HMS Berbice was a schooner, initially built for use as a merchant ship, that the Royal Navy purchased in the West Indies in 1780.

Her most prominent service was as a naval tender to HMS Adamant, the flagship of Sir Richard Hughes in the Leeward Islands Station.

On 23 February 1782, naval records indicate that she was at English Harbour, in need of crewmen but otherwise ready for active duty.

Between 1784 and the autumn of 1786, when he returned to England as an officer of Adamant, Berbice's commander was Lieutenant James Bremer.

[3][4] The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich has a one-page drawing labeled "A DRAWING OF HIS MAJESTY'S ARM'D SCHOONER BERBICE, THE 5TH AUG 1789" that comprises a sheer plan, body lines, deck plan, lines, and a view of her stern.