This is a list of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy.

Corvette classes

19th century screw corvettes

• Jason class — 6 ships, 1859–1863
• Juno class — 2 ships, 1867–1869
• Eclipse class — 7 ships, 1867–1870
• Briton class — 3 ships, 1869–1871
• Volage class — 3 ships, 1869–1874
• Amethyst class — 5 ships, 1873–1874
• Bacchante class — 3 ships, 1875–1877
• Comus class — 9 ships, 1878–1881
• Satellite class — 7 ships, 1881–1884
• Calypso class — 2 ships, 1883–1884

World War II corvettes

• Flower class — 267 ships, 1939–1945
• Castle class — 44 ships, 1943–1944

Sloop classes

19th century and World War I sloops

• Fantome class — 6 ships, 1873–1874
• Osprey class — 14 ships, 1876–1880
• Dolphin class — 2 ships, 1882–1883
• Mariner class — 6 ships, 1884–1888
• Nymphe class — 4 ships, 1885–1888
• Beagle class — 2 ships, 1889
• Albert class — 2 ships, 1894
• Phoenix class — 2 ships, 1895
• Condor class — 6 ships, 1898–1900
• Cadmus class — 6 ships, 1901–1903
• Acacia class — 24 ships, 1915
• Arabis class — 36 ships, 1915–1916
• Aubretia class — 12 ships, 1916–1917
• Anchusa class — 28 ships, 1917–1918

Post-World War I sloops

• 24 class — 22 ships, 1918–1919
• Banff class — 10 ships, ex-United States Navy cutters, 1927–1931
• Bridgewater class — 2 ships, 1928
• Folkestone class — 5 ships, 1930
• Shoreham class — 8 ships, 1930–1932
• Grimsby class — 13 ships, 1933–1940
• Bittern class — 7 ships, 1934–1943
• Egret class — 3 ships, 1938
• Black Swan class — 37 ships, 1939–1945