HMS Gipsy was purchased at Jamaica in December 1804.

She was probably the Dutch schooner Antilope, and the government of Barbados had previously hired her.

[1] In December 1807 Admiral Dacres, commanding the Jamaica Station ordered the schooners HMS Gracieuse and Gipsy to escort to Cape Antonio (the extreme south-west of Cuba), a merchant vessel sailing from Port Royal to Vera Cruz.

The privateer Juliana was armed with one long brass 18-pounder amid-ships, and four 12-pounder carronades; she carried 83 men, and had been out from Trinidad in Cuba for three months but had made no captures.

Boyd sent Juliana into port under escort by Gypsy, whose rigging had suffered the most during the chase.