2-class schooner-avisos were a class of twenty-eight 1-gun dispatch or advice boats of the French Navy, all built between 1808 and 1810.

She sailed from Bayonne for Isle de France (Mauritius), on 14 June, and disappeared at sea.

Lloyd's List reported that on 27 August "the Mouche French National Schooner of one gun, four swivels, and 24 men, from Bayonne to the Havannah, with Dispatches, arrived at Plymouth, 27 instant, Prize to the Cossack SW."[2] Some French records suggest that she was captured on 19 August 1808 in the Antilles.

The prize money notice in the London Gazette gives the date of capture as 5 August.

[1] In late 1808 she was under the command of enseigne de vaisseau auxiliaire Sorel, and carrying dispatches from Saint-Domingue to Pasajes, and then returning to Bayonne.

[4] She underwent refitting at Bayonne in January 1809, but a boat, under the command of Lieutenant Joseph William Bazalgette of HMS Resistance, captured her on 27 February 1809 off the north coast of Spain.

[5] The prize money notice credited Resistance and HMS Arethusa with the capture, as well as that of four other merchant vessels on the 26th and 27th.

Lieutenant de vaisseau Pierre Bouvet, in Entreprenant, recovered her crew.

[1] Under the command of enseigne de vaiseau Kernafflen, she visited Pasajes and Bilbao.

[1] Under the command of enseigne de vaisseau provisoire Lamouroux she sailed from Santons to Castro Urdiales, and then to Santander.

[b] Serin was lost on 16 October in a squall as she was en route to Cayenne via Senegal.

[1] She was launched at Rochefort Dockyard on 10 September 1808 and her builder was Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne-Sérigny.

[1] Between 9 October and 30 November 1809, while under the command of enseigne de vaisseau Flesselles, she carried dispatches from Paimbœuf to Basse-Terre.

During the invasion, Hazard led the fleet into Anse de Barque where she saw a French schooner anchored under the batteries and on fire.

The French Navy renamed her Rossignol on 24 March 1817 and then commissioned her on 9 April, probably for colonial service.

[16] Mouche №13 was under the command of enseigne de vaisseau Detcheverry and was carrying dispatches from Brest to San Domingo when Reindeer captured her west of the Azores.

[1] On 6 May enseigne de vaisseau Fontbonne sailed Eclair from Brest to Martinique.

[1] On 10–11 September 1808 she was under the command of enseigne de vaisseau auxiliaire Desgardins and cruising in front of Dunkirk and Nieuport.

[10] The French Navy renamed her Colibri in March 1817, and recommissioned her on 1 May 1817, probably as an aviso for colonial service.

There she joined the brig Argus and the schooner Iris in suppressing the slave trade.

[1] Between 10 July and 4 October 1810 she was under the command of l'enseigne de vaisseau Chasseriau, and carried dispatches from Marseille to Port-Mahon.

[1] On 11 January 1810, HMS Indefatigable captured Mouche № 26 near Cap de Peñas.

[1] The prize money notice gives the names of six British vessels that shared in the proceeds.

A boarding party in Hesper's cutter suffered three men wounded while boarding Mouche; French casualties were two men killed and five wounded, one of whom was Mouche No.28's commander.

Lys grounded in 1825 on Providence Atoll in the Indian Ocean, but remained in service at Bourbon in October 1827.