This vessel, seeing no chance to escape, fired a broadside, struck her colours, and ran onto the shore, where Unite took possession.

The two captured brigs turned out to be Nettuno and Teulié, both of sixteen "Thirty-Two-Pounders, Brass Carronades", and 115 men each.

[2] Cretan participated in the unsuccessful Walcheren Campaign, a British expedition to the Netherlands in 1809 intended to open another front in the Austrian Empire's struggle with France during the War of the Fifth Coalition.

Around 40,000 soldiers, 15,000 horses together with field artillery and two siege trains crossed the North Sea and landed at Walcheren on 30 July.

This was the largest British expedition of that year, larger than the army serving in the Peninsular War in Portugal.

The campaign involved little fighting, but heavy losses from the sickness popularly dubbed "Walcheren Fever".

Neptune was armed with five guns, had a crew of 24 men, and had left Schelling the day before; she had taken no prizes before Cretan captured her.

[10] When the gun-brig Hearty detained the Prussian vessel Friede on 29 September, Indefatigable, Desiree, Primrose, Cretan, Drake, were either in company or sharing by agreement.

[a] Then on 28 February Cretan captured Erineron, Nessen, master, which had been sailing from Bergen to Stettin, and sent her into Yarmouth.

[19] The Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy offered the "Cretan sloop, of 344 tons", lying at Deptford for sale on 29 September 1814.

[3] For Cretan's first whaling voyage, Captain Joseph Moore left London on 18 April 1815 for New South Wales.

[21] Cretan, Samuel Shrewsbury, master, left Britain on 7 September 1817 on her second whaling voyage, bound for the Galapagos.

[21] Captain Gulliver was still master of Cretan on her fourth whaling voyage, sailing her on 3 September 1823 from Britain, bound for the "Japans".

[21] Cretan left Britain on 16 March 1827 on her fifth (and last recorded) whaling voyage with H. R. Gulliver, master, and destination the Sandwich Islands and Timor.

Her master arrived at Singapore on 26 August 1828, accusing his chief mate and crew of having mutinied and dispossessed him of his vessel.