HMS Pique was taken into service under her only British captain, David Milne, but served for just three years with the Royal Navy before being wrecked in an engagement with the French ship Seine in 1798.

The arrival of a third British ship ended French resistance, but while the Seine and Jason were both refloated, attempts to save Pique failed; she bilged and had to be abandoned.

Pique was built at Rochefort as the Fleur-de-Lys, one of the six-ship Galatée class designed by Raymond-Antoine Haran.

[5] Pique encountered HMS Blanche (commanded by Captain Faulknor) off the island of Desirade at Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe on 4 January 1795.

Pique at first tried to avoid an action, but eventually the two ships came to close quarters in the early hours of 5 January.

The two ships closed and exchanged broadsides, with both sustaining heavy damage; Blanche lost her main and mizzen masts.

[1] HMS Pique was commissioned in September 1795 under Captain David Milne, and assigned to serve in the Leeward Islands.

[Note 1] Pique then went on to serve as part a squadron under Captain Thomas Parr in the fourth rate HMS Malabar.

[1][14] Pique shared with Révolutionnaire, Boadicea and the hired armed cutter Nimrod in the capture of the Anna Christiana on 17 May 1798.

[16] The chase lasted all day, until 11 o'clock at night when Pique was able to range alongside Seine and fire a broadside.