Atholl-class corvette

The Atholl-class corvettes were a series of fourteen Royal Navy sailing sixth-rate post ships built to an 1817 design by the Surveyors of the Navy. 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

 * HMS Atholl (1820)
 * Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
 * Ordered: 27 October 1816
 * Laid down: November 1818
 * Launched: 23 November 1820
 * Completed: 9 February 1821
 * Fate: Broken up at Plymouth in 1863.
 * HMS Niemen (1820)
 * Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
 * Ordered: 27 October 1816
 * Laid down: July 1819
 * Launched: 23 November 1820
 * Completed: February 1821
 * Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth in 1828.
 * HMS Ranger (1820)
 * Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
 * Ordered: 30 April 1818
 * Laid down: January 1819
 * Launched: 7 December 1820
 * Completed: 12 June 1822
 * Fate: Sold in 1832.
 * HMS Rattlesnake (1822)
 * Builder: Chatham Dockyard
 * Ordered: 30 April 1818
 * Laid down: August 1819
 * Launched: 26 March 1822
 * Completed: 8 May 1824
 * Fate: Broken up at Chatham in 1860.
 * HMS North Star (1824)
 * Builder: Woolwich Dockyard
 * Ordered: 30 April 1818
 * Laid down: April 1820
 * Launched: 7 February 1824
 * Completed: 26 May 1826
 * Fate: Broken up at Chatham in 1860.
 * HMS Tweed (1823)
 * Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
 * Ordered: 30 April 1818
 * Laid down: December 1820
 * Launched: 14 April 1823
 * Completed: 12 April 1824
 * Fate: Sold in 1852.
 * HMS Talbot (1824)
 * 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.
 * HMS Rainbow (1823)
 * Builder: Chatham Dockyard
 * Ordered: 30 April 1818
 * Laid down: April 1822
 * Launched: 20 November 1823
 * Completed: 6 November 1825
 * Fate: Sold in 1838.
 * HMS Alligator (1821)
 * Builder: East India Company, Cochin
 * Ordered: 5 June 1819
 * Laid down: November 1819
 * Launched: 29 March 1821
 * Completed: 3 September 1822 at Woolwich Dockyard
 * Fate: Depot ship 1841. Sold in 1865.
 * HMS Termagant (1822)
 * Builder: East India Company, 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.
 * HMS Samarang (1822)
 * Builder: East India Company, 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.
 * Andromeda (-) - re-ordered in 1826 as Nimrod (see below)
 * HMS Success (1825)
 * 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 Portsmouth in 1849.
 * HMS Crocodile (1825)
 * Builder: Chatham Dockyard
 * Ordered: 5 June 1819
 * Laid down: December 1823
 * Launched: 28 October 1825
 * Completed: 27 August 1828
 * Fate: Broken up at Chatham 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
 * HMS Nimrod (1828)
 * 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.