HMS Pickle

The topsail schooner Pickle is assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet, primarily as a despatch vessel, carrying despatches from Gibraltar to the commander of the blockading squadron off Toulon.She is famed as the vessel that carried the news of Trafalgar home to England.

In Show the Colours, Pickle brought despatches from Gibraltar for HMS Terpsichore, as well as bringing Lieutenant Leat to rejoin her from the military hospital at Gibraltar, and taking the Royal Marine Lieutenant Sebastian Sewell to the hospital.

Our version of Pickle is an alternate history version, as the real HMS Pickle had run aground and subsequently sunk in 1808, being replaced by a schooner captured from the French, which vessel remained in service until 1818.