She took part in the Expédition d'Irlande, and was captured shortly after the Battle of Tory Island by HMS Fisgard.

As the merchant ship Monarch, Davidson, master, was sailing to England from Quebec with a cargo of wood, on 16 September 1800 she encountered the French privateer Bellone, which captured her.

[1][2] In the months before the resumption of war with France, the Navy started preparations that included impressing seamen.

The officers in charge of the press gangs thought this mere bravado and pulled alongside the Indiamen, only to meet a severe resistance from the crewmen, who had absolutely no desire to serve in the Royal Navy.

The men from Immortalite suffered several injuries from shot and pike that were thrown at them, and eventually opened fire with muskets, killing two sailors on Woodford.