His Majesty's hired armed cutter Ann served the British Royal Navy from 9 May 1795 to 19 October 1801 during the French Revolutionary Wars.
After a two-hour running fight she succeeded in capturing Aimable Therese, a small French privateer lugger of four guns and 27 men.
[7] On the evening of 21 November, after a chase of five hours, Ann captured the French privateer cutter Petit Diable some three to four leagues south-southwest of Beachy Head.
Commanded by Simon Robert Saltitat, Petit Diable was two days out of Dieppe and carried only eight men with small arms.
During the action on 8 July, Ann, together with the gun-brig Biter and the hired armed cutter Kent, engaged some French gunboats and prevented them from intervening.