[2] Raven, the eighth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,[3] was ordered on 8 November 1828, laid down in June 1829 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 21 October 1829.

[1] On 7 November 1844, Raven ran aground in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent and was damaged.

[4] On the 19 November 1832 when trying to enter the Douro the Raven was fired on by the Cabedelo batteries which had been erected by Dom Miguel's forces on the sandspit that ran out from the south bank of the Douro London Courier and Evening Gazette, Monday 3 December 1832, p. 2, Col-B: “Lisbon Papers".

The batteries which had been finished on 7 November made it much more difficult for ships to enter the Douro to supply Dom Pedro's forces during the Siege of Oporto.

The previous day (18 November) the batteries had fired on the Osprey cutter which was loaded with shot, shell, and ammunition, and the yacht Swallow which had eighty volunteers for Dom Pedro's army on board (Morning Chronicle, Monday 3 December 1832, p. 3, Col-D: Unheaded news item; Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal and General Advertiser for Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset, Thursday 6 December 1832, p. 2, Col-A: “Portugal”; Leeds Patriot and Yorkshire Advertiser, Saturday 8 December 1832, p. 4, Col-C: “Portugal: Portsmouth, Wednesday Evening, Nov. 21”).