Her (possibly new) French owners sent her to engage in whaling at Delagoa Bay, where the British letter of marque whaler Scorpion captured her in 1803.

Accounts differ as to whether her captors sank her, or released her and she continued to operate as a merchant vessel until 1814.

After the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, a number of French whaling companies transferred their operations to the United States, operating out of New Bedford and Nantucket under American colours and with American masters and crews, frequently Nantucket whalers.

She departed in late September with Charles Harris (or Harrax), master, for the whaling grounds at Delagoa Bay.

Fortuitously, the Rochefort squadron had captured a West Indiaman named Ganges prior to November 1805.