HMS Growler was a Archer-class gun-brig built for the British Royal Navy and launched in 1804.

[8] On 28 January 1806 Growler, under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Nesbitt, was in company with Attack off Brest.

After a nine-hour, circular chase Attack succeeded in capturing Sorcier, of 14 guns and 60 men under the command of Guillaume Francoise Neele.

[13][d] Also in April Growler detained Maria, of Pappenburg, Mansell, master, sailing from Bayonne.

[15] On 1 June 1806, Growler, Lieutenant Thomas Nesbitt, commanding, captured Aimable Babet.

[3] Hazard, Growler, Conflict, and Colpoys formed the blockading squadron off the Pertuis Breton, the strait between the north-east coast of the Île de Ré and the continent.

[19] The lugger Trois Amis and the chasse maree Courier de Nantes, each of about 20 tons (bm), and their cargoes, were auctioned on 20 April 1807 at Plymouth.

[20] In March 1808 Growler detained and sent into Plymouth Atlantic, Grover, master, which ha been sailing from Charente to Teneriffe.

[21] On 19 May, HMS Amethyst, Conflict, and Growler were in company when they captured the French schooner Annais.

[22] Then Amethyst was again in company with Growler when they captured St. Etienne, Maria Julia, and six chasse marees on 9 July.

[e] In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the issuance of the NGSM with clasp "Basque Roads 1809" to all surviving British participants in the battle.

[27][f] A three-vessel squadron comprising the French frigates Ariane and Andromaque, and the brig Mameluke (or Mamelouck), returning from a commerce raiding campaign in the Atlantic, on 22 May met the 74-gun HMS Northumberland while trying to slip to Lorient through the British blockade.

Growler came up and continued to bombard the French vessels while Northumberland hauled off to repair her rigging, which had sustained extensive damage.

The French vessels fell on their sides when the tide went out, enabling their crews to scramble ashore.

[31] On 12 November Growler and Diana put a prize crew on the captured French brig Suir Maree, with orders to sail her to Plymouth.

During the night of 29 November, when the brig was off the Scilly Isles, the seamen from Growler and three from Diana, two Blacks and a Portuguese, murdered the master's mate, quartermaster, and a passenger, detained the other two seamen from Diana below deck, and set sail for a French port.

Next day, when the mutineers saw two sails in the distance, in chase, the Portuguese and one of the Blacks lowered a boat and rowed away.

[3] The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Growler gun-brig, of 178 tons", lying at Portsmouth, for sale on 23 March 1815.