Merlin-class sloop
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Operators |  Royal Navy |
| Preceded by | Baltimore class |
| Succeeded by | Hind class |
| Built | 1744-1746 |
| In commission | 1744-1780 |
| Completed | 21 |
| Lost | 7 |
| General characteristics (figures for Hazard) | |
| Type | Sloop-of-war |
| Tons burthen | 272 83⁄94 bm |
| Length | list error: <br /> list (help) 92 ft 3.75 in (28.1 m) (gundeck) 74 ft 11.125 in (22.8 m) (keel) |
| Beam | 26 ft 2 in (8.0 m) |
| Depth of hold | 12 ft 0 in (3.66 m) |
| Sail plan | Snow brig |
| Complement | 110 |
| Armament | 10 × 6-pounder guns |
The Merlin class was a class of twenty-one sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1744 and 1746.
Ships
- Swallow - wrecked 1744.
- Merlin - sold 1748.
- Speedwell - sold 1750.
- Falcon - captured by French 1745, retaken 1746 and renamed Fortune, sold 1770.
- Hazard - sold 1749.
- Lizard - wrecked 1748.
- Hinchingbrooke - captured by French 1746.
- Tavistock - renamed Albany in 1747, sold 1763.
- Hound - sold 1773.
- Hornet - sold 1770.
- Raven - sold 1763.
- Swan - sold 1763.
- Badger - wrecked 1762.
- Falcon - wrecked 1759.
- Scorpion - wrecked 1762.
- Swallow - sold 1769.
- Kingfisher - sold 1763.
- Dispatch - sold 1773.
- Viper - renamed Lightning and coverted to a fireship in 1755, sold 1762.
- Grampus - converted to a fireship in 1762, renamed Strombolo in 1771, sold 1780.
- 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.