HMS Musquito (1798)

The front page of HMS Musquito's logbook, held at The National Archives, Kew
History
France
Name	Petite Magicienne
Captured	1798
Great Britain
Name	HMS Musquito
Acquired	By capture 1798
Fate	Captured by three Spanish frigates
Spain
Name	Mosquito (alias Ardilla)
Acquired	By capture 1798
Fate	Broken up 1805
General characteristics
Type	ship-sloop
Tons burthen	178 (bm)
Complement	87 men
Armament	16 × 4-pounder guns
Notes	In modern-day English sources, the ship is often mistaken for HMS Musquito, paid off in 1796.

HMS Musquito (or Mosquito) was a 16-gun ship-sloop, previously the French privateer Magicienne or Petite Magicienne. The Royal Navy captured her in March 1798. After the Spanish captured Musquito in September 1798, she served in the Spanish Navy until she was broken up in 1805.