The ''Hind'' class was a class of four
sloops of wooden construction built for the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...
between 1743 and 1746. Two were built by contract with commercial builders to a common design prepared by
Joseph Allin, then Master Shipwright at
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 ...
(and from 1745 joint holder of the post of
Surveyor of the Navy
The Surveyor of the Navy, originally known as Surveyor and Rigger of the Navy, held overall responsibility for the design of British warships from 1745. He was a principal commissioner and member of the Navy Board from the inauguration of tha ...
), and the other two were built in Deptford Dockyard under the supervision of Allin himself.
The first two - ''Hind'' and ''Vulture'' - were ordered on 6 August 1743 to be built to replace two ex-Spanish vessels (the ''Rupert's Prize'' and ''Pembroke's Prize'', captured in 1741 and 1742 respectively, and put into service by the British); they were officially awarded their names on 18 April 1744. Although initially armed with ten 6-pounder guns, this class was built with seven pairs of gunports on the upper deck, enabling them to be re-armed with fourteen 6-pounders later in their careers.
Two more vessels to the same design - ''Jamaica'' and ''Trial'' - were ordered ten days later, on 18 August 1743 and were named on 13 July 1744; these were built under Allin's supervision at Deptford Dockyard, and were the only wartime sloops of this era to be built in a Royal Dockyard. In early 1754 the ''Trial'' was fitted with a mizzen mast at Deptford, thus making her a ship-sloop.
Vessels
Costs
''Hind'' was built for £1,996.12.0d (a contract rate of £7.10.0d per ton) and then fitted out (at Woolwich Dyd) for a further £2,015.4.4d.
''Vulture'' was also built for £1,996.12.0d (the same contract rate of £7.10.0d per ton) and then fitted out at Deptford Dyd for a further £1,864.10.9d.
''Jamaica'' was built and fitted for £5,065.7.4d.
''Trial'' was built and fitted for £5,050.13.1d.
See also
List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navys (1740)
s (1741)
s (1742)
s - the other 'standard' sloop design of the 1743–1746 era.
References
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*McLaughlan, Ian. ''The Sloop of War 1650-1763''. Seaforth Publishing, 2014. .
*Winfield, Rif.
''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates''. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. .
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Sloop classes