The list of ship launches in 1886 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1886.
Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class / type | Notes | |
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2 January | Sunderland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd | Sunderland | Steamship | For Leach & Co.[1] [2] | |||
4 January | James Laing | Sunderland | Steamship | For Nederlandse Indische Stoomvaart Maatschappij.[3] | |||
5 January | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Cargo ship | For Edward Bates & Son.[4] | |||
6 January | Messrs. Blackwood & Gordon | Port Glasgow | Steamship | For Messrs. Bow, M'Lachlan & Co. | |||
6 January | Messrs. A. M'Millan & Son | Dumbarton | Ventura | Merchantman | For Scotia Shipping Company. | ||
9 January | Mr. Roderick | Eagleton | Ada and Ethel | Schooner | For Edward Davies & Charles Frederick Messell. | ||
15 January | Boolds, Sharer & Co. | Sunderland | Tug | For Queenstown Screw Tug & Shipping Co. Ltd. | |||
18 January | Earle's Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Limited | Hull | Unnamed | Steam fishing trawler | For Boston Deep Sea Fishing and Ice Co, Limited. | ||
18 January | Earle's Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Limited | Hull | Unnamed | Steam fishing trawler | For Boston Deep Sea Fishing and Ice Co, Limited. | ||
19 January | Joseph T. Eltringham | South Shields | Paddle tug | For Messrs. Martin & Marquand. | |||
19 January | Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft | Flensburg | Ferdinand Fischer | Merchantman | For T. D. Bischoff. | ||
19 January | Devonport Dockyard | For Royal Navy. | |||||
20 January | Messrs. Richardson, Duck & Co. | Stockton-on-Tees | Eskasoni | Full-rigged ship | For Messrs. T. & E. Kenney. | ||
20 January | Joseph L. Thompson & Sons | Sunderland | Steamship | For W. Lund.[5] | |||
21 January | John Knox & Co. | South Hylton | Steamship | For M. Sverljuga & Co.[6] | |||
21 January | Messrs. Gourlay Bros. & Co. | Dundee | Steamship | For Loch Line Steam Shipping Company. | |||
21 January | London & Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company (Limited) | Govan | Steamship | For Messrs. Jenkins & Co. | |||
21 January | Messrs. A. & J. Inglis | Pointhouse | Unnamed | Steamship | For private owner. | ||
22 January | Messrs. R. Williamson & Son | Workington | Lowther Castle | Merchantman | For Lancaster Shipowners Company.[7] | ||
January | La Seyne-sur-Mer | Steamship | For Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. | ||||
4 February | Messrs. John Readhead & Sons | South Shields | Steamship | For Robert Harrowing. | |||
4 February | Messrs. Richardson, Duck & Co. | Stockton-on-Tees | Lindisfarne | Merchantman | For Messrs. John Lidgett & Sons. | ||
4 February | Sunderland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Sunderland | Steamship | For Angelo Profum fuG. | |||
4 February | Venetian Arsenal | Venice | For Regia Marina. | ||||
5 February | Messrs. T. B. Seath & Co. | Rutherglen | Steamship | For private owner. | |||
6 February | Messrs. Napier, Shanks & Bell | Yoker | Steamship | For Messrs. Donaldson Bros. | |||
6 February | Messrs. Oswald, Mordaunt & Co. | Southampton | Andrina | Merchantman | For G. W. Roberts. | ||
6 February | Messrs. Head & Riley | Hull | Tug | For Hull and Barnsley Railway and Dock Company. | |||
6 February | Messrs. W. Gray & Co. | West Hartlepool | Steamship | For H. F. Pease. | |||
6 February | J. & G. Thompson | Glasgow | For Royal Navy. | ||||
6 February | Messrs. Cochrane & Son | Beverley | Remus | Steam trawler | For Messrs. Pickering & Haldane. | ||
6 February | Messrs. A. G. Gifford & Co. | Leith | Salamander | Steam drifter | For private owner. | ||
8 February | Norway | Messrs. Martens, Olsen & Co. | Bergen | Steamship | For private owner. | ||
8 February | Messrs. Workman, Clarke & Co. | Belfast | Star of Austria | Merchantman | For Messrs. J. P. Corry & Co. | ||
9 February | Messrs. Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Limited | Hull | Fishtoft | Steam trawler | For . | ||
