List of gun-brigs of the Royal Navy
Courser class
At the same time as John Henslow was designing the Acute class, his colleague, fellow-Surveyor Sir William Rule, was ordered to produce an alternative design.

List of gun-brigs of the Royal Navy

Section Title: Courser class
Table Section Text: At the same time as John Henslow was designing the Acute class, his colleague, fellow-Surveyor Sir William Rule, was ordered to produce an alternative design.

Name	Ordered	Builder	Launched	Fate

Steady (ex GB No. 19)	7 February 1797	Hill & Mellish, Limehouse	24 April 1797	Renamed Oroonoko in 1805; sold 1806

Courser (ex GB No. 20)	7 February 1797	Hill & Mellish, Limehouse	25 April 1797	Sold (probably to HM Customs) August 1803

Defender (ex GB No. 21)	7 February 1797	Hill & Mellish, Limehouse	21 May 1797	Sold September 1802

Eclipse (ex GB No. 22)	7 February 1797	Perry & Co, Blackwall	29 March 1797	Sold September 1802

Furious (ex GB No. 23)	7 February 1797	Perry & Co, Blackwall	31 March 1797	Sold October 1802

Flamer (ex GB No. 24)	7 February 1797	Perry & Co, Blackwall	30 March 1797	Sold April 1802

Furnace (ex GB No. 25)	7 February 1797	Perry & Co, Blackwall	10 April 1797	Sold October 1802

Growler (ex GB No. 26)	7 February 1797	Thomas Pitcher, Northfleet	10 April 1797	Captured by French privateers 21 December 1797

Griper (ex GB No. 27)	7 February 1797	Thomas Pitcher, Northfleet	10 April 1797	Sold October 1802

Grappler (ex GB No. 28)	7 February 1797	Thomas Pitcher, Northfleet	April 1797	Wrecked on Chausey Islands 30 December 1803

Gallant (ex GB No. 29)	7 February 1797	Thomas Pitcher, Northfleet	April 1797	Sold October 1802

Hardy (ex GB No. 30)	7 February 1797	William Cleverley, Gravesend	10 April 1797	Sold May 1802

Haughty (ex GB No. 31)	7 February 1797	William Cleverley, Gravesend	April 1797	Sold May 1802

Hecate (ex GB No. 32)	7 February 1797	John Wilson & Co, Frindsbury	2 May 1797	Sunk as breakwater 1809

Hasty (ex GB No. 33)	7 February 1797	John Wilson & Co, Frindsbury	June 1797	Sold December 1802

Tigress (ex GB No. 45)	March 1797	Josiah & Thomas Brindley, King's Lynn	11 September 1797	Sold January 1802

Sentence(s)

Defender was a Courser-class gun-brig built for the Royal Navy at Limehouse and disposed of in 1802.

final_sentence: Defender was a Courser-class gun-brig built for the Royal Navy at Limehouse and disposed of in 1802.