French ship Mutin

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A number of ships of the French Navy have bourne the name of Mutin ("mutinous", or "jocker"):

• a 14-gun cutter launched in 1778. She was captured by the English HMS Jupiter on the 2 October 1779 and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Pigmy. She was re-taken by the French in 1781, and once again by the English in 1782.
• a 4-gun cutter, luanched in Cherbourg in 1837 as Passe-Partout, and renamed to Mutin in 1845. She was decommissioned in 1850.
• an unarmed cutter launched in 1883 for the benefits of the navigation school. She served as a warship during the First World War. She was given to the Naval Academy in 1924 as the Sylphe, and decommissioned in 1937, though she still stailed in Toulon in 1942-1943.
• the present Mutin is a school cutter of the French Navy, launched in 1927.

Also, a number of ships bourne the name of Mutine (the feminine form of "mutin"):

• a frigate (1744-1758)
• a corvette (1794-1797)
• a corvette (1799-1803)
• a schooner (1824-1841)
• a gunboat (1884-1897)
• a swift boat on the Lake Constance (1945)