[2] Early in the morning of 7 November, boats from HMS Renommee and Grasshopper cut out a Spanish brig and a French tartan, each armed with six guns, from under the Torre de Estacio.

After about three hours the British abandoned their prizes as they could not free them and were unwilling to set fire to them as the captured vessels had prisoners and women and children aboard, many of whom were wounded.

[3] That same day Grasshopper captured the American schooner Henrietta, Joseph Dawson, master.

[4] Then in December Grasshopper and HMS Renommee were detached to sail off Cartagena to monitor the Spanish squadron there.

Within 15 minutes San Jose y Ánimas had struck and run onshore, at which point many men of her crew abandoned her and swam for shore.

The British were able to recover San Jose y Ánimas, which Searle described as being of 145 tons burthen (bm), six years old, copper-fastened, well-found, pierced for 16 guns, a "remarkably fast sailer", and suitable for service in the Royal Navy.

Searle had no estimate of enemy casualties, but believed that many men had drowned when they jumped overboard to avoid capture.

[5] The head and prize money was remitted from Gibraltar and Renommee's share was paid out to her officers and crew in December 1813.

[10] The action that took place on 4 April off the coast off Rota near Cadiz, Spain, began when the Royal Naval frigates Mercury and Alceste, and Grasshopper, intercepted a large Spanish convoy protected by twenty gunboats and a train of shore batteries.

Marines and sailors of the British ships subsequently captured and sailed seven vessels back out to sea.

[11] In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Off Rota 4 April 1808" to all surviving claimants from the action.

On 23 April Grasshopper and the gun-brig Rapid encountered two Spanish vessels from South America, sailing under the protection of four gunboats.

Searle anchored Grasshopper within grapeshot (i.e., short) range of the Spanish vessels and commenced firing.

[2] Grasshopper, together with the 74-gun Hero, the ship-sloop Egeria, and the hired armed ship Prince William left Göteborg on 18 December 1811 as escorts to a convoy of 15 transports and a fleet of merchantmen, some 120 sail or more.

He sailed Grasshopper to the Helder and there struck to the fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral De Winter.

Among her crew was the future penal reformer Alexander Maconochie Ten of the transports of Hero's convoy were also lost.

The British blockade prevented the Dutch from putting Grasshopper to extensive use immediately and she essentially sat until the end of the Napoleonic wars, though as a result of one pursuit she received the reputation of being the best sailer in the squadron.