Hired armed cutter Queen Charlotte
His Majesty's hired armed cutter Queen Charlotte served the Royal Navy on two contracts, the first from 10 June 1803 to 13 February 1805, and the second from 17 September 1807 to 17 May 1814. She was of 75 14⁄94 tons (bm) and carried eight 4-pounder guns. There was also a cutter Queen Charlotte that was present at the taking of Saint Lucia in May 1796 by British forces under Sir Hugh Christian and Sir Ralph Abercrombie.
On her first contract Queen Charlotte may initially have been under the command of Lieutenant John Drew, on the Newfoundland Station.
On 17 July 1803 Lapwing, Falcon and Queen Charlotte captured the Caroline. Then on 28 July, the same three vessels recaptured from the French the brig Mercure, which apparently was British-built and once called Mercury. In November Queen Charlotte was under the command of Lieutenant John G.M.B. McKillop.
In late 1804, Vice-Admiral Erasmus Gower, then Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, sent the Queen Charlotte, under Lieutenant Isaac H. Morrison, to Labrador to investigate reports of an influx of American fishing boats. As a result of the report, the Admiralty decided to station a sloop in the fishing waters to chase off the Americans. In October Morrison transferred to command the newly-launched schooner Herring, which was, however, a smaller vessel. His replacement in 1805 was Lieutenant John Brown.
On 26 October 1807 Tsar Alexander I of Russia declared war on Great Britain. The official news did not arrive in the United Kingdom until 2 December, at which time the British declared an embargo on all Russian vessels in British ports. Queen Charlotte was one of some 70 vessels that shared in the seizure of the 44-gun Russian frigate Speshnoy (Speshnyy), then in Portsmouth harbour. The British seized the Russian storeship Wilhelmina at the same time.
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