Fly-class brig-sloop

Class overview
Name:	Fly-class brig-sloop
Operators:	Royal Navy
In service:	1805 - 1816
Completed:	7
General characteristics
Type:	Brig-sloop
Tons burthen:	281  85⁄94 (bm)
Length:	96 ft 0 in (29.3 m) (gundeck) 79 ft 5 in (24.2 m) (keel)
Beam:	25 ft 1 in (7.6 m)
Depth of hold:	11 ft 6 in (3.5 m)
Sail plan:	Brig-rigged
Complement:	94
Armament:	2 × 6-pounder chase guns 14 × 24-pounder carronades[Note 1]

The Fly class were built for the Royal Navy as a class of 16-gun brig-sloops; an extra two carronades were added soon after completion. The class was designed by one of the Surveyors of the Navy - Sir John Henslow - and approved in 1805. The Admiralty ordered five vessels to this design in January 1805; it ordered two more in the summer, although this final pair were planked with hulls of pitch pine ("fir") rather than the normal oak used in the first five.

Vessels

In the following table, the Fly class brig-sloops are listed in the order in which they were instructed to be built (i.e. order dates).

Notes

References

• British Warships in the Age of Sail, Rif Winfield, Seaforth Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4
• Winfield, Rif & Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.