Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 63. Chapters: Cherokee class brig-sloops, Cruizer class brig-sloops, HMS Beagle, HMS Scorpion, HMS Sophie, HMS Pelorus, HMS Musquito, HMS Zebra, HMS Sappho, HMS Scout, HMS Cruizer, HMS Clio, HMS Curieux, HMS Curlew, HMS Reindeer, HMS Wolverine, HMS Mutine, HMS Dispatch, HMS Calypso, HMS Ringdove, HMS Chanticleer, HMS Peruvian, HMS Recruit, HMS Epervier, HMS Belette, HMS Avon, HMS Anaconda, HMS Raven, HMS Emulous, HMS Persian, HMS Ontario, HMS Drake, HMS Alacrity, HMS Eclipse, HMS Surinam, HMS Amaranthe, HMS Fairy, HMS Racehorse, HMS Hecate, HMS Zenobia, HMS Elk, HMS Manly, HMS Frolic, HMS Braak, HMS Foxhound, HMS Magnet, HMS Carnation, HMS Forester, Speedy class brig, HMS Ferret, Action of 2 March 1808, HMS Charybdis, HMS Saracen, HMS Penguin, HMS Weazel, HMS Grasshopper, HMS Primrose, HMS Oberon, HMS Leveret, HMS Crane, HMS Halcyon, HMS Antigua, HMS Trepassey. Excerpt: The Cruizer class was an 18-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops were the same as ship-sloops except for their rigging. A ship-sloop was rigged with three masts whereas a brig-sloop was rigged as a brig with two masts - a fore mast and a main mast. The Cruizer class was the most numerous class of warships built by the British during the Napoleonic wars, with 110 vessels built to this design, and the second most numerous class of sailing warship built to a single design for any navy at any time, after the smaller 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloops. Of the vessels in the class, eight (8%) were lost to the enemy, either destroyed or taken. Another was taken, but retaken. Fourteen (13%) were wrecked while in British service. Lastly, four (4%) foundered while in British service. In all cases of foundering and in many cases of wrecking all the crew was lost. Many of the vessels in the class were sold, some into mercantile service. One at least was wrec...