She was one of nine captured American vessels that the British sent to Antigua a few days later to be assessed for possible purchase.

The Royal Navy purchased General Pickering on 14 February and Commander Nicholas Charrington commissioned her in the Leeward Islands for service as HM Sloop Stormont.

[3] In January–February 1782, French captain Armand de Kersaint led a flotilla in Iphigénie that included two more frigates, four brigs, and a large cutter to recapture Demerara and Essequibo.

A key source reports that she was broken up at Rochefort in 1786,[5] and another that she was struck from the lists in that year.

[2] However, an article in The Times (of London) dated November 1787 showed her still in service at Rochfort.