Merlin, 1803
Type: Sloop ; Armament 16
Purchased : 1803 ; Disposal date or year : 1836
Notes:

27 Oct 1803 ship's boats of the Merlin chase and run on shore the French lugger-privateer Sept-Frères, which was subsequently destroyed by the schooner Milbrook.

10 Dec 1803 was in company with the frigate Shannon when the latter was wrecked in a gale under the batteries near Cape la Hogue, returning on the 16th to destroy the vessel.

31 Jul 1804 in company with the Melpomene, Trusty, Ariadne, Magnanime, Pluto, Meteor, Favorite, Merlin, Hecla, and Zebra, Locust Brig, and Nancy and King George Cutters captured the Postilion.

1805 Spithead

1830 Receiving ship, Portsmouth