Commander John Davies supposedly commissioned her in May 1813,[1] but she had apparently already been in service by then.

On 9 April 1813 Eleanor Wilhelmina arrived at Yarmouth, Anacreon having detained her as she was sailing from North Bergen.

On 1 February 1814 she recaptured the Spanish ship Nostra Senora del Carmen la Sirena.

Late in January the French privateer Lion had captured three ships in all and plundered two, which she had permitted to go on to Lisbon.

[3][a] Anacreon was last sighted on 28 February 1814 in the English Channel as she was returning from Lisbon.