Carysfort engaged and forced the surrender of her larger opponent, restoring Castor to the British, though not without a controversy over the issue of prize money.

[1] Carysfort commissioned under her first commander, Captain George Vandeput in June 1767, and sailed for the Mediterranean in September that year.

[1] She captured the merchant schooner Rachael om 15 January 1778, off Charles Town, South Carolina, and scuttled her.

[3] On 21 January she, along with Perseus and HMS Lizard, captured the French ship Bourbon off Edisto Island, South Carolina.

[5] On 28 January she and Lizard captured French sloop 'Notre Dame des Charmes" 19 miles off Charles Town, South Carolina.

[7] On 1 February she and HMS Lizard captured Dutch brig "Batavear" off the mouth of the Santee River, South Carolina.

[10] On 28 March she captured Spanish ship "Nuestra Senora del Carmel" 3 leagues off Charles Town.

[12] In September 1778, again in service in North America with Captain Fanshawe, she transported troops on a raiding expedition led by Major General Charles Grey.

[1] Cumming was replaced in November 1780 by Captain William Peacock, and in December Carysfort returned to operate in North American waters.

[1] Carysfort underwent a great repair in mid-1785, and returned to service in January 1787, having commissioned the previous month under Captain Matthew Smith.

After a further period spent laid up, Carysfort was prepared for active service again after the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, and recommissioned in August 1793 under Captain Francis Laforey.

[1] The Castor, originally under Captain Thomas Troubridge, had been captured twenty days earlier by a French squadron under Joseph-Marie Nielly during the Atlantic campaign of May 1794.

[14] Castor was being sailed back to France by a French prize crew at the time she was discovered, and was towing a Dutch brig.

There Sercey sent her to visit the Danish post at Trinquebar to gather information about the disposition of the British navy in the East Indies.

Carysfort and Argo escorted five transports carrying the 85th Regiment of Foot and forty artillerymen from Cowes on 24 June.

At 3:30 in the morning of 2 April Apollo unexpectedly ran aground about nine miles south of Cape Mondego on the coast of Portugal.

In July 1806 Captain Philip Carteret of Scorpion helped McKenzie save sixty-five deeply laden merchantmen from destruction at St.

[24] Carteret sent a letter to the Governor at Nevis who warned McKenzie that a French squadron under Admiral Willaumez had arrived at Martinique.

[24] McKenzie took the Lutine in the West Indies on 24 March after a 30-hour chase, after Edward Berry's Agamemnon came up and blocked her escape.

Berry reported that "she is a remarkably fine Vessel, quite new,... , is well appointed in every Respect; sails uncommonly fast, and is, in my Opinion, well calculated for His Majesty's Service.