title: Alderney-class sloop
text: # Alderney-class sloop
  
  The Alderney class was a class of three sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1755 and 1757. All three were built by contract with commercial builders to a common design prepared by William Bately, the Surveyor of the Navy.
  
  The first two – Stork and Alderney – were ordered on 14 November 1755, and another vessel to the same design – Diligence – were ordered three months later, on 23 February 1756. All were begun as two-masted (snow-rigged) vessels, and the trio were all assigned names on 25 May 1756, but the first two were actually completed as three-masted ("ship-rigged") vessels.
  
  ## Vessels
  
  | Name | Ordered | Builder | Launched | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Stork | 14 November 1755 | Daniel Stow and Benjamin Bartlett, Shoreham | 8 November 1756 | Captured 6 August 1758 by the French off Hispaniola. |
  | Alderney | 14 November 1755 | John Snooks, Saltash | 5 February 1757 | Sold 1 May 1783 at Deptford. |
  | Diligence | 23 February 1756 | William Wells & Co., Deptford | 29 July 1756 | Sold 5 December 1780 at Sheerness. |
  