She captured privateers on the Jamaica station and fought in the Gunboat War and elsewhere in the Baltic Sea before being lost to grounding off Estonia in 1811.

[4][5][6] As the British warships and their prize were sailing between the two islands of St. Domingo and Tortudo, near Port-au-Paix, they met up with the French schooner Oiseaux.

The tiny 4-gun schooner HMS Mackerel came to Tartar's assistance, temporarily salvaging the main deck guns and bower anchor.

Maxwell set off to prevent the schooner from entering the narrow and intricate channel between the island of Saona and San Domingo where it would be difficult for him to pursue.

She had been active during the French Revolutionary Wars and for the past two years also, having frequently escaped pursuit due to her speed.

[12] At the end of 1804, Captain Edward Hawker joined Tartar from Theseus and sailed her from Jamaica to the Halifax station.

[14] Then on 9 June Tartar and the 10-gun cutter Bacchus captured the Observateur, of 18 guns and 104 men, which was under the command of Captain Crozier.

[2] In October 1807, Captain George Bettesworth took command while Tartar was fitting out at Deptford for service in the Baltic.

In what became known as the Battle of Alvøen, Tartar sailed to attack the Dutch frigate Guelderland, of thirty-six 6 and 12-pounder guns, which had been reported to be in Bergen being repaired.

[18] Tartar left Leith roads on 10 May 1808 and arrived off Bergen on the 12th, but heavy fog prevented her from getting closer until three days later.

Christiana was a former British merchant brig now armed with twelve 12-pounder carronades and two long 9-pounder guns, and had a crew of 60 men.

She had provisions for a one-month cruise and had sailed three days earlier from Christiana to intercept the homeward-bound Greenland-men off the north of Shetland.

[26] On 13 March Tartar captured the Danish privateer Falcon, while Ranger and Rose shared by agreement.

[33] Then on 10 and 11 April, Tartar was in company with Orion, Superb and Cruizer when they captured the Danish sloop Brigetta and the Prussian galiot Erwartnung.

[34] At the end of the month, on 30 April, Tartar captured Charlotte, with Superb, Stately, Vanguard, Allart, Constant, Monkey, and Urgent being in sight.

Her crew ran her ashore and then left her, taking their muskets up behind some sand hills where some local civilians joined them.

While the boarding party was securing the vessel, one of the men fortunately discovered a lighted candle set in a powder cartridge in the magazine and extinguished it when it had only a half an inch to burn.

[27][g] On 28 October 1809 Cheerful captured Destrigheiden, Rinaldine, and a sloop, name unknown, while in the company of Tartar and Lynx.

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.

[44] About half of the Danish invasion force managed to board fourteen gunboats on the western side of Anholt and make their escape that way.

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

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

Baker proposed that if the Danish authorities agreed to these terms, that he would take all the prisoners to Randers to exchange for the officers and crew of the sloop Pandora which had wrecked off Jutland on 13 February 1811.

[45] 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.

Baker then ran her ashore on 21 August at Kahar Islet, midway between Dagö Island and the Isle of Worms; he later burnt her to prevent her capture.

A court martial on 23 October honorably acquitted Captain Baker, his officers, and crew of Tartar's loss.

[51] Curiously, there are prize money notices crediting Tartar and Ethalion with the capture on 11 September of Primus.

[52] On the Sunday prior to 6 November, a Russian galiot that Tartar had captured was laying stranded at Montrose.