HMS Hyaena (1778)
Hyaena | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Hyaena |
| Ordered | 9 October 1776 |
| Builder | John Fisher, Liverpool |
| Laid down | May 1777 |
| Launched | 2 March 1778 |
| Completed | By January 1779 at Portsmouth |
| Commissioned | January 1779 |
| Captured | 25 May 1793 |
| France | |
| Name | Hyène |
| Owner |
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| Acquired | 25 May 1793 by capture |
| Captured | 25 October 1797 |
| Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Hyaena |
| Acquired | 25 October 1797 by capture |
| Fate | Sold out of service, Deptford 1802 |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Recovery |
| Owner | Daniel Bennett |
| Acquired | 1802 by purchase |
| Fate | Broken up 1813 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | 24-gun Porcupine-class post ship |
| Displacement | 800 tons (French) |
| Tons burthen | 52139⁄94, or 522, or 526 (bm) |
| Length | 114 ft 4 in (34.8 m) (gundeck), or 119 ft 9 in (36.5 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft 3 in (9.83 m), or 29 ft 5 in (9.0 m) |
| Depth of hold | 10 ft 3+1⁄4 in (3.1 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | ship-rigged |
| Complement |
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HMS Hyaena (HMS Hyæna) was a 24-gun Porcupine-class post-ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1778. The French captured her in 1793, took her into service as Hyène, and then sold her. She became a privateer that the British captured in 1797. The Royal Navy took her back into service as Hyaena and she continued to serve until the Navy sold her in 1802. The ship's new owner, Daniel Bennett, renamed her Recovery. Between 1802 and 1813, she made seven voyages as a whaler in the British southern whale fishery. She was broken up later in 1813.