HMS Dwarf

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Dwarf, 1810
Type: Cutter ; Armament 10 (14 in 1816)
Launched : 1810 ; Disposal date or year : 3 Mar 1824
Disposal Details : Wrecked on the pier, Kingstown. Lieut Nicholas Gould
Notes:

Portsmouth 24 Jan 1811 Went out of harbour.

Deal 8 Sep 1811 departed with a convoy, for Portsmouth.

Portsmouth 24 Sep 1811 Went out to Spithead.

Deal 16 Oct 1811 arrived from off Calais, with an account that 14 of the enemy's brigs passed from Calais to Gravelines yesterday evening. Was repeatedly fired upon from the batteries, under which the brigs kept so close that there was no possibility of getting at them.

Portsmouth 2 Jan 1812 arrived from the Downs.

Portsmouth 14 Jan 1812 departed for the Needles.

Deal 17 Mar 1812 arrived from Yarmouth.

Deal 8 Sep 1812 departed with a convoy from Portsmouth.

11 Sep 1812 Dwarf, Bermuda. and Pioneer captured the French privateer Bon Genie in the Channel.

Dover 28 Dec 1812 arrived from off Boulogne.

Portsmouth 11 Jan 1813 arrived with a convoy from the Downs.

Portsmouth 31 Jul 1813 arrived with convoy for the Downs.

Portsmouth 17 Aug 1813 departed with a convoy to the Downs.

Deal 18 Aug 1813 arrived from Portsmouth.

Falmouth 1 Dec 1813 departed on a cruise.

Passages 17 Mar 1814 Remains.

Falmouth 10 Apr 1814 arrived from Bordeaux with a messenger.

Plymouth 12 Apr 1814 arrived from Bordeaux, with dispatches.

Plymouth 9 Aug 1814 Came in from St. Andero, with a convoy.

Plymouth 6 Oct 1814 Appointed convoy to Bordeaux and ports in the Bay, and will sail in a day or two.

Plymouth 10 Oct 1814 departed with a fleet under convoy for Bordeaux.

Plymouth 9 Dec 1815 Came in from a cruise.

Falmouth 23 Jan 1816 departed on a cruise with the Hind against smugglers.

Falmouth 26 Jan 1816 arrived from a cruise with the Hind.

Falmouth 28 Oct 1816 arrived from a cruise, having taken, yesterday, off this port, a smuggler, with 190 ankers of spirits on board.

Plymouth 27 Jan 1818 it has been reported that a ship's boat was recently lost with a midshipman and six men off Mevagissy whilst on the look-out for smugglers.

Plymouth 7 Aug 1818 arrived from a 2 month cruise and exercises in the Channel.

Plymouth 30 Dec 1819 departed on a cruise.

27 Nov 1821 Is in commission and based on Plymouth.

23 Feb 1822 the officers and men of the Dwarf are to be turned over to the schooner Alban.

12 Feb 1824 arrived Falmouth, in company with the frigate Essex, fitted out as a convict ship, en route from Plymouth for Dublin.