HMS Crane was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. She was built by Custance & Stone at Great Yarmouth and launched in 1806. Like many of her class and the related Ballahoo-class schooners, she succumbed to the perils of the sea relatively early in her career. She was commissioned in 1806 under Lieutenant John Cameron for operations in the North Sea. In May 1808 Crane sent into Plymouth the captured Danish vessel Justitia. In 1808 Crane was under a Lieutenant Mitchell, and then under Lieutenant Joseph Tindale.