She served against the French and Dutch in the Napoleonic Wars, though after her capture in 1798 she spent a year in the service of the Batavian Republic before the British recaptured her.

[1][a] Under Lieutenant Bulkeley Mackworth Praed, who took command in early 1797, Crash participated in operations under Sir Home Popham against the locks and sluice gates of the Bruges canal in May 1798.

[1] Almost a year after her capture, on 11 August 1799, the 16-gun sloop Pylades, under Captain Adam Mackenzie, the 16-gun brig-sloop Espiegle, under Captain James Boorder, the 12-gun hired cutter Courier, and Juno and Latona, which sent their boats, mounted an attack on Crash, which was moored between the island of Schiermonnikoog and Groningen.

MacKenzie put Lieutenant Humphreys of Juno on the captured schuyt after arming her with two 12-pounder carronades and naming her Undaunted.

[5] On 13 August the British attacked the Dutch schooner Vengeance (or Weerwrack or Waarwrick), of six cannons, two of them 24-pounders, and a battery on Schiermonnikoog.

Excluding Undaunted, the British captured three schuyts or galiots – Vier Vendou, Jonge Gessina, and one other.

[7] The battle would earn those seamen who survived until 1847 the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Schiermonnikoog 12 Augt.