HMS Flying Fish (1806)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Flying Fish.

History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameRevenge
Acquired1806 by purchase[1]
RenamedHMS Flying Fish
FateWrecked 15 December 1808
General characteristics
TypeSchooner
Tons burthen151 (bm)
PropulsionSails
Sail planSchooner
Armament12 guns

HMS Flying Fish was the schooner Revenge, purchased in the West Indies in 1806 for the Royal Navy. She participated in a notable cutting out expedition and in 1807 in the second of the British invasions of the Río de la Plata; she was wrecked in 1808.

  1. ^ Hepper (1994), p.127.