HMS Heureux (1800)

Heureux
History
France
Name	Heureux
Fate	Captured, 5 March 1800
Great Britain
Name	HMS Heureux
Acquired	by capture, 5 March 1800
Commissioned	August 1800
Fate	Lost at sea, June 1806
General characteristics [1]
Type	Brig
Tons burthen	59818⁄94 tons (bm)
Length	127 ft 8+1⁄2 in (38.9 m) (overall); 102 ft 9 in (31.3 m) (keel)
Beam	32 ft 7 in (9.9 m)
Depth	16 ft 2 in (4.9 m)
Complement	In French service: 220 In British service: 155
Armament	In French service: 22 ×  long brass 12-pounders In British service: 20 ×  32-pounder carronades + 2 ×  9-pounder bow chasers

Heureux was a 22-gun French privateer brig that the British captured in 1800. She served with the Royal Navy as the 22-gun post ship HMS Heureux. She captured numerous French and Spanish privateers and merchant vessels in the Caribbean Sea before she was lost at sea in 1806. Her fate remains a mystery to this day.