| Date | Country | Builder | Location | Ship | Class / type | Notes |
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| 5 February | UKGBI}} | Devonport Dockyard | Devonport | {{HMS>Pelorus|1857|2}} | Pearl|corvette}} | For Royal Navy |
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| 7 March | UKGBI}} | R & H Green | Blackwall | {{HMS>Jaseur|1857|2}} | Algerine|gunboat}} | For Royal Navy |
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| 27 March | France}} | Rochefort | {{ship>French ship|Alexandre|1857|2}} | Suffren|ship of the line}} | For French Navy |
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| 25 April | UKGBI}} | Portsmouth Dockyard | Portsmouth | {{HMS>Royal Sovereign|1857|2}} | First rate ship of the line | For Royal Navy |
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| April | United States|1857}} | Westervelt & Co. | New York City | Queen of the Pacific | Sidewheeler | For Morgan & Garrison |
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| 18 May | UKGBI}} | James Laing | Sunderland, County Durham | Duncan Dunbar | Clipper | For Gellatly, Hankey & Sewell |
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| May | United States|1851}} | Murfreesboro, North Carolina | 'Chowan | Steamship | For North Carolina and New York Steamship Co. |
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| 23 June | UKGBI}} | Caird & Company | Greenock | {{SS>Austria | 2} | Steamship, auxiliary sails | For Hamburg America Line |
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| August | United States|1851}} | Reaney, Neafie & Co. | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | {{ship | sternwheeler|2} | Sternwheeler | For Joseph Christmas Ives |
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| 8 September | United States|1851}} | Canemah, Oregon | {{ship | sternwheeler 1857|2} | Sternwheeler | For Pease, Matthieu and others |
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| 17 September | UKGBI}} | Lawrence Hill & Co. | Port Glasgow | {{SS>Admella | 2} | Steamship, auxiliary sails |
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| 29 October | Russian Empire}} | Nikolaev Admiralty shipyard | Nikolaev | {{ship>Russian ship of the line|Tsesarevich|1857|2}} | First rate ship of the line | For Imperial Russian Navy |
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| 2 November | UKGBI}} | Money Wigram & Son | Blackwall | Victor | Intrepid|gunvessel}} | For Royal Navy |
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| 10 December | United States|1851}} | Jacob Aaron Westervelt | New York City | {{USS>Huntsville|1857|2}} | Steamship | For H. B. Cromwell & Co. |
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| Unknown date | United States|1851}} | Jeffersonville, Indiana | A. Child | Paddle steamer |
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| Unknown date | United States|1851}} | Cincinnati, Ohio | A. O. Tyler | Sidewheeler |
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| Unknown date | United States|1851}} | Peck and Masters | Cleveland, Ohio | {{ship | steamboat|2} | Steamboat | For New York Central Railroad |
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| Unknown date | United States|1851}} | Croquette | Brig | For J. Crosby |
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| Unknown date | United States|1851}} | Samuel Sneden | New York City | {{USS>Dawn|1857|2}} | Steamship |
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| Unknown date | UKGBI}} Province of Canada | George T Davie & Sons | Lauzon | {{ship | ship|2} | Clipper |
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| Unknown date | United States|1851}} | Cincinnati, Ohio | {{USS>Great Western|1857|2}} | Sidewheeler |
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| Unknown date | Netherlands}} | F. Smit | Kinderdijk | Japan | Corvette | For Imperial Japanese Navy |
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| Unknown date | UKGBI}} | {{ship | cargo ship|2} | Barque | For Richard Hughes & Co. |
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| Unknown date | United States|1851}} | S. Gildersleeve & Sons | Portland, Connecticut | National Guard | Steamship |
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| Unknown date | UKGBI}} | {{ship | clipper|2} | Clipper | For Green Blackwall Line |
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| Unknown date | United States|1851}} | Williamsburg, New York | Oliver M. Pettit | Steamship |
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| Unknown date | United States|1851}} | Cincinnati, Ohio | {{USS>Peosta|1857|2}} | Sidewheeler |
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| Unknown date | United States|1851}} | Philadelphia Navy Yard | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | {{ship>USLHT|Shubrick|1865|2}} | Lighthouse tender | For United States Lighthouse Board |
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| Unknown date | United States|1851}} | John English | Brooklyn, New York | {{USS>Southfield|1857|2}} | Ferry | For New York Ferry Company |
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| Unknown date | United States|1857}} | Silas E. Smith & George Anson Pease | Tualatin River | Swan | Sternwheeler |
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| Unknown date | United States|1851}} | Jeremiah Simonson | Greenpoint, New York | {{USS>Vanderbilt|1862|2}} | Passenger ship | For North Atlantic Mail Steamship Line |
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| Unknown date | United States|1851}} | Joseph Rowland | Setauket, New York | {{USS>Wanderer|1857|2}} | Schooner | For John Johnson |
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| Unknown date | United States|1851}} | Brooklyn, New York | William G. Putnam | Paddle tug |
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| Unknown date | UKGBI}} | William Pile | Sunderland, County Durham | {{ship | 1857 ship|2} | Full-rigged ship | For Richard Green |
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