- Cormorant class ship-sloop
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His Majesty's ship Blossom off the Sandwich IslandsClass overview Name: Cormorant-class ship-sloop Operators: 
Royal NavyBuilt: 1793 - 1817 In service: 1794 - 1833 Completed: 30 Cancelled: 1 General characteristics Type: Ship-sloop Tons burthen: 422.7 bm Length: 108 ft 4 in (33 m) Beam: 29 ft 7 in (9 m) Depth of hold: 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) Sail plan: Full-rigged ship Complement: 125 (121 from 1794) Armament: As built: - Sixteen 6-pdr long guns
- Sixteen 24-pdr carronades
- Eight 12-pdr carronades
The Cormorant class were built as a 16-gun class of ship-sloops for the Royal Navy, although an extra 2 guns were added soon after completion.
Design
The class was designed jointly by the two Surveyors of the Navy - Sir William Rule and Sir John Henslow - and six vessels to this design were ordered in February 1793; a seventh vessel was ordered in the following year. Twenty-four more were ordered to the same design in 1805 - 1806, although in this new batch 32-pounder carronades were fitted instead of the 6 pounders originally mounted in the earlier batch; of this second batch one ship (Serpent) was cancelled and another (Ranger) completed to a slightly lengthened variant of the design.
Ships
Name Ordered Builder Launched Notes Cormorant 18 February 1793 Randall & Brent, Rotherhithe 2 January 1794 Favourite (i) 18 February 1793 Randall & Brent, Rotherhithe 1 February 1794 Captured by the French 6 January 1806; retaken 27 January 1807 and renamed Goree. Hornet 18 February 1793 Marmaduke Stalkart, Rotherhithe 3 February 1794 Lynx 18 February 1793 William Cleverly, Gravesend 14 February 1794 Caused an international incident when she fired on the USRC Eagle Lark 18 February 1793 Thomas Pitcher, Northfleet 15 February 1794 Hazard 18 February 1793 Josiah & Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury 3 March 1794 Deptford Royal Dockyard 29 November 1794 Hyacinth 12 July 1805 John Preston, Great Yarmouth 30 August 1806 Sabrina 12 July 1805 Robert Adams, Chapel, Southampton 1 September 1806 Herald 12 July 1805 Carver & Corney, Littlehampton 27 December 1806 Plymouth Royal Dockyard 1 May 1813 Initial contractor, Owen of Ringmore, Devon, went bankrupt in 1810, so work was transferred to Plymouth South Shields 27 January 1807 Topsham 22 April 1806 Bideford 30 October 1807 Racoon 19 October 1805 John Preston, Great Yarmouth 30 March 1808 Convict prison ship in 1819 & sold in August 1838 Dartmouth 21 April 1810 Initial contractor, Benjamin Tanner of Dartmouth went bankrupt in 1807 & contract was transferred to John Cock Bideford 2 October 1807 Hesper 19 October 1805 John Cock, Dartmouth 3 July 1809 Initial contractor, Benjamin Tanner of Dartmouth went bankrupt in 1807 & contract was transferred to John Cock Cherub 19 November 1805 John King, Dover 27 December 1806 Sold in 1820 Bridport 25 March 1807 Mistleythorn 29 September 1806 Frindsbury 11 November 1806 Blossom 19 November 1805 Robert Guillaume, Northam, Southampton 10 December 1806 Broken up in August 1848 Dartmouth 15 July 1809 Egeria 19 November 1805 Nicholas Bools & William Good, Bridport 31 October 1807 Receiving ship at Devonport from 1825 & broken up 1864 Ipswich 13 September 1806 Littlehampton 10 January 1807 Barnstaple 5 September 1807 Altered on stocks and completed to a slightly longer design. Plymouth Royal Dockyard 13 July 1809 Serpent 15 January 1806 Sheerness Royal Dockyard not laid down Cancelled 8 September 1810 Dauntless 25 March 1806 Deptford Royal Dockyard 20 December 1808 Sold for breaking in 1825 References
- British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1793-1817, Rif Winfield, Seaforth Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4
Cormorant-class ship-sloop Categories:- Cormorant class sloops
- Sloop classes
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