HMS Malta was the Spanish 10-gun schooner Malta, built and launched in the United States of America in 1797. The British captured her in 1800. After the Royal Navy captured the French ship-of-the-line Guillaume Tell and renamed her , the Admiralty renamed the schooner Gozo in December 1800 after the Maltese island of Gozo.
Malta was one of six British warships in sight on 8 January 1801 when captured the French bombard St. Roche. She was carrying wine, liqueurs, ironware, Delft (sic) cloth, and various other merchandise from Marseilles to Alexandria.
Then on 8 March the "Malta schooner", , and the gun-vessel protected the right flank during the landing of troops in Aboukir Bay. protected the left flank, together with the cutter and the gun-vessel .
Because Gozo served in the fleet under Admiral Lord Keith in the Egyptian campaign between 8 March and 2 September, she is listed amongst the vessels whose crews qualified for the NGSM with clasp "Egypt".
On 9 June Gozo (misspelled as Gogo) captured the chasse maree Trompeuse, which was sailing to Ancona.
Gozo was sold in 1804.
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