She had taken refuge on shore and near the rocks at Bouche d'Arkie (Bay of Erqui), under the protection of the French battery on the hill and some troops and field pieces.

[3] The French vessel was the frigate-built transport Salamander, armed with twenty-six long 12 and 18-pounder guns and carrying a crew of 150.

[3] A month earlier, Constance, Strenuous and Sharpshooter had run the same ship on shore before leaving her, apparently wrecked.

The casualty list for Constance was incomplete because a number of men may have been taken prisoner when they took to the boats or swam ashore.

During the night the prize sprang a leak and sank suddenly when her cargo of wheat clogged the pumps.

[2] At the beginning of March 1811 Vice Admiral Sir James Saumarez received information that the Danes would attack the island of Anholt, on which there was a garrison of British forces under Captain Maurice of the Royal Navy.

Maurice marched to meet them with a battery of howitzers and 200 infantry, and signaled Tartar and Sheldrake.

The two vessels immediately set sail and tried to head south but the shoals forced them to swing wide, delaying them by many hours.

The Danes, who had eighteen heavy gunboats for support, landed some 1000 troops in the darkness and fog and attempted to outflank the British positions.

On the way back Tartar captured two Danish transports that she had passed while chasing the gunboats; one of them had 22 soldiers on board, with a considerable quantity of ammunition, shells and the like, while the other contained provisions.

Stewart took the prisoners on board and set out for the largest lugger, which he captured at 8pm after the exchange of a few shots.

[10] The Danes on the western side managed to embark on board fourteen gunboats and make their escape.

The British took, besides the wounded, five captains, nine lieutenants, and 504 ratings as prisoners, as well as three pieces of artillery, 500 muskets, and 6,000 rounds of ammunition.

In addition, Sheldrake's two captured gunboats resulted in another two lieutenants of the Danish Navy and 119 men falling prisoner.

In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the issuance of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Anholt 27 March 1811" to the remaining British survivors of the battle.

[11] On 5 July 1811 Sheldrake was in company with the third rates Cressy, Defence, Dictator, and the gun-brig Bruizer.

As they passed Hjelm Island a flotilla of 17 Dano-Norwegian gunboats and 10 rowboats came out to attack the convoy.

[2] At some point in the summer, Sheldrake assisted Aquilon in destroying seven large British merchant vessels that had run aground near Stralsund.

[c] Sheldrake, now under the command of Captain George Brine, was in company with Mariner, when they captured the Aageroe on 6 November 1812.

[20][e] Between 23 May 1813 and 20 June Sheldrake was in company with Ariel and other vessels when they captured the Lilla Catherina, Tonsberg packet, Bergen, Cerberus, Caron Maria, Margaretha, Diana, Recovery, Gebhardina, and sundry boats and parcels of corn.

[f] Immediately thereafter, i.e., between 20 June 1813 and 24 July, Sheldrake was in company with Erebus, Hamadryad, Ariel, Woodlark and Thracian.

They captured the Erstatning, Gode Hensight, Freden, Falken, Freedshaabet, a boat (name unknown), and "corn ex Sheldrake".