Bonetta group sloop

The Bonetta group was a batch of eight sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy during 1732. Seven were ordered on 4 May 1732 to a common specification prepared by Jacob Allin, the Surveyor of the Navy. An additional vessel – Trial (which had been ordered on 16 November 1731, but suspended on 7 January 1732) – was re-ordered on 6 July to be built to the same specification. The actual individual design was left up to the Master Shipwright in each Royal Dockyard at which they were built (except for Hound and Trial, which were built by Deptford's Master Shipwright – Richard Stacey – but were to a design by Jacob Allin).

Class overview
Operators:  Royal Navy
Preceded by: Grampus class
Succeeded by: Drake class
Built: 1732
In commission: 1732–1751
Completed: 8
Lost: 2
Retired: 6
General characteristics (common specification)
Type: Sloop-of-war
Tons burthen: 200 bm
Length: (see individual vessels)
Beam: (see individual vessels)
Depth of hold: (see individual vessels)
Sail plan: Snow
Complement: 80
Armament:
  • 8 × 3-pounder or 4-pounder guns;
  • also 12 x ½-pounder swivel guns

Although fitted with snow rigs and initially armed with eight 3-pounder guns, except Shark which was rigged as a ketch and fitted with 4-pounders, this group was built with seven pairs of gunports on the upper deck (each port flanked by two pairs of row-ports).

Vessels

Name Laid down Dockyard Launched Notes
Shark 4 July 1732 Portsmouth 7 September 1732 Sold 2 December 1755
Bonetta 5 July 1732 Woolwich 24 August 1732 Wrecked 20 October 1746 off Jamaica.
Fly 7 July 1732 Sheerness 15 September 1732 Taken to pieces
11 February 1751
Spy 10 July 1732 Chatham 25 August 1732 Sold 25 April 1745
Saltash 10 July 1732 Plymouth 7 September 1732 Sold 22 October 1741
Cruizer 11 July 1732 Deptford 6 September 1732 Sold 22 January 1745.
Hound 11 July 1732 Deptford 6 September 1732 Taken to pieces
June 1745
Trial 11 July 1732 Deptford 6 September 1732 Scuttled 4 October 1741
off Valparaiso

The following is a list of the dimensions and tonnages of the individual vessels:

Name Designer Length
(gundeck)
Length
(keel)
Beam Depth
in hold
Burthen
tonnage
Shark Joseph Allin 80 ft 0 in (24.4 m) 63 ft 0 in (19.2 m) 24 ft 6 in (7.5 m) 9 ft 11.25 in (3.0 m) 201 1394 bm
Bonetta John Hayward 81 ft 4 in (24.8 m) 65 ft 6 in (20.0 m) 24 ft 0 in (7.3 m) 10 ft 0 in (3.0 m) 200 6494 bm
Fly John Ward 86 ft 6 in (26.4 m) 69 ft 7 in (21.2 m) 23 ft 3 in (7.1 m) 10 ft 6 in (3.2 m) 200 394 bm
Spy Benjamin Rosewell 85 ft 7 in (26.1 m) 69 ft 5 in (21.2 m) 23 ft 4 in (7.1 m) 10 ft 6 in (3.2 m) 200 9194 bm
Saltash Peirson Lock 85 ft 7 in (26.1 m) 69 ft 1.5 in (21.1 m) 23 ft 4 in (7.1 m) 9 ft 6 in (2.9 m) 200 1794 bm
Cruizer Richard Stacey 87 ft 6 in (26.7 m) 71 ft 1 in (21.7 m) 23 ft 0 in (7.0 m) 9 ft 5 in (2.9 m) 200 194 bm
Hound Jacob Acworth 84 ft 0 in (25.6 m) 68 ft 1 in (20.8 m) 23 ft 6 in (7.2 m) 9 ft 6 in (2.9 m) 200 (exact) bm
Trial Jacob Acworth 84 ft 0 in (25.6 m) 68 ft 1 in (20.8 m) 23 ft 6 in (7.2 m) 9 ft 6 in (2.9 m) 200 (exact) bm

References

  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
  • McLaughlan, Ian. The Sloop of War 1650–1763. Seaforth Publishing, 2014. ISBN 978-1-84832-187-8.
  • Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.


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