| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Snake class |
| Operators |  Royal Navy |
| In service | 1797–1845 |
| Completed | 4 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type | ship-sloop |
| Tons burthen | 38241⁄94 (bm) |
| Length | 100 ft (30.5 m) (overall); 77 ft 3+1⁄2 in (23.6 m) (keel) |
| Beam | 30 ft 6 in (9.3 m) |
| Depth of hold | 12 ft 9 in (3.9 m) |
| Complement | 121 |
| Armament |
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The Snake-class ship-sloops were a class of four Royal Navy sloops-of-war built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.[2][3][4] Though ships of the class were designed with the hull of a brig, their defining feature of a ship-rig changed their classification to that of a ship-sloop rather than that of a brig-sloop.[5]
- ^ Winfield (2008), pp. 282 & 291.
- ^ Tucker, Spencer C. (2014-06-11). The Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Early American Republic, 1783–1812: A Political, Social, and Military History [3 volumes]: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781598841572.
- ^ Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2010-02-28). Ships of the Royal Navy: A Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present. Casemate / Greenhill. ISBN 9781612000275.
- ^ Winfield, Rif & Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.
- ^ Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817–1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates (Seaforth Publishing, 2014) ISBN 978-1-84832-169-4.