H.M.S. Chanticleer was a "Cherokee" class brig-sloop built at Cowes in 1808. Measured by her builder at 237 tons, she was about 90 feet in length with a 25 foot beam, and was armed with 10 small calibre guns. After her only recorded action (whilst sailing in company with the gun-brig H.M.S. Manly) against three Danish gunboats off the coast of Norway on 2 September 1811, she was made a survey ship in April 1828. Under the command of Captain Henry Foster, R.N., who cruised in the South Atlantic from 1828 until 1831 and, whilst in the South Shetlands, made important magnetic observations on Deception Island off the Antarctic Peninsular. Returning to England following the death of her captain in a boating accident in Central America, Chanticleer became a Customs watch vessel, was redesignated WV5 in 1863 and broken up at Sheerness in 1871.