Cuckoo-class schooner
A plan showing body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth of HMS Haddock, as taken off in October 1805 and modified on her refit. This plan was used for the subsequent Cuckoo-class schooners. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Cuckoo (or Bird) class |
| Operators | Royal Navy |
| Preceded by | Ballahoo (or Fish) class |
| Succeeded by | Cheerful class |
| Planned | 12 |
| Completed | 12 |
| Lost | 9 |
| Retired | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 75+1⁄94 (bm) |
| Length |
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| Beam | 18 ft 3 in (5.56 m) |
| Depth of hold | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
| Sail plan | Schooner |
| Complement | 20 |
| Armament | 4 × 12-pounder carronades (pierced for 10) |
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The Cuckoo class was a class of twelve 4-gun schooners of the Royal Navy, built by contract in English shipyards during the Napoleonic War. They followed the design of the Bermuda-designed and built Ballahoo-class schooners, and more particularly, that of Haddock. The Admiralty ordered all twelve vessels on 11 December 1805. A number of different builders in different yards built them, with all launching in 1806.