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At least seven vessels of the [[Royal Navy]] have borne the name '''HMS ''Firefly''''':

*{{HMS|Firefly|1801}}, was a vessel built in Bermuda that the Royal Navy purchased there in 1801. She was the former ''John Gordon'', which probably had been a privateer.<ref>"Royal Naval Ships built in Bermuda", (1961), ''Bermuda Historical Quarterly'', vol 18 no2.</ref> [[British Admiralty]] records list an armed ship built in Bermuda in 1801, and purchased in 1803.
*{{HMS|Firefly|1803}} was the French privateer schooner ''Poisson Volant'', of 130 tons ([[Builder's Old Measurement|bm]]), which the Royal Navy captured in 1803.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=13 September 1803 |issue=15620 |page =1228}}</ref>  She was wrecked on 17 November 1807 off Curacao; no survivors.
*{{HMS|Firefly|1808}} was a 14-gun [[schooner]], the ex-Spanish prize ''Antelope'' captured in February 1808 and purchased. She was renamed HMS ''Antelope'' in 1812, or possibly in 1809, and was broken up in 1814.
* {{HMS|Firefly|1828}}, a schooner wrecked on 27 February 1835 on the Northern Triangles, off [[Belize]] with the loss of thirteen of her 23 crew.<ref name=Times280535>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=(untitled) |date=28 May 1835 |page=3 |issue=15802 |column=B }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Gilly|first1=William O.S.|title=Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy: between 1793 and 1849, by William Octavius Shakespeare Gilly|date=1850|publisher=John W. Parker, West Strand|location=London|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15301/15301-h/15301-h.htm#THE_FIREFLY|accessdate=27 February 2015}}</ref>
* {{HMS|Firefly|1832}}, a ''Firefly''-class gunboat, re-engined in 1844 with the engine from {{HMS|Phoenix|1832|6}} and became a survey ship. She was broken up at Malta in 1866.
* {{HMS|Firefly|1877}}, a British {{sclass|Forester|gunboat|1}}.
* {{HMS|Firefly|1915}}, a British {{sclass2|Fly|gunboat|1}} that the Ottomans captured but that the British recaptured at the [[Battle of Nahr-al-Kalek]] in February 1917.
* {{ship|HMT|Firefly}}, a British trawler that operated between 1930 and 1961, and that between September 1939 to October 1945 served as a minesweeper. 

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