Atholl-class corvette

	Success undergoing repairs after running aground on Carnac Reef
Class overview
Name	Atholl-class corvettes
Operators	Royal Navy
Completed	14
Cancelled	4
General characteristics
Type	Sixth-rate corvette
Tons burthen	499 91/94 bm (as designed)
Length	113 ft 8 in (34.65 m) (gundeck); 94 ft 8.75 in (28.8735 m) (keel);
Beam	31 ft 6 in (9.60 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	175
Armament	28 guns:; Upper Deck: 20 × 32-pounder carronades; Quarterdeck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades; Forecasle: 2 × 9-pounder guns;

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 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.

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