His Majesty's hired armed cutter Duke of York served the British Royal Navy from 23 June 1803 to 24 September 1810.

In July 1803 she sent into Portsmouth the American vessel Eagle, from New York bound for Amsterdam,[2] and Galatea, which had been sailing from Bordeaux to Bremen.

[4] In October 1804, Duke of York brought into Cowes 200 casks of spirits that she had retrieved off the Needles.

On 15 October, under the command of Lieutenant J. Forbes and while in company with the revenue cutters Fox and Seagull, she captured the French privateer Friedland.

[a] Steel's Navy List reported that Duke of York in 1811 was under the command of Lieutenant T. Banks in Guernsey.