| Date | Ship | Class | Builder | Location | Country | Notes |
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| 24 January | Cygnet | Swan-class ship-sloop | Edward Hunt | Portsmouth Dockyard | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [1] |
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| January | Washington | Galley | | Rhode Island | Thirteen Colonies | For Rhode Island General Assembly. |
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| 8 March | Hound | Swan-class ship-sloop | Adams & Barnard | Deptford | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [2] |
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| 18 March | Vulture | Swan-class ship-sloop | John & William Wells | Deptford | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. |
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| 19 March | Hornet | Swan-class ship-sloop | John Perry | Blackwall Yard | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [3] |
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| 20 March | Perseus | Sphinx-class post ship | John Randall | Rotherhithe | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [4] |
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| 21 March | Daphne | Sphinx-class post ship | Nicholas Phillips | Woolwich Dockyard | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [5] |
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| 21 March | Galatea | Sphinx-class post ship | Adam Hayes | Deptford Dockyard | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [6] |
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| 23 March | Unicorn | Sphinx-class post ship | John Randall | Rotherhithe | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [7] |
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| 30 March | San Dámaso | San Joaquin-class ship of the line | | Carthagena | Spain | For Spanish Navy. [8] |
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| 6 April | Spy | Swan-class ship-sloop | Edward Greaves | Limehouse | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [9] |
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| 20 April | Camilla | Sphinx-class post ship | Israel Pownoll | Chatham Dockyard | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [10] |
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| 2 May | Sachem | Sloop-of-war | | | United States | For Continental Navy. [11] |
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| 8 May | Coureur | Lugger | Jacques Denys | Dunkirk | Kingdom of France | For French Navy. [12] |
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| 18 May | Culloden | Culloden-class ship of the line | Adam Hayes | Deptford Dockyard | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [13] |
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| 21 May | Cormorant | Swan-class ship-sloop | John Barnard | Harwich | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [14] |
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| 21 May | Raleigh | Frigate | James Hackett | Kittery, Maine | Thirteen Colonies | For Continental Navy. |
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| May | Providence | Frigate | Silvester Bowes | Providence, Rhode Island | Thirteen Colonies | For Continental Navy. |
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| 3 June | Boston | Frigate | Stephen & Ralph Cross | Newburyport, Massachusetts | Thirteen Colonies | For Continental Navy. |
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| 3 June | Hancock | Frigate | | Newburyport, Massachusetts | Thirteen Colonies | For Continental Navy. |
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| 13 June | Oliver Cromwell | Corvette | Uriah Hayden | | Thirteen Colonies | For Connecticut State Navy. |
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| 20 June | Aetna | Etna-class bomb vessel | John Randall | Rotherhithe | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [15] |
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| 3 July | Vesuvius | Etna-class bomb vessel | John Perry | Blackwall Yard | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [16] |
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| 10 July | Randolph | Frigate | Wharton & Humphreys | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States | For Continental Navy. |
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| 26 July | Bulldog | Galley | Manuel Eyre | Kensington, Philadelphia | United States | For Pennsylvania State Navy. [17] |
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| 27 July | Favorite | Corvette | Jean-Joseph Ginoux | Havre de Grâce | Kingdom of France | For French Navy. [18] |
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| July | Delaware | Frigate | Warwick Coates | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States | For Continental Navy. |
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| July | Tyrannicide | Brigantine | | Salisbury, Massachusetts | United States | For Massachusetts State Navy. |
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| 3 August | Officeuse | Storeship | Jean-Joseph Ginoux | Havre de Grâce | Kingdom of France | For French Navy. |
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| 7 August | Washington | Frigate | Benjamin, Jehu and Manuel Eyre | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States | For Continental Navy. |
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| 12 August | Virginia | Frigate | George Wells | Fells Point, Maryland | United States | For Continental Navy. [19] |
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| August | Philadelphia | Gundalow | Hermanus Schuyler | Skenesborough, New York | United States | For Continental Navy. |
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| 5 September | Trumbull | Frigate | John Cotton | Chatham, Connecticut | United States | For Continental Navy. |
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| 10 September | Trumbull | Galley | | Skenesborough, New York | United States | For Continental Navy. |
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| 14 September | Fly | Swan-class ship-sloop | George White | Sheerness Dockyard | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. |
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| 27 September | Ménagère | Sixth rate | François-Guillaume Clairain des Lauriers | Rochefort | Kingdom of France | For French Navy. [20] |
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| September | Fendant | Ship of the line | | Rochefort | Kingdom of France | For French Navy. |
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| September | Row Galley Number One | Galley | | New York | United States | For Royal Navy. [21] |
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| September | Row Galley Number Two | Galley | | New York | United States | For Royal Navy. [22] |
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| September | Washington | Galley | | Skenesborough, New York | United States | For Continental Navy. [23] |
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| October | Montgomery | Frigate | Lancaster Burling | Poughkeepsie, New York | United States | For Continental Navy. |
