HMS Mullett explained

At least four vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mullett, Mullet, or Mulette.

• or Mullet was the French Dromadaire-class Mulet, launched c. May 1782 based on plans by Jean-Joseph Ginoux, originally classed as a barge and then as a flûte (1784). She was armed with eighteen to twenty 6 or 8-pounder guns. The British captured her at Toulon in 1793 and commissioned her as the sloop Mulette (or Mullet). She was broken up in 1796.
• was a that was built in Bermuda and launched in 1807. She was sold in 1814.
• was a wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1860, sold on 25 April 1872 at Hong Kong for mercantile use and renamed Formosa.
• was a ASW trawler launched in 1942 and sold in 1946.

See also

• , an American vessel taken as a prize of war

Sources

• • Book: Demerliac, Alain . La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1794 à 1792 . 1996. Éditions Ancre . French . 2-906381-23-3 .
• Book: Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. 2008. 978-1-86176-246-7.