The ship hoisted two flags half-mast and fired a shot, to which Renommée responded by flying her colours.

[4] Captain Pitot attempted to escape by throwing his anchors and some of his guns overboard, but the ship gained on Renommée.

On 13 July, at around 4a.m., the British ship, identified as the 74-gun HMS Alfred under captain Drury,[3] fired a broadside that struck Renommée under the waterline, causing a leak that wet her ammunition.

[4] Led aboard Alfred, Pitot learned that several ships had been lured into the trap that had caught him.

The Royal Navy commissioned her at Jamaica as HMS Renommee, under the command of Captain Robert Rolles.

[2] Renommee served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, so her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty authorised in 1850 to all surviving claimants.

In the early morning of 4 May, the boats of Renommee and Nautilus, under the command of Lieutenant Sir William Parker, of Renommee, brought out from under the fire of the guns of the town and tower of Vieja and also from under the fire of more than 100 musketeers, the Spanish naval schooner Giganta.

[11][Note 2] On 21 and 22 October 1806, Lieutenant Sir William Parker again led Renomee's boats in cutting-out expeditions.

[13] The next night, Parker again went into the port and from under the fire of the tower of Falconara, brought out a settee armed with two guns.

Small arms fire from shore wounded one British seaman, so Parker landed with some seamen and marines.

[13] Early in the morning of 7 November 1807, boats from Renommee and Grasshopper cut out a Spanish brig and a French tartan, each armed with six guns, from under the Torre de Estacio.

After about three hours the British abandoned their prizes as they could not free them and were unwilling to set fire to them as the captured vessels had prisoners and women and children aboard, many of whom were wounded.

[14] Renomee shared in the proceeds of Grasshopper's capture on 12 November of the American schooner Henrietta, Henry Dawson, master.