Bentham's designs featured little sheer, negative tumblehome, a large-breadth to length ratio with structural bulkheads, and sliding keels.

Netley also recaptured an English brig carrying a cargo of provisions from Cork to Oporto when a French privateer lugger had taken her off Viana the day before.

Netley captured the privateer, which turned out to be a Spanish schooner from Muros called O'Reilly y Los Tres Amigos.

[7] On the morning of 24 December, Netley recaptured the Hamburg brig Catharina, which had been sailing from Oporto to Cork Limerick with a cargo of wine and fruit when she was taken.

At 1 a.m. on 25 January Netley retook the bark Dutchess of Gordon which had been transporting 7,600 quintals of salt fish from Newfoundland to Oporto.

By 10 a.m., after a short chase, Netley captured the Spanish privateer schooner St Antonio y Animas (alias Aurora).

At the same time, Netley recaptured the privateer's prize, Venus, which had been carrying shot, lead, tin, staves, and the like from London to Oporto.

[b] The second was a Swedish brig that had been carrying iron and deals (fir or pine boards) from Stockholm to Viana before a French lugger had captured her.

[7] At some point Netley recaptured Liberty, Bly, master, which a Spanish privateer had captured off Porto Bar.

Eight days later, Netley captured the Spanish privateer Pedro Apostle (alias Escariote), of five guns and 37 men.

[4] At the end of the month, on 29 May, Netley recaptured the "Hambro ship" Junge Lieppe, which was carrying staves and wheat.

[12] Then on 16 October, Netley recaptured the brig Mary, from Dublin, and the Portuguese government 7-gun lugger Lial Invicta Vianna.

Netley's crew returned Lial Invicta Vianna to his Excellency M. Pedro de Millo free of salvage.

On the 8th, Netley captured Spanish privateer schooner St Miguel (alias Alerta), from Ponte Vedra.

That same day, Netley recaptured her prize, the English brig Hunter, which had been carrying fish from Newfoundland to Lisbon.

[16] Lastly, on 18 November Netley sailed from Lisbon and five days later captured the Spanish privateer lugger St Antonio y Animas La Fortuna, of six guns and 34 men.

Netley was unable to catch any of the other privateers because of the necessity of protecting her convoy, which had sighted an enemy vessel to windward.

[19] The next month, on 9 February, Netley was nine leagues SW of Oporto when she captured the Spanish privateer lugger St Francisco de Paula.

[21] Two days later, Netley captured the Spanish privateer San Josef (alias Belos), on a cruise out of Corunna.

[21] On the 16th, Netley captured the Spanish lugger Nostra Santa del Carmen, sailing with a cargo of wine and sardines from Vigo to Ferrol.

[21] Four days later Netley recaptured the snow Edward and Mary, which had been sailing from Oporto to Falmouth with a cargo of beef, pork, and coals.

Lawrence was able to find 24 boats and have them ready by the time Centaur, Chichester, Hornet, Alligator, and the transport Brilliant arrived.

[25] On 20 September Hornet, Netley and 200 troops entered the Demerara River and took possession of Fort William Frederick.

The two British warships managed to escape, but Villeneuve's fleet captured the entire convoy, valued at some five million pounds.

[38] Captain Volant Vashon Ballard of Blonde remarked that the French had performed a complete repair on Netley, including lengthening her.

By this time the Royal Navy had commissioned a recently captured French privateer under the name Netley, so Duquesne became the 12-gun gun-brig HMS Unique.

[41] Nine days later, Amaranthe, Circe, Cherub, Epervier and Unique captured the American ships Bonetta and Mary and Allen.

There they were blockaded until 14 April, when a British force under Major-General Frederick Maitland and Captain Philip Beaver in Acasta, invaded and captured the islands.

[47] In May 1809, British ships chased two French frigates, armed en flûte and bringing supplies to Martinique, into the Basse Terre roads.

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