HMS Charybdis was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Mark Richards and John Davidson at Hythe, and launched in 1809.

She was commissioned in September 1809 under Commander Robert Merrick Fowler, who sailed her for the Leeward Islands on 22 January 1810.

Saucy Jack, an American privateer out of Charleston, on 28 September had captured William Rathbone, which had been armed with 14 guns and had a crew of 30 men.

[4] Then on 31 October Charybdis captured the American privateer schooner Blockade and her 66-man crew in the Sombrero Passage near Saba Rock.

In 1814–15 she participated in the British expedition against New Orleans and, on its failure, conveyed the despatches to Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet, situated off Cumberland Island.

The "Principal Officers and commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Charybdis brig, of 385 tons" for sale on 3 February 1819.

She first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1819 with Emmitt, master, Enderby, owners, and trade London-South Seas.

[11] 1st whaling voyage (1820–1822): Captain John Gibson sailed from England on 28 January 1820, bound for Timor.