She served in both the battle of Copenhagen and the British invasion of Java, took part in several actions, one of which won for her crew a clasp to the Naval General Service Medal, and captured numerous privateers.

[7] On 3 February 1797 Harpy was off Dungeness Point when she fell in with the hired armed cutter Lion, which was in the process of detaining a sloop that had been trailing a convoy.

[11] On 8 May, Harpy captured the Russian hoy Leyden and Fourcoing, which was sailing with a cargo of madder, white lead, and smalt, from Rotterdam to Rouen.

Furthermore, in connection with that action, Harpy fired on the buildings of the port, damaging several, including particularly the Customs House.

[17] Espérance was a rowboat, armed with 10 swivel guns and having a crew of 32 men, and the capture took place of the coast of France.

[18] The same biography of Bazeley reports that Harpy had captured two privateers, one of four guns and the other a rowboat, and recaptured two coasting vessels.

[16] In May 1798 Harpy participated in Sir Home Riggs Popham's expedition to Ostend to destroy the sluice gates of the Ostend-Bruge Canal.

The army contingent blew up the locks and gates of the canal, but due to unfavourable winds preventing re-embarkation, Coote and the men under his command were then forced to surrender.

[23] Early in the morning of 5 February 1800, the sloops Fairy and Harpy left Saint Aubin's Bay, where they were attached to the Jersey squadron under the command of Captain Philippe d'Auvergne, (Prince of Bouillon), and reconnoitered the coast around Saint-Malo.

In late morning they were some five or six miles from Cap Fréhel when they sighted a large vessel, which turned out to be a French frigate.

At 4pm they encountered the British frigateLoire, the sixth-rate post ship Danae, and the ship-sloop Railleur, which joined the chase.

That evening, after a close action of more than two hours, Loire succeeded in getting the 42-gun French frigate Pallas to strike.

[16] In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service medal with clasps "Fairy" and "Harpy" to the surviving claimants from the action.

[3] On 21 October 1803 Captain Robert Honyman of Leda sighted a convoy off Boulogne of six French sloops, some armed, under the escort of a gun-brig.

After two and a half hours of cannonading, Admiral Mitchell succeeded in driving one sloop and the brig, which was armed with twelve 32-pounder guns, on the rocks.

Harpy was able to capture two transports and their escort, a gunboat named Penriche armed with two guns, and send them into The Downs.

[31] On 26 August Immortalite, Harpy, Adder, and Constitution attacked a French flotilla of 60 brigs and luggers off Cape Gris Nez.

Water started coming in faster than the pumps could handle and her crew abandoned her; the other vessels in the squadron rescued them.

[32] On 29 January 1805 a French flotilla consisting of 17 brigs, three schooners, four sloops, a dogger, and six luggers arrived at Boulogne from the west.

[36] Early on the morning of 24 April Gallant and Watchful sighted a flotilla of 27 vessels under Dutch colours coming around Cape Grisnez and approaching Boulogne from the east.

The two brigs engaged, giving the squadron under command of Captain Robert Honyman in Leda time to join the action.

Gallant received four shot between wind and water and had to sail back to Britain to effect repairs; she had no casualties.

[37] Honyman led the rest of his squadron, consisting of Fury, Harpy, Railleur, Bruiser, Archer, Locust, Tickler, Monkey, and Firm, in chase.

All were from 25 to 28 tons burthen, six were armed with from two to three guns and howitzers ranging from 6 to 24-pounders, and were carrying troops from Dunkirk to Ambleteuse.

She was part of a squadron of smaller vessels under Sir Home Riggs Popham that pushed up the West Scheld to place buoys in the channel to guide the large ships, but saw no action.

Hore received a knee wound while commanding a detachment ashore in the storming of Fort Cornelis.

[c] Bain returned to command of Harpy a few weeks before he received promotion to post captain on 6 April 1813.

Earlier, in July, Lambert had led her boats in the rescue, at great risk, of the crew of the schooner Eugenie, which had wrecked on Sandy Island (near Mauritius) on 19 April.

[52] After Allen's death, Robert Townsend Farquhar, governor of Mauritius, wrote to Lambert, pressing on him the importance of maintaining Harpy's highly successful anti-slavery mission.