Bonetta-class sloop

Class overview
Operators Royal Navy
Preceded byCruizer (1752) class
Built1755-1756
In commission1756-1778
Completed3
Lost1
General characteristics (common design)
TypeSloop-of-war
Tons burthen220 4394 bm
Length
  • 85 ft 10 in (26.2 m) (gundeck)
  • 70 ft 0 in (21.3 m) (keel)
Beam24 ft 4 in (7.4 m)
Depth of hold10 ft 10 in (3.30 m) (vessels without platform in hold)
Sail planSnow rig
Complement100
Armament
  • 10 × 6-pounder (short) guns;
  • also 12 x ½-pounder swivel guns

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.