This escalated into a situation that involved counter-charges and the confinement of Hicks, Allardyce, and Gomm.

[1] Between March and June 1798 Tickler was at Portsmouth undergoing coppering and conversion to a brig.

However, she does not appear in the listing of vessels whose crews qualified for the clasp "Copenhagen 1801) to the Naval General Service Medal (1847).

The gun-brig Blazer was driven under the guns of Varberg Fortress where the Swedes captured her;[6] they restored her to the British in May 1801.

[7] The "Principal Officers and Commissioners and of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Tickler, Gun-Vessel, 150 Tons, Copper-bottomed, lying at Portsmouth", for sale on 12 May 1802.