Nisus, under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Le Nétrel, sailed from Granville, Manche, to Saint-Servan.

She was about to leave with a cargo of coffee when a British squadron under Captain George Miller in Thetis arrived on 12 December to reconnoiter the harbour.

The landing party first captured the fort at Deshaies, whereupon Nisus surrendered when its guns were turned on her.

[8] The British took Nisus into service as HMS Guadaloupe and commissioned her at Antigua under Commander Michael Head.

[a] In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Guadaloupe" to all surviving participants of the campaign.

Eventually the two French vessels retreated some two miles to the protection of two shore batteries at Port-Vendres.

[3] On 9 November 1813 Undaunted and Guadaloupe attacked Port-la-Nouvelle, with the marines storming the batteries while men from the ships captured two vessels and destroyed five.

[18] The Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy offered the "Guadaloupe sloop, of 325 tons" lying at Plymouth for sale on 3 November 1815.