HMS ''Snipe'' was a 6-gun built for the
Royal Navy during the 1820s. She was
broken up in 1860.
Description
''Snipe'' had a length at the
gundeck
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of and at the
keel. She had a
beam of , a
draught of about and a depth of
hold of . The ship's
tonnage was 122 tons
burthen
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[Winfield, p. 1181] The ''Nightingale'' class was armed with two 6-pounder cannon and four 6-pounder
carronade
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s. The ships had a crew of 34 officers and
ratings.
[Winfield & Lyon, p. 133]
Construction and career
''Snipe'', the second ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy after
the gun-brig HMS ''Snipe'', was ordered in 1822,
laid down in October 1827 at
Pembroke Dockyard,
Wales, and
launched on 28 June 1828.
[ She was completed on 6 September 1828 at Plymouth Dockyard.][Phillips, p. 71]
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Nightingale-class cutter
1828 ships
Ships built in Pembroke Dock