Mallard, 1801
Type: Gun-brig ; Armament 12
Launched : 1801 ; Disposal date or year : 25 Dec 1804
Disposal Details : Captured after running on shore near Calais: crew saved, but made prisoners. Lieut Thomas Read (Vol iii, Appendix No 31)
Notes:

20 May 1801 arrived Sheerness the Mallard gun brig from the River Thames.

19 Jun 1801 remains at Sheerness.

13 Jul 1801 departed Sheerness the Charger, Lt King ; Bold, Lt Short ; Minx, Lt Roch??? ; Constant, Lt Bremer ; and Mallard gun brigs, for the Downs.

14 Jul 1801 arrived in the Downs from the Nore, and remains.

15 Jul 1801 departed the Downs with the Bold on a cruise.

20/21 Aug 1801 ship's boats and vessels involved in action in the neighbourhood of Etaples.

9 Sep 1801 the Overyssel, Magicienne, Amazon, Leyden, Alkmaar, York, Isis, Shannon, Gannet, Hound, Gier, and Autumn sloops ; Volcano, Vesuvius, Terror, Discovery, Zebra bombs ; Victoire, Nancy & Akers, fire ships ; the Locust, Plumper, Bold, Eclipse, Ferriter, Snipe, Minx, Jackall, and Mallard, gun vessels, apart from seven gun brigs who were about to depart that evening with the Eugenie and Diligence for the Coast of France ; remained in the Downs overnight.

14 Oct 1801 remains in the Downs, blowing hard.

26 Oct 1801 arrived in the Downs from a cruise.

20 Nov 1801 remains in the Downs, in company with the Overyssel, &c.

Circa Jan 1802 at Chatham, a Court of Enquiry was held on board the Mallard, on Lieutenant John Read, Commander of the said gun brig, charged by her Surgeon with having refused to give proper necessaries for the use of the sick on board. The charge being in no part proved, but malicious and ill-founded, the Court, in consequence, after a long examination of several of the crew, honourably acquitted Lieutenant Read.

1 Mar 1802 arrived and departed the Downs to the Northward.

12 Apr 1802 arrived Spithead the Mallard gun-vessel, from Guernsey.

8 May 1802 departed Spithead for Marcou.

9 May 1802 arrived Spithead, from Marcou.

16 May 1802 arrived at Sheerness from a cruise.

28 May 1802 departed Sheerness for with discharged seamen for the North of England.

30 May 1802 arrived in the Roads at N. Yarmouth the gun brigs Cruiser and Mallard, and sloop Ariadne.

20 Jun 1802 arrived Sheerness from a cruise, Wind E.

9 Oct 1802 was joined in N. Yarmouth Roads by the Jamaica, arrived from a cruise.

6 Nov 1802 has been joined in N. Yarmouth Roads by the Cruiser.

11 Nov 1802 departed the Unicorn frigate from Yarmouth on a cruise with the brigs Mallard and Cruiser, leaving the sloop Lynx in the Roads.

4 Jan 1803 departed N. Yarmouth for Sheerness.

26 Jan 1803 taken out of Dock at Sheerness. It snowed all last night and today.

18 Aug 1803 the Amaranthe arrived N Yarmouth with the Unicorn, frigate ; Diligence, armed ship ; Mallard, gun brig ; and 2 cutters ; and a convoy of 300 merchant vessels, homeward-bound, from the Baltic. The ships for Liverpool departed company about nine days since, to go north about, under convoy of the Carysfort frigate.

19 Aug 1803 the Amaranthe, her support vessels and convoy sailed this morning to the southward. However it is noted further down the column that 200 men were pressed into service in the RN from the convoy, which resulted in 5 ships being unable to proceed, and had to remain at N Yarmouth in want of a crew.

2 Sep 1803 departed N. Yarmouth.

? Sep 1803 arrived N. Yarmouth.

9 Sep 1803 remains N. Yarmouth.

12 Sep 1803 departed N Yarmouth.

1 Oct 1803 arrived N Yarmouth and hoisted a signal for a convoy for the Eastward.

3 Oct 1803 remains at N Yarmouth with the convoy, awaiting the arrival of Clyde frigate.

6 Oct 1803 departed N Yarmouth the Clyde with her convoy from Sheerness, thus joining the convoy collected at Yarmouth by the Mallard.

10 Oct 1803 due to strong NE winds the Clyde, Mallard, and their convoy have had to put back to Hosely Bay.