After service in the Caribbean that earned her crew two medals, including one for a boat action in which her captain was killed, she was laid up in 1810 and sold in 1814.

She was then attached to a five-frigate squadron under Commodore Eleonore-Jean-Nicolas Soleil, tasked with ferrying supplies and troops to the French West Indies.

The boats of Galatea, under Lieutenant William Coombe, captured Lynx off Les Saintes on 21 January 1807.

The boats, manned with five officers, 50 seamen and 20 marines, had to row for eight hours, mainly in the blazing sun, to catch her.

Hart was a lesser vessel than Lynx and Coombe complained to the admiral of the station and then to the Admiralty.

He had received information that seven French vessels were lying under the protection of two batteries in the harbour at Mahaut, Guadeloupe and decided to attack them.

Meanwhile, Lieutenant Daniel Lawrence and the remainder of the party landed and spiked three 24-pounders in the batteries, before boarding a brig.

On the way out the prizes grounded, making them ideal targets for small arms fire and the three field pieces that the French had brought down to the shore.