page_title: Atholl-class corvette
hierarchical_section_title: Atholl-class corvette
caption_attribution_description: English: HMS Rattlesnake. Watercolour, 138 mm x 211 mm. National Maritime Museum, London.
context_page_description: The Atholl-class corvettes were a series of fourteen Royal Navy sailing sixth-rate post ships built to an 1817 design by the Surveyors of the Navy. A further four ships ordered to this design were cancelled.
  Non-standard timber were used in the construction of some; for example, the first pair were ordered built of larch and Baltic fir respectively, for comparative evaluation of these materials; the three ships the East India Company built, were built of teak. Nimrod was built of African timber.
  Cape Atholl in Greenland was name after this corvette class.
context_section_description: The Atholl-class corvettes were a series of fourteen Royal Navy sailing sixth-rate post ships built to an 1817 design by the Surveyors of the Navy. A further four ships ordered to this design were cancelled.
  Non-standard timber were used in the construction of some; for example, the first pair (Atholl and Niemen) were ordered built of larch and Baltic fir respectively, for comparative evaluation of these materials; the three ships the East India Company built,(Alligator, Termagant and Samarang), were built of teak. Nimrod was built of African timber.
  Cape Atholl in Greenland was name after this corvette class.
caption: Rattlesnake by Oswald Walters Brierly, 1853
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