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Lines plan of a 32 ft Royal Navy gig of 1869. The Royal Navy had, by the middle of the 18th century, a long-standing relationship with the boat builders of Deal.The Navy bought their clinker-built yawls and cutters – which contrasted with the carvel hulls of boats built in the Navy yards.
HMS Dart (1810) HMS Decoy (1810) Decoy-class cutter. HMS Dolphin (1801) HMS Duc de la Vauginon (1779) HMS Duke of York (1763) HMS Dwarf (1810)
HMS Cockatrice was the fourth of the Alert -class British Royal Navy cutters. She was launched in 1781 and had an uneventful career until the Navy sold her in 1802. Private interests purchased her, lengthened her, and changed her rig to that of a brig. They hired her out to the Navy and she was in service as a hired armed brig from 1806 to 1808 ...
HMS Tickler was a cutter built at Dover in 1798 as the mercantile Lord Duncan. Between October 1798 and October 1801 she served the Royal Navy as the hired armed cutter Lord Duncan. Lord Duncan captured or recaptured several vessels, including one privateer. The Navy purchased Lord Duncan in October 1808 and renamed her HMS Tickler.
An 1880 sail plan for a 32 foot Royal Navy cutter. The 1740 purchases coincided with a decision to increase the number of boats carried by warships. During the Seven Years' War cutters were found particularly useful for cruising ships, being seaworthy and useful for boarding. However, they were more susceptible to damage than the heavier boats ...
1 × 40 mm gun. 1 × 4.5-inch gun. The Dark class, or Admiralty "Type A", were a class of eighteen fast patrol boats that served with the United Kingdom 's Royal Navy starting in 1954. [1] All were named with a prefix of 'Dark'. The class could be fitted as either motor gun boats or motor torpedo boats, depending on the type of armament carried.
The Navy fitted out Tigress at Plymouth, arming her with fourteen 12-pounder carronades and commissioning her in October 1808 under Lieutenant Robert Bones. Tigress sailed to Spithead where on 12 April 1809 she joined the 32-gun fifth-rate frigate HMS Solebay, preparing to sail to the West African coast as part of the nascent West Africa ...
HMS Dragon 1845. HMS Penelope 1843 – first class, originally built as a sailing frigate in 1829. HMS Retribution 1844 – first class, originally classed just as a 'steam vessel', modified version of Cyclops[1] HMS Terrible 1845 – first class, originally classed just as a 'steam vessel'. HMS Avenger 1845 – first class.