HMS Spitfire (1793)

History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Spitfire
Launched	1793
Acquired	By capture 1793
Fate	Lost 1794
General characteristics [1]
Type	schooner
Tons burthen	6060⁄94 (bm)
Length	59 ft 4 in (18.1 m) (overall); 53 ft 0 in (16.2 m) (keel)
Beam	14 ft 8 in (4.5 m)
Depth of hold	5 ft 4 in (1.6 m)
Complement	40; later 35
Armament	4 × 3-pounder guns

HMS Spitfire was the French 6-gun privateer schooner Poulette, launched in 1793, that the Royal Navy captured that same year. Lieutenant John Perkins commissioned her in April.^[1] Under Perkins she was part of Commodore John Ford's squadron at Jamaica. She was lost with all hands off Saint-Domingue, Hispaniola, in February 1794.