broadsides at the French outposts near Greifswald. On 21 August Dispatch escorted the last troops to leave Rugen to Kioge Bay in Zealand to join the rest of the army, which had landed five days earlier to prepare for the attack on Copenhagen.Dispatch was one of six British warships that shared in the capture on 23 August of the Danish vessel Speculation. When Dispatch joined Admiral James Gambier off Copenhagen, Lillicrap was ordered to mount four long 18-pounders to give Dispatch a greater capability to fight the Danish gunboats. Lillicrap was also to join the inshore squadron as the senior commander under Captain Puget. Dispatch found herself engaging Danish gunboats almost daily. In the general promotion that followed in the capture of the Danish fleet, 17 commanders junior to Lillicrap received promotion; Lillicrap, despite recommendations, did not.Dispatch sailed for Jamaica on 29 February 1808. In June she recaptured Grinder, Ferguson, master. Grinder had been sailing from Jamaica to the Indian Coast when the French privateer Duguay Trouin had captured her on 7 June off Port Royal. Grinder was taken back to Jamaica. On the night of 2 October, while off Nevis with a convoy of merchantmen, Dispatch captured the small 1-gun French privateer schooner Dorade, which had a crew of 20 men and mounted one brass gun. Dispatch later retook a captured British merchant ship. While on the Jamaica station Lillicrap visited Haiti where he spent time with the two contending Haitian chiefs, Henri Christophe and Christophe's co-conspirator and rival, Alexandre Pétion. Christophe would in 1811 become the King of Haiti, and with him Lillicrap visited the Citadelle Laferrière. Lillicrap was promoted to post-captain on 21 October 1810, but did not receive official notification until March 1811, at which time he sailed for home in . He would then have to wait until January 1815 for his next command (). In November 1810 Dispatch was under Commander James Aberdouor. She left Negril on 20 May 1811 with a convoy for England and arrived at Portsmouth 24 July from Jamaica and St. George's Channel. FateDispatch was paid off in September 1811. She was broken up at Plymouth that same month. Citations References External links The Boatswain's Call An article exploring the life and service of HMS Dispatchs boatswain Phillips, Michael Ships of the Old Navy – HMS Dispatch''; accessed 1 January 2010. 1804 ships Cruizer-class brig-sloops Ships built in England