At least seven vessels of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Firefly:
HMS Firefly (1801), was a vessel built in Bermuda that the Royal Navy purchased there in 1801. She was the former John Gordon, which probably had been a privateer.[1]British Admiralty records list an armed ship built in Bermuda in 1801, and purchased in 1803.
HMS Firefly (1803) was the French privateer schooner Poisson Volant, of 130 tons (
bm), which the Royal Navy captured in 1803.[2] She was wrecked on 17 November 1807 off Curacao; no survivors.
HMS Firefly (1808) was a 14-gun
schooner, the ex-Spanish prize Antelope captured in February 1808 and purchased. She was renamed HMS Antelope in 1812, or possibly in 1809, and was broken up in 1814.
HMS Firefly (1828), a schooner wrecked on 27 February 1835 on the Northern Triangles, off
Belize with the loss of thirteen of her 23 crew.[3][4]
HMS Firefly (1832), a Firefly-class gunboat, re-engined in 1844 with the engine from
HMS Phoenix and became a survey ship. She was broken up at Malta in 1866.
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
At least seven vessels of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Firefly:
HMS Firefly (1801), was a vessel built in Bermuda that the Royal Navy purchased there in 1801. She was the former John Gordon, which probably had been a privateer.[1]British Admiralty records list an armed ship built in Bermuda in 1801, and purchased in 1803.
HMS Firefly (1803) was the French privateer schooner Poisson Volant, of 130 tons (
bm), which the Royal Navy captured in 1803.[2] She was wrecked on 17 November 1807 off Curacao; no survivors.
HMS Firefly (1808) was a 14-gun
schooner, the ex-Spanish prize Antelope captured in February 1808 and purchased. She was renamed HMS Antelope in 1812, or possibly in 1809, and was broken up in 1814.
HMS Firefly (1828), a schooner wrecked on 27 February 1835 on the Northern Triangles, off
Belize with the loss of thirteen of her 23 crew.[3][4]
HMS Firefly (1832), a Firefly-class gunboat, re-engined in 1844 with the engine from
HMS Phoenix and became a survey ship. She was broken up at Malta in 1866.
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.