[3] Curlew, of 240 tons, was pierced for 18 guns but carried only sixteen, and had a complement of 172 men;[4][a] She was under the command of Captain William Wyer.

On 4 December 1814 Columbia captured the United States schooner Dolphin, of 62 tons, one gun, and 20 men.

On 8 August 1815 Columbia, under the command of Captain Fleming, was part of the British force that captured Guadeloupe from Bonaparte loyalists.

French Royalist troops from Martinique, two corvettes, and a schooner assisted the British.

Columbia, Fairy, and Barbadoes covered the landing of the troops; they helped silence a shore battery and drive the defenders back from the beach.