Her new owners renamed her Rochester and she served in a commercial capacity for another 12 years, first sailing between England and India, and then making two voyages to the South Seas as a whaler.

[2] On 6 November she was off Galita Island when she captured the French cutter Succès, of ten guns and 59 men, under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Bourdé Villehuet.

According to her captain, Succès had sailed from Toulon three days earlier on a cruise; Rosenhagen suspected that she was actually carrying despatches that Villehuet had had time to destroy.

Requin was only 14 months old, armed with 16 guns, though pierced for 18, and had a crew of 108 men under the command of capitaine de fregate Bérard, a Member of the Legion of Honour.

[9] A French account reports that Requin endured two-and-a-half hours of fire, returning three broadsides, before surrendering to the English frigate Volage, of 40 guns.

[13] In 1810 Captain Phipps Hornby took command and she served in the Adriatic,[2] fighting at the Battle of Lissa and driving off a much larger French ship during the action.

[15] In 1847 the Admiralty awarded all surviving claimants from the action the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Lissa".

[2] She was carrying Sir Evan Nepean, who was taking up his post as governor in Bombay, and escorting three cartel ships.

[17] In June 1813, Volage was under the command of Captain Samuel Leslie when her sailors took part in the capture of the pirate settlement at Sambas, in Borneo.

[22] A list of licensed ships showed Rochester, D. Sutton, master, sailing from England on 14 April 1818, bound for Bengal.

The voyage was eventful in that she visited Tonga, Bay of Islands, Rotuma, the waters off Japan, the coast of California, and Honolulu.

During the voyage captain Worth died of an infection after his knee came into contact with the sharp edge of a barb on a harpoon.