HMS Mosquidobit (sometimes Musquedobet or Musquidobit) was the Chesapeake-built six-gun schooner Lynx that the British Royal Navy captured and took into service in 1813.

Lynx was a bit larger than the typical swift pilot boats, after which Kemp modeled her.

Lynx was a letter of marque costing the owners $34,000 to secure the L of M. That is, she was an armed merchantman with the warrant to take as prizes enemy merchantmen during the normal course of business, should the opportunity arise.

On 13 April 1813, Sir John Borlase Warren's squadron, consisting of San Domingo, Marlborough, Maidstone, Statira, Fantome, Mohawk and Highflyer blockaded four schooners in the Rappahannock River.

The British sent a cutting out expedition in boats 15 miles upriver to capture the schooners at anchor.

[2] The attacking British boats carried 105 men led by Lt. James Polkinghorne while the crews of the schooners numbered 160 in all.

[8] In July 1814, prize money remitted from Halifax for Racer, Lynx, Arab and a number of other vessels, was paid.

[a] The Admiralty bought Lynx for £1,933 11s 5d (amended figure) and the British named her for the town of Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia, commissioning her under Lieutenant John Murray.

Lynx now sails the East Coast from Maine to St Petersburg, Florida, frequenting ports of Boothbay Harbor, Maine – Nantucket, Massachusetts – Martha's Vineyard – Annapolis, Maryland – St Simons Island, Georgia – and Tall Ship Event ports of call.

A model of the schooner as HMS Musquidobit is on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia.