Success undergoing repairs after running aground on Carnac Reef
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Class overview | |
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Name: | Atholl-class corvettes |
Operators: | Royal Navy |
Completed: | 14 |
Cancelled: | 4 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Sixth-rate corvette |
Tons burthen: | 499 91/94 bm (as designed) |
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Beam: | 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m) |
Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
Complement: | 175 |
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The Atholl-class corvettes were a series of fourteen Royal 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.