HMS Mosambique (1804)

History
France
Name	Mosambique
Launched	1798
Captured	13 March 1804
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Mosambique
Acquired	By capture 13 March 1804
Honours and; awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Martinique"
Fate	Sold 1810
General characteristics
Type	schooner
Displacement	110 tons (French)
Tons burthen	112½ bm (by calculation)
Length	67 ft 6 in (20.6 m) (overall); 52 ft 0 in (15.8 m) (keel);
Beam	20 ft 2 in (6.1 m)
Depth of hold	8 ft 3 in (2.5 m)
Sail plan	Schooner
Complement	50 (60 as privateer)
Armament	French service: 10 × 18-pounder, or 12-pounder carronades; British service: 10 × 12-pounder carronades;

HMS Mosambique was the French privateer schooner Mosambique, built in 1798, and commissioned as a privateer in 1804. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1804 and took her into service. She served in the West Indies, engaging in several indecisive single-ship actions before she captured one French privateer. She was sold there in 1810.

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