HMS Renard was a 12-gun schooner, previously the French navy schooner Renard. captured her in 1803 off Corsica and the Royal Navy took her into service under her existing name. The already being an (a sloop), on the West Indies station, at some point between 1804 and 1807 the schooner's name was changed to HMS Crafty. During her brief service Renard/Crafty captured several merchantmen and a small armed vessel. In 1807 three Spanish privateers captured her. French career Renard was originally a lugger built and launched at Dieppe in June 1793. The French Navy purchased her on the ways in April 1793. Under the command of enseigne de vaisseau non entretenu Troquet, in October the lugger Renard sailed from Havre to Brest. From 27 January 1794 to the end of the year, Renard was under the command of enseigne de vaisseau non entretenu Catelain. She cruised, carried out liaison missions, and escorted convoys between la Hougue and Boulogne-sur-Mer. The next year, first under Catelain, and then lieutenant de vaisseau Bigot, Renard protected the herring fisheries off Havre, escorted convoys, and inspected facilities between Cherbourg and Boulogne-sur-Mer. On 21 November 1800, Renard was still under Constantin's command when she fought a British cutter, apparently inconclusively, in Île-d'Aix Roads. She then returned to Rochefort for a week. Between 1800 and 1803, Renard was converted to a schooner rig. In November 1803, the schooner Renard, under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Jacques Constantin, was escorting a transport carrying troops from Calvi. French records attribute her capture on 25 November to and , and report that Renard surrendered after having been fired on for hours by two ships, one being Cameleon. Capture British records differ. On 16 November Cameleon was part of Nelson's squadron off Corsica. She was lying nearly becalmed off Cap Corse, when her captain sighted an armed schooner escorting a transport. He deployed the boats, which succeeded in capturing the French naval schooner Renard, of 12 guns. went in chase of the transport, a brig, and captured her. In his dispatches, Nelson simply attributed the capture to his squadron, though Victorys log in the Admiralty records Cameleon and Stately as the captors. Nelson's letter described Renard as being armed with twelve 4-pounder guns and six swivel guns, and carrying a crew of 80 men. The transport brig was the Titus, and she was taking 96 troops to Toulon. Stately then