HMS Falcon was a fourteen gun brig sloop launched on 23 September 1782 from Hills Yard in Sandwich. She was expended as a fireship in the raid on Dunkirk on 7 July 1800 Her crew, under Captain Butt,London Gazette Issue 15274 page 782 8 July 1800 shared with nineteen other shipsLondon Gazette Issue 15297 page 1123 27 September 1800 the prize money awarded for the cutting out of the French frigate La Diserée during the same operation.
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