HMS Musquito (1798)
HMS Musquito (or Mosquito) was a 16-gun ship-sloop, previously the French privateer Magicienne or Petite Magicienne. The Royal Navy captured her in March 1798. After the Spanish captured Musquito in September 1798, she served in the Spanish Navy until she was broken up in 1805.
The front page of HMS Musquito's logbook, held at The National Archives, Kew | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Name | Petite Magicienne |
| Captured | 1798 |
| Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Musquito |
| Acquired | By capture 1798 |
| Fate | Captured by three Spanish frigates |
| Spain | |
| Name | Mosquito (alias Ardilla) |
| Acquired | By capture 1798 |
| Fate | Broken up 1805 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | ship-sloop |
| Tons burthen | 178 (bm) |
| Complement | 87 men |
| Armament | 16 × 4-pounder guns |
| Notes | In modern-day English sources, the ship is often mistaken for HMS Musquito, paid off in 1796. |
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