Autumn first appeared in the Register of Shipping (RS) with Stocker, master, Brodrick, owner, and voyage Newcastle to London.

[2] On 5 January 1803 HMS Abundance sailed for the Mediterranean but grounded the next day on Sconce Point, near The Needles, Isle of Wight.

On 27 September Jackson took a small squadron at Rear Admiral Montagu's behest and bombarded the French gun boats at Calais.

Captain Owen of Immortalite signaled to Harpy, Bloodhound, and Archer to close with the French vessels.

[2] Autumn shared with the gun-brigs HMS Biter, Manly, and Pincher, in the salvage money for George which they retook in February 1805.

It was believed that George had been sailing from Bristol to London when a French privateer had captured her and taken her into Boulogne, where her cargo was landed.

Between 3 and 7 June 1813, Strombolo, Captain Stoddard, participated in an Army-Navy operation that captured Fort St Philippe in the Coll de Balanguer that controlled the pass on the road between Tortosa to Tarragona.

The naval force consisted of HMS Invincible, Thames, Brune, Strombolo, and Volcano, and eight gunboats.

After the mortar shells blew up the fort's magazine, the garrison surrendered though the battery had not yet commenced fire.

[2] The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Strombolo bomb, of 320 tons", "lying at Woolwich", for sale on 9 February 1815.

She appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1815 at London with Batchelor, master, and Rattenbury, owner.

[3] In February 1818 Lloyd's List reported that Autumn, Batchelor, master, had sailed from Quebec for Dundee on 28 August and had not since been heard of.

[17] In April Lloyd's List reported that Autumn had been lost, with all her cargo, on the coast of Iceland on 29 October 1817.