Later, she served in the Brest squadron, took part in Ganteaume's expeditions of 1801 to Egypt, and was involved in the French acquisition of Santo Domingo (also known as the Era de Francia) and briefly detained Toussaint Louverture before he was brought to France.

[4] The British hired armed cutter Sandwich was under the command of Lieutenant George Lempriere and cruising off the coast of Barcelona on 14 June 1799 when she sighted a large fleet.

The division was retasked to ferry 4600 troops to Santo Domingo, but again ran into the British blockade, turned back and adjourned its mission.

After several false starts due to unfavourable weather or to the British blockade, Ganteaume eventually set sail on 23 February on a heavy sea which soon dispersed his squadron.

His crew much weakened by an epidemic, Ganteaume managed to establish a blockade of Elba on 1 May and bombard Portoferraio on 6 May, supporting the Siege of Porto Ferrajo, but he had to detach Formidable, Indomptable, Dessaix and Créole to ferry the sick to Livorno and return to Toulon.

[13] Créole took an incidental part in the action of 24 June 1801, where the lone British 74-gun HMS Swiftsure met the French squadron and was captured after a running battle.

[18]In 1803, Créole ferried troops to Port-au-Prince under Commander Jean-Marie-Pierre Lebastard,[1] travelling to Jean-Rabel from Cap-Français with 530 soldiers under General Morgan.

In the closing months of 1803, the vessel Créole embarked towards Britain, manned by a prize crew alongside a contingent of French prisoners.

Efforts by both crew and prisoners to operate the pumps were insufficient to halt the rising water levels, which by December 30 were increasing at a rate of two feet per hour.

The discovery of two significant leaks, one located forward and the other aft of the hold, prompted the crew to jettison the ship's armaments, ammunition, iron ballast, and certain supplies overboard, in addition to rigging a sail beneath the hull in an attempt to slow the ingress of water.