HMS Sprightly (1778)

Initially: 10 × 3-pounder guns + 12 × ½-pound swivel guns
Later: 12 × 12-pounder carronades

	Sprightly
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Sprightly
Builder	Thomas King, Dover
Launched	4 August 1778
Fate	Captured in 1801
General characteristics
Class & type	Sprightly-class cutter
Tons burthen	15062⁄94 bm
Length	Overall: 66 ft (20 m); Keel:48 ft 6 in (14.8 m);
Beam	24 ft (7.32 m)
Depth of hold	10 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Cutter
Complement	50 (later 60)
Armament	Initially: 10 × 3-pounder guns + 12 × ½-pound swivel guns; Later:12 × 12-pounder carronades;

HMS Sprightly was a 10-gun cutter of the Royal Navy, built to a design by John Williams, and the name ship of her two-vessel class of cutters. She was launched in 1778. The French captured and scuttled her off the Andulasian coast in 1801.