She was taken by the British at the capture of Sint Eustatius in February 1781 and commissioned into the Royal Navy.

[1] In February 1781, during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, de Graaf was serving at the island of Sint Eustatius.

On 4 February she was captured, along with the island as a whole, by an invasion force commanded by Admiral George Rodney.

She was taken into service by the Royal Navy and renamed Saint Eustatius, after the island at which she was captured.

Having had six captains in only two years of service, Smith was Saint Eustatius's last; she was sold at Antigua later in 1783.