HMS Spider was a brig-rigged Spanish sloop that the British Royal Navy captured in 1806 and took into service.
On 4 April 1806 HMS Renommee came upon a Spanish naval brig anchored under Fort Callcretes on the Cape de Gatte.
[1] On 29 June 1812 Spider captured Mary, sailing to America with a cargo of sugar, rum, coffee, and molasses.
[10] In late 1813 the Admiralty ordered her to St John's, Antigua, to serve as a guard and receiving ship.
[1] Lieutenant Robert Caulfield took command of Spider in November 1814 for the North American station.
[1] On 10 February 1815 Spider took and sent into Antigua Amelia, Salomon, master, which had been sailing from Guadeloupe to Halifax.