Butcher was charged with protecting English shipping in the Great Belt, and was particularly successful in capturing the enemy's gun-boats and privateers.
[4] For example: On 1 March 1814, Butcher and HMS Antelope joined the fleet of Admiral William Young off the mouth of the Eastern Scheldt in the Netherlands.
For 48 hours she lay exposed to continuous barrage of shells from enemy batteries on shore, but was (to the astonishment of the whole fleet) eventually able to free herself and escape.
[7] She was officially paid off in April 1819 and languished several years moored off the Thames Estuary before undergoing conversion to a prison ship from August to November 1823 at Chatham Docks.
Through a mixture of coincidence and providence a long list of illustrious officers commanded or served on the Antelope: