 Most of the early gun-brigs were sold or broken up during the short-lived Peace of Amiens.Consequently, in the first half of 1804, the Admiralty ordered a further batch of forty-seven gun-brigs to the 1800 William Rule design - 25 on 9 January, seven on 22 March and 15 during June - with an additional one ordered from Halifax Dockard, Nova Scotia on 1 October.Many reused the names of gun-brigs that had been disposed of or lost before 1804.