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This is a list of Sixth-rate , corvette , and sloop classes of the Royal Navy .
During the Age of Sail , warships were divided into ranks or classes. The English Royal Navy adopted a scheme of six classes or "rates" in 1626. This system was in place until the 1840s, when steam power was introduced. The vessels classed as "Sixth-rates" were used in trade protection and at times could be used as scouts for the fleet (a task normally associated with "Fifth-rates"). In 1626, a "Sixth-rate" was defined as a ship having a crew of 40 to 50 men. In 1653, this was changed, to from 40 up to 79 men. After the Restoration in 1660 , a "Sixth-rate" carried up to 24 guns, though 18 to 20 was more common. By the end of the 1600s, the crew size had grown to over 100 men, with a flush deck battery of six pound guns . By the 1750s, a "Sixth-rate" would carry up to 28 guns. In the mid 18th-century, the definition was formally established based on ship size, armament, and crew size.[1]
With the advent of steam assisted and steam powered vessels, the term "Sixth-rate" was replaced by "Sloop" as an official type of ship in the Royal Navy. The term "Corvette", adopted from the French, was not adopted as an official ship type until 1862. This only lasted until 1888 when it was replaced by the term "Third Class Cruiser". The term sloop returned during World War I for vessels dedicated to convoy escort. It remained in use until the 1960s. The term corvette did not reappear as an official ship type until just before the start of World War II , as a convoy escort vessel, and is still used in some navies today.
Note that vessels captured from other countries and incorporated into the Royal Navy were rated in accordance with the ship rating classification.
Corvette classes
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Late 17th-century Sixth Rate groups
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Anthony Deane group. All designed by the notable Master Shipwright.
Maidstone Group
Seaford (1695)
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Peregrine Galley – 1 ship, with 16 × 6-pdrs, + 4 smaller. 1700
Nightingale Group
Ex-French Prizes 1704 – 1709
Purchased Group – 3 ships, with 20 × 6-pdrs, + 4 smaller. 1706–1707
Flamborough Group
Ex-Scottish Acquisitions – 2 24-gun sixth rates
Gibraltar Group
Dursley Galley – 1 ship, with 20 × 6-pdrs. 1719. Sold 1745
1719 Establishment Group – 20 ships, with 20 × 6-pdrs. 1720–1727
Lyme (1720)
Greyhound (1720)
Blandford (1720)
Shoreham (1720)
Scarborough (1722)
Scarborough (1694)Garland , ex-fifth rate, sold 1744.
Seaford – rebuild of Seaford (1697)
Lowestoffe (1723)
Rose – rebuilt Rose (1712)
Deal Castle – rebuild of Deal Castle (1706)
Fox – rebuild of Nightingale (1702)Fox in 1708, broken up 1738.
Gibraltar – rebuild of Gibraltar (1711)
Bideford – rebuild of Bideford (1712)
Seahorse – rebuild of Seahorse (1712)
Squirrel – rebuild of Squirrel (1707)
Phoenix (1694)
Aldborough – rebuild of Aldborough (1706)
Flamborough – rebuild of Flamborough (1707)
Experiment (1689)
Rye (1727)
Modified 1719 Establishment Group – 2 ships, with 20 × 6-pdrs. 1732
1733 Establishment Group – 16 ships, with 20 × 9-pdrs. 1734–1742
Modified 1733 Establishment Group – 2 ships, with 20 × 9-pdrs. 1741
1741 Establishment Group – 15 ships, with 22 × 9-pdrs, + 2 smaller. 1742–1746
Modified 1741 Establishment Group – 2 ships, with 20 × 9-pdrs, + 2 smaller. 1746
Nightingale (1746)
1745 Establishment Group – 7 ships, with 22 × 9-pdrs, + 2 smaller. 1746–1751
Modified 1745 Establishment Group – 1 ship, with 22 × 9-pdrs, + 2 smaller. 1748
Seahorse (1748)
Mermaid (1749)
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Gibraltar class – 1 ship, with 20 × 9-pdrs. 1754.
Seaford class – 1 ship, with 20 × 9-pdrs. 1754.
Squirrel class
Bideford class – 1 ship, with 20 × 9-pdrs. 1756.
