| (authorities often give conflicting values for numerical data; differences between sources may de due to differences between design and actual values) |
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| All vessels (left column) |
| Name | | If this is different from the selected name, then the ship was renamed (see Note). |
| Type | | As launched. |
| Launched | | "1800a" means acquired in 1800. |
| Builders Measure | | Burthen (old capacity measure) to nearest ton. |
| Displacement | | to nearest ton. During this period displacement was replacing burthen as a measure of the "size" of vessels. This prameter is particularly susceptible to variation (being dependent on whether the vessel was rigged, stored, armed etc.) |
| Guns | | Initial armament; may have been different (generally a smaller number of larger guns) later in career. |
| Fate | | Year of (sale for) breaking up or of loss; if lost or sold for reuse see details in "Note" column. |
| Class | | Early in the period ships of the same (nominal) class sometimes showed quite considerable differences; authorities do not always agree on the allocation of early ships to classes, or on the name ship of the class. |
| SB | | Ships book in the National Archive in London: ADM 135/xxx (giving the history of the maintenance of the ship - hull, machinery and armament - from construction to disposal). |
| Note | | "1800 = Nnnnnn" means renamed to Nnnnnn in 1800; "1850 screw 1000 bm" means converted to a screw ship of 1000 tons burthen in 1850. c.h. = coal hulk; d.s. = depot ship.; h.s. = harbour service; r.s = receiving ship; t.s. = training ship; MV = mortar vessel; WV = watch vessel; YC = yard craft. TT = torpedo tubes. Merchant ship names in italics. Data in red are alternate data when sources disagree. Date format is yyyy.mm.dd. |
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| Unarmoured wooden screw ships only (right column) |
| Type | | In 1862 and again in 1876 groups of sloops were reclassified as corvettes (but both designations are to found for these vessels in contemporary literature for a considerable period thereafter). |
| Converted to screw | | Year of undocking after conversion to the screw (or of completion if the date of undocking is unknown). |
| Builders Measure | | After conversion to screw. |
| Displacement | | After conversion to screw. |
| Length | | Length on the gundeck to nearest foot. |
| Men | | Nominal complement (there may have been different "peace" en "war" complements). |
| Last in commission | | Year of paying off after last full commission for sea or coastguard service (i.e. not as stationary harbour flagship, training ship etc.);
'-' = never in full commission. |
| Class | | After conversion to screw. |
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| Career as unarmoured wooden screw warship (or snippets) (if appropriate) |
| Note: Data for many vessels are incomplete; I am adding data as I come across it (which effectively means: in a random order). |
| Date | | Dates between (...) indicate status of the ship (and not a specific event) at this date. |
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| Extracts from the Times newspaper (only for unarmoured wooden screw ships listed here) |
| Date | | The date of the newspaper. |
| Event | | Entries quoted or paraphrased from (generally the "Naval Intelligence" column of) the London Times newspaper (systematic entries included up to 6 January 1847 - more to follow). If the article is dated earlier that the date of the newspaper, the article date is given in the top right corner. |
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