The British Royal Navy captured her in 1808 in the West Indies and took her into service as the ship's tender Rapide.

French records give Rapide's origins as a British schooner that Admiral Willaumez's squadron captured on 3 July 1806, probably near Nevis, during his Atlantic campaign of 1806.

[1] The French took the schooner into service as Villaret and she served in the Antilles until she sailed to Bayonne in July 1807.

[3][b] On 23 July duplicates of the dispatches and much besides were found concealed aboard the cartel Phoenix, which had sailed from Cayenne and had stopped in Barbados.

On 2 February 1810 Rapide, Lieutenant William Mather, commander, recaptured the brig Mary.