HMS Heureux (1800)
Heureux | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Name | Heureux |
| Fate | Captured, 5 March 1800 |
| Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Heureux |
| Acquired | by capture, 5 March 1800 |
| Commissioned | August 1800 |
| Fate | Lost at sea, June 1806 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Brig |
| Tons burthen | 59818⁄94 tons (bm) |
| Length | 127 ft 8+1⁄2 in (38.9 m) (overall); 102 ft 9 in (31.3 m) (keel) |
| Beam | 32 ft 7 in (9.9 m) |
| Depth | 16 ft 2 in (4.9 m) |
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Heureux was a 22-gun French privateer brig that the British captured in 1800. She served with the Royal Navy as the 22-gun post ship HMS Heureux. She captured numerous French and Spanish privateers and merchant vessels in the Caribbean Sea before she was lost at sea in 1806. Her fate remains a mystery to this day.