HMS Recruit was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop built at the HM Portsmouth Dockyard, and launched on 17 August 1829.

She became a packet for the Post Office packet service, sailing from Falmouth, Cornwall.

On 29 May 1832, she sailed from Falmouth (or Bermuda – accounts differ), bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia (or Bermuda), under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Hodges, RN.

[1][2] She disappeared without trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the death of all aboard.

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