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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.
  • HMS Firefly (1877), a British Forester-class gunboat.
  • HMS Firefly (1915), a British Fly-class gunboat that the Ottomans captured but that the British recaptured at the Battle of Nahr-al-Kalek in February 1917.
  • HMT Firefly, a British trawler that operated between 1930 and 1961, and that between September 1939 to October 1945 served as a minesweeper.
  1. ^ "Royal Naval Ships built in Bermuda", (1961), Bermuda Historical Quarterly, vol 18 no2.
  2. ^ "No. 15620". The London Gazette. 13 September 1803. p. 1228.
  3. ^ "(untitled)". The Times. No. 15802. London. 28 May 1835. col B, p. 3.
  4. ^ Gilly, William O.S. (1850). Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy: between 1793 and 1849, by William Octavius Shakespeare Gilly. London: John W. Parker, West Strand. Retrieved 27 February 2015.

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