Charles Grey
On 11 August 1795 Captain Francis Pender arrived at Bermuda. Shortly thereafter he purchased two vessels, one of which became and the other of which was the "Sir Charles Grey", which he renamed "Spencer". "Sir Charles Grey" had been a privateer and for a while a hired armed vessel, and was named for Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey. Commander Thomas Hurd, of "Bermuda", commissioned her, but he had been engaged in hydrographic survey work and Pender replaced him in "Spencer" with Lieutenant Andrew F. Evans.