In September 1794 a French naval squadron comprising the razee Experiment under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Arnaud, Vigilance, Félicité, Épervier, and Mutine was cruising the West African coast, destroying British factories and shipping.

On 6 February 1806, Fėlicitė was present at the Battle of San Domingo, from which she escaped unharmed together with two other French vessels, the 36-gun frigate Cornélie and the 20-gun ship-corvette Diligente.

The frigates Comète and Félicité, and the corvette Diligente captured and burned the American vessel Lark, Moore, master, which was sailing from Philadelphia to Jamaica.

In May, British ships chased two French frigates, armed en flûte and bringing supplies to Martinique, into the Basse Terre roads.

For reasons unknown, in January 1812, the Haitian Navy defected to the rebel Jérôme Maximilien Borgella,[5] who placed a French privateer named Gaspard in command of Améthyste (recommissioned as Heureuse Réunion), a corvette, and a brig.

Unable to close fast enough to board the more nimble Southampton and losing her mainmast, Heureuse Réunion surrendered and was dragged to Jamaica, where the British returned to the ownership of Haiti.