Year: 2023 Language: English Author: Watton C. Genre: Manual Publisher: VANGUAD MODELS ISBN: 978-0-7475-8545-9, 1-84415-301-0, 0-85177-971-9, 184832202X, 0851776175 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 61 Description: The Speedy was ordered on 2nd June 1781 and built by Thomas King, a private shipyard owner based in Dover and launched on 29th June 1782. She moved to Deptford, Kent, to be fitted-out and have her hull covered with copper plates between 16 July and 25 October 1782. At her completion she had cost £4,200 7s 3d to build. She had a sister, Flirt, built at the same time in the same shipyard, but it was the Speedy that gained a reputation that far exceeded that of her diminutive size. The Flirt/Speedy class of brig-sloops were the second class built to the new flush decked brig-sloop designs, the first being the Childers class of 1779 (Childers was in the very first action that led to the long war with France from 1793-1815, after being fired upon on 2nd January 1793 from a French battery based in Brest, a cannon ball from the battery being taken to the Admiralty in London). Both the Childers and Speedy class were almost identical, and it would be difficult to tell the differences. Both were around the same dimensions, mast plans and armament and crew compliment. They also shared the same very graceful lines, more cutter-like than brig. These early flush decked brig-sloops had a graceful sheer and steeply raked stern, unlike the later Cruiser and Cherokee classes.
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HM Brig-Sloop Speedy 1782 Bilding Mfnual
Language: English
Author: Watton C.
Genre: Manual
Publisher: VANGUAD MODELS
ISBN: 978-0-7475-8545-9, 1-84415-301-0, 0-85177-971-9, 184832202X, 0851776175
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 61
Description: The Speedy was ordered on 2nd June 1781 and built by Thomas King, a private shipyard owner based in Dover and launched on 29th June 1782. She moved to Deptford, Kent, to be fitted-out and have her hull covered with copper plates between 16 July and 25 October 1782. At her completion she had cost £4,200
7s 3d to build. She had a sister, Flirt, built at the same time in the same shipyard, but it was the Speedy that gained a reputation that far exceeded that of her diminutive size.
The Flirt/Speedy class of brig-sloops were the second class built to the new flush decked brig-sloop designs, the first being the Childers class of 1779 (Childers was in the very first action that led to the long war with France from 1793-1815, after being fired upon on 2nd January 1793 from a French battery based in Brest, a cannon ball from the battery being taken to the Admiralty in London). Both the Childers and Speedy class were almost identical, and it would be difficult to tell the differences. Both were around the same dimensions, mast plans and armament and crew compliment. They also shared the same very graceful lines, more cutter-like than brig. These early flush decked brig-sloops had a graceful sheer and steeply raked stern, unlike the later Cruiser and Cherokee classes.
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