Mouche No. 2-class schooner-avisos

Mouche
Class overview
NameMouche No.2 class
Operators French Navy
Planned28
Completed28
Lost18
General characteristics
Displacement60–80 tons (French)
Length
  • 18.43 m (60.5 ft) (overall)
  • 14.94 m (49.0 ft) (keel)
Beam5.28 m (17.3 ft)
Complement12–25 men
Armament1 × 4-pounder or 6-pounder gun (on a pivot amidships) + swivel guns on some schooners

The Mouche No. 2-class schooner-avisos were a class of twenty-eight 1-gun dispatch or advice boats of the French Navy, all built between 1808 and 1810. Jean Baudry designed the vessels based on the draught of Villaret. Baudry may have been the builder on the schooners launched at Bayonne.