- Vessels
- References
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}}{{Infobox ship class overview | Builders= | Kingdom of Great Britain}} | Cruizer (1752)|sloop|4}} | Class after= | Subclasses= | Built range=1755-1756 | In commission range=1756-1778 | Total ships building= | Total ships planned= | Total ships completed=3 | Total ships cancelled= | Total ships active= | Total ships laid up= | Total ships lost=1 | Total ships retired= | Total ships scrapped= | Total ships preserved=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=(common design) | Ship type=Sloop-of-war | {{fraction>43|94}} bm | 85|ft|10|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (gundeck)- {{convert|70|ft|0|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (keel)
| 24|ft|4|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 10|ft|10|in|m|2|abbr=on}} (vessels without platform in hold) | Ship sail plan=Snow rig | Ship complement=100 | Ship armament=*10 × 6-pounder (short) guns;- also 12 x ½-pounder swivel guns
| Ship notes=
}} | The Bonetta class was a class of three sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1755 and 1756. All three were built by contract with commercial builders to a common design prepared by Thomas Slade, the Surveyor of the Navy. All three were ordered on 9 July 1755, assigned names on 29 July 1755, and were built as two-masted snow-rigged vessels. Vessels | Name | Ordered | Builder | Launched | Notes |
|---|
| Bonetta | 9 July 1755 | Henry Bird,
Globe Stairs, Rotherhithe | 4 February 1756 | Sold 1 November 1776 at Woolwich. | | Merlin | 9 July 1755 | John Quallett,
Rotherhithe | 20 March 1756 | Captured 23 August 1778 by the French
in the Mediterranean.
(Recaptured 26 August 1780 by British privateer Fame and burnt). | | Spy | 9 July 1755 | Robert Inwood, Rotherhithe | 3 February 1756 | Sold 3 September 1773 at Sheerness. | |
References - {{Colledge}}
- McLaughlan, Ian. The Sloop of War 1650-1763. Seaforth Publishing, 2014. {{ISBN|978-1-84832-187-8}}.
- Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. {{ISBN|978-1-84415-700-6}}.
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