HM gunboat Hannah was a small gun vessel that the Royal Navy hired in 1803.

However, she was in the Mediterranean serving as a tender to HMS Queen when a Spanish privateer captured her in 1806 in a single-ship action.

On 25 October 1806 Lieutenant John Foote and Hannah were covering the passage of a convoy through the Straits of Gibraltar.

[2] They were off Cabrita point when Foote sighted a Spanish mistico towing an English merchantman that she had captured.

He stated that he struck to spare his men's lives when he "saw scarce an Englishman standing, and another Privateer coming up close".