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)
