HMS ''Quail'' was a

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of four 12-pounder

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s and a crew of 20. Custance & Stone built her at Great Yarmouth and launched her in 1806. Her decade-long career appears to have been relatively uneventful. She was sold in 1816 into mercantile service, possibly to serve as a whaler, though she ended up trading in the South Atlantic until late in 1819. She was last listed in 1826.

Service

''Quail'' was commissioned in June 1806 under Lieutenant Patrick Lowe for the Channel. In 1807 she was under Lieutenant Isaac Charles Smith Collett for the North Sea. On 6 July ''Quail'' captured ''Drie Gebroders''. She also was at the surrender of the Danish Fleet after the Battle of Copenhagen on 7 September. ''Quail'' shared, with many other ships in the British fleet at Copenhagen, in the prize money for several captures in August: ''Hans and Jacob'' (17 August), ''Die Twee Gebroders'' (21 August), and ''Aurora'', ''Paulina'', and ''Ceres'' (30 and 31 August). On 16 November , of London, was returning to London from Petersburg when she was on shore on the Middle Ground. ''Quail'' and boats from were able to get ''Leeds'' off after she had been stuck for 36 hours. In 1809 Lieutenant John Osborn took command. On 19 May 1809 he captured ''Jonge Jacob'', P. Hansen, master. On 25 July ''Quail'' was in company and the hired armed cutter ''Albion'' when ''Albion'' captured ''Maria Catherina''. Osborn sailed ''Quail'' for the Mediterranean on 11 September 1811. In April 1814 ''Quail'' was under the command of Lieutenant Alexander Stewart. On 10 August 1815 ''Quail'' arrived at Plymouth with dispatches from the Mediterranean. She had left Gibraltar on 16 July. Disposal: ''Quail'' was paid off into

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in October 1815, and put up for sale at Plymouth on 14 December. She was sold at Plymouth, or Yarmouth on 11 January 1816 for £260.

Mercantile service

''Quail'' appeared in the ''Register of Shipping'' (''RS'') volume for 1818.''RS'' (1818), Seq.No.Q1.
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''(('))s ship arrival and departure (SAD) data sailing to and from Buenos Aires, Montevideo, the

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, Rio de Janeiro, and Maldonado under a succession of masters, Britten (or Briton), Tulloch, Hern, and Hunter. There was no mention of ''Quail'' arriving or leaving anywhere after 1819.

Fate

''Quail'' was last listed in ''

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'' (''LR'') and the ''RS'' in the 1826 volumes.

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