HMS Heureux

Two vessels have borne the name HMS Heureux, both of them captured from the French. The name translates as happy.

The first HMS Heureux (1800) was the French 22-gun privateer brig Heureux that Phoebe captured in 1800. She was taken into service and apparently foundered in 1806.
The second HMS Heureux (1804) was a 16-gun French brig that Galatea captured in 1807; she was sold in 1814.

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