[2] On 11 September 1805 Dexterous and Tomlinson was two leagues from Gibraltar when she encourntered a Spanish convoy of merchantman sailing from Malaga to Algeciras, escorted by eight armed vessels with a total crew of 300 men.

[3] On 21 May 1806 Niger, the bomb vessel Thunder, and Dexterous were in company when they detained Trende Damen (Three Ladies).

[4] In late May 1806 the "Dexterous Bomb" detained and sent into Gibraltar Patriot, a Danish vessel, Thompson, master, which had been sailing from Leghorn to Hambro.

[5] In June 1807 Lieutenant Tomlinson decided to take soundings around the "Isle of Cani", at the foot of Apes Hill" (this may have been Perejil Island).

The cannon fire from Dexterous failed to sink the vessels but did drive their crews to take refuge ashore.

The British were unable to bring out the second vessel as she was too well fastened and the cutting-out party had come under small-arms fire from the privateersmen who had gone ashore on the island.

The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Dexterous gun-brig, of 180 tons" for sale on 18 April 1816 at Deptford.