[3] Warren had owned an earlier Adamant, with Spalton, master, but had sold her in August 1803 to the Royal Navy, which had fitted her out and commissioned her as the sloop HMS Bonetta.

She underwent fitting by Thompson, on the Thames, between June and 7 July, and then at Deptford Dockyard until 5 September.

[12] On 8 September Thrasher captured Drie Gesuisters, Gute Hoffnung, and Frau Catharina.

[14] Thrasher, Pincher, and Parthian were in company on 22 and 25 October 1811 when they captured To Wenner, Esperance, and Jeune Remmer.

On 3 March 1813, Thrasher Lieutenant Dornford, and Blazer captured the American schooner Sea Nymph.

[19][b] Then on 10 July Thrasher was part of a squadron that captured eight small vessels in the Elbe and Weser.

The squadron included Desiree, Calliope, Shamrock, Brev Drageren, the hired armed cutter Princess Augusta, and gunboats.

[e] At some point in 1813 Thrasher brought over to England the officer charged with the important intelligence of the French having been driven across the Rhine.

[5] Disposal: The "Principal Offices and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered the "Thrasher gun-brig, of 150 tons", lying at Chatham, for sale on 3 November 1814.

[27] A week later Lloyd's List reported that Adamant had gone to pieces, but that some of her cargo and part of the materials had been saved.

[28] Later in December 1815, the Morning Post wrote: "The Adamant, from Malta, which was lately wrecked off Newhaven, in Sussex, was originally a King's ship, called the Thrasher gun-brig, and copper-bottomed.

The cargo and vessel was besieged by the inhabitants for miles round the country, who considered them fair game for plunder."

They searched some 200 houses and found plunder in many, including sacks of copper sheathing from Adamant; they also arrested some individuals.