She was cut down to a 74-gun third rate at Chatham Dockyard from 1747 to April 1749, and was renamed HMS Torbay on 23 August 1750,[3] the previous ship bearing this name having been broken up in 1749.

Torbay and La Roche then parted company, with the prize vessel heading for the port city of Milford Haven.

[4] By the following morning the British had developed a plan for escape; with some effort a hole was made in the hull and one sailor climbed the outside of the ship, re-entering at the gundeck.

Obtaining a musket, he shot dead one of the French; the other leapt overboard but was persuaded to return to the vessel on a promise of being spared.

On 3 December they fell in with HMS Lyme, whose crew assisted in bringing the captured ship into port ten days later.