[2] Berceau participated in the Croisière du Grand Hiver, an unsuccessful sortie by the French fleet at Brest on 24 December 1794.

[2] On 12 October 1800 Berceau met the 28-gun American frigate Boston; at the time neither vessel knew that the treaty that ended the Quasi-War had already been signed.

In the ensuing engagement, Berceau was badly damaged and lost 34 men killed and 28 wounded before she eventually struck her colours.

[10] During the voyage prize-master Lieutenant Robert Haswell rigged a jury mast and then sailed her on in an impressive feat of seamanship.

[9] The battle having been fought two weeks after a formal peace agreement, Berceau was repaired at American expense for $32,839.54.

On 21 November the French frigate Sémillante and Berceau captured the large country ship Countess of Sutherland as she was sailing from Bengal to China with a cargo of cotton and rice.

In December, Sémillante and Berceau sent their boats in to attack British vessels anchored at Pulo Bay, and burn the East India Company factory and naval arsenal there.

[12] In February 1804, Berceau took part in the Battle of Pulo Aura under capitaine de frégate Halgan.