In 1795 the Admiralty renamed her HMS Impétueux as there was already a ship named America in the British navy.

In that year Payne resigned his commission through ill-health and Captain Sampson Edwards assumed command.

On 8 March 1797, Impetueux captured Vautour, a privateer cutter from an unknown harbour, commissioned in early 1797.

On 25 August a squadron and convoy under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren participated in another attack on a fort at the bay of Playa de Dominos (Doniños), outside the port of Ferrol.

Then seamen from the ships landed to assist a large force of army troops to haul the guns up to the heights above Ferrol.

[7] The expedition cost the British four dead, 23 officers and men wounded, and one man missing.