Merlin-class sloop

The Merlin-class was a class of twenty two sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1744 and 1746.

Ships

• HMS Swallow - wrecked 1744.
• HMS Merlin - sold 1748.
• HMS Speedwell - sold 1750.
• HMS Falcon - captured by French 1745, retaken 1746 and Fortune, sold 1770.
• HMS Hazard - sold 1749.
• HMS Lizard - wrecked 1748.
• HMS Hinchingbrooke - captured by French 1746.
• HMS Tavistock - renamed Albany in 1747, sold 1763.
• HMS Hound - sold 1773.
• HMS Hornet - sold 1770.
• HMS Raven - sold 1763.
• HMS Swan - sold 1763.
• HMS Badger - wrecked 1762.
• HMS Falcon - wrecked 1759.
• HMS Scorpion - wrecked 1762.
• HMS Swallow - sold 1769.
• HMS Kingfisher - sold 1763.
• HMS Dispatch - sold 1773.
• HMS Viper - renamed Lightning as fireship 1755, sold 1762.
• HMS Grampus - converted to a fireship in 1762, renamed Strombolo in 1771, sold 1780.
• HMS Saltash - sold 1773.

Referecences

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.