HMS Firefly

At least seven vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Firefly:

• , 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.
• 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.
• , a schooner wrecked on 27 February 1835 on the Northern Triangles, off Belize with the loss of thirteen of her 23 crew.^[3][4]
• , a Firefly-class gunboat, re-engined in 1844 with the engine from HMS Phoenix and became a survey ship.
• , a British Forester-class gunboat.
• , a British Fly-class gunboat that the Ottomans captured but that the British recaptured at the 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.

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