In the first engagement she was forced to surrender, but succeeded in damaging the French ship so badly that she was captured several days later, while Cleopatra was retaken.

[1] Cleopatra continued her effective career against raiders by capturing the privateer Trois Amis on 24 March 1793 in company with HMS Lizard.

Command passed to Captain Charles Rowley who captured the French privateer Aurore on 3 March 1796,[9] or 22 April that year.

[1][Note 1] Rowley went on to capture the 12-gun privateer Hirondelle during his tenure, before Captain Israel Pellew took over command of Cleopatra in September 1797.

[1] On 28 February, in longitude 15, in a fog, the merchant armed brig Herald lost her convoy; and on 30 March, was chased by a frigate, which brought her too, after running 15 hours to the eastward.

The frigate proved to be Cleopatra, Captain Israel Pellew, who treated her politely, and informed that she (with Nautilus) had retaken the William Penn, from Philadelphia, and also, a French privateer of 16 guns and 130 men.

[1] Pellew then returned Cleopatra to Britain, where she spent between 1802 and 1804 under repair at Woolwich, recommissioning in July 1804 under Captain Charles Elphinstone.

Ville de Milan had sailed from Martinique on 28 January under Captain Jean-Marie Renaud and was bound for France with several important dispatches.

[14] The chase covered 180 miles and lasted until the following morning, when Renaud reluctantly came about to meet Cleopatra, which was overhauling Ville de Milan.

[15] The engagement began in earnest at 2:30pm, and a heavy cannonade was maintained between the two frigates until 5pm, when Cleopatra had her wheel shot away and her rudder jammed.

[17] Laurie's engagement with the superior opponent had initially cost him his ship, but had rendered her easy prey to any other Royal Navy frigate in the vicinity.

[17] Had he not brought her to battle, Ville de Milan could have easily outsailed Leander or even engaged her on fairly equal terms.

Cleopatra, which was under the command of Captain William Love, Pert, and Maria shared in the capture of Jane, Collins, master, on 25 June 1807.