She captured a number of enemy privateers and served in the East and West Indies, the Mediterranean and British and American waters.

Wilson sailed initially to the Leeward Islands, arriving in Frigate Bay, St Kitts on either 25 or 26 January 1782.

She joined John Elliot’s squadron in Autumn 1782 and on 14 October 1782 she captured the French Amis off Île de Batz.

An 18-year-old Fletcher Christian, later to be the instigator of the mutiny on the Bounty,[2] signed on aboard HMS Eurydice on 25 April 1783 at Spithead.

Eurydice returned to Britain and was again paid off in July 1785, and spent between January and April 1786 undergoing a small repair at Woolwich Dockyard at a cost of £2,290.

On 8 June 1794, Eurydice, along with the 36-gun Crescent, the 32-gun Druid, and six smaller vessels, all under the command of Sir James Saumarez were sent from Plymouth to reconnoitre the French coast.

Off the north-west coast of Guernsey they encountered the two 50-gun French razees – Scévola and Brutus – the two 36-gun frigates Danaé and Félicité, and a 14-gun brig.

On 24 April the crew unanimously put their names to a petition to Admiralty, accusing the first lieutenant and the master's mate of conduct "so tyrannical that such officers are a disgrace to the service.

"[4] Admiralty convened a court martial to try the sailor suspected of drafting the petition, but he was acquitted as there was insufficient evidence that it was in his handwriting.

The next day she was in sight, as were Fairy and hired armed cutter Grace, when Racoon captured the galiot Concordia.

On 14 November 1804 Eurydice was in company with HMS Bittern when they recaptured the hired armed ship Lord Eldon and sent her into Gibraltar.

[14] Eurydice captured the 6-gun privateer Mestuo La Solidade on 6 October, before passing under the command of Captain Sir William Bolton in December that year.

In 1847 the Admiralty authorised the clasp "Martinique" to the Naval General Service Medal to all surviving participants in that campaign.

She underwent a temporary repair at Deptford between September 1813 and June 1814; and was subsequently fitted for sea there between August and October 1814.

In February 1818 the merchantman Atlas, Joseph Short, master, was sailing from Dundee when she encountered a Portuguese brig with 360 slaves from Mozambique.

[16] On 8 January 1819, two seamen on Hibernia behaved in a mutinous manner as she transported convicts from England to Van Diemen's Land.