HMS Tickler (1794)
HMS "Tickler" was launched in 1794 as a "Conquest"-class gunbrig. She was sold in 1802. Career. Lieutenant James Gomm commissioned "Teazer" in February 1795. She then joined Sir Sidney Smith's squadron. In July Lieutenant Gomm, Lieutenant Titus Allardyce of and Lieutenant Henry Hicks of faced mutinous conduct by seamen at the Îles Saint-Marcouf. This escalated into a situation that involved counter-charges and the confinement of Hicks, Allardyce, and Gomm. Smith was dissatisfied with the officers' conduct but would later write that he had treated the officers with great leniency. Lieutenant John Johnson recommissioned "Tickler  in August 1797. Lieutenant Thomas Williams commanded Tickler" from August 1797. Between March and June 1798 "Tickler" was at Portsmouth undergoing coppering and conversion to a brig. On 7 August 1799 "Carolina" capsized in the English Channel off Poole, Dorset. "Tickler", under the command of Lieutenant Williams, rescued her crew. "Carolina" was on a voyage from Ystadt, Sweden to Dublin. She was later taken in to Portsmouth. "Tickler" "Tickler" sailed with the fleet that would attack Copenhagen in 1801. However, she does not appear in the listing of vessels whose crews qualified for the clasp "Copenhagen 1801) to the Naval  General Service Medal (1847). The fleet assembled in the Kattegat in March 1801 but on 22 March a storm came up that dispersed some of the vessels. The gun-brig was driven under the guns of Varberg Fortress where the Swedes captured her; they restored her to the British in May 1801. had towed "Tickler" on 13 March and the weather caused "Russell" to ground; she was gotten off by the exertions of her crew. Fate. The "Principal Officers and Commissioners and of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Tickler, Gun-Vessel, 150 Tons, Copper-bottomed, lying at Portsmouth", for sale  on 12 May 1802. She sold there on that day.