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Speedy-class brig : ウィキペディア英語版 | Speedy-class brig
The ''Speedy'' class brigs were a two-ship class of brig built for the Royal Navy during the later years of the American War of Independence. They survived into the French Revolutionary Wars. ==Concept== The ''Speedy'' class was designed in 1781 by the shipbuilder Thomas King, of Dover, a specialist builder of such craft. They were designed with a cutter-type hull, and anticipated the development of a new concept of the brig in naval warfare, that of small, fast escort vessels, instead of the slower but more seaworthy ship-sloops.〔 Their names were selected to epitomise this approach, , and .〔 Small, light craft, they were 207 Tons bm, and measured (overall) and (keel), with a beam of and depth in the hold.〔 Armed with fourteen 4-pounders, giving a broadside weight of 28 pounds, and twelve ½pdr swivel guns, they had a crew of 70.〔 This was broken up into 57 officers, seamen and marines; 12 servants and boys; and 1 widow's man.
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