Encounter, 1805
Type: Gun Brig ; Armament 12
Launched : 1805 ; Disposal date or year : 11 Jul 1812
Disposal Details : Wrecked in an attempt to cut out some vessels at San-Lucar, coast of Spain. Lieutenant Jas. Hugh Talbot.
Notes:

May 1805 Building

26 Nov 1805 - 12 Jan 1806 Expedition, under the orders of Commodore Sir Home Popham, to take the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch, which involved many of the men working ashore as a part of a marine battalion.

4 Mar 1806 as a part of the squadron lying off the Cape of Good Hope captured the French 40-gun frigate Volontaire, added to the navy by the same name.

20 Apr - 31 Dec 1806 a part of an expedition to Monte-Video and Buenos-Ayres.

Plymouth 2 Jan 1809 Sent in the Telemachus, laden with salt fish, captured by a French privateer, and subsequently re-taken.

7 Mar - Apr 1809 had arrived in Basque roads. 11 Apr the use of fire ships, explosion-vessels, and Congreve rockets against the French fleet at Basque roads and the results thereof. 13 Apr further attempt made to destroy grounded French vessels.