HMS Advice was the second of a class of two schooner-rigged advice-boats of the Royal Navy.
Advice was launched in 1800 and commissioned in January 1801 under Lieutenant William Robertson, for Jersey.
Advice (tender), of six cannons, was listed at being at Portsmouth on 2 October 1802, under the command of Lieutenant Nourse.
[5] That vessel was probably laid up at Portsmouth circa 1800, prior to the launch of the Advice of this article, and was sold in 1807.
A letter from an officer in Commodore Hood's squadron at Barbados reported that "The tender Sarah and the Advice brig, Lieutenant Salter, are both lost; but the crews are saved.