Crocus-class brig-sloop

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Class overview
NameCrocus-class brig-sloop
Operators Royal Navy
In service1808 - 1825
Completed10
General characteristics
TypeBrig-sloop
Tons burthen251 41⁄94 bm
Length
  • 92 ft (28.0 m) (gundeck)
  • 72 ft 8 in (22.1 m) (keel)
Beam25 ft 6 in (7.8 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 8 in (3.9 m)
Sail planBrig rigged
Complement86
Armament

The Crocus-class brig-sloops were a class of sloop-of-war built for the Royal Navy, and were the only Royal Navy brig-sloops ever designed rated for 14 guns. The class was designed by the Surveyors of the Navy ( and Sir John Henslow) jointly, and approved on 28 March 1807. Unlike the vast majority of other British brig-sloops built for the Royal Navy in this wartime period, which were built by contractors, construction of the Crocus class was confined to the Admiralty's own dockyards. One vessel was ordered from each of the Royal Dockyards (except Sheerness) on 30 March; four more were ordered in 1808 and a final unit in 1810. All the ships of the class survived the Napoleonic Wars and were broken up between 1815 and 1815.

Vessels[]

In the following table, the Crocus-class brig-sloops are listed in the order in which they were ordered.

Name Builder Launched Fate
Podargus Portsmouth Dockyard 26 May 1808 Sold for breaking 7 August 1833[1]
Crocus Plymouth Dockyard 10 June 1808 Sold for breaking 31 August 1815[1]
Merope Chatham Dockyard 25 June 1808 Sold for breaking 23 November 1815[1]
Apelles Woolwich Dockyard 10 August 1808 Sold for breaking 15 February 1816[1]
Deptford Dockyard 30 August 1810 Sold for breaking 6 March 1817[1]
Woolwich Dockyard 9 November 1809 Sold for breaking 30 May 1816[1]
Muros Chatham Dockyard 23 October 1809 Sold for breaking 18 April 1822[1]
Portsmouth Dockyard 29 April 1809 Sold for breaking 29 January 1818[1]
Woolwich Dockyard 2 June 1810 Sold for breaking 6 March 1817[1]
Wolf Woolwich Dockyard 16 September 1814 Sold 27 January 1825.[1] Worked as a whaler in the Pacific Ocean, hit Wolf Rock and sank on 6 August 1837 off Lord Howe Island.[2]

Citations and references[]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Winfield (2004), p.73.
  2. ^ "The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Saturday 16 September 1837, p.2". Retrieved 26 August 2010.

References

  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.
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