9 February | Messrs. Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Limited | Hull | Frampton | Steam trawler | For . | ||
16 February | Messrs. Ramage & Ferguson | Leith | Highland Home | Barque | For Messrs. Crane, Colville & Co. | ||
17 February | Pembroke Dockyard | For Royal Navy. | |||||
18 February | Messrs. Thomas Turnbull & Son | Whitby | Steamship | For Messts. Thomas Turnbull & Son. | |||
18 February | Messrs. Ramage & Ferguson | Leith | Violet | Steam yacht and trawler | For Lord Alfred Paget. | ||
19 February | Spain | Ferrol | For Spanish Navy. | ||||
20 February | Barrow Ship Building Co. Ltd. | Barrow-in-Furness | Steamship | For Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and London and North Western Railway.[8] | |||
25 February | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Cargo ship | For Rankin Gilmour & Co.[9] | |||
4 March | Raylton, Dixon and Co | Middlesbrough | African | Steamer | For Union Steam-ship Company[10] | ||
20 March | Bute Shipping, Engineering, & Dry Dock Co. | Cardiff | Steamship | For Collivaud Steamship Co. Ltd.[11] | |||
20 March | Barrow Ship Building Co. Ltd. | Barrow-in-Furness | Cruiser | For Royal Navy.[12] | |||
21 March | Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando | Livorno | For Regia Marina. | ||||
23 March | United States | Robert Palmer & Sons | Noank, Connecticut | Research ship | For United States Fish Commission. | ||
30 March | Yokosuka Naval Arsenal | Yokosuka | For Imperial Japanese Navy. | ||||
5 April | France | Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre | Havre de Grâce | For French Navy. | |||
6 April | France | Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde | Havre de Grâce | Protected cruiser | For Imperial Japanese Navy. | ||
14 April | Denmark | Orlogsværftet | Copenhagen | Coastal defence ship | For Royal Danish Navy. | ||
14 April | Barrow Ship Building Co. Ltd. | Barrow-in-Furness | For Thorsten Nordenfelt.[13] | ||||
21 April | Fairfield Engineering and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Fairfield | Ocean liner | For Norddeutscher Lloyd. | |||
24 April | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Cargo ship | For Ulster Steamship Co.[14] | |||
1 May | C. S. Swan & Hunter | Wallsend | Steamship | For Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway. | |||
5 May | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Barque | For Irish Shipowners Ltd.[15] | |||
6 May | Russell & Co. | Greenock | Full-rigged ship | For Nourse Line. | |||
6 May | Barrow Ship Building Co. Ltd. | Barrow-in-Furness | Ocean liner | For Pacific Steam Navigation Company.[16] | |||
7 May | J. & G. Thompson | Glasgow | For Royal Navy. | ||||
11 May | United States | F. W. Wheeler & Co. | West Bay City, Michigan | Steamship | For Ball William. | ||
18 May | ROPiT Shipyard | Sevastopol | For Imperial Russian Navy. | ||||
20 May | Nikolayev Admiralty Dockyard | Nikolaev | ] | For Imperial Russian Navy. | |||
30 May | United States | J. S. Ellis & Son | New York | Schooner | For Jacob A. Heath. | ||
9 June | C. S. Swan & Hunter | Wallsend | Steamship | For Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. | |||
16 June | Armstrong, Mitchell and Company | Newcastle upon Tyne | Tanker | For Heinrich Riedemann. | |||
17 June | South Shields | Tremayne | Steamship | For Edward Hain and Sons. | |||
19 June | Barrow Ship Building Co. Ltd. | Barrow-in-Furness | Steamship | For Mediterranean and New York Steamship Co. Ltd.[17] | |||
22 June | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Barque | For W. J. Myers Ltd.[18] | |||
3 July | Boolds, Sharer & Co. | Sunderland | Steamship | For R. P. Houston & Co. | |||
5 July | William Denny and Brothers | Dumbarton | Steamship | For Österreichischer Lloyd.[19] | |||
13 July | Ramage & Ferguson | Leith | Tug | For Brisbane Tug & Steam Ship Company. | |||
15 July | John Knox & Co | South Hylton | Steamship | For Zino Bros.[20] | |||
21 July | Russell and Company | Greenock | Falls of Halladale | Barque | For Wright, Breakenridge & Co. | ||
29 July | Germaniawerft | Kiel | Aviso | For Kaiserliche Marine. | |||
