She had sailed from Saint Malo two weeks earlier and had captured four British merchant sloops, Hope, Favorite, and two others.

[2] Then on 15 November Swallow captured another French two-gun privateer, Friedland, seven or eight leagues (34 or 39 km) south of The Lizard.

[10][b] A month and a half later, on 26 July, Swallow captured the privateer Belle Genoise off Sicily.

The convoy consisted of 14 merchant vessels, several gunboats, and most importantly, the brig-corvette Renard, of 16 guns, under the command of Lieutenant de vaisseau Charles Baudin, and the schooner Goéland, of 12 guns, under the command of Enseigne de vaisseau Belin.

Although the French escorts came out when they saw Swallow becalmed, they then turned back when the winds picked up and took their convoy to Fréjus.

[16] On 31 August 1813, Imperieuse and Swallow captured the French privateer Audacieuse off the Strait of Bonifacio.

Swallow observed a French brig and a xebec close inshore between herself and the port of D'Anzo.

The squadron consisted of the 74-gun Edinburgh, the two frigates Imperieuse and Resistance, and the sloops Eclair, Pylades, and Swallow.

The ships deployed against the port's defenses, Swallow engaging a tower of one gun, while a cutting out party of seamen and marines went in and brought out 29 vessels.

She was then part of the squadron that captured Lerici and the fortress of Santa Maria at the end of March,[19] and Genoa on 19 April.

[1] In February 1815 the "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered Swallow for sale at Chatham.