Cherokee class brig-sloop

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Longitudinal section of HMS Beagle as of 1842
Longitudinal section of HMS Beagle (Cherokee class) as of 1832
Class overview
Name: Cherokee
Operators: Naval flag of United Kingdom Royal Navy
Completed: 36 in first batch
38 in second batch
44 in third batch
General characteristics
Type: brig-sloop
Displacement: 235 tons
Length: 90.3 ft (27.5 m)
Beam: 24.5 ft (7.5 m)
Draught: 12.5 ft (3.8 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Complement: 120 as a ship-of-war, 65 plus 9 supernumeraries on survey voyages
Armament: 10 guns: 2 x 6pdr + 8 x 18pdr carronades
reduced to 6 guns for survey voyages

The Cherokee class was a 10-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops are sloops-of-war with two masts (as per brigs) rather than the three masts of ship-sloops.

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[edit] Design

The design for the Cherokee class was completed in 1807 by Henry Peake and approved on 26 November 1807, with the first four of an eventual total of 34 vessels having been ordered in March 1807 but not laid down until December. After these 34, a further 2 were ordered in 1812 which were built of teak at Bombay. The design was subsequently revived after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and another 78 were built in two batches between 1817 and 1827. The first batch of these later ships consisted of 34 orders whilst the second amounted to 44 new vessels of which 4 were cancelled and 6 replaced by orders for paddle vessels.

[edit] 1808-1816 Vessels

The first four vessels listed below were ordered on 30 March 1807, two more on 26 November 1807 and the next twenty vessels on 31 December 1807. Eight more orders were placed during 1808.

Name Launched
HMS Rolla 13 February 1808
HMS Cherokee 24 February 1808
HMS Leveret 24 February 1808
HMS Cadmus 26 February 1808
HMS Achates 1 February 1808
HMS Parthian 13 February 1808
HMS Briseis 19 May 1808
HMS Jasper 27 May 1808
HMS Ephira 28 May 1808
HMS Onyx 8 July 1808
HMS Badger 23 July 1808
HMS Opossum 9 July 1808
HMS Wild Boar 9 July 1808
HMS Rinaldo 13 July 1808
HMS Chanticleer 26 July 1808
HMS Goldfinch 8 August 1808
HMS Woodlark 17 November 1808
HMS Shearwater 21 November 1808
HMS Calliope 8 July 1808
HMS Hope 22 July 1808
HMS Britomart 28 July 1808
HMS Prince Arthur 28 July 1808
HMS Cordelia 26 July 1808
HMS Redpole 29 July 1808
HMS Helicon 8 August 1808
HMS Lyra 22 August 1808
HMS Beaver 16 February 1809
HMS Drake 3 November 1808
HMS Rosario 7 December 1808
HMS Renard 5 December 1808
HMS Tyrian 16 December 1808
HMS Bermuda 20 December 1808
HMS Rhodian 3 January 1809
HMS Sarpedon 1 February 1809

Two vessels were ordered 2 October 1812. These were built at Bombay, using teak construction, but were otherwise identical to the earlier 34.

Name Launched
HMS Sphinx 25 January 1815
HMS Cameleon 15 January 1816

[edit] 1818-1838 Vessels

Unlike the wartime batch, all the following were built in the Royal Dockyards rather than by contractors. Note that several names of vessels from the 1808-1816 batch were re-used for vessels in the second or third batches (as indicated below).

Thirty-four vessels were ordered in 1817-1820.

Name Built by
HM Dockyard
Launched
HMS Alacrity Deptford 29 December 1818
HMS Bustard Chatham 12 December 1818
HMS Brisk Chatham 10 February 1819
HMS Delight Portsmouth 10 May 1819
HMS Cygnet Portsmouth 11 May 1819
HMS Ariel Deptford 28 July 1820
HMS Eclipse Plymouth 23 July 1819
HMS Falcon Pembroke 10 June 1820
HMS Beagle Woolwich 11 May 1820
HMS Barracouta Woolwich 13 May 1820
HMS Emulous Plymouth 16 December 1819
HMS Frolic Pembroke 10 June 1820
HMS Lyra (2nd of name) Plymouth 1 June 1821
HMS Jasper (2nd of name) Portsmouth 26 July 1820
HMS Britomart (2nd of name) Portsmouth 24 August 1820
HMS Partridge Plymouth 22 March 1822
HMS Reynard (2nd of name) Pembroke 26 October 1821
HMS Weazle Chatham 26 March 1822
HMS Kingfisher Woolwich 11 March 1823
HMS Procris Chatham 21 June 1822
HMS Algerine Deptford 10 June 1823
HMS Magnet Woolwich 13 March 1823
HMS Zephyr Pembroke 1 November 1823
HMS Opossum (2nd of name) Sheerness 11 December 1821
HMS Onyx (2nd of name) Sheerness 24 January 1822
HMS Plover Portsmouth 30 June 1821
HMS Ferret Portsmouth 12 October 1821
HMS Hope (2nd of name) Plymouth 8 December 1824
HMS Mutine Plymouth 19 May 1825
HMS Tyrian (2nd of name) Woolwich 16 September 1826
HMS Philomel Portsmouth 28 April 1823
HMS Royalist Portsmouth 12 May 1823

In addition, another ship was ordered as HMS Halcyon, but was cancelled in 1831. Two more, HMS Griffon and HMS Forester were re-ordered in the third batch in 1826.

Forty-four vessels were ordered in 1823-1826, but of these only thirty-four were built as sailing brigs.

Name Built by
HM Dockyard
Launched
HMS Leveret (2nd of name) Portsmouth 19 February 1825
HMS Musquito Portsmouth 19 February 1825
HMS Hearty Chatham 22 October 1824
HMS Myrtle Portsmouth 14 September 1825
HMS Lapwing Chatham 20 February 1825
HMS Sheldrake Pembroke 19 May 1825
HMS Harpy Chatham 16 July 1825
HMS Fairy Chatham 25 April 1826
HMS Skylark Pembroke 6 May 1826
HMS Espoir Chatham 9 May 1826
HMS Calypso (2nd of name) Chatham 19 August 1826
HMS Spey Pembroke 6 October 1827
HMS Variable Pembroke 6 October 1827
HMS Briseis (2nd of name) Deptford 3 July 1829
HMS Rapid Portsmouth 17 August 1829
HMS Recruit Portsmouth 17 August 1829
HMS Reindeer Plymouth 29 September 1829
HMS Thais Pembroke 12 October 1829
HMS Rolla (2nd of name) Plymouth 10 December 1829
HMS Savage Plymouth 29 December 1830
HMS Saracen Plymouth 30 January 1831
HMS Scorpion Plymouth 28 July 1832
HMS Termagent Portsmouth 26 March 1838
HMS Lynx Portsmouth 2 September 1833
HMS Nautilus Woolwich 11 March 1830
HMS Curlew Woolwich 25 February 1830
HMS Delight (2nd of name) Chatham 27 November 1829
HMS Algerine (2nd of name) Chatham 1 August 1829
HMS Griffon (2nd of name) Chatham 11 September 1832
HMS Forester (2nd of name) Chatham 28 August 1832
HMS Partridge (2nd of name) Pembroke 12 October 1829
HMS Wizard Pembroke 24 May 1830
HMS Charybdis Portsmouth 27 February 1831
HMS Buzzard Portsmouth 23 March 1834

Six further vessels were re-ordered as paddle steamers in May 1824 - HMS Alban, HMS Carron, HMS Columbia, HMS Confiance, HMS Dee and HMS Echo. Four more vessels were cancelled - HMS Sealark, HMS Hyaena, HMS Foxhound and HMS Helena.

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