HMS Lynx was a 16-gun ship-rigged sloop of the Cormorant class in the Royal Navy, launched in 1794 at Gravesend.

She was at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, and during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars took numerous prizes, mostly merchant vessels but also including some privateers.

[8] On 31 January 1795, Rear-Admiral George Murray, the commander-in-chief on the North America station, sent Lynx, under the command of John Poo Beresford, and the newly-captured former French warship Esperance on a cruise out of Halifax.

On 1 March the two vessels captured Cocarde Nationale (or National Cockade), a privateer from Charleston, South Carolina, of 14 guns, six swivels and 80 men.

Hendrick Fischer, Eagle's acting captain, attempted to heave-to, but he had on board Senator Pierce Butler, from South Carolina, who ordered him to sail on.

Lynx then began to fire continuously as Eagle sailed towards the shoal waters on the north point of Jekyll Island.

After learning the schooner was in fact a revenue vessel of the U.S. government, Skene and his men returned to Lynx.

In the ensuing international political furor, Beresford stated that Lynx had been beyond the 12-mile (19 km) limit and noted that the schooner was not flying any flag.

[14] During the chase, Mentor threw six of her guns overboard to lighten her and thus, albeit insufficiently, improve her speed.

[18] On 14 April 1799, she and HMS Pheasant captured the American merchant ship General Washington, declaring the arms and military stores on board "contraband".

[22] In June 1801 Lynx returned to Britain from Copenhagen carrying Captain John F. Devonshire and dispatches.

[29] On 6 September Lynx, Jalouse, Squirrel and Driver shared in the capture of three vessels, Snelle, Jager, and Engestede.

[1] In the months before the resumption of war with France, the Navy started preparations that included impressing seamen.

The officers in charge of the press gangs thought this mere bravado and pulled alongside the Indiamen, only to meet a severe resistance from the crewmen, who had absolutely no desire to serve in the Royal Navy.

The men from Immortalite suffered several injuries from shot and pike that were thrown at them, and eventually the marines opened fire with muskets, killing two sailors on Woodford.

[37] Lloyd's List reported that Lynx was in company with the sloop Scorpion and the gun-brig Censor, and that together they captured 10 vessels that were sailing from Riga to Embden carrying masts.

[39] Earlier, in company with Texel and Nightingale, Lynx captured the Prussian ship Einigkeit on 6 April.

[43] Lynx, the hired armed cutter Lord Kieth, and Resolution shared in the proceeds of the capture of the Danish merchant-vessel Adjutor, on 6 August.

[48] Lynx also shared in the prize money for captures at Heligoland on 5 September in connection with the surrender of the Danish fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen.

[51] While sailing in company with the gun-brig Snipe, Lynx captured Jagten Sophia Cecilia on 12 July.

In their haste to quit the vessel, the Danes failed to fire the fuse on a cask of gunpowder they had left by the fireplace on the largest lugger.

[57] On 28 October 1809 Cheerful captured Destrigheiden, Rinaldine and a sloop, name unknown, while in the company of Tartar and Lynx.

[63] Lynx again shared by agreement with Fisgard in the proceeds of the recapture of Margaretha Catarina and James Cook on 10 June.

[70] Lloyd's List reported ion 8 January 1811 that Providence, of Harwich, which had been taken and which Lynx had retaken, had been driven ashore at Yarmouth.

The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" first offered "Lynx, of 425 tons", lying at Deptford, for sale on 28 April 1813.

Over the course of his career as a shipowner, Bennett owned more than 50 vessels, all or almost all whalers that worked in the southern whale fishery.

Recovery entered Lloyd's Register in 1814 with Bacon, master, Bennett, owner, and trade London–South Seas.

[2] 8th whaling voyage (1824–1827): Captain William Tolley Brookes sailed from England on 18 August 1824, bound for Peru.

[2] 10th whaling voyage (1831–1835): Captain Robert Clark Morgan sailed from England on 14 December 1831, bound for the Sandwich Islands.

[2] 11th whaling voyage (1835–1839): Captain William Green sailed from England on 4 October 1835, bound for the Pacific Ocean.