HMS Snapper was a Royal Navy of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1804. She cruised for some seven years, sharing in several captures of merchant vessels and taking some herself, before a French privateer captured her. Service In May 1804 she was commissioned under Lieutenant George Honey at Jamaica, and then on the Halifax station. In October 1806 she sailed in the Channel under Lieutenant William B. Champion. Then in May 1807 he sailed her to the Mediterranean. On 13 April 1808 Sub-Lieutenant James Young underwent a court martial aboard Salvador del Mundo at Plymouth. One charge was conduct unbecoming an officer. Apparently he had smoked in the galley with the crew and "permitted liberties derogatory to the character of an officer". A second charge was that he had been absent without leave during a gale and had returned to the vessel intoxicated. The court martial severely reprimanded him. On 11 October the two schooners Snapper and were in company when Nonpareil captured the merchant schooner Belle Coquette. In 1809 she was under Lieutenant William Jenkins. On 9 July Snapper was in company with the second rate , , , and when they captured Goede Hoop. On 2 August the same squadron captured Carl Ludwig. On 9 November Snapper was in sight of Dreadnought, Gibraltar, , , , , and the hired armed cutters Nimrod and Adrian when Snapper captured the French brig Modeste. Snapper was also in company with Christian VII, and when they captured the chasse maree Felicitée on 10 January 1810 and Glorieuse ten days later. On 16 February 1810 Snapper and were in company with when Valiant captured the chasse marees Heureux and Louisa. Next, on 2 June was in sight of Valiant and the schooners Snapper and when Unicorn captured the chasse maree Marie Josef. On 7 September 1810 Snapper spotted a ship among the rocks on the west side of Ushant. She notified Dreadnought, which attempted a cutting out expedition. The British succeeded in taking the Spanish merchant brig Maria-Antonia, which had been taken by a French privateer. However, the success was bought at a cost of six dead, 31 wounded, and six missing, as well as two ship’s boats, as a result of an ambush by a large party of French troops with