On 16 January 1813, while Captain Shaler was ashore on business, Anaconda's first lieutenant, George W. Burbank, encountered the American schooner Commodore Hull and fired a broadside into her, seriously wounding her commander, before realizing his mistake.

Later that month, Anaconda took the brig Harriet, sailing from Buenos Aires to London with a cargo of hides and tallow.

Westphal's division, covered by rockets, (as directed by a Captain Russell and overseen by Lieutenant John Stevens[9]) attacked and captured both privateers.

[10] However, the revenue cutter escaped up the Neuse to New Bern, where she gave warning of the British attack, permitting the preparation of defences that forestalled the Royal Navy from any further advance.

[1] Anaconda refitted at Halifax and Westphal received a crew of 60 men, most of whom were the dregs of the fleet, offered by their captains when Admiral John Borlase Warren asked for drafts.

Arsene Latour mistakenly named Anaconda as the fourth vessel present during the Battle of Fort Bowyer,[12][13] and this error has persisted.

[11] During Sir Alexander Cochrane's expedition against New Orleans in December, Westphal took Anaconda with great difficulty over shoals into Lake Borgne.

Captain Thomas Hardy of Ramillies wrote in a letter that Anaconda's protection surely saved many of the boats from capture by the Americans.

[11] Westphal later landed with the greater part of Anaconda's crew, who then fought in the naval brigade under Captain Edward Troubridge.

[11] In February 1815, Anaconda, and the schooner Shelburne (under Westphal's orders), cruised off the Florida coast north of Havana.

[11] On 9 March 1815 the US privateer Kemp, Captain Joseph Almeda, captured the British merchantman Ottawa, James Simpson, master, which was off Cuba while sailing from Liverpool to Jamaica with porter, soap, potatoes, hams, cheese, etc.