HMS Gaiete (1797)

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HMS Gaiete (also found Gayette) was a French sloop of twenty guns captured by HMS Arethusa off Bermuda in 1797. Commissioned in the Royal Navy, she was commanded by Edward Dunford King (who made post captain in 1801) and had a cruise to the West Indies in 1798-99.