NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Atholl			Woolwich DYd	11.1818	23.11.1820	9.2.1821	troopship 11.1832
Ranger			Portsmouth DYd	1.1819	7.12.1820	14.12.1820	sold 11.1832
Niemen			Woolwich DYd	7.1819	23.11.1820	2.1821	BU 1.1828
Rattlesnake			Chatham DYd	8.1819	26.3.1822	23.4.1822	troopship 10.1839
North Star			Woolwich DYd	4.1820	7.2.1824	26.5.1826	storeship 5.1849
Tweed			Portsmouth DYd	12.1820	14.4.1823	14.5.1823	sloop 1838, sold 9.1852
Talbot			Pembroke DYd	3.1821	9.10.1824	21.12.1825	storeship 5.1854
Rainbow			Chatham DYd	4.1822	20.11.1823	17.1.1824	sold 11.1838
Alligator			East India Co., Cochin	11.1819	29.3.1821	3.9.1822	depot ship 6.1841
Termagant			East India Co., Cochin	3.1820	15.11.1822	20.8.1823	survey vessel 6.1845
Samarang			East India Co., Cochin	3.1821	1.1.1822	7.6.1824	guard ship 5.1847
Nimrod (ex-Andromeda)			Deptford DYd	10.1821	26.8.1828	11.12.1828	completed as 20-gun sloop, coal hulk 2.1853
Success			Pembroke DYd	7.1823	30.8.1825	3.6.1826	receiving ship 4.1833
Crocodile			Chatham DYd	12.1823	28.10.1825	10.12.1825	troopship 5.1842

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	500bm
Displacement full, t
Length, m	34.6 gundeck
Breadth, m	9.60
Draught, m	2.67 hold depth
No of shafts
Machinery	sails
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts
Fuel, t
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	20 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML carronades, 6 x 1 - 139/8 18pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 81/16 9pdr SBML Nimrod: 18 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 81/16 9pdr SBML
Complement	175 Nimrod: 130

Project history

28-gun 6th rate frigates, later corvettes. Design by the Surveyors of the Navy, approved in 1817. Three more ships, rated as 20-gun sloops following Nimrod, were ordered (Alarma, Daphne and Porcupine) but never started.

Modernizations

1831, Tweed: as sloop was armed with 18 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 118/14 12pdr SBML

Naval service

No significant events.