Salomon was merchantman built in Nantes that the French Royal Navy purchased and commissioned as a fluyt.

From August 1767 she was used as a gunnery school at Ile d'Aix, before being loaned as a merchantman from 1768, first to private individuals, and then to the Compagnie de Cayenne in April 1770.

[1] On 24 April 1782, Pulvérisateur, after encountering Fine, joined with Suffren's squadron and delivered copies of the despatches originally sent by Navy Minister Castrie on 21 July 1781, and that had been destroyed with Expédition.

[5] On 23 September 1782, in the wake of the Battle of Trincomalee, Suffren sent Pulvérisateur to Isle de France under M. Le Fer to bring despatches to Governor François de Souillac.

Having requested to be relieved of duty, captains Tromelin, Saint-Félix, Morard de Galles and la Landelle-Roscanvec came aboard.