Mouche No. 2-class schooner-avisos
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Mouche No.2 class |
| Operators: |
 French Navy
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| Planned: | 28 |
| Completed: | 28 |
| Lost: | 18 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 60–80 tons (French) |
| Length: |
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| Beam: | 5.28 m (17.3 ft) |
| Complement: | 12–25 men |
| Armament: | 1 x 4-pounder or 6-pounder gun (on a pivot amidships) + swivel guns on some schooners |
The Mouche No. 2-class schooner-avisos were a class of twenty-eight 1-gun dispatch or advice boats of the French Navy, all built between 1808 and 1810. Jean Baudry designed the vessels based on the draught of the Villaret (ex-HMS Kingfish, of uncertain history). Baudry may have been the builder on the schooners launched at Bayonne.
She was launched at Bayonne on 14 June 1808. She sailed from Bayonne for Isle de France (Mauritius), on 14 June, and disappeared at sea.
She was launched at Bayonne on 5 June 1808.HMS Cossack captured her, but there are conflicting accounts of when and where this occurred. Lloyd's List reported that on 27 August "the Mouche French National Schooner of one gun, four swivels, and 24 men, from Bayonne to the Havannah, with Dispatches, arrived at Plymouth, 27 instant, Prize to the Cossack SW." Some French records suggest that she was captured on 19 August 1808 in the Antilles. The prize money notice in the London Gazette gives the date of capture as 5 August.
She was launched at Bayonne on 23 June 1808. In late 1808 she was under the command of enseigne de vaisseau auxiliaire Sorel, and carrying dispatches from Saint-Domingue to Pasajes, and then returning to Bayonne. She underwent refitting at Bayonne in January 1809, but a boat, under the command of Lieutenant Joseph William Bazalgette of HMS Resistance, captured her on 27 February 1809 off the north coast of Spain. In the action, the lieutenant de vaiseau commanding Mouche No.4 was killed. The prize money notice credited Resistance and HMS Arethusa with the capture, as well as that of four other merchant vessels on the 26th and 27th. It also gave the name of Mouche No.4's commander as "Sorrel".
She was launched at Bayonne on 25 June 1808. She was initially under the command of enseigne de vaisseau auxiliaire Gautier. French records indicate that she was destroyed on 9 March 1809 to prevent capture.Resistance's crew received head money for her destruction.
She was launched at Bayonne in June 1808. On 26 July she was at Bayonne under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Ducrest de Villeneuve, who was to sail her on a mission to Ìle de France. The Spanish seized her near Manilla on 24 May 1809. Lieutenant de vaisseau Pierre Bouvet, in Entreprenant, recovered her crew.
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