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|---|---|
| Name | L'Esperanza |
| Captured | By HMS Providence in 1793 |
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Flying Fish |
| Acquired | 1793 |
| Fate | Captured by French privateers, June 1795 |
| France | |
| Name | Poisson Volant |
| Acquired | 1795 |
| Captured | By HMS Esperance and HMS Bonetta in 1797 |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Flying Fish |
| Fate | Sold 1799 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | 6-gun schooner |
| Tons burthen | 80 bm |
| Length | 63 ft 0 in (19.20 m) |
| Beam | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) |
| Draught | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Schooner-rigged |
| Complement | 30[2] |
| Armament | As L'Esperanza: 4 × 3-pounder guns[3]
As Flying Fish: 1793: 4 × 3-pounder guns[4] 1796: 6 guns[5] |
HMS Flying Fish was a 6-gun schooner taken into Royal Navy service in 1793.[6] Flying Fish is notable for being the first ship in which William Beatty served as acting-surgeon from 1793 to 1794.[7] Beatty was the naval surgeon who would go on to famously treat Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.[8]
- ^ "Star Class". worldnavalships.com. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ Brockliss, et al. p. 49.
- ^ "French Privateer schooner 'L'Esperanza' (1793)". threedecks.org. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ "British schooner 'Flying Fish' (1793)". threedecks.org. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ "British schooner 'Flying Fish' (1796)". threedecks.org. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ Winfield, not paginated.
- ^ "Sir William Beatty (1773–1842)". The Dictionary of Ulster Biography. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ Clarke, RS (January 2006). "Ulster connections with Nelson and Trafalgar". Ulster Med J. 75 (1): 80–4. PMC 1891793. PMID 16457409.