HMS Racoon was a 14-gun two-masted brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, purchased for service during the American Revolutionary War.

She was commissioned in August 1782 under the command of Lieutenant (and later Admiral) Edmund Nagle, but was captured and destroyed four weeks later by the French frigate Aigle.

[2][3] Britain's naval capacity was tested by France's successful Hudson Bay raids in the week after Racoon's launch.

The newly purchased brig was immediately put to sea, and was cruising off the mouth of the Delaware River when she encountered the 38-gun French frigate Aigle and her sister ship Gloire.

[4] All of Racoon's crew were freed, except the ship's pilot who chose to remain with the French when they fled in Aigle's boats ahead of the British capture.