HMS Sappho was a Cruizer class brig-sloop built by Jabez Bailey at Ipswich and launched in 1806.

She was nine days out of Dunkirk and had taken one prize, Gabriel out of Yarmouth, which she had attempted to scuttle after taking the master and crew on board.

Ringdove, one of Sappho's sister ships, found Gabriel, but she was sinking fast and could not be saved.

[4] The same four British vessels shared in the capture of the privateer Trente et Quarante, of 16 guns and 62 men,[5] though the actual captor was Ringdove.

Trente et Quarante was a lugger letter of marque, carrying sixteen 6 and 9 pounder guns, of which 14 were mounted.

Captain Farquar of Ariadne wrote the letters reporting the capture of Eglé and Trente et Quarante, and recommended that the Admiralty purchase the latter.

[3] Sappho was cruising in the North Sea and on the morning of 2 March she was sailing east off Scarborough, when she discovered an armed brig that was steering a course as if intending to cut off several merchant vessels to leeward.

[6] Sappho gave chase and at about 1330 hours fired a shot over the brig, which was flying British colours.

[8] Sappho carried sixteen 32-pounder carronades and two 6-pounder guns, manned by a crew of 120 men and boys.

The Danish captain was the colourful and erratic adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen, who in 1801 had been a member of the crew, and perhaps second in command, of Lady Nelson.

[b] Jorgenson reports that by cutting through the ice a month before it was expected that any vessel could get out, he was able to come unawares among the English traders and capture eight or nine ships before Sappho interrupted his cruise.

American gunboats under the command of Commodore Hugh Campbell,[12] maintained control of the island in an attempt to secure East Florida to prevent a Spanish-English alliance in the area in advance of the war.

The two British vessels then set off in pursuit of the American schooner, which, however, after a chase of just over two hours, outdistanced them.

A Carthaginian privateer had captured San Francisco off Baracoa as she was sailing from Teneriffe and Puerto Rico to Havana.

In Lisbon she took on six survivors from Abeona, which had burnt in the North Atlantic while carrying emigrants from Scotland to South Africa.

She had lost the head of her foremast and foretop-mast on 26 August on her passage to Bermuda from Portsmouth.

[32] Although Sappho had been refloated, a survey resulted in her being condemned as unseaworthy and so on 16 November she was paid off.