Cruizer class brig-sloop
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| Name: | Cruizer |
| Operators: |  Royal Navy |
| In service: | 1797 - 1826 |
| Completed: | 110 |
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| Type: | brig-sloop |
| Displacement: | 348 tons |
| Length: | 100.5 ft (30.6 m) |
| Beam: | 30.5 ft (9.3 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Complement: | 121 |
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18 guns: 2 x 6pdr bow cannon |
The Cruizer class was an 18-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops are the same as ship-sloops except for their rigging. A ship-sloop is rigged with three masts whereas a brig-sloop is rigged like a brig with two masts.
The Cruizer class was the most numerous class of warships built by the British during the Napoleonic wars, and is in fact the most numerous class of sailing warship built to a single design for any navy at any time.
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[edit] Design
In December 1796, new orders were placed by the Navy Board for four flush-decked sloops, to differing designs by the two Surveyors of the Navy - Sir William Rule and Sir John Henslow. In order to compare the qualities of ship-rigged and brig-rigged vessels, one vessel to each design was to be completed as a ship-sloop and the other as a brig-sloop. While the Henslow-designed vessels (the brig-sloop HMS Busy and the ship-sloop HMS Echo) would see no further sisters built, the Rule-designed vessels (the brig-sloop HMS Cruizer and the ship-sloop HMS Snake would each have a single sister ordered in the following March, and Rule's Cruizer design would subsequently see over a hundred copies constructed during the Napoleonic War.[1]
The order placed in March 1797 for the first sister to the Cruizer was subsequently cancelled, but new orders were placed from 1802 up to 1813. A final order in 1815 (HMS Samarang) was cancelled in 1820.[1]
[edit] Ships
In the following table, the Cruizer class brig-sloops are listed in the order in which they were instructed to be built (i.e. order dates).
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Model of HMS Cruiser |
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- Winfield, Rif (2008) British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793-1817. Second edition, Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4
[edit] Reading
- Petrejus, E W (1970). Modelling the brig-of-war Irene (A handbook for building a Cruizer class model). De Esch. ASIN B0006C7NRA
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