The Alderney class was a class of three sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1755 and 1757. All three were built by contract with commercial builders to a common design prepared by William Bately, the Surveyor of the Navy.
The first two – Stork and Alderney – were ordered on 14 November 1755, and another vessel to the same design – Diligence – were ordered three months later, on 23 February 1756. All were begun as two-masted (snow-rigged) vessels, and the trio were all assigned names on 25 May 1756, but the first two were actually completed as three-masted ("ship-rigged") vessels.
Vessels
Name Ordered Builder Launched Notes 14 November 1755 Daniel Stow and Benjamin Bartlett,Shoreham 8 November 1756 Captured 6 August 1758 by the French off Hispaniola. 14 November 1755 John Snooks,Saltash 5 February 1757 Sold 1 May 1783 at Deptford. 23 February 1756 William Wells & Co., Deptford 29 July 1756 Sold 5 December 1780 at Sheerness.
References
McLaughlan, Ian. The Sloop of War 1650–1763. Seaforth Publishing, 2014. . Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. .