Later Gibraltar – 6 ships, with 20 × 9-pdrs. 1756.
Later Seaford – 2 ships, with 20 × 9-pdrs. 1757.
Sphinx class
Porcupine class
Myrmidon class – 1 ship, with 20 × 6-pdrs, + 2 smaller. 1781.
Squirrel class (of 1782 design) – 1 ship, with 22 × 9-pdrs, + 2 × 6-pdrs. 1785.
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This section lists the 'post ships' of 20 to 24 guns (after 1817, up to 28 guns) which in the 1830s would be merged with the larger sloops to form the new category of corvette . From 1817 the upper limit (in terms of numbers of guns) would be raised to 28 guns.
Banterer class
Laurel class
Hermes class
Cyrus class
Conway class
Atholl class
Volage
Tyne
Conway class
Challenger
Sapphire
Actaeon
Andromache classVestal class), 1832–1837
Vestal class
Spartan class
Eurydice
Diamond class
19th-century screw corvettes
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Highflyer class
Pylades class – 1 ship, 1854
Cossack class
Pearl class
Jason class
North Star class
Juno class
Briton class
Volage class
Amethyst class
Rover (1874)
Emerald class
Bacchante class
Comus class
Calypso class
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After more than half a century, the category of corvette was revived during World War II to designate a smaller form of escort vessel than the existing sloops. It was thus not comparable with the pre-1887 corvettes in the Royal Navy. Two classes of wartime corvette were designed and built in considerable numbers (see separate articles):
Sloop classes
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Note that early sloops were single-masted, including (initially) the Swift , Jamaica , and Hazard groups listed below for 1700–1711; however, all surviving sloops by 1716 had been re-rigged as two-masted, and all new sloops continued to be two-masted until the 1750s, when three-masted – ship-rigged – sloops were introduced.
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All early two-masted sloops were mainly either ketch -rigged or snow -rigged.
Drake
Trial
Bonetta group
Otter group
Otter
Swift
Cruizer group
Cruizer
Weazle
Hawk
Spy
Shark group
Shark
Happy
Spence
Drake class
Grampus
Wolf
Bonetta group
Shark
Bonetta
Fly
Spy
Saltash
Cruizer
Hound
Trial
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From the outbreak of the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1739, the Navy recognised that there was a growing need for smaller vessels for amphibious operations, as escorts for commercial traffic, and for minor combatant roles. Over the next six years, some 36 specialist vessels were procured (34 designed by the Navy and 2 purchased on the stocks where builders had begun them as speculative ventures), as listed below; of these, the first four were essentially repeats of the previous group of 200-ton sloops of 1732, while the later vessels were progressively enlarged. In addition, a small number were captured from the Spanish during this era, and a dozen bomb vessels of similar construction supplemented the purpose-built sloops in a cruising role.
Drake class
Drake
Hawk
Swift
Purchased vessel – Saltash
Wolf class
Wolf
Otter
Grampus
Baltimore class
Purchased vessel – Ferret
Merlin class
Swallow
Merlin
Speedwell
Falcon Fortune , sold 1770.
Hazard
Lizard
Hinchingbrooke
Tavistock Albany 1747, sold 1763.
Hound
Hornet
Raven
Swan
Badger
Falcon
Scorpion
Swallow
Kingfisher
Dispatch
Viper Lightning as fireship 1755, sold 1762.
Grampus Strombolo 1771, sold 1780.
Saltash
Hind class
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Wasp group
Wasp
Peggy
Hazard
Savage
Fly class
Ranger
Fly
Cruizer class
Hawk
Bonetta class
Bonetta
Merlin
Spy
Hunter class
Hunter
Viper
Alderney classStork and Alderney were completed as three-masted ships.
Druid class
Druid
Lynx
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Ship sloops (i.e. sloops carrying three masts, and rigged as ships) were built frigate-style, and initially were referred to as frigates, in spite of their size and relative lack of guns.
