Success undergoing repairs after running aground on Carnac Reef
Class overview Name Atholl -class corvettesOperators Royal Navy Completed 14 Cancelled 4 General characteristics Type Sixth-rate corvette Tons burthen 499 91/94 bm (as designed) Length
113 ft 8 in (34.65 m) (gundeck)
94 ft 8.75 in (28.8735 m) (keel)
Beam 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m) Sail plan Full-rigged ship Complement 175 Armament
28 guns:
Upper Deck: 20 × 32-pounder carronades
Quarterdeck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades
Forecasle: 2 × 9-pounder guns
Inboard profile plan of Atholl , 1820 Rattlesnake by Oswald Walters Brierly , 1853The Atholl -class corvettesRoyal Navy sailing sixth-rate post ships built to an 1817 design by the Surveyors of the Navy . A further four ships ordered to this design were cancelled.
Non-standard timber were used in the construction of some; for example, the first pair (Atholl and Niemen ) were ordered built of larch and Baltic fir respectively, for comparative evaluation of these materials; the three ships the East India Company built,(Alligator , Termagant and Samarang ), were built of teak. Nimrod was built of African timber.
Cape Atholl in Greenland was named after this corvette class.[ 1]
Ships in class
HMS Atholl
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Ordered: 27 October 1816
Laid down: November 1818
Launched: 23 November 1820
Completed: 9 February 1821
Fate: Broken up at Plymouth in 1863. HMS Niemen
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Ordered: 27 October 1816
Laid down: July 1819
Launched: 23 November 1820
Completed: February 1821
Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth in 1828. HMS Ranger
Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
Ordered: 30 April 1818
Laid down: January 1819
Launched: 7 December 1820
Completed: 12 June 1822
Fate: Sold in 1832. HMS Rattlesnake
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Ordered: 30 April 1818
Laid down: August 1819
Launched: 26 March 1822
Completed: 8 May 1824
Fate: Broken up at Chatham in 1860. HMS North Star
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
Ordered: 30 April 1818
Laid down: April 1820
Launched: 7 February 1824
Completed: 26 May 1826
Fate: Broken up at Chatham in 1860. HMS Tweed
Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
Ordered: 30 April 1818
Laid down: December 1820
Launched: 14 April 1823
Completed: 12 April 1824
Fate: Sold in 1852. HMS Talbot
Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
Ordered: 30 April 1818
Laid down: March 1821
Launched: 9 October 1824
Completed: 21 December 1825 at Plymouth Dockyard
Fate: Depot ship 1855. Sold in 1896. HMS Rainbow
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Ordered: 30 April 1818
Laid down: April 1822
Launched: 20 November 1823
Completed: 6 November 1825
Fate: Sold in 1838. HMS Alligator
HMS Termagant
Builder: East India Company , Cochin
Ordered: 5 June 1819
Laid down: March 1820
Launched: 15 November 1821
Completed: 16 July 1824 at Portsmouth Dockyard
Fate: Renamed Herald 15 May 1824. Survey ship 1845. Sold in 1862. HMS Samarang
Andromeda (-) - re-ordered in 1826 as Nimrod (see below)HMS Success
HMS Crocodile
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Ordered: 5 June 1819
Laid down: December 1823
Launched: 28 October 1825
Completed: 27 August 1828
Fate: Broken up at Chatham in 1860. Alarm (-) - re-ordered 1828 as Conway -class vesselDaphne (-) - re-ordered 1826 as a sloop, but cancelled 1832Porcupine (-) - re-ordered 1826 as a sloop, but cancelled 1832HMS Nimrod
Builder: Deptford Dockyard
Ordered: 9 March 1826
Laid down: October 1821 (as Andromeda - see above)
Launched: 26 August 1828
Completed: 11 December 1828
Fate: Sold in 1907.
References
^ The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle , Simpkin, Marshall & Co. London 1850, p. 588
Rif Winfield & David Lyon, The Sail and Steam Navy List, 1815-1889 , Chatham Publishing, London 2004. ISBN 1-86176-032-9
Completed ships Cancelled ships
Andromeda Alarm Daphne Porcupine
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