HMS Skylark was a British Royal Navy 16-gun brig-sloop of the Seagull class launched in February 1806.

She served primarily in the Channel, capturing several vessels including a privateer, and taking part in one notable engagement.

When Skylark approached, the French privateer abandoned the collier brig she had been taking possession off, and fled.

[7] Two months later, on 25 April 1808, Skylark captured the French privateer Furet, which was pierced for 14 guns but only had six on board.

[9] Skylark was in company with the gun-brig Richmond and the hired armed cutter Princess Augusta when on 20 August they captured the Dutch fishing vessels Meermia (or Mermoné), Johanna and Stadt Oldenberg.

[11] On 13 August she was part of a squadron under Sir Home Riggs Popham that pushed up the West Scheld, but saw no action.

[15] When Cordelia recaptured the brig Enterprize, of Newcastle, on 13 December, Skylark shared in the prize money by agreement.

[17] Skylark supported the boats of Theban on 2 February 1811 when they cut out a merchant bring from on shore under the guns of two French batteries near Dieppe.

Skylark was seven miles NNE of Cape Gris Nez when Boxer sighted twelve French gun-brigs to his east, sailing along the coast.

[22] A prize money notice credited Skylark and Locust with capturing the French privateer Cannoniere the next day.

[b] Skylark and Apelles were blockading the French coast between Cape Gris Nez and Étaples when at 3am on the morning of 3 May a thick fog descended.

The subsequent court-martial blamed the master and the pilot for having sailed too close to the shore, for not having used the lead, and for having failed to notify the captain of the onset of the fog.

The court-martial disrated the master, William Turner, for neglect and inattention; it sentenced the pilot, John Norris, to the loss of all back pay and to three months imprisonment in the Marshalsea Prison.