Modern replica of Lynx off Morro Bay, 2007
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Lynx |
Builder | Thomas Kemp, Fells Point, Baltimore |
Completed | 1812 |
Commissioned | 14 July 1812 (Comm. #325) |
Stricken | 13 April 1813 |
Fate | Captured by the Royal Navy |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Mosquidobit |
Acquired | By capture 13 April 1813 |
Fate | Sold 13 January 1820 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | Topsail schooner |
Tons burthen | 22392⁄94 (bm) |
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Beam | 24 ft 0 in (7.3 m) |
Depth of hold | 10 ft 3 in (3.1 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Complement |
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Armament |
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HMS Mosquidobit (sometimes Musquedobet or Musquidobit) was the Chesapeake-built six-gun schooner Lynx that the British Royal Navy captured and took into service in 1813. She was sold into commercial service in 1820 and nothing is known of her subsequent fate.