The Royal Navy captured her on 11 December 1781 and took her into service as a troop transport and store ship under the name HMS Abondance.

[4] On the 12th Admiral Kempenfelt, who had been sent out by the Admiralty with an unduly weak force to intercept de Guichen, sighted the French convoy in the Bay of Biscay through a temporary clearance in a fog, at a moment when de Guichen's warships were to leeward of the convoy, and attacked the transports at once.

de Guichen could not prevent the British from capturing 15 of the transports, Abondance among them, destroying two or three others, and driving the remainder into a panic-stricken flight.

[1] She made several trips carrying black loyalists to Halifax, among them the fiery Methodist preacher Moses Wilkinson.

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