Alderney class sloop

Class overview
Operators:	Royal Navy
Preceded by:	Hunter class
Built:	1755-1757
In commission:	1756-1783
Completed:	3
Lost:	1
General characteristics (common design)
Type:	Sloop-of-war
Tons burthen:	230  64⁄94 bm
Length:	88 ft 4 in (26.9 m) (gundeck) 72 ft 3 in (22.0 m) (keel)
Beam:	24 ft 6 in (7.5 m)
Depth of hold:	10 ft 10 in (3.30 m) (vessels without platform in hold)
Sail plan:	Snow rig (initially - see text)
Complement:	100
Armament:	10 × 4-pounder guns; also 12 x ½-pounder swivel guns

The Alderney class was a class of three sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1755 and 1757. All three were built by contract with commercial builders to a common design prepared by William Bately, the Surveyor of the Navy.

The first two - Stork and Alderney - were ordered on 14 November 1755, and another vessel to the same design - Diligence - were ordered three months later, on 23 February 1756. All were begun as two-masted (snow-rigged) vessels, and the trio were all assigned names on 25 May 1756, but the first two were actually completed as three-masted ("ship-rigged") vessels.

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