On 18 May 1809, the 74-gun third rate HMS Standard, under Captain Askew Hollis, led in a squadron that also included the frigate Owen Glendower, and the four smaller ships Avenger, Ranger, Rose, and Snipe.

[6] He therefore ordered boats off Anholt to maintain a watch over Randers Fjord and Grenå whenever the wind was fair.

Nicolls gave Grinder a crew made up of 30 seamen and marines from the island's garrison and captained by Master's Mate Thomas Hester.

On the following day Nicolls sent her "to look into the harbour of Harrup", where she discovered a number of small Danish trading vessels and proceeded to capture five of them "...in sight of the enemies flotilla of gunboats".

[11] The muster rolls for HMS Anholt record Hester and 27 men as "discharged - prisoner in Denmark" on 17 April 1810.

There she joined the flotilla under Senior Lieutenant Falsen,[15] which already included two large and two smaller gunboats, plus the captured Minx.

[16] On that day HMS Sheldrake was in company with the third rates Cressy, Defence, and Dictator, and the gun-brig Bruizer, with the British warships protecting a convoy of merchantmen.

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