July | Messageries Maritimes | La Ciotat | Steamship | For Messageries Maritimes. | |||
3 August | Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company | Jarrow | For Royal Navy. | ||||
7 August | Sweden | Bergsund Mekaniska | Stockholm | For Imperial Russian Navy. | |||
18 August | Onohama Shipyards | Kobe | For Imperial Japanese Navy. | ||||
25 August | Regio Cantiere di Castellammare di Stabia | Castellammare di Stabia | Torpedo cruiser | For Regia Marina. | |||
28 August | Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. | Low Walker | Steamship | For Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft A/S & Co KG. | |||
31 August | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Cargo ship | For Irish Shipowners Ltd.[21] | |||
31 August | Barrow Ship Building Co. Ltd. | Barrow-in-Furness | Steamship | For Pacific Steam Navigation Company.[22] | |||
August | Richardson, Duck & Company | Stockton-on-Tees | Full-rigged ship | For G. Crenshaw & Co. | |||
August | Strand Slipway Co. | Sunderland | Steamship | For Fenwick & Co.[23] | |||
6 September | Barrow Ship Building Co. Ltd. | Constantinople | Abdül Hamid | For Ottoman Navy.[24] | |||
11 September | Laird Bros. | Birkenhead | Torpedo gunboat | For Royal Navy. | |||
13 September | Caird & Company | Greenock | Ocean liner | For Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. | |||
29 September | Regio Cantiere di Castellammare di Stabia | Castellammare di Stabia | For Regia Marina. | ||||
29 September | Dominion of Canada | Ezra Churchill & Sons | Hantsport | Barque | For Ezra Churchill & Sons. | ||
29 September | France | Lorient | Barbette ship | For French Navy. | |||
29 September | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. | Elswick | For Imperial Chinese Navy. | ||||
30 September | William Doxford & Sons | Sunderland | Colony | Full-rigged ship | For Ogwen Ship Co. Ltd.[25] | ||
September | W. Allsup & Sons Ltd. | Preston | Paddle tug | For Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Preston.[26] | |||
11 October | Earle's Shipbuilding | Hull | Steamship | For Great Eastern Railway. | |||
12 October | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | Dredger | For Londonderry Harbour Board.[27] | |||
16 October | Earle's Shipbuilding | Hull | Steamship | For Great Eastern Railway. | |||
28 October | France | Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire | Nantes | Protected cruiser | For French Navy. | ||
28 October | J. & G. Thompson | Glasgow | For Royal Navy. | ||||
30 October | Barrow Ship Building Co. Ltd. | Barrow-in-Furness | Governor Maclean | Steam yacht | For private owner.[28] | ||
12 November | Schichau-Werke | Elbing | Torpedo boat | For Kaiserliche Marine | |||
13 November | Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. | Elswick | For Spanish Navy. | ||||
14 November | James & George Thompson | Clydebank | Destroyer | For Spanish Navy. | |||
15 November | Earle's Shipbuilding | Hull | For Royal Navy. | ||||
25 November | Robert Napier and Sons | Govan | For Royal Navy. | ||||
25 November | Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company | Jarroiw | For Royal Navy. | ||||
27 November | William Dobson & Company | Walker | Steamship | For Goole Steam Shipping Company. | |||
27 November | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | For Royal Navy. | ||||
6 December | Charles Connell & Co. Ltd. | Scotstoun | Full-rigged ship | For private owner. | |||
11 December | Harland & Wolff | Belfast | For Royal Navy.[29] | ||||
11 December | Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. | Elswick | For Spanish Navy. | ||||
14 December | Armstrong Whitworth | Elswick | For Imperial Chinese Navy. | ||||
Unknown date | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering | Govan | Paddle steamer | For British Government. | |||
Unknown date | Boolds, Sharer & Co | Sunderland | Ani | Merchantman | For J. Pitoeff.[30] | ||
Unknown date | Spanish East Indies | Manila Ship | Cavite | Gunboat | For Spanish Navy. | ||
Unknown date | Sunderland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd | Sunderland | Alejandro | Merchantman | For J. Redo. | ||
