HMS Grasshopper was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop built at Portsmouth Dockyard by Nicholas Diddams and launched in 1813.

She was the second ship of the class to bear the name; the first Grasshopper had been stranded at Texel and surrendered to the Batavian Republic on Christmas Day 1811.

A British squadron, consisting of Grasshopper, the 74-gun Tremendous, the frigate Alcmene, and the sloop Partridge blockaded the port and destroyed all the gunboats there.

The money was paid in May 1819, with the officers and crew of the other three vessels being required to repay part of their grant.

From May 1819 her captain was Commander David Buchan,[9] and in her he carried out an assignment from the Governor, Sir Charles Hamilton, to return the native woman Demasduwit to her people, the Beothuks.

Although she died of tuberculosis before the mission could be accomplished, he transported her body to a Beothuk camp by ascending the Exploits River in January 1820.

Seeing signs of the Beothuk, but meeting none, they left her body and possessions in a tent by Red Indian Lake and returned to Grasshopper by the end of February.

Admiral Fleeming had ordered Crawford to patrol Cuba's northwest coast and it was there that Grasshoper encountered Xerxes.

Grasshopper chased Xerxes for 26 hours before capturing her in the Gulf of Mexico; Grasshopper then took her into Havana where British and Spanish Mixed Court condemned (confiscated) the vessel and nominally freed the now 401 surviving captives on 12 July.

[e][f] Crawford received promotion to post-captain in the hospital ship Magnificent, which was at Port Royal, Jamaica, on 5 January 1829; he invalided back to Britain on 3 April in the yacht Herald later that year.

She appeared in the Register of Shipping in 1833 with Billinghurst, master, T. Ward, owner, and trade London–Southern Fishery.

In August 1838 she was at Coringa, having brought from Mahé part of the crew of the barque Ruby, which had foundered on 22 April 1838 at 5°43′S 64°40′E / 5.717°S 64.667°E / -5.717; 64.667.

[2] Captain Stephen Gardner sailed from London on 14 December 1839 bound for the Pacific Ocean, but died early into the voyage.