Plover, 1796
Type: Sloop ; Armament 18 six-pounders and 8 carronades (twelve-poundersj ;
Launched : 1796 ; Disposal date or year : 1819 ;
BM: 422 tons ;
Complement : 121 men.
Notes:

28 Oct 1798 Plover and Resolution captured the French privateer Erin Go Brah in the North Sea.

Circa Jan 1800 Captain Edward Galway, first Lieutenant on board the Vanguard in the battle off the Nile, is appointed to the command of the Plover sloop of war.

10 Mar 1800 captured off Dunkirk the French privateer Massena, Bernard Avril, Commander, 4 guns, and 34 men, departed from Ostend the 9th inst.

26 Mar 1800 employed for some time off Dunkirk with the sloop Atalante and hired brig Terrier watching the 4 French frigates which are reported to have been in the harbour there about 2 years.

2 Jun 1800 Portsmouth, arrived with the Circe, Eugenie, and Osprey, with fifteen flat-bottomed boats from the Downs.

10 Jun 1800 Portsmouth, departed the Plover, with a convoy for the Downs.

23 Jun 1800 Portsmouth, departed on a cruise.

25 Jun 1800 Portsmouth, arrived from the eastward.

1 Jul 1800 Portsmouth, departed the Plover.

25 Oct 1800 Portsmouth, arrived the Plover, with a large convoy from the Downs.

6 Nov 1800 Portsmouth, departed for the Downs.

21 Jan 1801 departed Sheerness for the Downs.

26 Jan 1801 arrived Spithead, the Plover, Capt Galway, from the Downs with a convoy.

27 Jan 1801 departed the Downs with the Gier, Arrow and Eugenie on a cruise.

12 Feb 1801 departed Spithead for Falmouth, to collect ships bound to the West Indies.

13 Feb 1801 arrived Falmouth in preparation to taking convoy of merchant vessels to the West Indies..

24 Mar 1801 arrived Plymouth Sound the Plover, Capt E Galway, from a cruise.

28 Mar 1801 departed Plymouth Sound with a convoy for the Downs.

4 Apr 1801 the Plover departed Spithead in advance of the Porcupine, Camel (store-ship), and Castor with a large convoy for the West Indies, in order to arrive at Falmouth ahead of the convoy, to be able join it with the vessels waiting at Falmouth, as it passes.

29 Jun 1801 remained at Martinique when the Falmouth packet Duke of Cumberland departed for Dominico.

20 Jul 1801 departed Carlisle Bay, Bridgetown, Barbadoes, with a convoy for England.

18 May 1802 the Plover went ashore on the Anagada Reef, Tortola. The jolly-boat was, with some of the passengers, who were more familiar with the local situation, sent ashore to get help, and were eventually helped into North Sound, Virgin Gorda, [Spanish Town], where several small vessels were procured from the local fishermen, and the then narrator has since heard that not only are the lives of all saved, but all the baggage and stores, and even the sloop, the guns &c., having been thrown overboard and the masts cut away, but reported to be watertight.

4 Sep 1802 came into Plymouth Sound after a passage of six weeks from Jamaica the Sanspareil, 84, Captain Essington ; Southampton, 32, Capt Cole ; Arab, 24, Capt Fanshawe ; and Reynard, 24, Captain Adlam (acting). They spoke the Tigre, 84, Captain Jackson, from Malta, bound up channel, all well. As the Nereide, 36, Captain R. Mends, and Plover, 18, sailed about the same time, these ships may be hourly expected.

18 Sep 1802 the following ships were paid off at Plymouth and laid up in ordinary in the course of last week Sans Pareil, 84, Spencer, 74, Nereide, 36, Arab, 20, and Plover, 16.

Admiralty: Masters' Logs ADM 52/3295 - Masters' logs: 18 Jul 1802 - 14 Sep 1802.

Circa 6 Jun 1803 Capt R T Hancock apptd to the Plover.

