English shipFortune(1644) was a 12-gun Royalist ship purchased in 1644 and captured that year by the Parliamentarians. She was renamed Dove, and was lost in 1650.
HMSFortune(1672) was an 8-gun flyboat captured from the Dutch in 1672 and sold in 1674.
HMSFortune(1699) was a storeship purchased in 1699 and wrecked in 1700.
HMSFortune(1700) was a storeship captured in 1700 and still on navy lists in 1702.
HMSFortune(1709) was a 24-gun storeship launched in 1709 and sold in 1713.
HMS Fortune was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1744. She was captured by the French in 1745, was recaptured as an 18-gun sloop in 1746, and had been renamed HMS Fortune by 1756. She was converted to a fireship in 1759 and was sold in 1770.
HMSFortune(1778) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1778 and captured by the French in April 1780 and served with the French navy under the same name. In October 1783 she became a packet ship under the name Courrier de Lorieint (and later Courrier de Lorient No.3), serving out of Lorient on the line Lorient-New York. In January 1787 she was transferred to the Régie des Paquebots, for whom she served on the Havre-New York line.[1] She was put up for sale at Havre in December 1788 and sold in January 1789 to Mr. Ruellan.[2]
HMSFortune(1779) was a 14-gun sloop captured from the Americans in 1779 and lost in 1780.
HMSFortune(1780) was a 14-gun brig-sloop launched in 1780 and wrecked in 1797.
HMSFortune(1798) was an 18-gun sloop captured from the French in 1798 and recaptured by them in 1799.
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