• Source: Atholl-class corvette

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.
Cape Atholl in Greenland was named after this corvette class.




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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