co.

|-----

! 12 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Richardson

| East Hartlepool

| {{SS|Sir Colin Campbell|Richardson, 1855|2}}

| For Richard Young.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Iron Shipbuilding at Hartlepool |date=15 September 1855 |page=9 |issue=22160 |column=C }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Launch Of An Iron Vessel |date=17 September 1855 |page=8 |issue=22161 |column=C }}

|-----

! 13 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Rawson & Watson

| Chancellor

| For Mr. Watson.

|-----

! 13 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. J. P. Dennison & Co

| East Hartlepool

| Elegant

| For private owner.

|-----

! 13 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Woolwich Dockyard

| Woolwich

| {{HMS|Pearl|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Pearl|corvette}}

| For Royal Navy.

|-----

! 13 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Cato, Miller & Co.

| {{SS|Test|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 September 1855 |issue=2724 }}

|-----

! 17 September

| {{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

| New Admiralty Shipyard

| Saint Petersburg

| {{ship|Russian ship of the line|Retvizan|1855|2}}

| For Imperial Russian Navy.

|-----

! 18 September

| {{flagicon|UKGBI}} Province of Canada

| Tchernaya

| Ran aground on being launched.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury etc |location=Liverpool |date=6 October 1855 |issue= }}

|-----

! 25 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Smith's

| North Shields

| {{SS|Gitana|1855|2}}

| For West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway Company.{{Cite news |title=Launch of an Iron Screw Steamer |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=28 September 1855 |issue=9431 }}

|-----

! 26 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Penmaenpool

| Robert Jones

| For Robert Jones.{{Cite news |title=Penmaenpool, Dolgelly |newspaper=North Wales Chronicle |location=Bangor |date=29 September 1855 |issue=1489 }}

|-----

! 26 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Devonport Dockyard

| {{HMS|Satellite|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Pearl|corvette}}

| For Royal Navy.

|-----

! 26 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Walter Hood & Co.

| Star of Peace

| For George Thompson Jr.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeem |date=3 October 1855 |issue=5621 }}

|-----

! 27 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{SS|Borysthene|1855|2}}

| For Compagnie des Messageries Imperiales.{{Cite news |title=Launch of a Screw Steamer |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=28 September 1855 |issue=2727 }}

|-----

! 27 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Austin & Mills

| Ceres

| For M. Sharp.

|-----

! 27 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| John T. Alcock

| City of Durham

| For Thomas Nicholson.

|-----

! 27 September

| {{Flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Robert Thompson Jr.

| Graces

| For T. Coxon.{{sfn|Mitchell|Sawyer|1990|pp=106-07}}

|-----

! 27 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| John Smith

| Hannah Marks

| For A. J. Marks.

|-----

! 27 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. J. & G. Thomson

| {{SS|Ossian|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=28 September 1855 |issue= }}

|-----

! 27 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Evan Ellis

| Porthdinllaen

| Richard Roberts

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Porthdinllaen |newspaper=North Wales Chronicle |location=Bangor |date=29 September 1855 |issue=1489 }}

|-----

! 27 September

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{HMS|Repulse|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Agamemnon|ship of the line}}

| For Royal Navy.{{Cite news |title=Naval and Military |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=1 October 1855 |issue=2923 }}

|-----

! September

| {{flagicon|UKGBI}} Province of Canada

| McCord

| Ardmillan

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Advertisements & Notices |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=28 November 1855 |issue=5534 }}{{Cite news |title=Advertisements & Notices |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=7 December 1855 |issue=5538 }}

|-----

! 2 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. John & James Robinson

| Glenealn

| For William Dixon.

|-----

! 3 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| W. Johnson

| Coxgreen

| Cadiz

| Snow

| For Mr. Collingwood.{{cite news |title=Launches on the Wear |newspaper=North & South Shields Gazette and Northumberland and Durham Advertiser |date=4 October 1855 |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/images16/cadiz1.jpg }}

|-----

! 3 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| W. Wilkinson

| Nithsdale

| For Messrs. Watson & Co.

