HMS Dart (1796)

Dart capturing Désirée in July 1800
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Dart
Builder	Hobbs & Hellyer, Redbridge
Laid down	1796
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasps "Capture of the Désirée"[1] "Copenhagen 1801"[2]
Fate	Broken up 1809
General characteristics [3]
Type	Experimental design
Tons burthen	148 (bm)
Length	80 ft 0 in (24.4 m) (overall) 56 ft 7+1⁄2 in (17.3 m) (keel)
Beam	22 ft 2 in (6.8 m)
Depth of hold	11 ft 6 in (3.5 m)
Sail plan	Sloop
Complement	121; later 140
Armament	Originally: Upper deck (UD): 24 × 32-pounder carronades QD: 2 × 32-pounder carronades (two more were added later) Fc: 2 × 32-pounder carronades Later: UD: 18 × 32-pounder carronades QD: nil Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns All carronades were an experimental design of 24 cwt by Sadler

HMS Dart was one of two sloops built to an experimental design by Sir Samuel Bentham and launched in 1796. She served the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary wars and the early part of the Napoleonic wars before being sold in 1809 for breaking up.