| History | |
|---|---|
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| Name | Lynx |
| Ordered | 21 February 1803 |
| Builder | Jean Baudry,[1] Bayonne |
| Laid down | May 1803 |
| Launched | 17 April 1804 |
| Commissioned | 14 June 1804 |
| Captured | 21 January 1807 |
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| Name | Heureux[3] |
| Stricken | 1814 |
| Honours and awards | Naval General Service Medal with clasp "28 Nov. Boat Service 1808"[2] |
| Fate | Sold 1814 |
| General characteristics [4] | |
| Type | Lynx-class brig |
| Displacement | 402 tons[1] |
| Tons burthen | 33648⁄94 (bm) |
| Length | 93 ft 10 in (28.60 m) (gundeck); 78 ft 8+3⁄8 in (23.987 m) |
| Beam | 29 ft 6 in (8.99 m) |
| Depth of hold | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
| Sail plan | Brig rigged |
| Complement | French service:94 men[1] British service:100 |
| Armament |
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Lynx (or Linx) was a 16-gun brig of the French Navy, name ship of her two-vessel class of brigs, and launched at Bayonne on 17 April 1804. The British captured her in 1807 and named her HMS Heureux. After service in the Caribbean that earned her crew two medals, including one for a boat action in which her captain was killed, she was laid up in 1810 and sold in 1814.
- ^ a b c Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 214.
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- ^ Winfield (2008), p. 318.