HMS Cygnet (1776)

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|Ship country= Great Britain

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|Ship name=HMS Cygnet

|Ship ordered=15 April 1773

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|Ship builder=Portsmouth Dockyard

|Ship laid down=November 1773

|Ship launched=24 January 1776

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|Ship commissioned=December 1775

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|Ship fate=Sold August 1802

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|Ship class={{sclass|Swan|ship-sloop|0}} ship-sloop

|Ship tons burthen=301 {{fraction|50|94}} bm

|Ship length=*{{convert|96|ft|7|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (gundeck)

• {{convert|78|ft|8.75|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (keel)

|Ship beam={{convert|26|ft|10|in|m|1|abbr=on}}

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|Ship complement=125

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|Ship armament=* 14 × 6-pounder guns;

• 2 more added ca. 1780

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