She later took part in the French Revolutionary Wars, and was eventually scuttled during the Expédition d'Irlande after sustaining severe damage in a storm.

[2] In 1779, she was part of a division under Louis Augustin de Monteclerc, also comprising the 64-gun Solitaire and the frigates Inconstante, cruising to hunt down privateers.

[9] On 19 February 1781, Surveillante, along with the 64-gun Éveillé, her sister-ship Gentille and the cutter Guèpe, captured HMS Romulus in Chesapeake Bay.

[12] Lloyd's List reported in August 1782 that a French vessel of 40 guns, a frigate, and a cutter had captured Tartar, of Bristol, Fraser, master, off the coast of Africa.

[13] Other reports state that the captors were a French frigate, sloop-of-war, and cutter, and that the casualties on Tartar amounted to three men killed and five wounded.

[17][d] In summer 1783, along with the British frigate HMS Medea, she sailed to America to announce the Peace of Paris that ended the war between France and Great Britain.

In 1790, under Captain Sarcé, Surveillante was part of the 1st Division of the Brest squadron, under Du Chilleau de La Roche, along with the 74-gun Apollon and Jupiter, under Belugat.

Surveillante participated in the Croisière du Grand Hiver, an unsuccessful sortie by the French fleet at Brest on 24 December 1794.

Badly damaged in a storm and not seaworthy enough to return to France, she was scuttled in Bantry Bay on the coast of County Cork, Ireland.