HMS Dwarf (1810)
HMS "Dwarf" was a "Decoy"-class cutter launched in 1810. She participated in the capture of a French privateer, and in operations in the Gironde. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars she captured some smuggling vessels. She was wrecked in March 1824. Wartime service. Lieutenant Samuel Gordon commissioned "Dwarf" in March 1810 for the Downs. On 5 September "Dwarf" recaptured "Jusle". On 2 March 1811, the master of the ship "Mercury" wrote a letter to the newspaper "The Pilot" that on 28 February his ship had fought off three French privateers near Dungeness. Bell wrote a letter  to the newspaper, reprinted in the "Naval Chronicle", that the supposedly French privateers vessels involved were and "Dwarf", and that the master had continued firing even after the British vessels had identified themselves. The fire from "Mercury" had wounded the sergeant of marines on "Phipps". The only shots the naval vessels had fired were two musket shots to get "Mercury" to stop, and the only reason that the naval vessels had not fired their guns was because of the chance that "Mercury" was a British ship. Bell admonished all merchant captains to be a little more circumspect in the future . On 22 August 1811 "Dwarf" recaptured "New Galen". When news of the outbreak of the War of 1812 reached Britain, the Royal Navy seized all American vessels then in British ports. "Dwarf" was among the Royal Navy vessels then lying at Spithead or Portsmouth and so entitled to share in the grant for the American ships "Belleville", "Janus", "Aeos", "Ganges" and "Leonidas" seized there on 31 July 1812. On 11 September 1812 "Dwarf" and were in pursuit of a French privateer lugger when joined them. When the lugger tried to cross "Bermuda"s bow, "Bermuda" fired several broadsides. Eventually the privateer  struck to the boats of "Dwarf" and "Pioneer" after having suffered three men killed and 16 wounded, most severely. She was "Bon Génie", of Boulogne. She was armed with 16 guns, but only four were mounted. She also had a crew of 60 men. She was one day out of Boulogne and had not taken anything. and were in sight and so shared in the prize money. On 4 November 1813 "Dwarf" captured the merchantman "Charlotte" and her cargo.