She was at the British invasion of Île de France and later served in the Channel, the North Sea, the Baltic, and the Chesapeake.

On 11 January 1805, she departed Rochefort under Lieutenant Depoge to join up with Admiral Missiessy's squadron, bound for the Caribbean.

[2] French records state that she was captured off the Gironde,[1] on 27 September,[2]> or on 11 Vendémiaire An 14 (3 October 1805),[4] by HMS Egyptienne.

British records state that on 2 October 1805 HMS Egyptienne captured the French brig-sloop Actéon, under Capitaine de frégate Depoge, off Rochefort.

[a] Lastly, Browne further reported that the three British men-of-war had recaptured the English ship Weymouth, from Gibraltar, shortly before she could reach Aber Wrac'h.

As the packet Princess Elizabeth, Kidd, master, was sailing to Lisbon she encountered a naval brig and an engagement developed that lasted about two-and-a-half hours.

Kidd had prepared the mails for jettisoning but had not yet given the order that it be thrown overboard when it became clear that the brig was English.

Princess Elizabeth arrived at Lisbon on 28 February and was due to sail back to London on 4 March.

[3] By 21 November she was off the island of Rodrigues preparing for a joint naval and military expedition to take Île de France.

The invasion fleet, under Admiral Albemarle Bertie, arrived at Île de France on the 28th; the capitulation was signed on the 3 December.

After the capture of the island Neville received promotion to post captain and transferred to take command of Boadicea.

(The navy had temporarily engaged four transports as hired armed ships and put naval officers in charge of each.

[d] Bertie sent Cator and Acteon to England with duplicate dispatches announcing the successful end to the campaign.

She was then caught up in severe winter gales on the Norwegian coast and sustained some damage that required her to put into Sheerness for repairs.

[16] During the very severe winter of 1813 Acteon provided watering parties for the British squadron blockading the Chesapeake.

[19] (Erie, under the command of John Hearn, had been sailing from Havana to Baltimore with a cargo of sugar and coffee.

[3] Acteon was part of a squadron of five vessels that detained Panther, Gegollae (or Gezoline), master, which was sailing from Martinique to Dunkirk.

[21] The principal officers and commissioners of His Majesty's Navy offered the brig Acteon, of 353 tons, for sale at Portsmouth on 11 January 1816.