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| Class overview |
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| Operators |  Royal Navy |
| Preceded by | Cruizer (1752) class |
| Built | 1755-1756 |
| In commission | 1756-1778 |
| Completed | 3 |
| Lost | 1 |
| General characteristics (common design) |
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| Type | Sloop-of-war |
| Tons burthen | 220 43⁄94 bm |
| Length |
- 85 ft 10 in (26.2 m) (gundeck)
- 70 ft 0 in (21.3 m) (keel)
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| Beam | 24 ft 4 in (7.4 m) |
| Depth of hold | 10 ft 10 in (3.30 m) (vessels without platform in hold) |
| Sail plan | Snow rig |
| Complement | 100 |
| Armament |
- 10 × 6-pounder (short) guns;
- also 12 x ½-pounder swivel guns
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The Bonetta class was a class of three sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1755 and 1756. All three were built by contract with commercial builders to a common design prepared by Thomas Slade, the Surveyor of the Navy.
All three were ordered on 9 July 1755, assigned names on 29 July 1755, and were built as two-masted snow-rigged vessels.
Vessels
| Name
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Ordered
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Builder
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Launched
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Notes
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| Bonetta
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9 July 1755
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Henry Bird,
Globe Stairs, Rotherhithe
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4 February 1756
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Sold 1 November 1776 at Woolwich.
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| Merlin
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9 July 1755
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John Quallett,
Rotherhithe
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20 March 1756
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Captured 23 August 1778 by the French
in the Mediterranean.
(Recaptured 26 August 1780 by British privateer Fame and burnt).
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| Spy
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9 July 1755
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Robert Inwood, Rotherhithe
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3 February 1756
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Sold 3 September 1773 at Sheerness.
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