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| History | |
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| Name | Flying Fish |
| Launched | 1801 |
| Acquired | By purchase |
| Renamed | Poisson Volant on purchase[1] |
| Captured | June–July 1803 |
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| Name | HMS Flying Fish |
| Acquired | June–July 1803 (by capture) |
| Fate | Foundered November 1807 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Schooner |
| Tons burthen | 150 32⁄94 (bm) |
| Length | 78 ft 8 in (23.98 m) (overall) |
| Beam | 21 ft 7 in (6.58 m) |
| Depth of hold | 7 ft 10 in (2.39 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Schooner |
| Armament | 12 guns |
HMS Flying Fish was the American-built schooner Flying Fish, launched in 1801.[2] She became the French privateer schooner Poisson Volant, which the British captured in 1803 in the West Indies and took into the Royal Navy. She captured a privateer and recaptured some small merchant vessels. She was renamed Firefly in 1807, but was lost with all hands when she foundered later that year.