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Drake-class Sloop
The ''Drake'' class was a List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy, class of three sloop-of-war, sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy during 1741. All were ordered in 1740, and were the first to be built by contract with commercial builders, although they were to a common design prepared by Jacob Allin, the Surveyor of the Navy. They were the first new sloops to be built since the previous batch of eight in 1732 (which had all been built in the Royal Dockyards), but they closely followed the characteristics of their predecessors. Although initially armed with eight 4-pounder guns, this class was built with seven pairs of gunports on the upper deck (each port flanked by two pairs of row-ports), and the two survivors in 1744 had their ordnance increased to ten guns. Vessels References * * McLaughlan, Ian. ''The Sloop of War 1650-1763''. Seaforth Publishing, 2014. . * Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail, ''British Warships in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonetta Group Sloop
The ''Bonetta'' group was a List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy, batch of eight 200-ton sloop-of-war, sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy during 1732. They followed on two previous sloops - the HMS Grampus (1731), ''Grampus'' and the larger HMS Wolf (1731), ''Wolf'' - built a year earlier. Seven were ordered on 4 May 1732 to a common specification prepared by Jacob Ackworth, Jacob Acworth, the Surveyor of the Navy. An additional vessel – ''Trial'' (which had been ordered on 16 November 1731, but suspended on 7 January 1732) – was re-ordered on 6 July to be built to the same specification. The actual individual design was left up to the Master Shipwright in each Royal Dockyard at which they were built (except for ''Hound'' and ''Trial'', which were built by Deptford's Master Shipwright – Richard Stacey – but were to a design by Jacob Acworth). All the draughts were approved by the Navy Board on 28 June 1732. Although fitted with snow (ship) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |