Seagull class brig-sloop
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Seagull |
| Operators: |  Royal Navy |
| In service: | 1805 - 1819 |
| Completed: | 13 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | brig-sloop |
| Displacement: | 282.3 tons |
| Length: | 93 ft 0 in |
| Beam: | 26 ft 5 in |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Complement: | 95 |
| Armament: |
16 guns: 2 x 6-pounder cannon as bow chasers. 14 x 24-pounder carronades.2 more 24-pounder carronades were added later. |
The Seagull class were built as a 16-gun class of brig-sloops for the Royal Navy, although an extra 2 carronades were added soon after completion. The class was designed by one of the Surveyors of the Navy - Sir William Rule - and approved on 4 January 1805. Five vessels to this design were ordered in December 1804; eight more were ordered in the summer.
Unlike the larger Cruiser class brig-sloops, whose main battery was composed of 32-pounder carronades, the Seagull class (and the similar Fly class brig-sloops designed by Rule's co-Surveyor - Sir John Henslow) were armed with a main battery of 24-pounder carronades.
[edit] Vessels
In the following table, the Seagull class brig-sloops are listed in the order in which they were instructed to be built (i.e. order dates).
| Name | Launched |
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| HMS Seagull | 1 July 1805 |
| HMS Oberon | 13 August 1805 |
| HMS Imogen | 11 July 1805 |
| HMS Nightingale | 29 July 1805 |
| HMS Savage | 30 July 1805 |
| HMS Skylark | February 1806 |
| HMS Paulina | 7 December 1805 |
| HMS Delight | June 1806 |
| HMS Orestes | 23 October 1805 |
| HMS Electra | 21 January 1806 |
| HMS Julia | 4 February 1806 |
| HMS Satellite | March 1806 |
| HMS Sheldrake | 21 March 1806 |
[edit] References
- British Warships in the Age of Sail, Rif Winfield, Seaforth Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4
