Friends appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1801 with T. Read, master, W. Thurlby, owner, and trade London.

Royal Navy: The Admiralty purchased Friends in June 1804 and renamed her HMS Eugenie.

[1] Then on 31 January 1805 she sailed from Spithead for the coast of Africa carrying the Scottish explorer Mungo Park.

The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered the "Eugenie sloop" for sale on 22 December 1810.

[5] Incident: Lloyd's List reported on 6 January 1824 that Friends, Smithson, master, had gone onshore at Holm Sand (in the Thames Estuary), while sailing from Wyborg.