Unknown date | United States | Hans Reed or Olaf Reed | Marshfield, Oregon | Steamboat | For private owner. | ||
Unknown date | MacIlwaine, Lewis & Co. Ltd | Belfast | Steamship | For Wigan Coal and Iron Company. | |||
Unknown date | W. Allsup & Sons Ltd. | Preston | Barge No. 1 | Hopper barge | For Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Preston.[31] | ||
Unknown date | W. Allsup & Sons Ltd. | Preston | Barge No. 2 | Hopper barge | For Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Preston.[32] | ||
Unknown date | W. Allsup & Sons Ltd. | Preston | Barge No. 3 | Hopper barge | For Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Preston.[33] | ||
Unknown date | W. Allsup & Sons Ltd. | Preston | Barge No. 4 | Hopper barge | For Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Preston.[34] | ||
Unknown date | W. Allsup & Sons Ltd. | Preston | Barge No. 5 | Hopper barge | For Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Preston.[35] | ||
Unknown date | W. Allsup & Sons Ltd. | Preston | Barge No. 6 | Hopper barge | For Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Preston.[36] | ||
Unknown date | W. Allsup & Sons Ltd. | Preston | Barge No. 7 | Hopper barge | For Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Preston.[37] | ||
Unknown date | W. Allsup & Sons Ltd. | Preston | Barge No. 8 | Hopper barge | For Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Preston.[38] | ||
Unknown date | W. Allsup & Sons Ltd. | Preston | Barge No. 9 | Hopper barge | For Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Preston.[39] | ||
Unknown date | W. Allsup & Sons Ltd. | Preston | Barge No. 10 | Hopper barge | For Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Preston.[40] | ||
Unknown date | W. Allsup & Sons Ltd. | Preston | Barge No. 11 | Hopper barge | For Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Preston.[41] | ||
Unknown date | W. Allsup & Sons Ltd. | Preston | Barge No. 12 | Hopper barge | For Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Preston.[42] | ||
Unknown date | North of England Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Sunderland | Beatrix | Barque | For T. Beynon & Co.[43] | ||
Unknown date | Short Bros. | Sunderland | Bede | Merchantman | For J. S. Barwick. | ||
Unknown date | United States | J. W. Vannaman & Brother | Mauricetown, New Jersey | Boyd N. Sheppard | Schooner | For Frank Sheppard, Harrison Sheppard and others. | |
Unknown date | Robert Thompson & Sons | Sunderland | Bruges | Merchantman | For R. Thompson. | ||
Unknown date | Boolds, Sharer & Co | Sunderland | Cebar | Merchantman | For J. Pitoef. | ||
Unknown date | Bartram, Haswell & Co | Sunderland | Cedar Branch | Merchantman | For Nautilus Steam Shipping Co. Ltd. | ||
Unknown date | Strand Slipway Co. | Sunderland | Charles | Merchantman | For Chevilotte Frères. | ||
Unknown date | Robert Thompson & Sons | Sunderland | Cable layer | For Pirelli & Co.[44] | |||
Unknown date | Washington Territory | Hiram Doncaster | Puget Sound | Sternwheeler | For Thomas Brown. | ||
Unknown date | S. P. Austin & Son | Sunderland | Craigisla | Merchantman | For W. Nicol & Co. | ||
Unknown date | Brundrit & Co. | Runcorn | Despatch | Schooner | For private owner.[45] | ||
Unknown date | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. | Dundee | Eddystone | Merchantman | For Clyde Shipping Company. | ||
Unknown date | Boolds, Sharer & Co. | Sunderland | Ester | Merchantman | For J. Bunster. | ||
Unknown date | Robert Thompson & Sons | Sunderland | Euskaro | Merchantman | For M. M. de Arrotegui. | ||
Unknown date | Joseph L. Thompson & Sons | Sunderland | Steamship | For Österreichischer Lloyd. | |||
Unknown date | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. | Barrow-in-Furness | Cruiser | For Royal Navy. | |||
Unknown date | S. P. Austin & Son | Sunderland | Federation | Merchantman | For Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd. | ||
Unknown date | Joseph L. Thompson & Sons | Sunderland | Federation | Merchantman | For Angier Brothers. | ||
