HMS Sprightly (1818)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Sprightly.
HMS Sprightly was a 6-gun Nightingale-class cutter built for the Royal Navy during the 1810s. She was wrecked off the Isle of Portland in 1821.
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Name | Sprightly |
Ordered | 1817 |
Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
Laid down | October 1817 |
Launched | 3 June 1818 |
Completed | 18 January 1820 |
Fate | Wrecked, 27 December 1820 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Nightingale-class cutter |
Tons burthen | 140 bm |
Length | |
Beam | 22 ft 5 in (6.8 m) |
Draught | 10 ft 5 in (3.2 m) |
Depth | 9 ft 6 in (2.9 m) |
Sail plan | Fore-and-aft rig |
Complement | 34 |
Armament | 2 × 6-pdr cannon; 4 × 6-pdr carronades |
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