|-----

! 4 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{ship|French ship|Malakhoff|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Algesiras|ship of the line}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite news |title=Steamers to the United States |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=11 October 1855 |issue=2932 }}{{Cite news |title=France |newspaper=Bristol Mercury |location=Bristol |date=13 October 1855 |issue=3421 }}

|-----

! 4 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| W. Scowler

| Unnamed

| For M. Tweddle.

|-----

! 6 October

| {{flag|Denmark}}

| Copenhagen

| {{HDMS|Niels Juel|1855|2}}

| Frigate

| For Royal Danish Navy.{{Cite news |title=The Baltic |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=3 September 1855 |issue=20571 }}

|-----

! 6 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Green

| Not named

| For Peruvian Navy.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=8 October 1855 |issue=2929 }}

|-----

! 8 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Thomas & Benjamin Tiffin

| Juventa

| For Wilson & Co.

|-----

! 11 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Palmer, Brothers, & Co

| {{SS|Allies|1855|2}}

| For C. Baker.

|-----

! 11 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Palmer, Brothers, & Co

| {{SS|Brenda|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. Robinson & Co.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Progress Of Iron Shipbuilding |date=15 October 1855 |page=5 |issue=22185 |column=B }}

|-----

! 11 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Palmer, Brothers, & Co.

| {{SS|Brigadier|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. William Laing & Co.

|-----

! 11 October

| 22px India

| Bombay

| Emily

| For British East India Company.{{Sfn|Wadia|1986|p=352}}

|-----

! 11 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Bowman and Drummond

| Wave

| Snow

| For Simpson & Co.{{cite web |url=http://shippingandshipbuilding.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=10061&a1Page=4&ref=207942&vessel=WAVE |title=Wave |publisher=Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust |accessdate=3 October 2024 }}

|-----

! 13 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. M. Samuelson & Co.

| Hull

| {{SS|Borussia|1855|2}}

| For Harburg English Steam Navigation Company.{{Cite news |title=The Borussia |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=19 October 1855 |issue=3693 }}

|-----

! 15 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Teall

| Ringsend

| {{SS|Flower of the Sea|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=The Experimental Screw Steamer, Flower of the Sea |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=16 October 1855 }}

|-----

! 16 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Halpin

| Dublin

| Relief

| Lightship

| For Trinity House.{{Cite news |title=Ship Launces in Dublin |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=17 October 1855 }}

|-----

! 20 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Pitcher

| {{HMS|Banterer|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Albacore|gunboat|||1855}}

| For Royal Navy.{{Cite news |title=Naval and Military |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=23 October 1855 |issue=2942 }}{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=17 November 1855 |issue=2928 }}

|-----

! 20 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Pitcher

| {{HMS|Bullfrog|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Albacore|gunboat|||1855}}

| For Royal Navy.

|-----

! 23 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Cartsdyke

| {{SS|Ganger Rolf|1855|2}}

| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

| For South of Norway Steamship Company.{{Cite news |title=Launch of the Screw Steamer Ganger Rolf |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=26 October 1855 |issue=27717 }}

|-----

! 24 October

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Philadelphia Navy Yard

| {{USS|Wabash|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Colorado|frigate}}

|-----

! 25 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Arrow Leithead

| Belle Alliance

| For Mr. Richardson.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland068.html |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 22 |publisher=Searle |accessdate=25 November 2023 }}

|-----

! 25 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Peter Austin

| Fidus

| For J. Mills.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland042.html |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 3 |publisher=Searle |accessdate=25 November 2023 }}

|-----

! 25 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. John & R. White

| Plummer

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Cowes |newspaper=Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=27 October 1855 |issue=2925 }}

|-----

! 25 October

| {{flag|France}}

| Rochefort

| {{ship|French ship|Redoutable|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Algésiras|ship of the line}}

| For French Navy.

|-----

! 27 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Smith & Roger

| {{SS|Spartan|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. H. Dixon & Co.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=29 October 1855 |issue=5521 }}

|-----

! 29 October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. W. Simmons & Co.

