In August, Lightning was with the British fleet at Copenhagen, where Doyle commanded the naval brigade on shore.

[a] Lightning also received a share, with many other ships in the British fleet at Copenhagen in August–September 1807, of the prize money for the capture of Odifiord and Benedicta (4 and 12 September).

[4] On 8 October 1808, Lightning captured the Dutch armed transport Hoop, which she sent into the Cape of Good Hope.

[5] The House of Braganza, which had just expatriated to Brazil from Portugal, discouraged any vessels of the British squadron attached to them from going to sea.

This occurred on 20 or 21 November 1810 in the North Sea, when she captured the General D'Orsenne, of 14 guns and sixty-nine men.

[6][b] Lightning, Helicon, and Princess Charlotte were in company when Echo captured the privateer Confiance on 28 February 1811.

[14] In 1813 Lightning recaptured Alexis, brig, of Greenock, carrying sugar, rum, cotton and coffee from Demerara, mounting ten guns, captured on 6 February 1813 by the American privateer Comet.

[d] Twelve days later, on 18 March, Lightning recaptured the brig Favourite, of 126 tons and six men, which had been sailing from Waterford to Bilbao.