[5] Naval warfare in the Baltic made extensive use of oared gunboats, which would fire on becalmed vessels from the quarter, an angle that normally broadside guns could not cover.

This made sense as Hohlenberg expected that her primary area for operations would be the Baltic, but it would have been difficult for her to be in full action in heavy weather in the open Atlantic.

[7] Much of the ship's service in the next eight years would be in the Mediterranean, continuing the diplomacy and convoy protection demanded by the Danish–Algerian War and the Barbary Corsairs In the action of 16 May 1797, Najaden, under Captain John Hoppe, with Captain Steen Andersen Bille[8] in overall command, led a small squadron that also included Sarpen and a hired xebec in an attack at Tripoli.

Najaden was released from the Mediterranean squadron in August 1798, shortly after Steen Andersen Bille's return from his embassy to Morocco.

[9] Najaden completed her tour of duty and was ordered home (with Sejeren, Freia and Havfruen) leaving Malaga on 29 March 1801, arriving near Bergen on 24 April 1801.

[6] In 1804 Najaden returned to the Mediterranean[10] with Captain Friderich Christian Fisker,[11] who reported on the loss of one of the ship's boats in August near Marseille and a fire from lightning strike in the foretop sail in September.

Boats from the Nyaden also captured some 22 or 23 coastal trading vessels in the Kola River, many upriver from the present city of Murmansk.

[13] On 9 June Nyaden captured the Russian vessels Peter Metropolite, Neptune, and Magnum Brostrum, for which prize money was paid on 4 July 1811.

The Times reported that this was the first British amphibious landing on a Russian territory, news of the attack on Kildin Island either being subsumed or overlooked.

Kola had been demilitarized during the reign of Paul I, but its citizens quickly formed a militia corps of about 300 men under the command of the merchant Matvey Gerasimov to resist the attack.

However the Governor, fearing possible reprisals, forbade any resistance so most of population of the town (numbering roughly 1,000 individuals) left Kola with their goods.

[1] In the spring of 1812 she was carrying dispatches from Lisbon back to Great Britain when a flotilla of five French ships of the line that had escaped from Lorient spotted her.