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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-pounder guns originally mounted in the earlier batch; the 12-pounder carronades were replaced by 18-pounders, and some ships also received two 6-pounders as
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The Admiralty ordered six vessels to this design in February 1793; it ordered a seventh vessel in the following year. These ships were initially armed with sixteen 6-pounder guns, later supplemented with eight 12-pounder
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and then merchantman on the North Atlantic before her crew abandoned her in October 1827 as she was in a sinking state.
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was altered on stocks and completed to a slightly longer design, being 111ΒΌ ft on the gundeck.
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Captured by the French 6 January 1806; retaken 27 January 1807 and renamed
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caused an international incident in 1795 when she fired on
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Receiving ship at Devonport from 1825; broken up 1864
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List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy
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Brindley, 284:chase guns on the forecastle. 1: 1197: 304:Batch 1 (with 6-pounder guns) 291:) was cancelled and another ( 215:Sixteen 32-pounder carronades 1088:Broken up in February 1814. 1079:Richard Thorne, Fremington, 978:Broken up in September 1816 902:Sold 6 March 1817; became a 618:Broken up in September 1817 7: 1581:Cormorant-class ship-sloops 1138:Cancelled 8 September 1810 1030:Broken up in February 1821 945:Robert Guillaume, Northam, 570:Broken up in December 1820 454:Foundered on 3 August 1809 218:Eight 18-pounder carronades 206:Eight 12-pounder carronades 191:Sixteen 6-pounder long guns 10: 1602: 1535: 1310: 954:Broken up in August 1848 674:Sold on 14 December 1815 247: 104: 38: 20: 854:Sold on 13 January 1820 478:Sold on 30 October 1817 400:Sold on 30 October 1817 298: 262:National Maritime Museum 33:off the Sandwich Islands 722:Broken up in June 1818 698:Sold on 20 August 1818 105:General characteristics 746:Broken up in May 1819 594:Sold on 18 April 1816 585:Robert 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Index

HMS Blossom
Blossom
Royal Navy
Ship sloop
bm
Full-rigged ship
carronades
ship sloops
Royal Navy
Sir William Rule
Sir John Henslow
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich
carronades
Cormorant
Rotherhithe
Favourite
Rotherhithe
Hornet
Rotherhithe
Lynx
Gravesend
Lark
Northfleet
Hazard
Frindsbury
Stork
Deptford
Royal Dockyard
USRC Eagle

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