On 9 October 1799 she was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Emmanuel Halgan on her way from Lorient for Cayenne with dispatches.

Captain Robert Stopford of Excellent described Aréthuse as having eighteen 9-pounder guns and a crew of 153 men, all under the command of a lieutenant de vaisseau.

[1] On 4 January 1804 Raven sailed from Malta as escort to the merchant ship Dolphin, bound for Naples.

In the evening of the next day master's mate Robert Incledon had the watch and saw a light shape in the moonless night.

He thought it was a sail but it turned out to be a tower on the cliffs near Mazari, on the south west coast of Sicily.