HMS Falcon was a fourteen gun brig sloop launched on 23 September 1782 from Hills Yard in Sandwich. She was expended as a fireship in the raid on Dunkirk on 7 July 1800[1] Her crew, under Captain Butt,[2] shared with nineteen other ships[3] the prize money awarded for the cutting out of the French frigate La Diserée during the same operation.

References

  1. ↑ Colledge, J.J (2003). Ships of the Royal Navy : the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy (Rev.. ed.). London: Greenhill. p. 121. ISBN 1853675660.
  2. ↑ London Gazette Issue 15274 page 782 8 July 1800
  3. ↑ London Gazette Issue 15297 page 1123 27 September 1800


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