In 1803 the Royal Navy captured her on her second voyage as she was sailing under the colours of the Batavian Republic and she was condemned in prize.

[4] 1st voyage transporting enslaved people (1801–1802): Reimsdyke sailed from London on 17 November 1801, bound for Africa.

[6] Lloyd's List's ship arrival and departure data and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Voyage database report that her captain was Cooley, or Richard Coley, but the database also reports that Coley had left England on 4 August 1801 as captain of Minerva, not returning until 22 August 1802.

[7] Lloyd's List also reported that Reimsdyke, Cooley, master was at Portsmouth on 1 December, having returned from Africa.

[5] 2nd voyage transporting enslaved people (1802–loss): Captain James McIver sailed from London on 21 December 1802.

King's nominal sale would permit Reimsdyke to sail under the Dutch flag and so deliver to his plantations the captives that he would acquire in West Africa.

Around the end of November, 60 or 70 captives suffering from rheumatism from their long confinement on the vessel were sent ashore to recuperate before their sale.

[8] Reimsdyke was condemned in prize, but William King claimant of the ship and 376 captives on behalf of Thomas King merchant of London, and for 24 captives marked 13 on the arm, on behalf of John Blenkarne, chief of Dick's Cove, West Africa, a British subject, appealed the decision.

The Court rejected the appeal, ruling that ship and captives were condemned as lawful prize to the Crown, i.e., HMS Hornet and Commander Hunt.