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| 29 October | Congress | Galley | Lancaster Burling | Skenesborough, New York | United States | For Continental Navy. [24] |
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| 7 November | Effingham | Fifth rate | Joseph Grice | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States | For Continental Navy. [25] |
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| 25 November | Réfléchi | Solitaire-class ship of the line | Chevalier Antoine Groignard | Rochefort | Kingdom of France | For French Navy. [26] |
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| 26 November | Lynx | Merchantman | | Whitby | Great Britain | For private owner. |
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| 26 November | Ruby | Intrepid-class ship of the line | Nicholas Phillips | Woolwich Dockyard | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [27] |
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| 27 December | Ariadne | Sphinx-class post ship | William Pownall | Chatham Dockyard | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [28] |
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| 27 December | Pegasus | Swan-class ship-sloop | William Pownall | Chatham Dockyard | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. [29] |
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| December | Row Galley Number Three | Galley | | New York | United States | For Royal Navy. [30] |
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| December | Row Galley Number Four | Galley | | New York | United States | For Royal Navy. [31] |
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| Spring | Lady Washington | Galley | | New York | Thirteen Colonies | For Continental Navy. |
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| Summer | Congress | Frigate | Lancaster Birling | Poughkeepsie, New York | United States | For Continental Navy. |
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| Summer | Revenge | Schooner | Jeduthan Baldwin | Fort Ticonderoga, New York | Thirteen Colonies | For Continental Navy. |
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| Summer | New York | Gundalow | | Lake Champlain, New York | United States | For Continental Navy. |
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| Summer | Revenge | Schooner | Jeduthan Baldwin | Fort Ticonderoga, New York | United States | For Continental Navy. |
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| Unknown date | Aimable | Alcmène-class frigate | | Toulon | Kingdom of France | For French Navy. |
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| Unknown date | America | Sloop | | | United States | For Connecticut State Navy. [32] |
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| Unknown date | Boston | Gundalow | | Skenesborough, New York | United States | For Continental Navy. |
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| Unknown date | Britannia | Merchantman | | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Thirteen Colonies | For private owner. |
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| Unknown date | Chambers | West Indiaman | | Bristol | Great Britain | For Dinham & Co. |
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| Unknown date | Connecticut | Gondola | | Skenesborough, New York | United States | For Continental Navy. [33] |
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| Unknown date | Gates | Lugger | | Lake Champlain | United States | For Continental Navy. [34] |
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| Unknown date | Greenwich | Privateer | | East Greenwich, Rhode Island | United States | For Nathaniel Greene & Co. |
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| Unknown date | Hümay-ı Bahri | Fourth rate | | Rhodes | Ottoman Greece | For Ottoman Navy. [35] |
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| Unknown date | Independence | Galley | | | United States | For Continental Navy. |
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| Unknown date | Indus | Schooner | | Bombay | India | For Bombay Pilot Service. [36] |
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| Unknown date | Infodsretten | Third rate | | | Denmark-Norway | For Dano-Norwegian Navy. [37] |
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| Unknown date | Jersey | Gondola | | Skenesborough, New York | United States | For Continental Navy. [38] |
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| Unknown date | Mountfield | Merchantman | | | Great Britain | For private owner. |
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| Unknown date | Nerbudda | Schooner | | Bombay | India | For Bombay Pilot Service. [36] |
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| Unknown date | New Haven | Gundalow | | Lake Champlain | United States | For Continental Navy. |
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| Unknown date | Nüvid-i Fütuh | Third rate | | Sinop | Ottoman Empire | For Ottoman Navy. [39] |
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| Unknown date | Providence | Gundalow | | Skenesborough, New York | United States | For Continental Navy. |
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| Unknown date | Putnam | Brig | | | United States | For New Hampshire State Navy. [40] |
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| Unknown date | Ranger | Sloop | Nicholas Bools | Bridport | Great Britain | For D. Wincey. [41] |
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| Unknown date | Rose | Cutter | | | Great Britain | For Board of Customs. |
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| Unknown date | Sartine | Frigate | | Bordeaux | Kingdom of France | For Compagnie de la Guyane. [42] |
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| Unknown date | Shark | Sloop-of-war | Randall | Rotherhithe | Great Britain | For Royal Navy. |
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| Unknown date | Shark | Galley | J. Lester | Norwich, Connecticut | United States | For Connecticut State Navy. [43] |
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| Unknown date | Sphinx | Ship of the line | | Brest | Kingdom of France | For French Navy. |
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| Unknown date | Spitfire | Galley | | Rhode Island | Thirteen Colonies | For Rhode Island General Assembly. |
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| date | Spitfire | Gundalow | | Lake Champlain | United States | For Continental Navy. |
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| Unknown date | Thomas Hall | West Indiaman | | Liverpool | Great Britain | For private owner. |
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| Unknown date | Warren | Frigate | Sylvester Bowers | Providence, Rhode Island | Thirteen Colonies | For Continental Navy. |
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| Unknown date | Yorkshire | Merchantman | | Whitby | Great Britain | For private owner. |
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| Unknown date | Name unknown | Merchantman | | | Kingdom of France | For private owner. |
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| Unknown date | Name unknown | Merchantman | | River Thames | Great Britain | For private owner. |
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