HMS Mutine (1797)
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 France
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| Name: | Mutine |
| Namesake: | "Mischievous" |
| Ordered: | 15 April 1793 |
| Builder: | Pierre, Jacques, & Nicolas Fortier, Honfleur |
| Laid down: | January 1793 |
| Launched: | 5 January 1794 |
| In service: | February 1794 |
| Captured: | 29 May 1797 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Mutine |
| In service: | Captured in a cutting out action on 29 May 1797 |
| Honours and awards: |
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Nile" |
| Fate: | Sold in 1807 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 12-gun brig-sloop |
| Tons burthen: | 349 54⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
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Mutine was an 18-gun Belliqueuse-class gun-brig of the French Navy, built to a design by Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait, and launched in 1794 at Honfleur. She took part in the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where the British captured her. She was recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Mutine, and eventually sold in 1803.
After her commissioning, Mutine served at Le Havre, Brest, La Rochelle, and Rochefort. Initially, she served under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Beenst (the elder).
In late 1794 and early 1795 she was part of a French naval squadron that cruised against British shipping on the African coast. The squadron drove the slave ship Lady Penrhyn on shore on 7 December 1794, at Papaw (Little Popoe), where she was destroyed. The squadron also captured the cutter Bee. Mutine herself grounded while chasing a British merchant vessel into the Benin River.
In 1795, under enseigne de vaisseau non entretenu Lefebvre, she escorted a prize back to la Rochelle. Then she cruised the coasts of Guinea before returning to Rochefort.
On 4 March 1796, under lieutenant de vaisseau Xavier Pomiès Mutine departed île d'Aix in a frigate division under Rear-admiral Sercey, bound for a campaign in the Indies; however, a gale damaged her and she had to double back for repairs. She then took part in the Expédition d'Irlande. She also made a voyage from Rochefort, to Ferrol then to Tenerife, before returning to Lorient.
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