List of ship launches in 1742

The list of ship launches in 1742 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1742.

Date	Country	Builder	Location	Ship	Class	Notes
25 February	Great Britain	Philemon Perry	Blackwall	Mortar	Comet-class bomb vessel	For Royal Navy.[1]
26 February	Great Britain	Philemon Perry	Blackwall	Firedrake	Comet-class bomb vessel	For Royal Navy.[2]
27 February	Great Britain	Thomas West	Deptford Dockyard	Wolf	Wolf-class sloop	For Royal Navy.
15 March	Great Britain	Thomas Snelgrove	Limehouse	Serpent	Comet-class bomb vessel	For Royal Navy.[3]
29 March	Great Britain	James Taylor	Rotherhithe	Comet	Comet-class bomb vessel	For Royal Navy.[4]
29 March	Denmark–Norway		Copenhagen	Crown Yacht		For Dano-Norwegian Navy.[5]
24 April	Great Britain		Chatham Dockyard	Stirling Castle	Third rate	For Royal Navy.
26 May	Great Britain	Bird	Rotherhithe	Medway	Fourth rate	For Royal Navy.
4 June	New France	Rene-Nicolas Levasseur	Quebec City	Le Canada	Sixth rate	For French Navy.[6]
22 June	Great Britain	John Barnard	Ipswich	Granado	Bomb vessel	For Royal Navy.[7]
23 June	Great Britain	Wells	Deptford	Dreadnought	Fourth rate	For Royal Navy.
8 July	Great Britain	John Buxton	Deptford	Lowestoffe	Sixth rate	For Royal Navy.[8]
20 July	Great Britain	Peirson Lock	Plymouth Dockyard	Solebay	Sixth rate	For Royal Navy.[9]
13 August	Kingdom of France	Augustino Scolaro	Toulon	La Chasse	Galley	For French Navy.[10]
19 August	Great Britain	John Buxton	Rotherhithe	Otter	Wolf-class sloop	For Royal Navy.[11]
5 September	Denmark–Norway		Copenhagen	Tre Kroner	Third rate	For Dano-Norwegian Navy.[12][13]
5 September	Denmark–Norway		Copenhagen	Wenden	Third Rate	For Dano-Norwegian Navy.[12][14]
13 September	Kingdom of France	Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb	Toulon	Le Trident	Third rate	For French Navy.[15]
2 October	Kingdom of France	Augustino Scolaro	Toulon	La Decouverte	Galley	For French Navy.[16]
3 November	Great Britain	Hugh Blaydes	Hull	Anglesea	Fifth rate	For Royal Navy.
30 December	Great Britain	John Quallett	Rotherhithe	Saltash	Baltimore-class sloop	For Royal Navy.[17]
30 December	Great Britain	Thomas Wes	Deptford Dockyard	Baltimore	Baltimore-class sloop	For Royal Navy.[18]
Unknown date	India		Bombay	Bombay	Sloop	For Bengal Pilot Service.[19]
Unknown date	Dutch Republic	Charles Bentam	Amsterdam	Edam	Fourth rate	For Dutch Navy.[20]
Unknown date	Denmark–Norway			Falster	Fifth rate	For Dano-Norwegian Navy.[21]
Unknown date	Kingdom of France	Pierre Chabert	Marseille	La Duchesse	Ferme-class galley	For French Navy.[22]
Unknown date	Kingdom of France	Jean Reynoir	Marseille	La Valeur	France-class Galley	For French Navy.[23]
Unknown date	Dutch Republic	Charles Bentam	Amsterdam	Leeuwenhorst	Fourth rate	For Dutch Navy.[24]
Unknown date	Great Britain	George Rowcliffe	Southampton	Portsmouth	Storeship	For Royal Navy.[25]
Unknown date	Dutch Republic		Amsterdam	Raaf	Sixth rate	For Dutch Navy.[26]
Unknown date	Spain		Barcelona	San Juan de Pomosana	Privateer	For private owner.[27]
Unknown date	India		Bombay	Success	Full-rigged ship	For British East India Company.[19]
Unknown date	Dutch Republic	Charles Bentam	Amsterdam	Valkenburg	Sixth rate	For Dutch Navy.[28]