HMS Defender (1804)

The second HMS Defender was a 12-gun Archer-class gun-brig built in Chester in 1804 and employed in the English Channel. On 14 December 1809, she was wrecked near Folkestone.

Commanding officers

 * August 1804, Lieutenant George Hayes
 * November 1804, Lieutenant John George Nops
 * 1806, Lieutenant George Plowman
 * February 1809, Lieutenant Frederick William Burgoyne