Atholl-class corvette


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 were ordered built of larch and Baltic fir respectively, for comparative evaluation of these materials; the three ships the East India Company built,, were built of teak. Nimrod was built of African timber.
Cape Atholl in Greenland was name after this corvette class.

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