Phipps captured two privateers, took part in a notable action, and her crew was subjected to mercury poisoning.

[4] On 19 June Phipps captured the American vessel Alert, Davidson, master, which had been sailing from Cuba to Alexandria, and sent her too into Jamaica.

[1] On 4 February 1809, Phipps returned to Portsmouth after a gale dismasted her while she was escorting a convoy from Cork to the West Indies.

Phipps and the 74-gun third-rate Triumph captured the Spanish vessel Purisima Concepcion, which had been wrecked on the tidal flats of the San Pietro River.

The quicksilver was in kidskin bladders, which started leaking, either because of water damage or attempts by the crew to steal what they thought was silver.

In the case of the Phipps, the cleaning included boring a hole through the bottom of her hull to let the quicksilver drain out.

[7] Just before midnight on 15 November 1810 Bell chased a French privateer lugger so close inshore off Calais that, after firing some grape-shot into her, he had to let her go.

The pilot, Mr Richard Sickett, undertook the task and by about 5 o'clock in the morning Phipps was close enough to start an action with one of the luggers.

For a quarter of an hour the lugger's crew fired small arms at Phipps and tried to run her ashore.

[8] Tyson died eight weeks later in London of complications from his wounds, which were the result of his being hit by a cannonball accidentally discharged from Phipps.

[12] Some two months later, Skylark and Apelles were blockading the French coast between Cape Gris Nez and Étaples when at 3am or so on the morning of 3 May a thick fog descended.

Gunfire from the British squadron drove the French off, permitting boats from Bermuda to recapture Apelles.