HMS Shelburne was the American letter of marque schooner Racer, built in Baltimore in 1811 and captured by the British in 1813.

[1] She was a trader, and made one voyage to Bordeaux, leaving Baltimore in August 1812 and returning in January 1813 with a cargo of brandy, dry goods, and the like.

[3] On 13 April 1813, Sir John Borlase Warren's squadron, consisting of HMS San Domingo, Marlborough, Maidstone, Statira, Fantome, Mohawk and Highflyer pursued four schooners into the Rappahannock River in Virginia.

[9] In July 1814, prize money remitted from Halifax for Racer, Lynx, Arab and a number of other vessels, was paid.

The Admiralty bought Racer for £1,940.11.5d (amended figure) and the British named her for the town of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, commissioning her under Lieutenant David Hope.

On 4 March 1814 HMS Epervier and Shelburne sailed with a small convoy for Bermuda and the West Indies.

The subsequent court martial acquitted Frolic's commander, Joseph Bainbridge, his officers and his crew, of the loss of his ship.

In October Lieutenant William Hamilton assumed command temporarily,[11] while Hope served as an aide to Admiral Alexander Cochrane in Tonnant.

In 1821, under the rules of prize-money, she shared in the distribution of head-money arising from the capture of American gun-boats and sundry bales of cotton at the Battle of Lake Borgne on 14 December 1814.

[e] In February 1815 Shelburne and Anaconda, which was also a former American privateer, cruised off the Florida coast north of Havana.