Mistico (boat)

• On 25 October 1806, the Spanish privateer mistico Generalísimo, of four guns and 70 men, captured HM gunboat Hannah, of two guns and 28 men, in the Straits of Gibraltar.
• In 1825–26 was the lead vessel of a small squadron engaged in anti-piracy operations in the Archipelago, at Alexandria, and around the coasts of Syria. On 27 July 1826 Cambrians boats captured a pirate bombard and burnt a mistico on the Cycladic island of Tinos.

  Citations and references

• Folkard, Henry Coleman The Sailing Boat: A Treatise on English and Foreign Boats and Yachts.
• Sala, George Augustus, and Edmund Hodgson Yates Temple bar..