[3] Gracieuse was serving as a tender to HMS Hercule, the flagship of Admiral Dacres, commanding the Jamaica Station.

On 9 April 1805 Smith fell in with and captured the large Spanish schooner Don Carlos, which had been carrying passengers from San Domingo to Porto Rico.

Smith sent in a boat, which was unable to take out the French schooner because she had filled with water from holes Gracieuse's guns had made in her.

[1] In 1807 Lieutenant David Boyd assumed command of Gracieuse,[7] which was serving as a tender to HMS Veteran, then flagship of Admiral Dacres.

In December 1807 Dacres ordered the schooners Gracieuse and Gipsy to escort to Cape Antonio (the extreme south-west of Cuba), a merchant vessel sailing from Port Royal to Vera Cruz.

The privateer Juliana was armed with one long brass 18-pounder amid-ships, and four 12-pounder carronades; she carried 83 men, and had been out from Trinidad in Cuba for three months but had made no captures.