HMS Coquette was launched in 1807 and spent her naval career patrolling in the Channel and escorting convoys.

[5] On 19 November 1807, Coquette recovered the English brig Amazon, which was carrying a cargo of hemp.

[6] Amazon, Birkley, master, had been sailing from Petersburg to Plymouth when two French privateers captured her off the Isle of Wight.

[10] The Russian vessels were carrying the payroll for Vice-Admiral Dmitry Senyavin’s squadron in the Mediterranean.

[15] On 16 November HMS Chanticleer took possession of the derelict vessel Haabet near the Dogger Bank.

Haabet, of near 800 tons burthen, Jannsen, master, had lost her main and mizzen mast and was waterlogged.

When news of the outbreak of the War of 1812 reached Britain, the Royal Navy seized all American vessels then in British ports.

Coquette was among the Royal Navy vessels then lying at Spithead or Portsmouth and so entitled to share in the grant for the American ships Belleville, Janus, Aeos, Ganges and Leonidas seized there on 31 July 1812.

She discovered that the schooner, which flew an American flag, was armed with 14 guns, plus the 32-pounder, and had a crew of over 100 men.

It appeared that the American might strike her flag, but instead she took to her sweeps and escaped as the wind was too weak for Coquette to pursue.

Lloyd's List reported on 21 May 1813 that General Armstrong's long gun was a 42-pounder, and that she had a crew of 140 men.

[20] On 20 July, Coquette was in company with Cressy, Frolic, and Mercury at the capture of the American ship Fame.

The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered the "Coquette sloop, of 484 tons", lying at Deptford, for sale on 30 January 1817.

[3] Lloyd's Register for 1827 showed Coquette as having undergone repairs in 1827, and her master changing from Buckle to Thornton.

[27] 5th whaling voyage (1830–1832): Captain Thornton sailed on 20 April 1830, bound for the Indian Ocean.

[3] Captain Thornton sailed Coquette from London on 12 December 1832 on her 6th whaling voyage, bound for the Pacific Ocean.

[3] The Sydney Herald reported on 28 July 1834 that natives of one of the islands of New Guinea had speared a boat's crew belonging to Coquette, 12 months out of London.

[28] Lloyd's List reported on 13 June 1837 that Coquette had not been heard of since July 1835, when another whaler had spoken to her off the coast of Japan.