• The Merlin class was a class of twenty-one sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1743 and 1746. They were all built by contract...
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  • a 16-gun fir-built brig-sloop built at Rotherhithe in 1795 and sold in 1802. HMS Kangaroo (1805), an 18-gun Merlin-class sloop launched in 1805 and sold...
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  • weapon in use in the Roman army: HMS Scorpion (1746) was a 14-gun Merlin-class sloop launched in 1746. She sank in the Irish Sea in 1762. HMS Scorpion (1771)...
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  • Monmouthshire Merlin, a 19th-century Welsh newspaper competing with the Monmouthshire Beacon HMS Merlin, the name of several Royal Navy ships Merlin-class sloop, a...
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    HMS Swallow (1744) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
    HMS Swallow was a 10-gun Merlin-class sloop of the Royal Navy that prior to her commissioning was briefly known as HMS Galgo. Launched in 1744, the ship...
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    HMS Swallow (1745) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
    HMS Swallow was a 14-gun Merlin-class sloop of the Royal Navy. Commissioned in 1745, she initially served in home waters as a convoy escort and cruiser...
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    The Merlin-class packet boat of 1838 was a Sir William Symonds (the Surveyor of the Navy) design that was approved on 2 April 1838. The vessels were to...
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    HMS Merlin was one of the two original Merlin-class sloops that served the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. She was launched in 1796 and...
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  • Merlin-class sloop launched in 1745, used as an exploration ship from 1763 and sold in 1769. HMS Swallow (1769) was a 14-gun Swallow-class ship sloop...
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  • corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy Drake-class sloops (1740) Wolf-class sloops (1741) Baltimore-class sloops (1742) Merlin-class sloops - the other...
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    The Hydra class were a class of three paddlewheel steam sloops of the British Royal Navy. They saw active service variously in the Baltic during the Crimean...
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  • HMS Scorpion (1746) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
    HMS Scorpion was a 14-gun two-masted Merlin-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built by Wyatt and Major at Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire...
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    the yacht HMS Portsmouth designed 1740/41; the Merlin-class sloop in 1743 (to which design 21 sloops were built between 1743 and 1748); and the 24-gun...
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    Sixth-rate, corvette, and sloop classes of the Royal Navy. During the Age of Sail, warships were divided into ranks or classes. The English Royal Navy adopted...
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  • HMS Hazard (1744) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
    HMS Hazard was a 14-gun Merlin-class sloop launched in 1744. She was captured in November 1745 by Jacobite forces in Montrose harbour and was sailed to...
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  • 10-gun sloop launched in 1744 and sold in 1750. HMS Merlin (1753) was a 10-gun sloop in service in 1753. HMS Merlin (1756) was a 10-gun sloop launched...
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    Snell deserted and went to join the Royal Marines. She boarded the Merlin-class sloop HMS Swallow at Portsmouth and sailed as a cabin boy under commander...
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  • launched in 1801 and broken up in 1829. HMS Wolf (1804) was a 16-gun Merlin-class sloop launched at Dartmouth in 1804. She captured or destroyed four small...
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    HMS Merlin was a 10-gun snow-rigged sloop-of-war, the first of 21 Royal Navy vessels in the Merlin class. Launched in 1744, she was the first Royal Navy...
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  • Retrieved 18 June 2021. "British sloop 'Hornet' (1745)". Threedecks. Retrieved 18 June 2021. "British sloop 'Merlin' (1745)". Threedecks. Retrieved 18...
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  • Retrieved 7 June 2021. "British sloop 'Speedwell' (1744)". Threedecks. Retrieved 7 June 2021. "British sloop 'Merlin' (1744)". Threedecks. Retrieved 7...
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    HMS Otter (1805) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
    HMS Otter was a Royal Navy 16-gun Merlin-class sloop, launched in 1805 at Hull. She participated in two notable actions in the Indian Ocean and was sold...
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    class was a six-ship class of 10-gun screw steel sloops built at Sheerness Dockyard for the Royal Navy between 1900 and 1903. This was the last class...
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  • brig-sloop HMS Seagull (1805), a 16-gun Seagull-class brig-sloop HMS Seagull (1808), a 16-gun brig-sloop HMS Seagull (1889), a Sharpshooter-class torpedo...
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    HMS Wolf (1804) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
    HMS Wolf (or Wolfe) was a Merlin-class sloop launched at Dartmouth in 1804. She captured or destroyed four small Spanish or French privateers before she...
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    frigates Caledonia-class ship of the line (1794) nine huge 120-gun ships of the line Merlin-class sloop (1795) Albatross-class brig-sloop (1795) eight 18-gun...
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  • includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1805. "British sloop 'Desperate' (1805)". Threedecks. Retrieved 19 November 2022. "London, Tuesday...
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  • frigate 'La Vénus' (1806)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 December 2022. "British sloop 'Ariel' (1806)". Threedecks. Retrieved 26 December 2022. "Weymouth, April...
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  • line 'Dragon' (1798)". Threedecks. Retrieved 16 January 2022. "British sloop 'Pheasant' (1798)". Threedecks. Retrieved 16 January 2022. "Dutch Third...
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  • HMS Pheasant (1798) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
    HMS Pheasant was an 18-gun Merlin class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built in 1798 for the Royal Navy at a cost of £8,087 (equivalent to £1,075,300...
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