Between 28 August 1794 and 11 December, Foudre was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau non entretenu Lambert, and escorting a convoy from Saint-Malo to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme.

[5] Foudre was one of a flotilla of seven vessels that Commodore Sir Sidney Smith in HMS Tigre took at Acre on 18 March 1799, all of which the British took into service.

Smith immediately put the guns and supplies to use to help the denizens of the city resist the French, and the gun-vessels to harass them.

Smith anchored Tigre and HMS Theseus, one on each side of the town, so their broadsides could assist the defence.

On 21 May he destroyed his siege train and retreated back to Egypt, having lost 2,200 men dead, 1,000 of them to the plague.