Pyramus was the sole member of her class and was built on the lines of the French frigate Belle Poule, which the Royal Navy captured in 1780.

(Source Dr. Ian A. Cameron, M.D, F.C.F.P., Nova Scotia Medical Bulletin, August 1987, pp.

Captain Joseph Richardson had sailed her from America to France and she left Nantes on 18 October 1813.

[6][a] On 29 November Pyramus captured the American vessel Zephyr, Jedediah Olcott, master, of four guns and 20 men.

Between November 1832 and July 1833 she underwent fitting for a convict and receiving ship for Halifax, Nova Scotia.