The ''Hind'' class was a class of four
sloops
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
of wooden construction built for the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
between 1743 and 1746. Two were built by contract with commercial builders to a common design prepared by Sir
Joseph Allin
Joseph Allin was an 18th century shipbuilder to the Royal Navy. His works merge with those of his namesake son who was also a Master Shipwright at Portsmouth Dockyard and later Surveyor to the Navy at which point he became Sir Joseph Allin.
Jo ...
,
Surveyor to the Navy and former
Master Shipwright at
Deptford Dockyard
Deptford Dockyard was an important 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 many significant events a ...
, and the other two were built in Deptford Dockyard itself.
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). 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; these were built under Allin's supervision at Deptford Dockyard, and were the only wartime sloops of this era be built in a Royal Dockyard.
Vessels
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