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
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. .