On the day after the battle, two luggers captured one of her boats which was engaged in burning the enemy’s ships.

[6] On 28 January 1811 HMS Dryad captured the American ship Matilda, in sight of Indefatigable and Lyra.

[1] From May 1812 Lyra was part of a squadron under the command of Captain George Collier in Surveillante, employed off the coast of northern Spain assisting the operations of Spanish partisans.

On 17 June HMS Medusa joined Hotspur, Rover, Venerable, Rhin and Lyra off Santoña, and made contact with the guerilla chief Don Gaspar, who arranged an attack on the town and the fort of Lequietio, 12 miles (19 km) to the east.

In July 1812 Lyra was part of a squadron assisting Spanish guerillas under Colonel Longa.

On the 11th, Captain Bloye landed with a party of marines, and knocked the trunions off the guns in the Bagona battery, and destroyed one mounted on a height.

[11] Then on 20 March, Lyra captured the American schooner Gold Coiner, of 200 tons and 15 men.

Collier wrote, on 27 April, that he had captured Tom "after a smart chase; she was from Charlestown, bound to Nantz; she is a remarkably fine vessel for her class, and, from her superior sailing, had already escaped eighteen of His Majesty's cruizers."

[1] On 5 December Lyra and Iris captured the schooner Mariner, of 83 tons (bm) and six men.

[17] By 20 February 1814, General Wellington, advancing from Spain, had reached the Adour some 10 miles north of Biaritz.

O'Reilly commanded a squadron consisting of Lyra, Woodlark, and Matial, was given the task of attempting to cross the bar.

A number of boats made it through the bar, though Lyra's master's mate and five seamen drowned in the attempt.

Eventually the boats and small vessels necessary to support the army succeeded in crossing the bar and sailing into the river.

[1] Disposal: The "Principal Commissioners and Officers of His Majesty's Navy" offered the "Lyra brig, of 240 tons", lying at Portsmouth, for sale on 11 June 1818.

[1] In January 1819, the London Gazette reported that Parliament had voted a grant to all those who had served under the command of Lord Viscount Keith in 1812, between 1812 and 1814, and in the Gironde.