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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Atholl-class corvettes |
| Operators |  Royal Navy |
| Completed | 14 |
| Canceled | 4 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Sixth-rate corvette |
| Tons burthen | 499 91/94 bm (as designed) |
| Length |
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| Beam | 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement | 175 |
| Armament |
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The Atholl-class corvettes were a series of fourteen sixth-rate corvettes built for the Royal Navy 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 the East India Company built,(Alligator, Termagant and Samarang), were built of teak. Nimrod was built of African timber.
Cape Atholl in Greenland was named after this corvette class. [1]
