On 20 August 1799, a British invasion force under the command of Lieutenant-General Thomas Trigge and Vice Admiral the Right Honourable Lord Hugh Seymour arrived at the Dutch colony of Suriname.

During the 48 hours Captain Pelatier decided to surrender her to USS Portsmouth and USRC Scammel that were also at Paramaribo.

[4] The British renamed her Surinam and Lieutenant Christopher Cole, of Prince of Wales was appointed to command her.

Over the period from late March to early April 1800 Cole captured two French privateers and recaptured a merchant schooner.

[5] Cole also introduced new regulations aboard his ship that kept his men in good health in the Caribbean Sea.

[1] Commodore Sir Samuel Hood sent Tucker and Surinam on a mission to Saint-Domingue to try to secure the release of two British officers reportedly in the hands of the rebels at Gonaïves.

On discovering that one of the officers had already been executed and that the other had escaped, Tucker then sailed to Jacmel, where he assisted the besieged French garrison.

[1] On 1 January 1807 Arethusa, Latona, Anson, Fisgard, and Morne Fortunee captured Curaçao, and with it Suriname.

In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the issue of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Curacoa 1 Jany.

[1] This article includes data released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported UK: England & Wales Licence, by the National Maritime Museum, as part of the Warship Histories project.