Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Atholl | Woolwich DYd | 11.1818 | 23.11.1820 | 9.2.1821 | troopship 11.1832 | ||
Ranger | Portsmouth DYd | 1.1819 | 7.12.1820 | 14.12.1820 | sold 11.1832 | ||
Niemen | Woolwich DYd | 7.1819 | 23.11.1820 | 2.1821 | BU 1.1828 | ||
Rattlesnake | Chatham DYd | 8.1819 | 26.3.1822 | 23.4.1822 | troopship 10.1839 | ||
North Star | Woolwich DYd | 4.1820 | 7.2.1824 | 26.5.1826 | storeship 5.1849 | ||
Tweed | Portsmouth DYd | 12.1820 | 14.4.1823 | 14.5.1823 | sloop 1838, sold 9.1852 | ||
Talbot | Pembroke DYd | 3.1821 | 9.10.1824 | 21.12.1825 | storeship 5.1854 | ||
Rainbow | Chatham DYd | 4.1822 | 20.11.1823 | 17.1.1824 | sold 11.1838 | ||
Alligator | East India Co., Cochin | 11.1819 | 29.3.1821 | 3.9.1822 | depot ship 6.1841 | ||
Termagant | East India Co., Cochin | 3.1820 | 15.11.1822 | 20.8.1823 | survey vessel 6.1845 | ||
Samarang | East India Co., Cochin | 3.1821 | 1.1.1822 | 7.6.1824 | guard ship 5.1847 | ||
Nimrod (ex-Andromeda) | Deptford DYd | 10.1821 | 26.8.1828 | 11.12.1828 | completed as 20-gun sloop, coal hulk 2.1853 | ||
Success | Pembroke DYd | 7.1823 | 30.8.1825 | 3.6.1826 | receiving ship 4.1833 | ||
Crocodile | Chatham DYd | 12.1823 | 28.10.1825 | 10.12.1825 | troopship 5.1842 |
Displacement normal, t |
500bm |
Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
34.6 gundeck |
Breadth, m |
9.60 |
Draught, m |
2.67 hold depth |
No of shafts |
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Machinery |
sails |
Power, h. p. |
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Max speed, kts |
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Fuel, t |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
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Armament |
20 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML carronades, 6 x 1 - 139/8 18pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 81/16 9pdr SBML Nimrod: 18 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 81/16 9pdr SBML |
Complement |
175 Nimrod: 130 |
Project history: 28-gun 6th rate frigates, later corvettes. Design by the Surveyors of the Navy, approved in 1817. Three more ships, rated as 20-gun sloops following Nimrod, were ordered (Alarma, Daphne and Porcupine) but never started.
Modernizations: 1831, Tweed: as sloop was armed with 18 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 118/14 12pdr SBML
Naval service: No significant events.
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