The Royal Navy captured her at the Battle of Lake Borgne on 14 December 1814.

Price built her to a design by Josiah Fox, "Head Ship Carpenter and Navy Constructor",[1] and launched her on 1 March 1805.

She had 2,600 pounds of copper in the sheathing for her hull and in her fittings, had a single mast amidships, and was rigged with a lateen sail.

5 left Hampton Roads on 15 May and sailed to the Mediterranean,[1] in company with Gunboat No.

5 that Commodore Edward Preble borrowed from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1804 for use against Tripoli.

For the voyage across the Atlantic, the gunboats received a dandy rig, false keels, and lee boards.

7) arrived in the Mediterranean too late to see action, they remained there with Commodore Rodgers's squadron until summer 1806.

She was under the command of Sailing Master B. G. Hipkins when on 18 June 1808 a squall sank her off Holland Island in the Chesapeake.

[8] She lost three men drowned – the purser's steward and two marines – before the schooner Victory, which saw the loss, could rescue the remaining crew.

Though she sank in some six fathoms of water, she clearly was raised as she would continue to serve for at least seven more years.

5 Midshipman Thomas C. Magruder took command,[2] and she was ordered to transfer to New Orleans from Baltimore as part of a move by the U.S. government to build up its forces there to enforce the embargo.

Magruder was involved in improper conduct, which caused the Secretary of the Navy to order an investigation in June and the recovery of No.

By March 1813 there were only five effective gunboats, the others being too rotten to carry cannon or having been disarmed to provide guns for USS Louisiana.

163 sailed for Mobile, Alabama, under the overall command of Captain John Shaw.

There, on 19 April, the expeditionary force captured Fort Charlotte from the Spanish.

5 participated in the destruction of the pirates and smugglers at Barataria Bay in September.

[17] The Admiralty formally purchased her in 1815 in the West Indies, renamed her Ambush, and sold her that same year.

[18] Prize money for her and the other vessels captured at the battle was paid in July 1821.