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The ''Hind'' class was a class of four sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1743 and 1746. Two were built by contract with commercial builders to a common design prepared by Joseph Allin, the Master Shipwright at Deptford Dockyard, and two at Deptford. The first two - ''Hind'' and ''Vulture'' - were ordered on 6 August 1743 to be built to replace two ex-Spanish vessels (the ''Rupert's Prize'' and ''Pembroke's Prize'', captured in 1741 and 1742 respectively, and put into service by the British). Although initially armed with ten 6-pounder guns, this class was built with seven pairs of gunports on the upper deck, enabling them to be re-armed with fourteen 6-pounders later in their careers. Two more vessels to the same design - ''Jamaica'' and ''Trial'' - were ordered ten days later, on 18 August 1743; these were built under Allin's supervision at Deptford Dockyard, and were the only wartime sloops of this era be built in a Royal Dockyard. == Vessels == * - foundered 1747. * - sold 1761. * - wrecked 1770. * - taken to pieces 1776. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hind class sloop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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