Peruvian captured two American privateers and participated in an expedition up the Penobscot River during the War of 1812.

Three days later Peruvian was in sight, and so entitled to share, together with a number of other vessels, in the prize money arising from the recapture of the Toms by Hyperion.

[6] Twelve days later Peruvian captured the American privateer schooner Yankee off Sombrero, Anguilla.

[1] On 6 February, she was returning to her station from St. Thomas, when around seventy-nine miles (127 km) east by north of Sombrero, she encountered an American privateer.

[13] The report in Lloyd's List describes John as having 20 guns and 93 men and surrendering after a chase of 13 hours.

On the evening of 31 August, Sylph, Peruvian, and the transport Harmony, accompanied by a boat from Dragon, embarked marines, foot soldiers and a detachment from the Royal Artillery, to move up the Penobscot under the command of Captain Robert Barrie of Dragon.

[18] The objective was the American frigate Adams, of twenty-six 18 pounders, which had taken refuge some 27 miles up stream at Hampden, Maine.

[1] On 22 December Peruvian detained the Spanish vessel Dolores, which was condemned as a "droit of Admiralty".

Henry Percy of the 14th Light Dragoons, the only aide to the Duke of Wellington to have survived Waterloo unscathed, into the middle of the Channel, where she was becalmed.

Around 3 p.m. on 21 June, they arrived near Broadstairs, where Percy and White immediately took a post-chaise-and-four to deliver the news to London.

[23] (On the way Peruvian had had to make a detour to Guernsey to pick up a supply of French wine for Napoleon.)

Cockburn was concerned that the French might use Ascension Island, uninhabited at the time,[24] to stage a rescue mission.

The ships' logs record that at 5.30pm, White and Dobree came ashore, raised the Jack, and took possession of the island in the name of His Britannic Majesty, King George III.