| Whiteinch

| {{SS|Aberdeenshire|1855|2}}

| For private owners.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=2 November 1855 |issue=27723 }}

|-----

! October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| G. Gardner

| Chowdean

| For J. Tully.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland058.html |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 16 |publisher=Searle |accessdate=25 November 2023 }}

|-----

! October

| {{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

| Nicholaieff

| {{ship|Russian ship|Dvenadtsat Apostolov|1855|2}}

| For Imperial Russian Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Nicholaieff, And The Way To It |date=11 October 1855 |page=9 |issue=22182 |column=A }}

|-----

! October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Hickson & Co.

| Belfast

| {{SS|Khersonese|1855|2}}

| For British Government.{{Cite news |title=Belfast Police Court |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=15 October 1855 |issue=12274 }}{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=9 August 1856 |issue=123916 }}

|-----

! October

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Stockton-on-Tees

| Westminster

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Advertisements & Notices |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=15 October 1855 |issue=27707 }}

|-----

! 2 November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Money, Wigram & Son

| {{HMS|Victor|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Intrepid|gunvessel}}

| For Royal Navy.

|-----

! 3 November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Lumley, Kennedy & Co.

| {{SS|Valdivia|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. Nicholson & McGill.{{Cite news |title=Launch. - The Valdivia |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 November 1855 |issue=2743 |edition=Third }}

|-----

! 10 November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Kelvinside

| {{SS|Edinburgh|1855|2}}

| For Glasgow and New York Steam Shipping Company.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Launch of the Screw Steamer Edinburgh |date=13 November 1855 |page=8 |issue=22210 |column=A }}

|-----

! 12 November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Stewart & Forbes

| Peterhead

| Sea Sprite

| For Messrs. George Craig & Co.{{Cite news |title=Launch at Peterhead |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=21 November 1855 |issue=5628 }}

|-----

! 12 November

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Yonne|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express From Paris |date=5 November 1855 |page=7 |issue=22203 |column=A-B }}

|-----

! 13 November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Wigram

| London

| {{HMS|Intrepid|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Intrepid|gunvessel}}

| For Royal Navy.

|-----

! 13 November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. H. Samuelson & Co.

| Hull

| {{SS|Saxonia|1855|2}}

| For Harburg English Steam Navigation Company.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=16 November 1855 |issue=3697 }}

|-----

! 15 November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Steele & Co.

| Eugenie

| For Messrs. Baine & Johnston.{{Cite news |title=Launches at Greenock |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=19 November 1855 |issue=5530 }}

|-----

! 15 November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{SS|Maria|1855|2}}

| For Risca Steam Coal Co.

|-----

! 17 November

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Hayden & Cudworth

| {{ship||Electric Spark|clipper|2}}

| For Thatcher Magoun & Son.{{sfn|Crothers|1997|p=not cited}}{{sfn|Gleason|1937|p=78}}

|-----

! 20 November

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Paul Curtis

| {{ship||Golden Fleece|clipper|2}}

| For private owner.

|-----

! 21 November

| 22px India

| Bombay

| {{SS|Goolanar|1855|2}}

| For British East India Company.{{Sfn|Wadia|1986|p=351}}

|-----

! 22 November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. William Simons & Co.

| Whiteinch

| Fort George

| For Messrs. Clint & Co.{{Cite news |title=Launch at Whiteinch |newspaper=Glasgow Heral |location=Glasgow |date=26 November 1855 |issue=5533 }}

|-----

! 24 November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Portsmouth Dockyard

| {{HMS|Shannon|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Liffey|frigate}}

| For Royal Navy.

|-----

! 24 November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Scott & Co.

| {{SS|Thalia|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Engineering Feat |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=5 December 1855 |issue=5537 }}

|-----

! November

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Abbott Lawrence

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Advertisements & Notices |newspaper=Bristol Mercury |location=Bristol |date=9 August 1856 |issue=3464 }}

|-----

! November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| John Duncay

| Speymouth

| Arctic

| Sealer

| For private owners.{{Cite news |title=Launch at Speymouth |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=5 December 1855 |issue=5630 }}

|-----

! November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| W. C. Miller

| Toxteth

| {{SS|Destello|1855|2}}

| For private owner.