Unknown date | James Laing | Sunderland | Glendale | Merchantman | For P. H. Laing. | ||
Unknown date | James Laing | Sunderland | Henriette H. | Merchantman | For Maurice J. de Hart. | ||
Unknown date | United States | Jeffersonville, Indiana | H. K. Bedford | Steamboat | For private owner. | ||
Unknown date | Baltic Engine Works | Hull | Tug | For J. E Cooper.[46] | |||
Unknown date | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering | Govan | Paddle steamer | For British Government. | |||
Unknown date | Burrell & Son | Glasgow | Steamship | For private owner. | |||
Unknown date | Short Bros. | Sunderland | Steamship | For Prince Steam Shipping Co. Ltd. | |||
Unknown date | Nikolayev Shipyard | Nikolayev | Torpedo boat | For Imperial Russian Navy. | |||
Unknown date | John Bell | Grimsby | John Guzzwell | Fishing trawler | For Henry Brusey.[47] | ||
Unknown date | Rostocker Actiengesellschaft für Schiff & Maschinenbau | Rostock | Lilla | Merchantman | For private owner.[48] | ||
Unknown date | Laird Bros. | Birkenhead | Steamship | For private owner. | |||
Unknown date | Sunderland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Sunderland | Luda | Merchantman | For Admiralty. | ||
Unknown date | John Bell | Grimsby | Mignonette | Fishing trawler | For Charles Bealey.[49] | ||
Unknown date | Sunderland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | Sunderland | Montana | Merchantman | For private owner. | ||
Unknown date | United States | A. C. Brown | Tottenville, New York | Fishing trawler | For private owner. | ||
Unknown date | United States | Wilmington, Delaware | Paddle steamer | For New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamboat Co. | |||
Unknown date | Mort's Dock | Sydney | Paddle steamer | For Port Jackson Steamship Company. | |||
Unknown date | James Laing | Sunderland | Steamship | For Charente Steamship Co. Ltd. | |||
Unknown date | France | Ateliers & Chantiers Dubigeon | Nantes | Brig | For private owner. | ||
Unknown date | Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino | Trieste | Cruiser | For Argentine Navy. | |||
Unknown date | Short Bros | Sunderland | Peeress | Merchantman | For Taylor & Sanderson. | ||
Unknown date | Norway | Ole Martin Olesen | Arendal | Sealer | For Axel Herlofsen. | ||
Unknown date | Joseph L. Thompsonn & Sons | Sunderland | Steamship | For Österreichischer Lloyd. | |||
Unknown date | William Doxford & Sons | Sunderland | Province | Merchantman | For W. Thomas & Co. | ||
Unknown date | John Bell | Grimsby | Rainbow | Fishing trawler | For Ormund Halvorson.[50] | ||
Unknown date | Joseph L. Thompson & Sons | Sunderland | Steamship | For Frederick Bolton & Co. | |||
Unknown date | Joseph L. Thompson & Sons | Sunderland | Samuel Tyzack | Merchantman | For Tyzack & Branfoot. | ||
Unknown date | Robert Thompson & Sons | Sunderland | Santa | Barque | For Turner, Edwards & Co. | ||
Unknown date | United States | New England Shipbuilding Company | Bath, Maine | Ferry | For private owner. | ||
Unknown date | AG Vulcan Stettin | Stettin | Cargo ship | For Norddeutscher Lloyd. | |||
Unknown date | Joseph L. Thompson & Sons | Sunderland | Talavera | Merchantman | For H. Scholefield & Son. | ||
Unknown date | United States | Oregon Development Company | Portland, Oregon | Sternwheeler | For Oregon Pacific Railroad Company. | ||
Unknown date | James Laing | Sunderland | Umzinto | Merchantman | For Bullard, King & Co. Ltd. | ||
Unknown date | United States | James P. Smith | Chicago, Illinois | Steamship | For Alfred Booth. | ||
Unknown date | S. P. Austin & Son | Sunderland | Vesta | Merchantman | For private owner. | ||
Unknown date | Robert Duncan and Company | Glasgow | Tug | For private owner. | |||
Unknown date | John Bell | Grimsby | Whimbrel | Fishing trawler | For Alexander W. Drury.[51] | ||
Unknown date | Forrest & Son | Limehouse | Lifeboat | For Royal National Lifeboat Institution. | |||
Unknown date | John Bell | Grimsby | Young Herbert | Fishing trawler | For Henry Coxson.[52] | ||
Unknown date | William Bayley & Sons | Ipswich | Zenobia | Humber Keel | For private owner.[53] |