Purchased sloops 1745–46
Favourite class
Purchased sloops 1757
Ferret class
Senegal class
Beaver class
Modified Favourite class
Swift class
Otter class
Swallow class
Swan class
Purchased ship sloops – 2 ships, 1771
Ceres class
Purchased ship sloops – 1 ship, 1780
Termagant (1780)
Zebra class
Inspector class
Echo classEdward Hunt and armed with 16 6-pounders on the upper deck and 6 12-pounder carronades on the quarterdeck, with a further 2 on the forecastle
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Childers class
Purchased brigs 1779–82 – 11 vessels purchased on stocks
Purchased brigs 1781 – 2 vessels purchased from mercantile service
Speedy class
Modified Childers class
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Hound class
Hawk class
Pylades class
Cormorant class
Dart class
Bittern classBrazen in 1808)
Merlin class
Purchased ship-sloops – 2 Bermuda-built ship sloops, 1795.
Dasher class
Echo class
Osprey class
Snake class
Purchased ship sloops – 20 ships, 1803–1804
Combatant class
Bermuda class
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This table excludes the small gun-brigs (of less than 200 burthen tons) that were built in considerable numbers during this period:
for these gun-brigs see List of gun-brigs of the Royal Navy
Albatross class
Diligence class
Busy classEcho -class ship sloop) – 1 brig-sloop, 1797.
Cruizer classSnake -class ship sloops) – 107 brig-sloops, 1797–1815
Seagull class
Fly class
Crocus class
Cherokee class
Rapid class
Primrose class
Icarus class
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Rose class
Martin class
Comet class
Orestes class
Pylades class
Snake class
Favorite class
Champion class
Pearl class
Wolf class
Satellite class
Scout class
Rover class
Fly class
Daphne class
Modeste class
Challenger class
Challenger cancelled 1849
Arachne class
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Between 1815 and 1826 numerous additional brig-sloops of the wartime Cherokee class
Columbine class
Pantaloon class
Snake class
Pandora class
Racer class
Alert class
Waterwitch class
Acorn class
Helena class
Frolic class
Experimental brigs – 9 third-class brigs (to 8 different designs), 1844–1847
Nerbudda class
Paddle-driven sloops
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These vessels were initially rated as steam vessels until 1844, when the category of steam sloops was created.
Messenger class – originally built for private use and purchased in 1830, classed as packets until 1831
Dee class
Batch of 4 ordered in January 1831
Hermes class
Gorgon class
Hydra class
Merlin class
Stromboli classGorgon [2]
Alecto class
Driver class
Bulldog classDriver [2]
Janus class – 1 first-class sloop, 1844
Trident class – 1 third-class sloop (iron-hulled), 1845
Antelope class
Basilisk class – 1 first-class sloop, 1848
Buzzard class – 1 second-class sloop, 1849
Argus class – 1 second-class sloop, 1849, modified Alecto [2]
Barracouta class – 1 second-class sloop, 1851
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Rattler
Phoenix
Encounter class – 2 ships (second cancelled), 1846.
Niger class – 2 ships (second cancelled), 1846.
Conflict class
Plumper
Reynard
Archer class
Archer
Wasp
Miranda
Brisk
Malacca
In 1852 six of the screw sloops (Archer , Brisk , Encounter , Malacca , Miranda and Niger ) were reclassed as corvettes, while four others (Conflict , Desperate , Phoenix and Wasp ) remained sloops.
[the 8 vessels cancelled in 1863–64 were Harlequin , Tees , Sappho , Trent , Circassian , Diligence , Imogene , and Success – although 2 were completed as the ironclads Research Enterprise
[the 6 vessels cancelled in 1863 were Circassian , Acheron , Bittern , Fame , Cynthia , and Sabrina .]
Amazon class
Amazon
Vestal
Niobe
Dryad
Daphne
Nymphe
Eclipse class
Fantome class
Osprey class
Doterel classOsprey class, 9 ships, 1878–1880
Satellite class
Nymphe class
Beagle class
Alert class
Phoenix class
Condor class
Cadmus class
World War I sloops
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Inter-war sloops
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World War II sloops
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References
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^ a b c Friedman, Norman (29 October 2012). British Cruisers of the Victorian Era ISBN 978-1-4738-0312-1
Book sources
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Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889 . London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6 OCLC 52620555 .
Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817–1863: Design, Construction, Careers and FatesISBN 978-1-84832-169-4
Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603–1714: Design, Construction, Careers and FatesISBN 978-1-5267-9328-7
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