10 Aug 1803 departed Plymouth the Plover with a large convoy for Falmouth.

21 Aug 1803 arrived back at Plymouth having seen her convoy arrive safely off Falmouth.

22 Aug 1803 departed Plymouth for the Westwards.

22 Sep 1803 joined a convoy at Lat 49:4 � Long 12:13, arriving off the Scilly Isles, from the West Indies, to take the Bristol ships from the Courageux and Venus.

22 Sep 1803 sent officers and men around the various merchant vessels with a view to "acquiring" men from these vessels for the Royal Navy, as was customary as the convoy approached port.

Circa 14 Nov 1803 following a near mutiny at Milford Haven by some troops in transports, bound to Guernsey and Jersey, and it was found necessary to call out the local militia, who put the instigators on board the Plover.

10 Dec 1803 came into Plymouth Sound, along with the Rambler and Seagull, to escape the gales blowing up the Channel.

Circa 9 Apr 1804 the Nereide is ordered to be commissioned for service along the coast, in the region of Mount's Bay, where French privateers have been taking English ships, and the Plover off Land's End, where the French privateer Hirondelle has been taking English merchant coastal shipping without any opposition. Similarly, the 18 gun vessels Nimrod, Hazard, Seagull, and cutter Viper, 12, are to cruise from Land's End to Mount's Bay.

15 Apr 1804 arrived Spithead from Plymouth, the Plover, Capt Hancock.

16 Apr 1804 departed Spithead for Plymouth.

1805 Cruising, Channel

1 Jan 1807 captured the French privateer Elize in the Channel.

30 Oct 1807 captured the French privateer Bohemienne on the Home station.

22 Jan 1809 captured the French privateer Amiral Martin at sea.

28 Jul 1809 a part of a large fleet which departed from the Downs, with troops, with the aim of demolishing the dock-yards, and arsenals at Antwerp, Terneuse, and Flushing, often known as the ill-fated Walcheren Expedition. 13 Aug bombardment of Flushing.

18 Sep 1809 Plover and Lively captured the French privateer Aurore.

22 Oct 1809 captured the French privateer Hirondelle.

6 Nov 1809 captured the French privateer Lezard.

10 Jan 1810 captured the French privateer Saratu.

13 Jan 1810 arrived Plymouth with a French privateer, timber ship and West Indiaman.

16 Nov 1810 captured a French privateer, name unknown, in the Channel.

6 Jul 1811 captured the French privateer Fegero.

23 Oct 1811 captured the French privateer Petit Edouard in the North Sea.

Leith Roads 31 Oct 1811 On Tuesday afternoon, a boat was swamped going off from the harbour to the roads, two of the men perished.

Yarmouth 23 Feb 1812 departed for Anholt.

Yarmouth 16 Oct 1812 arrived from a cruise in the Sleeve.

Yarmouth 18 Oct 1812 departed for the Nore.

Quebec 21 Jun 1813 Under orders to sail for England with a convoy.

Quebec 3 Jul 1813 departed with convoy for England.

Plymouth 3 Aug 1813 arrived from Quebec with a convoy.

Portsmouth 4 Aug 1813 arrived from Quebec (4 Jul) with a convoy.

Portsmouth 13 Aug 1813 Gives instructions to the next convoy to the coast of Africa.

Portsmouth 29 Aug 1813 departed with convoy for Guernsey and Jersey.

Portsmouth 30 May 1814 arrived from the coast of Africa.

Portsmouth 11 Jul 1814 Dropped down to St. Helen's Roads with a small convoy for North America and Newfoundland, and will sail in the morning, if the wind will permit.

Portsmouth 12 Jul 1814 departed with a convoy for North America.

Cove 21 Jul 1814 Will sail with the convoy for North America on the first shift of wind.

Cork 25 Jul 1814 departed with a convoy for Newfoundland and Halifax.

Plymouth 9 Nov 1814 departed on a cruise.

Portsmouth 29 Dec 1814 arrived from Newfoundland.

Portsmouth 28 Dec 1814 arrived from Newfoundland (5th inst.), most of her convoy being dispersed in bad weather.

Portsmouth 30 Dec 1814 arrived last night from Newfoundland.

20 Jun 1816, arrived St. John's, N.F.

8 Mar 1819 put up for sale at Deptford.