Merlin-class sloop

The Merlin class was a class of twenty-one sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1744 and 1746.

Ships

 * HMS Swallow (1744) - wrecked 1744.
 * HMS Merlin (1744) - sold 1748.
 * HMS Speedwell (1744) - sold 1750.
 * HMS Falcon (1744) - captured by French 1745, retaken 1746 and renamed Fortune, sold 1770.
 * HMS Hazard (1744) - sold 1749.
 * HMS Lizard (1744) - wrecked 1748.
 * HMS Hinchingbrooke (1745) - captured by French 1746.
 * HMS Tavistock (1745) - renamed Albany in 1747, sold 1763.
 * HMS Hound (1745) - sold 1773.
 * HMS Hornet (1745) - sold 1770.
 * HMS Raven (1745) - sold 1763.
 * HMS Swan (1745) - sold 1763.
 * HMS Badger (1745) - wrecked 1762.
 * HMS Falcon (1745) - wrecked 1759.
 * HMS Scorpion (1746) - wrecked 1762.
 * HMS Swallow (1745) - sold 1769.
 * HMS Kingfisher (1745) - sold 1763.
 * HMS Dispatch (1745) - sold 1773.
 * HMS Viper (1746) - renamed Lightning and coverted to a fireship in 1755, sold 1762.
 * HMS Grampus (1746) - converted to a fireship in 1762, renamed Strombolo in 1771, sold 1780.
 * HMS Saltash (1745) - sold 1773.

Referecences

 * Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.
 * Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.