| Atholl-class corvette | |
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 Success undergoing repairs after running aground on Carnac Reef | |
| Class overview | |
| Name: | Atholl-class corvettes |
| Operators: |
 Royal Navy |
| Completed: | 14 |
| Cancelled: | 4 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Sixth-rate corvette |
| Tons burthen: | 499 91/94 bm (as designed) |
| Length: |
113 ft 8 in (34.65 m) (gundeck) 94 ft 8.75 in (28.8735 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 175 |
| Armament: |
28 guns:
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Rattlesnake by Oswald Walters Brierly, 1853
The Atholl-class corvettes were a series of fourteen Royal Navy sailing sixth-rate post ships built to an 1817 design by the Surveyors of the Navy. A further four ships ordered to this design were cancelled.
Non-standard timber were used in the construction of some; for example, the first pair (Atholl and Niemen) were ordered built of larch and Baltic fir respectively, for comparative evaluation of these materials; the three ships built by the East India Company (Alligator, Termagant and Samarang) were built of teak, and the Nimrod was built of African timber.
Ships in class[]
- HMS Atholl
- Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
- Ordered: 27 October 1816
- Laid down: November 1818
- Launched: 23 November 1820
- Completed: 9 February 1821
- Fate: Broken up at Plymouth in 1863.
- HMS Niemen
- Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
- Ordered: 27 October 1816
- Laid down: July 1819
- Launched: 23 November 1820
- Completed: February 1821
- Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth in 1828.
- HMS Ranger
- Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
- Ordered: 30 April 1818
- Laid down: January 1819
- Launched: 7 December 1820
- Completed: 12 June 1822
- Fate: Sold in 1832.
- HMS Rattlesnake
- Builder: Chatham Dockyard
- Ordered: 30 April 1818
- Laid down: August 1819
- Launched: 26 March 1822
- Completed: 8 May 1824
- Fate: Broken up at Chatham in 1860.
- HMS North Star
- Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
- Ordered: 30 April 1818
- Laid down: April 1820
- Launched: 7 February 1824
- Completed: 26 May 1826
- Fate: Broken up at Chatham in 1860.
- HMS Tweed
- Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
- Ordered: 30 April 1818
- Laid down: December 1820
- Launched: 14 April 1823
- Completed: 12 April 1824
- Fate: Sold in 1852.
- HMS Talbot
- Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
- Ordered: 30 April 1818
- Laid down: March 1821
- Launched: 9 October 1824
- Completed: 21 December 1825 at Plymouth Dockyard
- Fate: Depot ship 1855. Sold in 1896.
- HMS Rainbow
- Builder: Chatham Dockyard
- Ordered: 30 April 1818
- Laid down: April 1822
- Launched: 20 November 1823
- Completed: 6 November 1825
- Fate: Sold in 1838.
- HMS Alligator
- Builder: East India Company, Cochin
- Ordered: 5 June 1819
- Laid down: November 1819
- Launched: 29 March 1821
- Completed: 3 September 1822 at Woolwich Dockyard
- Fate: Depot ship 1841. Sold in 1865.
- HMS Termagant
- Builder: East India Company, Cochin
- Ordered: 5 June 1819
- Laid down: March 1820
- Launched: 15 November 1821
- Completed: 16 July 1824 at Portsmouth Dockyard
- Fate: Renamed Herald 15 May 1824. Survey ship 1845. Sold in 1862.
- HMS Samarang
- Builder: East India Company, Cochin
- Ordered: 5 June 1819
- Laid down: March 1821
- Launched: 1 January 1822
- Completed: 7 June 1824 at Portsmouth Dockyard
- Fate: Hulked as guard ship 1847. Sold in 1883.
- Andromeda (-) - re-ordered in 1826 as Nimrod (see below)
- HMS Success
- Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
- Ordered: 5 June 1819
- Laid down: July 1823
- Launched: 30 August 1825
- Completed: 3 June 1826 at Plymouth Dockyard
- Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth in 1849.
- HMS Crocodile
- Builder: Chatham Dockyard
- Ordered: 5 June 1819
- Laid down: December 1823
- Launched: 28 October 1825
- Completed: 27 August 1828
- Fate: Broken up at Chatham in 1860.
- Alarm (-) - re-ordered 1828 as Conway-class vessel
- Daphne (-) - re-ordered 1826 as a sloop, but cancelled 1832
- Porcupine (-) - re-ordered 1826 as a sloop, but cancelled 1832
- HMS Nimrod
- Builder: Deptford Dockyard
- Ordered: 9 March 1826
- Laid down: October 1821 (as Andromeda - see above)
- Launched: 26 August 1828
- Completed: 11 December 1828
- Fate: Sold in 1907.
References[]
- Rif Winfield & David Lyon, The Sail and Steam Navy List, 1815-1889, Chatham Publishing, London 2004. ISBN 1-86176-032-9.
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