HMS Nimble was the name vessel of a two-vessel class of cutters built at Cowes in 1811 for the Royal Navy.

[5] On 18 July Henry Weir of HMS Calypso reported that he had encountered the cutter Nimble, which had gone into Norwegian waters to reconnoiter after the Battle of Lyngør.

[6] Loss: Nimble was wrecked on a sunken rock a half-dozen miles from the Sälö Beacon, Sweden, during a violent storm in the Kattegat on 6 October 1812.

The court martial reprimanded Lieutenant Reynolds for not having come on deck at 1:30 when warned of the nearness of land.

The pilot also had failed to heed the warning and come on deck; he was reprimanded and ordered to forfeit three months pay.