Atholl-class corvette
Country of origin
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
ManufacturerPembroke Dockyard, East India Company
The Atholl-class corvettes were a series of fourteen sixth-rate corvettes built for the Royal Navy to an 1817 design by the Surveyors of the Navy. A further four ships ordered to this design were cancelled.
Non-standard timber were used in the construction of some; for example, the first pair (Atholl and Niemen) were ordered built of larch and Baltic fir respectively, for comparative evaluation of these materials; the three ships the East India Company built,(Alligator, Termagant and Samarang), were built of teak. Nimrod was built of African timber.
Cape Atholl in Greenland was named after this corvette class.
Non-standard timber were used in the construction of some; for example, the first pair (Atholl and Niemen) were ordered built of larch and Baltic fir respectively, for comparative evaluation of these materials; the three ships the East India Company built,(Alligator, Termagant and Samarang), were built of teak. Nimrod was built of African timber.
Cape Atholl in Greenland was named after this corvette class.
