- Citations and references
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country=UK | Ship flag= | Ship name=HMS Ariadne | Ship namesake= | Ship builder= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship acquired=July 1805 | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed=HMS Dove (1805), & HMS Flight (1807) | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Foundered 1808 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
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}} | HMS Ariadne was launched at Cowes in 1803 as Ariadne. The Royal Navy purchased her in July 1805 as an advice boat and commissioned her under Lieutenant John Wells. It renamed her HMS Dove later that year, and then in 1806 renamed her HMS Flight. Loss: In September 1806 Flight was missing in the English Channel, supposed foundered with all hands.{{sfnp|Hepper|1994|p=115}} Citations and referencesCitationsReferences- Hepper, David J. (1994) British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. (Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot). {{ISBN|0-948864-30-3}}
- {{cite book |first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|year=2008|isbn=1-86176-246-1}}
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