[2][3] Prince of Wales, a vessel belonging to the Excise service of Scotland, in 1799 was responsible for the coast between the Mull of Cantire and Cape Wrath.

[1] In the summer of 1809, Thrush participated in the blockade of San Domingo until the city fell on 11 July to Spanish forces and the British under Hugh Lyle Carmichael.

The blockading squadron, under Captain William Pryce Cumby in the 64-gun third rate Polyphemus, also included Aurora, Tweed, Sparrow, Lark, Griffon, Moselle, and Fleur de la Mer.

[1] In the novel Mansfield Park, by the famed English author Jane Austen, the protagonist, Fanny Price, visits Portsmouth as her brother William is about to sail in Thrush.

Austen may very well have seen Thrush fitting out there in early 1808, and drawn on her memory for a suitable appointment for a new lieutenant when she wrote the book between 1811 and 1813.