|-----

! November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. White

| Dreadnought

| Lifeboat

| Broadstairs Lifeboat.{{Cite news |title=The Broadstairs Life-boat |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=12 November 1855 |issue=27731 }}

|-----

! November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Waterford

| Dutchman

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=19 November 1855 }}

|-----

! November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{SS|Meandria|1855|2}}

| For private owner.

|-----

! November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Thomas Vernon & Co.

| {{SS|Rota|1855|2}}

| For Messrs. W. J. Myers & Co.{{Cite news |title=Shipbuilding on the Mersey |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=4 December 1855 |issue=27750 }}

|-----

! November

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Hylton Carr

| Hylton

| Percy

| Snow

| For Barry & Co.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=30 November 1855 |issue=9440 }}

|-----

! 1 December

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Washington Navy Yard

| {{USS|Minnesota|1855|2}}

| Steam Frigate

|-----

! 7 December

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Portland Shipbuilding Company

| Troon

| {{SS|Cora|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Launch. - Troon, Dec. 7 |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=14 December 1855 |issue=5541 }}

|-----

! 8 December

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| W. & H. Pitcher

| {{HMS|Forward|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Albacore|gunboat|||1855}}

| For Royal Navy.

|-----

! 11 December

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. M. Samueson & Co.

| Hull

| {{SS|Ernestine|1855|2}}

| For private owners.{{Cite news |title=Launch |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=14 December 1855 |issue=3701 }}

|-----

! 11 December

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Richardson Bros.

| Hartlepool

| {{SS|Florence Nightingale|1855|2}}

| For Mr. Young.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Launch Of The Florence Nightingale |date=13 December 1855 |page=12 |issue=22236 |column=E }}

|-----

! 13 December

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| New York Navy Yard

| {{USS|Roanoke|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Merrimack|frigate}}

|-----

! 15 December

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Webster

| Fraserburgh

| Isabella

| J. B. & J. D. Van Deusen

| For J. A. Flett.{{Cite news |title=Launch at Fraserburgh |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=19 December 1855 |issue=5632 }}

|-----

! 28 December

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Williamsburg, New York

| {{ship||John D. Jones|pilot boat|2}}

| Pilot boat

| For New York Pilots.

|-----

! December

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Pitcher

| {{HMS|Charger|1856|2}}

| {{sclass|Albacore|gunboat|||1855}}

| For Royal Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval and Military Intelligence |date=19 December 1855 |page=12 |issue=22241 |column=B }}

|-----

! December

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| J. Simonson

| New York

| {{PS|C. Vanderbilt|1855|2}}

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=The New American Steamship C. Vanderbilt |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=27 December 1855 |issue=2998 }}

|-----

! December

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{HMS|Flying Fish|1855|2}}

| Despatch boat

| For Royal Navy.{{Cite news |title=Naval and Military News |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=25 December 1855 |issue=27768 }}

|-----

! December

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Palmer Bros.

| {{SS|Marmora|1855|2}}

| Collier

| For C. D. Barker.

|-----

! December

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Palmer Bros.

| {{SS|Minna|1855|2}}

| For St. Petersburg Steam Ship Company.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=4 January 1856 |issue=9445 }}

|-----

! December

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{abbr|M.|Monsieur}} Guibert

| Rubens

| For Compagnie Générale Maritime.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=15 December 1855 }}

|-----

! December

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| West Hartlepool

| The Times Correspondent

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Jackson's Oxford Journal |location=Oxford |date=15 December 1855 |issue=5355 }}

|-----

! Spring

| {{flagicon|UKGBI}} Colony of Nova Scotia

| St. Mary's

| Brilliant

| Brig

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Advertisements & Notices |newspaper=Bristol Mercury |location=Bristol |date=29 September 1855 |issue=3419 }}

