Atholl-class corvette

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:
  • Upper Deck: 20 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Quarterdeck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades
  • Forecasle: 2 × 9-pounder guns
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 the East India Company built,(Alligator, Termagant and Samarang), were built of teak. 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
  • 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
  • Andromeda (-) - re-ordered in 1826 as Nimrod (see below)
  • HMS Success
  • 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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