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.The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, Simpkin, Marshall & Co. London 1850, p. 588
Ships in class
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard Ordered: 27 October 1816 Laid down: November 1818 Launched: 23 November 1820 Completed: 9 February 1821 Fate: Broken up at Plymouth in 1863.
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard Ordered: 27 October 1816 Laid down: July 1819 Launched: 23 November 1820 Completed: February 1821 Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth in 1828.
Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard Ordered: 30 April 1818 Laid down: January 1819 Launched: 7 December 1820 Completed: 12 June 1822 Fate: Sold in 1832.
Builder: Chatham Dockyard Ordered: 30 April 1818 Laid down: August 1819 Launched: 26 March 1822 Completed: 8 May 1824 Fate: Broken up at Chatham in 1860.
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard Ordered: 30 April 1818 Laid down: April 1820 Launched: 7 February 1824 Completed: 26 May 1826 Fate: Broken up at Chatham in 1860.
Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard Ordered: 30 April 1818 Laid down: December 1820 Launched: 14 April 1823 Completed: 12 April 1824 Fate: Sold in 1852.
Builder: Pembroke Dockyard Ordered: 30 April 1818 Laid down: March 1821 Launched: 9 October 1824 Completed: 21 December 1825 at Plymouth Dockyard Fate: Depot ship 1855. Sold in 1896.
Builder: Chatham Dockyard Ordered: 30 April 1818 Laid down: April 1822 Launched: 20 November 1823 Completed: 6 November 1825 Fate: Sold in 1838.
Builder: East India Company, Cochin Ordered: 5 June 1819 Laid down: November 1819 Launched: 29 March 1821 Completed: 3 September 1822 at Woolwich Dockyard Fate: Depot ship 1841. Sold in 1865.
Builder: East India Company, Cochin Ordered: 5 June 1819 Laid down: March 1820 Launched: 15 November 1821 Completed: 16 July 1824 at Portsmouth Dockyard Fate: Renamed Herald 15 May 1824. Survey ship 1845. Sold in 1862.
Builder: East India Company, Cochin Ordered: 5 June 1819 Laid down: March 1821 Launched: 1 January 1822 Completed: 7 June 1824 at Portsmouth Dockyard Fate: Hulked as guard ship 1847. Sold in 1883. Andromeda (-) - re-ordered in 1826 as Nimrod (see below)
Builder: Pembroke Dockyard Ordered: 5 June 1819 Laid down: July 1823 Launched: 30 August 1825 Completed: 3 June 1826 at Plymouth Dockyard Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth in 1849.
Builder: Chatham Dockyard Ordered: 5 June 1819 Laid down: December 1823 Launched: 28 October 1825 Completed: 27 August 1828 Fate: Broken up at Chatham in 1860. Alarm (-) - re-ordered 1828 as Conway-class vessel Daphne (-) - re-ordered 1826 as a sloop, but cancelled 1832 Porcupine (-) - re-ordered 1826 as a sloop, but cancelled 1832
Builder: Deptford Dockyard Ordered: 9 March 1826 Laid down: October 1821 (as Andromeda - see above) Launched: 26 August 1828 Completed: 11 December 1828 Fate: Sold in 1907.
References
Rif Winfield & David Lyon, The Sail and Steam Navy List, 1815-1889, Chatham Publishing, London 2004. .