|-----

! Autumn

| {{flagicon|UKGBI}} Province of Canada

| Brunelle

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Advertisements & Notices |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=18 August 1856 |issue=5647 }}

|-----

! Autumn

| {{flagicon|UKGBI}} Province of Canada

| Florence

| For private owner.{{Cite news |title=Advertisements & Notices |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=20 February 1857 |issue=5727 }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Pile & Smart

| Acastus

| For J. & J. S. Twizell.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland123.html |title=SHIPS BUILT IN THE 1850s |publisher=Searle |accessdate=25 November 2023 }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Pickersgill & Miller

| Aid

| Brig

| For Gideon Smales.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland073.html |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 25 |publisher=Searle |accessdate=25 November 2023 }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Peter Austin

| Aletheia

| For S. Austin.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| John Smith

| Alliance

| For H. Tindall.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| W. H. Pearson

| Allied Powers

| For Jobling & Co.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Alma

| For G. Dowell.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Brikenhead

| {{SS|Alma|1855|2}}

| For Admiralty.{{Cite news |title=Reinforcements and Supplies for the Crimera |newspaper=Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=31 March 1855 |issue=2895 }}

|----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Brundrit & Whiteway

| Alma

| For Brundrit & Whiteway.{{cite web |url=http://shippingandshipbuilding.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=11562&a1Page=2&ref=229101&vessel=ALMA |title=Alma |publisher=Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust |accessdate=6 October 2024 }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Stothard

| Alpha

| Snow

| For Mr. Jackson.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Rawson & Watson

| Antias

| Brig

| For G. Smales.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland092.html |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 35 |publisher=Searle |accessdate=25 November 2023 }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| E. Bailey

| Aphrogencia

| For J. Leslie.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Philadelphia Navy Yard

| {{USS|Arctic|1855|2}}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Richard Wilkinson

| Armistice

| Amesbury, Massachusetts

| For J. Longton.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| {{USS|Arthur||2}}

| For private owner.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|Empire of Japan}}

| Edo

| {{ship|Japanese warship|Asahi Maru||2}}

| For Imperial Japanese Navy.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| James & R. Mills

| Aurora

| Brig

| For Dawson Bros.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Short

| Balaklava

| For Mr. Greenwell.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| J. Watson

| Beatrice

| For Stokoe & Co.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Briggs

| Bellona

| For J. Allan.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| {{ship|USCS|Benjamin Peirce||2}}

| For private owner.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| James Laing

| {{SS|Black Diamond|1855|2}}

| For J. Hughes et al.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagicon|UKGBI}} Colony of Nova Scotia

| Pictou

| Black Watch

| For Messrs. Andrew Stewart & Co.{{Cite news |title=The Loss of the Black Watch |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=7 January 1856 |issue=3007 }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Austin & Mills

| British Banner

| For B. Ward.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Montell & Co.

| Baltimore, Maryland

| {{ship||Carrier Dove|clipper|2}}

| For Trask & Dearborn.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Duthie & Co.

| Catherine Adamson

| For private owner.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=(advertisement) |date=11 October 1855 |page=1 |issue=22182 |column=C }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| J. Lister

| Catherine and Ann

| Snow

| For W. Bunker.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. Thomas & William Smith

| San Francisco, California

| {{SS|Chasseur|1855|2}}

| Repair ship and floating arsenal

| For unknown owner.{{Cite news |title=Floating Arsenal |newspaper=Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=3 August 1855 |issue=27645 }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| John Gunder North

| {{ship||Colorado I|sternwheeler|2}}

| Sternwheeler

| For George A. Johnson & Company.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| G. Gardener

| Courier

| For Kelso & Co.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| William Harkass

| Cresswell

| For C. Jenkins.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Rawson & Watson

| Earl of Cromartie

| For J. Hill.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Robert Thompson

| Edmund Graham

| For Edmund Graham.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Eliza

| Brig

| For private owner.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| James O. Curtis

| Enoch Train

| Icebreaker

| For Boston Steam Tow-boat Co.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| L. Gales

| Equinox

| For W. Milburn.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Eugenie

| For private owner.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Eylau|1859|2}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite news |title=The Steam Navy of France |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=13 January 1859 |issue=6028 |author=E. J. Reed }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Forrest & Jackson, or Forrest & Co.

| Falcon

| For W. Hay.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| J. Lister

| Fear Not

| For J. & E. Douthwaite.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| D. Douglass

| Forerunner

| For R. Hudson.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|Ottoman Empire|1793}}

| Sinope

| {{ship|Ottoman ship|Gayvan Bakry|1856|2}}

| Frigate

| For Ottoman Navy.{{Cite news |title=Turkish Man-of-war in Liverpool |newspaper=Derby Mercury |location=Derby |date=25 June 1856 |issue=3374 }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| John Smith

| Geelong

| For G. Gray.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| R. Sanderson

| George and Maria

| Snow

| For G. Downie.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Todd & Brown

| Gharra

| For Heald & Co.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| M. Clarke

| Godavery

| For George Thompson & James Bambrough.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| John Smith

| Greetings

| For private owner.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Peter Gibson

| Guadiana

| For C. H. T. Borries, M. W. Sidney, J. Stevenson, and E. H. Watts.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Forrest & Co

| Harriet

| For H. Henderson, T. Henderson & J. E. Henderson.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{SS|Havannah|1855|2}}

| For private owner.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Hawk

| Steam Yacht

| For Lord Hill.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|Empire of Japan}}

| Heda

| {{ship|Russian schooner|Heda||2}}

| For Imperial Russian Navy.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagicon|UKGBI}} New South Wales

| Sydney

| {{PS|Herald||2}}

| For North Shore Steam Company.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| T. Seymour

| Industry

| For G. Forster.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{PS|Iona|1855|2}}

| For Nantucket and Cape Cod Steamboat Company.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Greenpoint, New York

| {{ship||Island Home|steamboat|2}}

| Steamboat

| For New Haven Steamboat Company.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| William Harkass

| Jane Anna

| For G. Shotton.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Hume & Esson

| Jane Strong

| For A. Strong.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Morgan L. Taylor

| New York City

| J. A. Smith

| Canal boat

| For private owner

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Haswell

| Jubilant

| For James Hay.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| James Laing

| La Hogue

| For Duncan Dunbar & Sons.{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland061.html |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 19 |publisher=Searle |accessdate=26 November 2023 }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Cincinnati, Ohio

| Lancaster Number 3

| Tow boat

| For private owner.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| L. Gales

| Larissa

| For Mr. Davison.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence - Continued |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=15 June 1855 |issue=9416 }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| J. Stetson

| Boston, Massachusetts

| Light of the Age

| For Marshall & Eldridge's Line.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=(advertisement) |date=31 May 1855 |page=1 |issue=22068 |column=D }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| J. T. & C. Alcock

| Lobelia

| For J. Alcock.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| James Robinson

| Loda

| For J. Bowes.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| James Laing

| {{SS|Lowestoft|1855|2}}

| For J. V. Gooch & Co.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| George Worthy

| Madeira

| For Ord & Co.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| W. Harkass

| Mangosteen

| For John Nicholson, William Nicholson & William Nicholson Jr.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Bowman and Drummond

| Marian

| For William MacKey and William Archibald MacKey.{{cite web |url=http://shippingandshipbuilding.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=10061&a1Page=4&ref=207943&vessel=MARIAN |title=Marian |publisher=Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust |accessdate=3 October 2024 }}

|----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Brundrit & Whiteway

| Mary Houghton

| For private owner.{{cite web |url=http://shippingandshipbuilding.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=11562&a1Page=2&ref=229102&vessel=MARY+HOUGHTON |title=Mary Houghton |publisher=Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust |accessdate=6 October 2024 }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| J. Hardie

| Mary Louisa

| For James Hardie.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Pickersgill & Miller

| Meg Merillies

| For W. Doxford.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| J. Hardie

| Miss Nightingale

| For Mr. Haddock.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| J. Rogerson

| Napoleon III

| For A. Strong & Co.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Northumbria's Daughter

| For W. Crawford.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| George Barker

| Orient

| For Scofield & Co.

