In April 1806 Sharp Shooter detained the American vessel Commerce, Ford, master, from Baltimore and sent her into Plymouth.

[3] On 12 September the post ship HMS Constance and the brigs Sharpshooter and Strenuous were off Saint-Malo when they sighted a French frigate of some 30 guns.

[6] On 11 October 1807, the French privateer Prince Jerome captured the American vessel Honeflus, Ford, master, which had been sailing from Virginia to London.

[9] On 20 April 1810 the boats of HMS Firm, Surly, and Sharpshooter cut out the French privateer cutter Alcide from the mouth of the Pirou River, where she had taken refuge after the British vessels had chased her.

[13] On 20 November a French privateer from Saint-Malo captured the Swedish vessel Mercury, Starre, master, which was sailing from Cadiz to Gothenburg.

[1] The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Sharpshooter gun-brig, of 178 tons", lying at Woolwich, for sale on 30 May 1816.