Bonetta-class sloop


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

NameOrderedBuilderLaunchedNotes
Bonetta9 July 1755Henry Bird,
Globe Stairs, Rotherhithe		4 February 1756Sold 1 November 1776 at Woolwich.
Merlin9 July 1755John Quallett,
Rotherhithe		20 March 1756Captured 23 August 1778 by the French
in the Mediterranean.
.
Spy9 July 1755Robert Inwood, Rotherhithe3 February 1756Sold 3 September 1773 at Sheerness.