|----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Brundrit & Whiteway

| Penmaen

| For Brundrit & Whiteway.{{cite web |url=http://shippingandshipbuilding.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=11562&a1Page=2&ref=229103&vessel=PENMAEN |title=Penmaen |publisher=Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust |accessdate=6 October 2024 }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece}}

| Henderson Shipyard

| {{ship||Panellinion|steamship|2}}

| For Royal Greek Navy.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Messrs. H. Balfour & Co.

| Methil

| {{PS|Prince Argentino|1855|2}}

| For private owners.{{Cite news |title=Iron Ship-building on the East Coast |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=17 December 1855 |issue=20661 }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| William Pile Jr.

| {{SS|Queen of Greece|1855|2}}

| For G. Stavros.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| {{ship|French ship|Rafale|1855|2}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express from Paris |date=2 May 1855 |page=9 |issue=22043 |column=B }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| T. Stonehouse

| Ravenswheel

| Snow

| For T. Stonehouse.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| W. Pile

| {{SS|Remi|1855|2}}

| For Mr. Schmidt.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Bank Quay Company

| Retriever

| For Messrs. Leech, Harrison & Forewood.{{Cite news |title=A New Iron Vessel Capsized in the River |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=7 August 1855 |issue=2712 }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| W. Pile

| Rival

| For private owner.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| James Robertson

| Robert Hay

| For R. Hay.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Hayden & Cudworth

| {{ship||Sancho Panza|clipper|2}}

| Medium clipper

| For John Ellerton Lodge.{{sfn|Gleason|1937|p=78}}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|France}}

| {{ship|French ship|Salve|1855|2}}

| {{sclass|Poudre|gunboat}}

| For French Navy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Express From Paris |date=7 June 1855 |page=7 |issue=22074 |column=B-D }}

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| T. Stonehouse

| Sanderson

| For Mr. Sanderson.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Todd & Brown

| Sarah Kay

| For T. Kay.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| J. Watson

| Savannah

| For Bell & Co.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| New York City

| {{USS|Shawsheen|1855|2}}

| Tugboat

| For private owner.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| G. Booth

| Sir Colin Campbell

| Shpusetown, Pennsylvania

| For W. H. Alexander.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| {{USS|Sovereign|1855|2}}

| Escher Wyss et Compagnie

| For private owner

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|Switzerland}}

| Escher Wyss

| {{ship||Stadt Zürich|ship, 1855|2}}

| Steamboat

| For Swiss Northeastern Railway.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| J. Jobling, or Jobling & Co

| Surprize

| Snow

| For Mr. Swinburn.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| H. Carr

| South Hylton

| Tennessee

| For James Wilson.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| Hayden & Cudworth

| {{ship||Thatcher Magoun|clipper|2}}

| For Thatcher Magoun & Sons

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| J. Hardie

| Thomas Varcoe

| For J. Varcoe.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Ratcliff, Spence & Co.

| United

| Snow

| For Mr. Ratcliff.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Reay

| Kensington, Pennsylvania

| Vibilia

| Snow

| For Reed & Co.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| {{USS|Victoria|1855|2}}

| For private owner.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| W. Pile

| Walmer Castle

| For Green & Co.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| J. Hardie

| William James

| For James Hardie.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| J. Barkes

| Witch of the Seas

| For Mr. Thompson.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| M. Clarke

| Witch of the Seas

| For J. Huntley.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flag|United States|1851}}

| {{USS|Young America|1855|2}}

| For private owner

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| Hodgson & Gardener

| Zenobia

| For Mr. Johnson.

|-----

! Unknown date

| {{flagcountry|UKGBI}}

| William Bonker

| Salcombe

| Zouave