HMS Intelligent was launched in 1805 at Bridport as a Confounder-class gunbrig.

The Admiralty tried to sell her in 1805, but the sale fell through and she became a mooring lighter that was still in service in 1864.

[1] On 22 August Intelligent was in sight, together with a number of other warships, when Procris captured Minerva.

[2] Intelligent was among the vessels that shared in the prize money for the capture of Copenhagen in 1807.

[b] The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" first offered the "Intelligent gunbrig, of 181 tons", lying at Portsmouth, for sale on 23 March 1815.