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The ''Atholl''-class corvettes were a series of fourteen
The ''Atholl''-class corvettes were a series of fourteen Royal Navy
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sailing sixth-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works an ...
post ship
Post ship was a designation used in the Royal Navy during the second half of the 18th century and the Napoleonic Wars to describe a sixth-rate ship (see rating system of the Royal Navy) that was smaller than a frigate (in practice, carrying ...
s 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.
Cape Atholl in Greenland
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was named after this corvette class.''The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle'', Simpkin, Marshall & Co. London 1850, p. 588
Ships in class
* ** Builder:Woolwich Dockyard
Woolwich Dockyard (formally H.M. Dockyard, Woolwich, also known as The King's Yard, Woolwich) was an English Royal Navy Dockyard, naval dockyard along the river Thames at Woolwich - originally in north-west Kent, now in southeast London - whe ...
** Ordered: 27 October 1816
** Laid down: November 1818
** Launched: 23 November 1820
** Completed: 9 February 1821
** Fate: Broken up at Plymouth
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in 1863.
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** Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Woolwich Dockyard (formally H.M. Dockyard, Woolwich, also known as The King's Yard, Woolwich) was an English Royal Navy Dockyard, naval dockyard along the river Thames at Woolwich - originally in north-west Kent, now in southeast London - whe ...
** Ordered: 27 October 1816
** Laid down: July 1819
** Launched: 23 November 1820
** Completed: February 1821
** Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth
Portsmouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England. Most of Portsmouth is located on Portsea Island, off the south coast of England in the Solent, making Portsmouth the only city in En ...
in 1828.
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** Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
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** Ordered: 30 April 1818
** Laid down: January 1819
** Launched: 7 December 1820
** Completed: 12 June 1822
** Fate: Sold in 1832.
*
** Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham, Kent, Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently expanded into neighbouring Gillingham, Kent, Gillingham; at its most extens ...
** Ordered: 30 April 1818
** Laid down: August 1819
** Launched: 26 March 1822
** Completed: 8 May 1824
** Fate: Broken up at Chatham in 1860.
*
** Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Woolwich Dockyard (formally H.M. Dockyard, Woolwich, also known as The King's Yard, Woolwich) was an English Royal Navy Dockyard, naval dockyard along the river Thames at Woolwich - originally in north-west Kent, now in southeast London - whe ...
** Ordered: 30 April 1818
** Laid down: April 1820
** Launched: 7 February 1824
** Completed: 26 May 1826
** Fate: Broken up at Chatham in 1860.
*
** Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
His Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport). Portsmouth Naval Base is part of the city of Portsmouth; it is loc ...
** Ordered: 30 April 1818
** Laid down: December 1820
** Launched: 14 April 1823
** Completed: 12 April 1824
** Fate: Sold in 1852.
*
** Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
Pembroke Dockyard, originally called Pater Yard, is a former Royal Navy Dockyard in Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
History
It was founded in 1814, although not formally authorized until the George IV of the United Kingdom, Prince Regent s ...
** Ordered: 30 April 1818
** Laid down: March 1821
** Launched: 9 October 1824
** Completed: 21 December 1825 at Plymouth Dockyard
His Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport (HMNB Devonport) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Portsmouth) and is the sole nuclear repair and refuelling facility for the Roya ...
** Fate: Depot ship 1855. Sold in 1896.
*
** Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham, Kent, Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently expanded into neighbouring Gillingham, Kent, Gillingham; at its most extens ...
** Ordered: 30 April 1818
** Laid down: April 1822
** Launched: 20 November 1823
** Completed: 6 November 1825
** Fate: Sold in 1838.
*
** Builder: East India Company
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, Cochin
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** Ordered: 5 June 1819
** Laid down: November 1819
** Launched: 29 March 1821
** Completed: 3 September 1822 at Woolwich Dockyard
Woolwich Dockyard (formally H.M. Dockyard, Woolwich, also known as The King's Yard, Woolwich) was an English Royal Navy Dockyard, naval dockyard along the river Thames at Woolwich - originally in north-west Kent, now in southeast London - whe ...
** Fate: Depot ship 1841. Sold in 1865.
*
** Builder: East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...
, Cochin
Kochi ( , ), formerly known as Cochin ( ), is a major port city along the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of Kerala. The city is also commonly referred to as Ernaku ...
** Ordered: 5 June 1819
** Laid down: March 1820
** Launched: 15 November 1821
** Completed: 16 July 1824 at Portsmouth Dockyard
His Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport). Portsmouth Naval Base is part of the city of Portsmouth; it is loc ...
** Fate: Renamed ''Herald'' 15 May 1824. Survey ship 1845. Sold in 1862.
*
** Builder: East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...
, Cochin
Kochi ( , ), formerly known as Cochin ( ), is a major port city along the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of Kerala. The city is also commonly referred to as Ernaku ...
** Ordered: 5 June 1819
** Laid down: March 1821
** Launched: 1 January 1822
** Completed: 7 June 1824 at Portsmouth Dockyard
His Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport). Portsmouth Naval Base is part of the city of Portsmouth; it is loc ...
** Fate: Hulked as guard ship 1847. Sold in 1883.
* ''Andromeda'' (-) - re-ordered in 1826 as ''Nimrod'' (see below)
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** Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
Pembroke Dockyard, originally called Pater Yard, is a former Royal Navy Dockyard in Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
History
It was founded in 1814, although not formally authorized until the George IV of the United Kingdom, Prince Regent s ...
** Ordered: 5 June 1819
** Laid down: July 1823
** Launched: 30 August 1825
** Completed: 3 June 1826 at Plymouth Dockyard
His Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport (HMNB Devonport) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Portsmouth) and is the sole nuclear repair and refuelling facility for the Roya ...
** Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth
Portsmouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England. Most of Portsmouth is located on Portsea Island, off the south coast of England in the Solent, making Portsmouth the only city in En ...
in 1849.
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** Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham, Kent, Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently expanded into neighbouring Gillingham, Kent, Gillingham; at its most extens ...
** 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
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** Builder: Deptford Dockyard
Deptford Dockyard was an important Royal Navy Dockyard, naval dockyard and base at Deptford on the River Thames, operated by the Royal Navy from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It built and maintained warships for 350 years, and man ...
** 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. . {{Atholl class corvette Corvette classes