The French captured her in 1795 at Smyrna, but in 1796 a squadron led by Barfleur brought her out of the neutral port of Tunis.

[4] Lastly, Nemesis was among the vessels sharing in the proceeds of the capture on 30 March 1783 of the Dutch ship Arendt op Zee.

[7] On 9 December 1795, part of Gantaume's squadron, consisting of the frigate Sensible, and the corvettes Sardine and Rossignol, captured Nemesis, which had grounded and after refloating had anchored out of range of the fort in the neutral port of Smyrna.

French accounts, on the other hand, state that a British officer was invited on Sensible to acknowledge that Nemesis was outside the protected neutral zone, before Sensible was called on to surrender, to which her captain agreed after a token shot would be fired.

[8] Three men from Nemesis, a sailor and two Royal Marines, defected to the French and joined Sardine.

The ships of the line Egmont, Barfleur, Bombay Castle, and Zealous, along with the frigate HMS Tartar and the cutter Fox,[10] anchored in the bay.

The fourth French vessel, Gerfaut, refused to surrender, preferring to scuttle, and she thrice repelled assaults from the British boats before beaching herself.

[11] In the automatic court-martial for the loss of the ships, Ensign Chautard was acquitted due to the disproportion of forces.

He had Postillon repaired and painted before selling her to Sir Gilbert Elliot the British viceroy of the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom, for onward transfer to the Dey of the Regency of Algiers.

Captain Robert Dudley Oliver recommissioned her in February and then sailed her for Halifax on 17 April 1798 as escort for a convoy.

[14] That same day, Nemesis and the hired armed lugger Nile captured five French fishing vessels.

[15] It's reported on 9 November 1799 in the Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle that Nemesis, with the Anacreon sloop, and the Nile, Resolution, and Fanny hired armed luggers, have sailed on a cruise off the Coast of France.

Baker sent a signal to Captain Thompson of Savage, who then recaptured the brig, which Nemesis had had to bypass while chasing Renard.

On 25 July Nemesis was part of a squadron that also included Terpsichore, Prevoyante, Arrow, and the hired lugger Nile, when it encountered the Danish frigate HDMS Freja, which was escorting a convoy of two ships, two brigs and two galliots.

This incident led to strained relations with Denmark, and, in order to anticipate any hostile move from the Danes, the British government despatched Earl Whitworth in August on a special mission to Copenhagen.

[15] In January 1801, Nemesis was under the command of Captain Edward Owen in the Irish Sea and the Channel.

On 7 January she was at anchor at Deal when she suffered the loss of seven of her crew, their boat having overturned as they were returning from a visit to the shore.

[Note 2] Six days later, Nemesis and Sirius were in company when they captured the French ship Mere de Familie.

[31] A last payment of head money for Forsoget, which was a Danish privateer, was paid in September 1830, by which time Ferris was dead.

[Note 6] On 23 July 1810, boats from HMS Belvidera, Captain Richard Byron, and Nemesis attacked three gun-schooners of the Dano-Norwegian Navy.

Nemesis was among the British vessels that shared in the capture on 21 June of the American ship Herman, and her cargo.

[Note 7] On 11 July 1813, Nemesis was with Romulus, Fox, Sceptre, and Conflict, and the tenders Highflyer and Cockchafer, anchored off the Ocracoke bar, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

[Note 8] Nemesis then sailed north and next appears at Montreal on 31 October as one of six ships that brought two battalions of Royal Marines and two batteries of Royal Marine artillery to Montreal from Halifax to help protect that city after the defeat of the British at the Battle of Lake Erie.