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HMS Flying Fish (1803)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Flying Fish.
HMS Flying Fish was the American-built schooner Flying Fish, launched in 1801.[2] She became the French privateer schooner Poisson Volant, which the British captured in 1803 in the West Indies and took into the Royal Navy. She captured a privateer and recaptured some small merchant vessels. She was renamed Firefly in 1807, but was lost with all hands when she foundered later that year.
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Name | Flying Fish |
Launched | 1801 |
Acquired | By purchase |
Renamed | Poisson Volant on purchase[1] |
Captured | June–July 1803 |
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Name | HMS Flying Fish |
Acquired | June–July 1803 (by capture) |
Fate | Foundered November 1807 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Schooner |
Tons burthen | 150 32⁄94 (bm) |
Length | 78 ft 8 in (23.98 m) (overall) |
Beam | 21 ft 7 in (6.58 m) |
Depth of hold | 7 ft 10 in (2.39 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Schooner |
Armament | 12 guns |
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