French cutter Mutin (1778)
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| Name: | Mutin |
| Builder: | Dunkirk |
| Laid down: | June 1778 |
| Launched: | November 1778 |
| Captured: | 2 October 1779 |
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| Name: | HMS Mutine |
| Acquired: | 2 October 1779 by capture |
| Renamed: | HMS Pigmy 20 January 1798 |
| Honours and awards: |
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt" |
| Fate: | Wrecked August 1805 |
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| Class and type: | Mutin-class cutter |
| Type: | Cutter |
| Tons burthen: | 215 9⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 76 ft 11 1⁄4 in (23.5 m) (overall); 59 ft 5 1⁄4 in (18.1 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 26 ft 1 in (8.0 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 10 ft 1 in (3.1 m) |
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Mutin was a 14-gun cutter of the French Navy, the lead ship of the Mutin Class of five naval cutters. She was launched in 1778 and the Royal Navy captured her the next year, taking her into service as HMS Mutine. The Royal Navy renamed her HMS Pigmy in 1798. She was lost in 1805.
On 17 August 1779 Mutin accepted the surrender of the British cutter Active in the Channel. Active had encountered the combined Franco-Spanish fleet in the English Channel and was unable to escape.
HMS Jupiter captured Mutin, along with her sister Pilote, on 2 October after having dismasted Mutin by gunfire. At the time of her capture Mutin was under the command of Chevalier de Roquefeiul.
Between 16 November 1779 and 13 December 1780, she was at Portsmouth, being fitted. The Royal Navy named and registered her as HMS Mutine on 22 January 1780. Lieutenant Samuel Cox commissioned her in October 1779 for the North Sea.
Mutine shared with His Majesty's cutters Rambler and Griffin in the capture on 30 December 1780 of the French privateer General Ville Pateaux.
From March 1782 she was under the command of Lieutenant James Hills. On 6 October she captured the French privateer lugger Compte de Valentinois and delivered it to Admiralty control at Spithead.Count de Valentinois was armed with two 3-pounder guns and eight swivel guns. She had a crew of 31 men under the command of Captain Le Dos and had sailed from Cherbourg the previous evening. She had captured nothing prior to encountering Mutine.
In May 1783 Lieutenant Robert Watson replaced Hills. Watson remained in command until Mutine was paid off in 1787 and transferred to Plymouth Dockyard for repairs. There was no work on the ship until 1789, when she underwent an extensive refit at a cost of £3,884.
Mutine was recommissioned in October 1789 under Lieutenant Humphrey West and detailed for Mediterranean service in 1790. From July 1795 she was assigned to the squadron led by Admiral Horatio Nelson, then in position off the coast of Genoa.
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