HMS Grecian was the former Revenue cutter Dolphin, launched at Cowes in 1799, that the Royal Navy purchased in 1821 and renamed.

In late April 1806 Dolphin detained and sent into Penzance Bella, Kallenberg, master, which had been sailing from Baltimore to Bremen.

Lieutenant John Cawley commissioned Grecian on 20 November 1821 for the Jamaica Station.

[1] On 20 March 1823 Grecian captured the pirate schooner Gata, a felucca, and two boats.

[1] The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered the "Grecian cutter, of 145 tons", lying at Portsmouth, for sale on 11 July 1827.