[2] On 23 September 1762 Lark and her sister ship HMS Venus were off Rame Head in Cornwall when they encountered an unidentified vessel which raised sail and fled.

A boarding party from Venus determined the captured vessel to be a Galgo, a 14-gun Spanish privateer with a crew of 136 men.

[3] On 11 January 1778, under command of Captain Richard Smith, she chased ashore a vessel, probably schooner Sally, near the Providence River and burned it.

[5] French Admiral d'Estaing's squadron arrived in Narragansett Bay on 29 July 1778 to support the American army under General George Washington during the battle of Rhode Island.

On 5 August 1778, as Lark lay off Newport, Captain Richard Smith had her set on fire and her cables cut.