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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
sailing sixth-rate
Sixth-rate
Sixth rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for small warships mounting between 20 and 24 nine-pounder guns on a single deck, sometimes with guns on the upper works and sometimes without.-Rating:...
post ship
Post ship
Post ship was a designation used in the Royal Navy during the Age of Sail to describe a ship of the sixth-rate that was smaller than a frigate , but by virtue of being a rated ship , had to have as its captain a post captain rather than a lieutenant or commander...
s built to an 1817 design by the Surveyors of the Navy
Surveyor of the Navy
The Surveyor to the Navy was a civilian officer in the Royal Navy. He was a member of the Navy Board from the inauguration of that body in 1546, and held overall responsibility for the design of British warships, although until 1745 the actual design work for warships built at each Royal Dockyard...
. 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 built by the East India Company (Alligator, Termagant and Samarang) were built of teak, and the Nimrod was built of African timber.
Ships in class
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- Builder: Woolwich DockyardWoolwich DockyardWoolwich Dockyard was an English naval dockyard founded by King Henry VIII in 1512 to build his flagship Henri Grâce à Dieu , the largest ship of its day....
- Ordered: 27 October 1816
- Laid down: November 1818
- Launched: 23 November 1820
- Completed: 9 February 1821
- Fate: Broken up at PlymouthPlymouthPlymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...
in 1863. - Builder: Woolwich DockyardWoolwich DockyardWoolwich Dockyard was an English naval dockyard founded by King Henry VIII in 1512 to build his flagship Henri Grâce à Dieu , the largest ship of its day....
- Ordered: 27 October 1816
- Laid down: July 1819
- Launched: 23 November 1820
- Completed: February 1821
- Fate: Broken up at PortsmouthPortsmouthPortsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...
in 1828. - Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
- Ordered: 30 April 1818
- Laid down: January 1819
- Launched: 7 December 1820
- Completed: 12 June 1822
- Fate: Sold in 1832.
- Builder: Chatham DockyardChatham DockyardChatham Dockyard, located on the River Medway and of which two-thirds is in Gillingham and one third in Chatham, Kent, England, came into existence at the time when, following the Reformation, relations with the Catholic countries of Europe had worsened, leading to a requirement for additional...
- Ordered: 30 April 1818
- Laid down: August 1819
- Launched: 26 March 1822
- Completed: 8 May 1824
- Fate: Broken up at ChathamChatham DockyardChatham Dockyard, located on the River Medway and of which two-thirds is in Gillingham and one third in Chatham, Kent, England, came into existence at the time when, following the Reformation, relations with the Catholic countries of Europe had worsened, leading to a requirement for additional...
in 1860. - Builder: Woolwich DockyardWoolwich DockyardWoolwich Dockyard was an English naval dockyard founded by King Henry VIII in 1512 to build his flagship Henri Grâce à Dieu , the largest ship of its day....
- Ordered: 30 April 1818
- Laid down: April 1820
- Launched: 7 February 1824
- Completed: 26 May 1826
- Fate: Broken up at ChathamChatham DockyardChatham Dockyard, located on the River Medway and of which two-thirds is in Gillingham and one third in Chatham, Kent, England, came into existence at the time when, following the Reformation, relations with the Catholic countries of Europe had worsened, leading to a requirement for additional...
in 1860. - Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
- Ordered: 30 April 1818
- Laid down: December 1820
- Launched: 14 April 1823
- Completed: 12 April 1824
- Fate: Sold in 1852.
- 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.
- Builder: Chatham DockyardChatham DockyardChatham Dockyard, located on the River Medway and of which two-thirds is in Gillingham and one third in Chatham, Kent, England, came into existence at the time when, following the Reformation, relations with the Catholic countries of Europe had worsened, leading to a requirement for additional...
- Ordered: 30 April 1818
- Laid down: April 1822
- Launched: 20 November 1823
- Completed: 6 November 1825
- Fate: Sold in 1838.
- Builder: East India CompanyEast India CompanyThe East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...
, Cochin - Ordered: 5 June 1819
- Laid down: November 1819
- Launched: 29 March 1821
- Completed: 3 September 1822 at Woolwich DockyardWoolwich DockyardWoolwich Dockyard was an English naval dockyard founded by King Henry VIII in 1512 to build his flagship Henri Grâce à Dieu , the largest ship of its day....
- Fate: Depot ship 1841. Sold in 1865.
- Builder: East India CompanyEast India CompanyThe East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...
, 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.
- Builder: East India CompanyEast India CompanyThe East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...
, Cochin - Ordered: 5 June 1819
- Laid down: March 1821
- Launched: 1 January 1822
- Completed: 7 June 1824 at Portsmouth Dockyard
- Fate: Hulked as guard ship 1847. Sold in 1883.
- Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
- Andromeda (-) - re-ordered in 1826 as Nimrod (see below)
- Builder: Pembroke Dockyard
- Ordered: 5 June 1819
- Laid down: July 1823
- Launched: 30 August 1825
- Completed: 3 June 1826 at Plymouth Dockyard
- Fate: Broken up at PortsmouthPortsmouthPortsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...
in 1849. - Builder: Chatham DockyardChatham DockyardChatham Dockyard, located on the River Medway and of which two-thirds is in Gillingham and one third in Chatham, Kent, England, came into existence at the time when, following the Reformation, relations with the Catholic countries of Europe had worsened, leading to a requirement for additional...
- Ordered: 5 June 1819
- Laid down: December 1823
- Launched: 28 October 1825
- Completed: 27 August 1828
- Fate: Broken up at ChathamChatham DockyardChatham Dockyard, located on the River Medway and of which two-thirds is in Gillingham and one third in Chatham, Kent, England, came into existence at the time when, following the Reformation, relations with the Catholic countries of Europe had worsened, leading to a requirement for additional...
in 1860.
- Alarm (-) - re-ordered 1828 as Conway-class vessel
- Daphne (-) - re-ordered 1826 as a sloop, but cancelled 1832
- Porcupine (-) - re-ordered 1826 as a sloop, but cancelled 1832
- 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.