HMS Bravo (1794)
HMS "Bravo" was a 16-gun of the Royal Navy, launched in 1794. The two-vessel class was intended to operate in shallow waters. "Bravo" spent her brief, uneventful service life as the flagship for Commodore Philippe d'Auvergne's flotilla at Jersey. After the Peace of Amiens "Bravo" was paid off in March 1802; she was sold in 1803. Service. Sir John Henslow designed the class on the model of flat-bottomed Thames barges. Commander John Dawson commissioned "Bravo" in June 1794. Commodore d'Auvergne recommissioned her in July for the Jersey-based Channel Islands flotilla, of which  he was the commander. In November the Admiralty re-rated "Bravo" as a sixth rate to give d'Auvergne a salary more commensurate with his rank and role. "Bravo" did earn some prize money. She was at Plymouth on 20 January 1795 and so shared in the proceeds of the detention of the Dutch naval vessels, East Indiamen, and other merchant vessels that were in port on the outbreak of war between Britain and the Netherlands. Fate. "Bravo" was sold in Jersey in 1803.