Ross, was sailing from Santo Domingo to Curacoa when she encountered two French navy brigs.

After an intensive cannonade that lasted some 20 minutes, Pique was able to send a boarding party aboard one of the two French vessels.

Ross estimated that the French vessels had lost half their crews dead and wounded.

[1][a] In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Pique 26 March 1806" to all surviving claimants from the action.

[7] Then after the battle, on 10 September, Pelican was in company with Defence and Comus at the capture of the Danish merchant vessel Fredeus Forsward.

[8] Pelican and Comus were together on 29 September, with Defence in sight, at the capture of the Danish merchant vessel Elizabeth Vonder Pahlen.

Pelican was one of some 70 vessels that shared in the seizure of the 44-gun Russian frigate Speshnoy (Speshnyy), then in Portsmouth harbour.

They arrived on 30 March and sent in a landing party of seamen and marines from the vessels of the squadron, all under the overall command of Captain Sherriff of Lily.

As the boats approached they exchanged fire with a battery of 9-pounder guns covering the entrance to the harbour.

[16] In 1809 Pelican was in the western hemisphere, where she detained the President, Burgeis, master, which was sailing from Boston to Cuba.