Between 4 April 1794 and 27 December, Victorieuse, lieutenant de vaisseau Salaün, commanding, was at Honfleur.
Commander Jemmet Mainwaring replaced Winthrop and sailed her on 22 February 1796 to the Leeward Islands.
[5] In February 1797 Victorieuse helped blockade Port d'Espagne during Admiral Henry Harvey's capture of Trinidad.
[6] On 26 September Victorieuse captured the French privateer Etoile du Matin.
[7] Victorieuse was escorting a convoy from Trinidad to St Kitts and was to leeward of Guadeloupe when on 7 May 1798 she sighted two French privateers.
Victorieuse engaged them, forcing the sloop st strike as she was so damaged that she was in danger of sinking.
[8] In December, having received intelligence that three French privateers were operating off the Spanish Main (what is now Venezuela's Caribbean coast), Dickson decided to ensure that the privateers, if the Royal Navy chased them, would not be able to shelter under the guns of the Spanish forts at Rio Caribe and Gurupano.
On 2 December Victorieuse destroyed the Dutch privateer Proserpine, from Caracoa, on Cape Three Points on the Spanish Main.
[11] In early 1799 Victorieuse captured a small Spanish schooner carrying salt from Margaritta to the Oronoque River.
Victorieuse served in the fleet under Admiral Lord Keith in the Egyptian campaign between 8 March and 2 September 1801.
[13] Then on 18 April Victorieuse, Captain J. Richards, captured the French trabaccolo Madona de Lorette, which was sailing from Ancona to Alexandria.
[14] Peterel and Victorieuse drove a Greek caicque onshore on 11 March at Tower of Arabs.
[b] In 1850 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt" to claimants from the crews of the vessels that had served in the navy's Egyptian campaign, including Victorieuse.