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      • Sir William Rule (c. 1750–1816) was a shipbuilder and designer to the Royal Navy who rose to be Surveyor of the Navy.
      Designing during the Napoleonic Wars, many of his ships took place in the critical battles: Nile, Trafalgar, Copenhagen, etc.


      Life


      He was born in south England around 1750.
      He first appears in Royal Navy records in April 1778 as a master mastmaker at Woolwich Dockyard; however, this position infers both an apprenticeship as a ship's carpenter and a period in the dockyards as a standard mastmaker. In September 1778 he was promoted to master boatbuilder at Portsmouth Dockyard.
      In February 1779 he moved to Sheerness Dockyard, first as master shipwright then as master caulker. By 1787 he was assistant master shipwright at Portsmouth Dockyard, and in March of that year was appointed master shipwright back at Sheerness Dockyard, thereafter having overall charge of all ships constructed there, and from this point the Royal Navy list the ships built under his charge.
      In August 1790 he moved to Woolwich as master shipwright, and in February 1793 he was appointed Surveyor of the Navy, working alongside Sir John Henslow. In June 1806 Henslow retired and from then Rule worked with Henry Peake.
      In June 1813 Rule was replaced as Surveyor of the Navy by Joseph Tucker and Robert Seppings (jointly) apparently due to Rule's ill-health.
      Rule died in 1816, his will being read on 29 February 1816. The will is held at the National Archives in Kew.


      Ships built


      HMS Leopard (1790) 50-gun ship of the line
      HMS Martin (1790) 16-gun sloop
      HMS Minotaur (1793) 74-gun ship of the line with a colourful history


      Ships designed



      Note: dates in brackets represent date of design not launch)

      Amazon-class frigate (1795) four 36-gun frigates
      Caledonia-class ship of the line (1794) nine huge 120-gun ships of the line
      Merlin-class sloop (1795)
      Albatross-class brig-sloop (1795) eight 18-gun brigs
      HMS Dragon (1795) 74-gun ship of the line
      HMS Acasta (1795) 40-gun frigate
      HMS Naiad (1795) 38-gun frigate
      Amphion-class frigate (1796) a number of 32-gun frigates
      Snake-class ship-sloop (1796) a number of 18-gun sloops
      Cruizer-class brig-sloop (1796) a number of 16-gun sloops
      Courser-class gunboat (1797) a number of 12-gun gunboats
      HMS Osprey (1797) 18-gun sloop
      Apollo-class frigate (1798) twenty-seven 36-gun frigates
      HMS Plantagenet (1798) 74-gun ship of the line
      Lively-class frigate (1799) sixteen 38-gun frigates
      Repulse-class ship of the line (1800) a series of eleven 74-gun ships of the line
      HMS Ethalion (1800) 38-gun frigate
      Archer-class gun-brig (1800) 12-gun gun-brig
      HMS Euryalus (1801) 36-gun frigate
      HMS Impregnable (1802) 98-gun ship of the line eventually launched in 1810
      Confounder-class gun-brig (1804) a series of 12-gun gun-brigs
      HMS Bulwark (1804) 74-gun ship of the line
      HMS Seagull (1805) 16-gun sloop
      Banterer-class post ship (1805) a series of six 22-gun post ships
      HMS Horatio (1805) 38-gun frigate
      HMS Bucephalus (1806) 32-gun frigate
      HMS Tuscan (1808) 16-gun sloop
      Decoy-class cutter (1809) three 10-gun cutters
      Salisbury-class ship of the line (1810) a series of 50-gun ships of the line
      HMS Bacchante (1810) 38-gun frigate
      Bold-modified Confounder-class gun-brig (1811) a series of 12-gun gun-brigs
      HMS Forte (1811) 38-gun frigate
      HMS Jupiter (1811) 50-gun ship of the line
      HMS Teazer (1811) 12-gun sloop
      HMS Creole (1811) 36-gun frigate
      Scamander-class frigate (1812) a series of ten 36-gun frigates
      Cyrus-class ship-sloop (1812) a series of sixteen 20-gun flush-desk post-ships
      Conway-class post ship (1813) a series of ten 20-gun post-ships
      HMS Acute (1813) 12-gun brig
      HMS Snapper (1813) 12-gun gun-brig
      HMS Trafalgar (1813) huge 106-gun ship of the line (later renamed Camperdown)
      HMS Leander (1813) 58-gun frigate
      HMS Bold (1812 or 1813) 12-gun gun-brig
      Favorite-class sloop (1813) a series of 18-gun sloops
      HMS Griper (1813) 12-gun gun-brig
      HMS Adder (1813) 12-gun gun-brig
      HMS Havock (date unclear) 12-gun gun-brig
      HMS Pelican (date unclear) 16-gun sloop


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