[2] In 1803 Fama, along with Søe-Ormen, was acting as a tender to the cadet training ship in the Great Belt.

The Marquis contacted Rear-Admiral Keats, on Superb, who was in command of a small British squadron in the Kattegat.

[8] Captain Rasch was made a prisoner of war and held at Reading for six months until release in February 1809.

[7][b] The British commissioned Fama under her existing name and on 7 November appointed Lieutenant Charles Topping to command her.

[11] On 22 December 1808, Fama left Karlskrona as part of the escort of the last British convoy of the year leaving the Baltic.

[16] The subsequent court martial blamed the master for having altered course without notifying Topping and for having lost sight of Salsette.

[16] The convoy and its escorts were ill-fated, with Magnet and Salorman also being lost, as were most of the merchantmen, many of which the Danes captured or destroyed.