High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Admiral Rainier was a Dutch 16-gun brig that the British captured on 23 August 1800 at Kuyper`s Island, Java. They took her into service and named her after Admiral Peter Rainier, the leader of the British expedition. After they sold her in 1803 apparently the French captured her in 1804 and sold her to the Dutch colonial government in Batavia for anti-piracy patrol. Her Javanese crew mutinied in 1806 and eventually sailed to Penang where vessels of the East India Company seized the vessel.