She spent her time escorting convoys in the North Sea and captured one French privateer.

[11] Lloyd's List reported on 3 July 1801 that Norfolk, Goodall, master, had arrived in Suriname from London, having engaged a Spanish frigate on the way.

[7] Following the resumption of war with France in early 1803, concern developed in Britain about Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom.

The British East India Company in November voted to underwrite 10,000 tons (bm) of armed transports to protect Great Britain's coasts.

One of the vessels was Norfolk; the others were Albion, Anacreon, Atlas, Aurora, Chapman, Diadem, Duckenfield, Helder, Indefatigable, Lord Forbes, Lord Nelson, Paragon, Perseus, Robert, Sir Alexander Mitchell, Suffolk, and Triton.

[3] On 21 November 1803 Norfolk, of 600 tons (bm) and 18 guns (32 & 24-pounders), was listed as having been appointed to the Leith Station.

At 8am on 26 January 1807, six or seven miles off Flambro Head Norfolk, under Commander William Richan,[15] sighted a lugger pursuing some merchant vessels.

Norfolk gave chase and after almost four and a half hours succeeded in catching up with and capturing the French privateer Adolphe.

She had sailed from the Dunkirk Roads on 21 January and two days later near Dogger Bank had captured Leith Packet, Brooke, master, which was carrying a cargo of hemp from Tonningen to London.

Mr. Robert Pringle, Collector of Excise, found a pretext on which to board and search Norfolk.

[18] On 23 May Norfolk and several other armed ships and naval vessels, and their convoys, arrived at Elsinore from Orkney.

[22] Although the to-and-fro between Elsinore and Orkney probably represented convoy escort, the Royal Navy went on to participate in the Battle of Copenhagen (1807).

1st whaling voyage (1814): Captain Holden Barton sailed from London in October 1814, bound for South Georgia.

[5] 2nd whaling voyage (1816): Captain Holden Barton sailed from London in May 1816, bound for South Georgia.

The schooner Ann, of 150 tons (bm), accompanied Norfolk to act as a ship's tender.