High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Admiralty purchased HMS Pigeon on 28 May 1805 for use as a despatch cutter. She was then fitted for foreign service at Deptford between 25 May and 10 August. She was commissioned in May under Lieut. John Luckraft. One of his first tasks was to pick up Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby from Tribune and to convey him up the Elbe River to Hamburg on a diplomatic mission.

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