[1] Her armament as a privateer is unrecorded; when fitted out for Royal Navy service she carried 20 six-pounder cannons along her upper deck, and four three-pounder guns on the quarterdeck.

[1] The French privateer Le Lis was put to sea in 1745 to hunt British merchant ships returning home through the English Channel.

In company with the 24-gun HMS Weazel she chased several small French craft before making her sole capture, the 10-gun privateer La Charlotte, in April.

The captured vessel was described by contemporary sources as "a very rich prize" with a substantial cargo of trade goods; it was brought into the Nore anchorage in the Thames, and turned over to Navy authorities.

Lys was now surplus to the Navy's requirements and she was sailed to Woolwich Dockyard for decommissioning and the removal of her guns and crew.