Baltimore class sloop

Class overview
Operators:	Royal Navy
Preceded by:	Wolf class
Succeeded by:	Merlin class
Built:	1742-1743
In commission:	1742-1762
Completed:	3
Lost:	2
General characteristics (common design)
Type:	Sloop-of-war
Tons burthen:	248  48⁄94 bm
Length:	88 ft 0 in (26.8 m) (gundeck) 74 ft 0 in (22.6 m) (keel)
Beam:	25 ft 1 in (7.6 m)
Depth of hold:	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) (Baltimore and Saltash) 11 ft 0 in (3.35 m) (Drake)
Sail plan:	Snow
Complement:	110
Armament:	10 (later 14) × 4-pounder guns; also 12/14 x ½-pounder swivel guns

The Baltimore class was a class of three sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy during 1742-43. Two were ordered in 1742 and a third in 1743, and constituted a further increase in size from the 200 burthen tons which had been the normal size from 1728 to 1739; the Baltimore was built to a design by Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, one of the members of the Admiralty Board at that time; it is uncertain whether the other two ships were built to the same design, or to the same overall dimensions but to a design prepared by Jacob Allin, the Surveyor of the Navy.

Although initially armed with ten 4-pounder guns, this class was built with nine pairs of gunports on the upper deck (each port flanked by two pairs of row-ports), and the sloops in 1744 had their ordnance increased to fourteen guns. The Baltimore, the only one of the three to survive beyond 1748, was converted into a bomb vessel in 1758.

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