[2] She was subsequently assigned to a French squadron consisting of the frigates Experiment and Félicité, the brig-sloops Épervier and Mutine along with Vigilance.

Among the many British merchantmen they captured were the Sierra Leone Company vessels Harpy and Thornton and the slave ship Molly.

[5] Waakzaamheid was under the command of Senior Captain Meindert van Neirop, and was armed with twenty-four 9-pounder guns on her main deck and two 6-pounders on her forecastle.

In August 1800, she was part of a British fleet under Vice-Admiral Archibald Dickson which accompanied a diplomatic mission to Copenhagen headed by Lord Whitworth.

[8] In 1800 Waaksaamheid participated in cruises off the Dutch coast in Dickson's squadron, and escorted convoys in the North Sea between the Baltic and Leith.

The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy" offered "Waaksamheidt, 504 Tons, Copper-bottomed, and Copper braces, and Pintles, lying at Deptford", for sale on 1 August 1802.