&sq=&lang=&file=File:Combat_du_Renard-5108.jpg) Fight between Renard and HMS Swallow in 1812. Drawing by Paris, engraving by Chabannes.
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| Name | HMS Swallow |
| Ordered | 27 November 1802 |
| Builder | Benjamin Tanner, Dartmouth |
| Laid down | May 1804 |
| Launched | 24 December 1805 |
| Fate | Broken up November 1815 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | Cruizer-class brig-sloop |
| Tons burthen | 386 50⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam | 30 ft 8 in (9.35 m) |
| Depth of hold | 13 ft 0 in (3.96 m) |
| Sail plan | Brig rigged |
| Complement | 121 |
| Armament | 16 × 32-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder bow guns |
HMS Swallow was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in December 1805, nine months late. She served the Royal Navy through the Napoleonic Wars, capturing numerous privateers. After the end of the wars she was broken up in 1815.
- ^ Winfield (2008), pp. 291–2.