HMS Briseis was a 10-gun Cherokee- class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1808 at Upnor, on the River Medway.

[4] Elbe: On 7 July 1809, a small force consisting of HMS Musquito, the two Cherokee-class brig-sloops Briseis and Ephira, and five gun-brigs, including Basilisk, Centinel, Patriot, and Alert.

[5] Next morning at daylight a landing party found that the 80-man garrison of the battery had retreated, abandoning their guns.

The British then loaded the battery's six 24-pounders into vessels lying in the harbour, together with all the shot and military stores they could find, and some other small guns.

Lastly, the landing party handed the town of Cuxhaven back to the civil governor and then returned to the squadron.

As soon the British approached, the French evacuated Gessendorf in requisitioned wagons, while about 60 cavalry covered their retreat.

At the same time Pettet of Briseis took his men around the flank to capture a battery of four 12-pounders that was firing round shot and grape at the detachment.

Before the British arrived, the French artillerymen abandoned their guns, making their escape via boats on the Weser.

[8] Sans Souci: On 14 October 1810, Lieutenant George Benthem (acting), was in command of Briseis and 80 miles west by south of Horn Reef when she sighted a French privateer.

As Ross got closer he realized that the French had captured Uranie, which was a transport under contract to the British government.

[18][c][d] The King of Sweden awarded Commander Ross the insignia of a knight of the fourth class of the Royal Swedish Military Order of the Sword.

[20] Briseis, Commander Ross, shared with three other vessels in the proceeds for the capture on 14 and 15 March 1813, of the Danish sloops Christian Ludwig Hoffnung, Carolina, Success, and Plinkoh Fordig.

[2] Commander George Dommett sailed Briseis on 24 October 1816, from Trinidad, Cuba, bound for Nassau.

There they discovered that they were at Point Pedras, about nine miles west of Bahia Honda on Cuba's northern coast.

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