[3][a] After a period in 1797 as watch ship at Altona,[4] Captain Hans Holsten took Nidelven for two years to the Mediterranean,[5] returning to Copenhagen on 31 October 1800.

During the Battle of Copenhagen (1801) Nidelven served in Olfert Fischer's division in the Inner Run under Chamberlain Steen Bille and did not engage in any actual fighting.

Nid Elven was commissioned in February 1808 under Commander Richard James Lawrence O'Connor for the North Sea.

Childers also shared by agreement in Ned Elvin's capture of Wohlfarth, and Hans Barend on 19 November 1809.

[1] The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Nid Elven, of 311 tons", lying at Sheerness, for sale on 3 November 1814.