[3] L'Esperanza was captured by HMS Providence, renamed Flying Fish, and was transferred to Great Britain's Jamaica Station under Commodore John Ford.

[11] William Beatty, formerly a surgeon's mate aboard the frigate HMS Hermione, was appointed acting surgeon of the Flying Fish by Ford on 5 December 1793, his predecessor having died (possibly of Yellow fever) at the naval hospital in Jamaica.

[12] Under the command of Lieutenant James Prevost, Flying Fish spent the end of 1793 and the early parts of 1794 ferrying French Royalist deputations to and from Mole St. Nicholas before taking part in the blockade of Port-au-Prince, serving as a supply ship, as well as intercepting five French vessels attempting to run the blockade in less than one month.

On 1 June Flying Fish was used to clear a beachhead for assaulting British troops in their attack on Port-au-Prince, again using her shallow draught to allow her to get close to the beach, firing against French soldiers on shore and helping the British forces under Ford ultimately capture the city.

[15] Sailing from Aux Cayes to New York City, Poisson Volant was intercepted by HMS Esperance and HMS Bonetta and captured; in an effort to escape, the French crew of thirty-eight men under the command of a sub-lieutenant of the French ship Concorde had cut away the gunwales of Poisson Volant and threw some of her guns overboard.