Good Design, 1797
Type: Hired Armed Ship ; Armament 14 x 24 pdr carronades
Date Hired : 2 Feb 1797 ;
Hire Terminated : 23 Jan 1802 ;
BM : 320 ;
Notes:

1 Jan 1799 Cdr Wilson Rathborne ; Master Henry White ; stationed North Sea ; built 1797. (N.C.)

19 Mar 1801 departed Spithead with a convoy for the Downs.

8 Apr 1801 remains in the Downs.

11 Apr 1801 departed the Downs with the sloop Savage and a convoy for Portsmouth ; the wind blows hard N.E.

13 Apr 1801 arrived Spithead in company with the Arethusa, and Savage, with a large convoy for the Downs, amongst which were several outward bound East Indiamen ; the Arethusa also brought in with her a French lugger privateer, of 14 guns, and 57 men, which he captured off Dunnose.

24 Apr 1801 arrived Plymouth Sound by a contrary wind with troops, for Jersey and Guernsey.

4 May 1801 following reports that French troops were being sent to the coast opposite the Channel Isles and Marcou, steps were being taken to protect the islands and with this in mind the Good Design departed Plymouth Sound for Jersey, with detachments of the third battalion of the 9th regiment.

18 May 1801 arrived Spithead from Jersey.

7 Jun 1801 departed Spithead with the Gorgon, for Cork, to take troops on board for Egypt.

16 Jun 1801 departed Cork, with the Gorgon, for Egypt, with the 22nd Regt of Light Dragoons.

8 Mar to 2 Sep 1801 services off the coast of Egypt, R. Elliott.

7 Jun 1801 departed Spithead with the Gorgon, for Cork, to take troops on board for Egypt.

26 Oct 1801 it has been announced at Hull that the hired armed ships Prince William, Good Design and Pomona are to be paid off at Newcastle, following the signing of the Peace of Amiens, and hostilities having officially ceased, it is said, on 22 Oct 1801, no comments having been made regarding convoys, but since these vessels were an important part of the Baltic-North Sea convoy system, it would appear that the convoy system was being reviewed. However, the Good Design was in the Mediterranean, so it would be some months before this directive could be acted on.

3 Jan 1802 in a letter received at Plymouth, from the Good Design dated 1 Nov 1801, at Minorca, she confirms her safe arrival there from Egypt with her convoy of transports. However she reports that the Good Design had suffered sickness and had lost 8 men, but her ship's company were now healthy.

4 Jan 1802 letters received at Plymouth from the Good Design, 24, Captain Elliott, state her safe arrival at Minorca from Egypt, rather sickly, having lost eight men on the passage ; was more healthy at the date of the letters, the 17th of November last.

2 Feb 1802 arrived at the Motherbank, the Good Design, armed ship, Captain Elliott, with the remainder of the 12th Regiment of Dragoons on board, from Malta, and put in quarantine.

4 Feb 1802 released from quarantine and moved over the Solent to Spithead.

16 Feb 1802 departed Spithead for the Downs.