Bonetta-class sloop explained

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	Ordered	Builder	Launched	Notes
Bonetta	9 July 1755	Henry Bird, Globe Stairs, Rotherhithe	4 February 1756	Sold 1 November 1776 at Woolwich.
	9 July 1755	John Quallett, Rotherhithe	20 March 1756	Captured 23 August 1778 by the French in the Mediterranean. (Recaptured 26 August 1780 by British privateer Fame and burnt).
Spy	9 July 1755	Robert Inwood, Rotherhithe	3 February 1756	Sold 3 September 1773 at Sheerness.

References

• • McLaughlan, Ian. The Sloop of War 1650-1763. Seaforth Publishing, 2014. .
• Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. .