She then served for many years in Latin America as a coal depot, first for the Royal Navy and then for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company.

Originally intended as a series of four, by the time the first one, HMS Amazon, had been launched in 1795, Rule had already drawn up plans for Naiad.

[5] Sixteen days later, Naiad, Mars and Ramillies were in sight when Jason captured the French gun-brig Arrogante.

[9] On 11 August, some 42 leagues from Cape Finisterre, and after a chase of four hours, Naiad captured the French privateer Tigre, which was under the command of Stephen Bonaventure Aggaret.

She was homeward-bound from Vera Cruz (Mexico) with a cargo of cocoa, cochineal and sugar, and more importantly, specie worth 1,385,292 Spanish dollars (£312,000).

The vessel that Triton, Alcmene, and Naiad had captured was Santa Brigada, under the command of Captain Don Antonio Pillon.

[20] On 12 September 1800 the hired armed cutter Suwarrow cut out the French brig Providence from under two batteries near Camaret Point.

She was carrying wine, soap and brandy for the Brest fleet; the capture took place under heavy fire but Suworow suffered no casualties.

[21] In December Captain the Honorable John Murray replaced Pierrepont, who was ill.[2] Naiad spent the following year cruising out of Plymouth.

[24] Naiad returned to Plymouth on 25 May 1801 and now under the command of Captain Phillip Wilkinson sailed again on 6 June with bullocks and vegetables for the Channel fleet.

On the second day the French commander sent boats with spare cables and anchors and informed Wilkinson that England had signed the preliminaries of a peace treaty with France.

[31] On 29 May, in the Bay of Biscay, Naiad captured the French corvette Impatiente, which was under the command of Citizen Hypolite Arnous, lieutenant de vaisseau.

She was under the command of Citizen Lamar, Lieutenant de Vaisseau, and was carrying sugar, cotton and coffee from San Domingo to Lorient.

[33] Then 2 June, Naiad captured Napoleon, a French brig from Guadeloupe bound for Nantes with sugar and coffee.

Next morning, in spite of the strong tides and the many rocks and shoals in the area, they brought the schooner out without loss as almost the entire crew, including the commander, Citizen Martres Preville, lieutenant de vaisseau, had fled at their approach.

[38] On 29 November Ardent forced the French frigate Bayonnaise aground in Finisterre Bay where her crew set fire to her so that she blew up.

[39] Naiad left the squadron on 8 January 1804 when they were close in to Ferrol, to carry dispatches to Admiral William Cornwallis off Ushant.

On 27 November, while Naiad was off Brest, Thomas saw some small vessels open musket fire on boats belonging to Aigle and wound two seamen.

Naiad was in company with Diamond and the gun-brigs Cracker and Clinker when they captured the ship William Little, John J. P. Champlin, master, on 17 October 1806.

[59] On 7 February 1809 Naiad was in the squadron under the command of Commodore William Hotham and so shared in the proceeds of the capture of the French vessel Prudent.

[60] Then on 23 February Naiad was at anchor to the north-west of the Chassiron lighthouse with Defiance, Donegal and Emerald, the squadron now being under the command of Rear Admiral Robert Stopford in Caesar.

[61] Stopford left Amethyst and Emerald to watch the enemy and went in chase of the frigates with the rest of his squadron, now strengthened by the arrival of Amelia and Dotterel.

Stopford returned to blockade the main French force at the Ile d'Aix until 7 March when Gambier arrived to take command.

The charge was that they had written mutinous letters to the Admiralty, complaining of tyrannical treatment by Hill,[69] and had tried to induce the ship's company to request that they be drafted from Naiad.

The British squadron moved to engage and Naiad was able to separate Ville de Lyons from her consorts and capture her.

[2] In January 1824, Naiad and Cameleon visited Algiers, following a violation of the British consul's offices, in order to demand satisfaction from the Dey.

On departing from the harbour, Naiad sighted the Algerine corvette Tripoli, which had recently committed depredations on Spanish trade, in contravention of the Treaty of 1816.

[80] Then on 23 May at Boma Naiad's boats burnt an Algerine brig of war that had sought refuge under the guns of the fortress there.

In March 1826 Spencer and Naiad conducted a mission to Ibrahim Pasha, the general in command of the Ottoman forces besieging Missolonghi on the Gulf of Patras.

Spencer informed the Admiralty that the Ottoman forces had captured the town of Anatolica and Fort Vassiladi, and that Missolonghi would probably fall within a week.