HMS Trimmer (1782)

History
France
Name	Anti-Briton (or Terror of England)
Builder	Dunkirk (probably)
Launched	c.1781
Captured	1782
Great Britain
Name	HMS Trimmer
Acquired	January 1782
Fate	Sold 1801
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen	Privateer: 250 (French; "of load") HMS:27525⁄94 (bm)
Length	83 ft 9+1⁄2 in (25.5 m) (overall) 64 ft 1+5⁄8 in (19.5 m) (keel)
Beam	24 ft 4+7⁄8 in (7.4 m)
Depth of hold	10 ft 9+3⁄4 in (3.3 m)
Sail plan	Cutter, Sloop, then Brig
Complement	Privateer: Commissioned:162 Capture: 104 HMS: 110 men
Armament	Privateer: 14 × 6-pounder guns + 10 swivel guns 22 × 6-pounder guns (reported at capture) HMS: Sloop: 14 × 6-pounder guns + 10 × 1⁄2-pounder swivel guns Fire ship: 8 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Trimmer was the French privateer cutter Anti-Briton (or Terror of England), which HMS Stag captured in January 1782 and which the Royal Navy took into service. Early in the French Revolutionary Wars Trimmer captured a privateer. Though she never sailed again after December 1793, the Navy converted her to a temporary fire ship in 1798. The Admiralty sold her in 1801.