Bordelais stayed at Plymouth until April 1800, undergoing fitting out. Captain
Thomas Manby commissioned her in January 1800. On 15 July,
Bordelais captured the French vessel
Phoenix. , , and shared with
Bordelais by agreement, as did . At some point, on a trip to Ireland the
Bordelais foundered on a sandbank; Manby managed to refloat her by throwing everything possible overboard and she limped back to Plymouth;
George Manby was also onboard.
Bordelais spent a short period spent blockading the port of
Flushing. She proved unsuited to the task, being long, narrow, and low in the water, and consequently so wet her crew sickened. She therefore was ordered back to Spithead. In December Manby sailed
Bordelais for the
Jamaica Station, in company with
Andromache as escorts to a large convoy. A gale dispersed the convoy near
Cape Finisterre and
Bordelais was sent to the west of Barbados to look for stragglers. On her way she recaptured two of the stragglers ( and ) that had already fallen prey to French privateers. The French privateer
Mouche had captured
Aurora, Redman, master, as she was near the
Western Islands.
Mouche also captured
Adventure, Finlay, master.
Bordelaise encountered
Adventure, which only struck on 8 January 1801 after a long chase. From her Mandby found out that
Mouche had captured
Aurora too, and had sent her to Teneriffe. He sailed there and intercepted
Aurora on 10 January as she arrived. On 28 January 1801
Bordelais encountered three French vessels, two large brigs and a schooner, off Barbados. The three were to windward and started to chase
Bordelais. Mandy shortened sail to give the enemy a better chance to catch up, which they did around sunset. Mandby then turned
Bordelais and engaged the larger of the brigs at a range of ten yards. The other two French vessels held off when they realized she could fire her carronades on both broadsides. After about 30 minutes the larger brig
struck Robert Barrie,
First Lieutenant of
Bordelais, took possession of the brig, which turned out to be the 18-gun gun brig
Curieuse.
Curieuse was pierced for 20 guns and carried eighteen long 9-pounders. She had a crew of 168 men under the command of Captain G. Radelet.
Victor "Hughes", governor of Cayenne, had dispatched the three vessels some 28 days earlier to intercept the outward-bound West Indies merchant fleet. In the engagement
Bordelais had one man killed and seven wounded, generally lightly.
Curieuse had some 50 men killed and wounded. Radelet survived for a few hours but eventually died from having lost both legs. About an hour after the British took possession,
Bordelais started to sink. Manby ordered everyone off her, but 21 British sailors delayed because they were extricating the French wounded. Most of the rescuers were themselves rescued, but seven drowned. Dealing with the situation, securing 120 French prisoners, and repairing sails and rigging delayed
Bordelais until 8p.m. She then set off after the two French vessels that had fled but was unable to find them in the night. From Barbados
Bordelais made her way to Jamaica via Martinique. She then cruised the
Mona Passage, where apparently she did great damage to the local trade. In one case a cutting out expedition at
Aguadilla Bay by boats from
Bordelais and another British vessel cut out a vessel that Manby turned into a tender; this vessel was lost with all hands shortly thereafter. In a second attack at Aguadilla an attempt to cut out a schooner there ended in failure, but no casualties. The cannon fire from the Spanish defences did so much damage to
Bordelais that she had to return to
Port Royal for repairs. Next,
Bordelais cut out a small sloop with a cargo of wood from a small harbour on the coast of Puerto Rico. Manby cleared her and fitted her out as a tender. He put his second lieutenant
James Gordon in command and gave him a crew of seven men and two boys. Shortly thereafter, a French privateer of one gun and 60 men captured Gordon and his sloop. The privateer took her prize into a small port near
Aux Cayes. There they found another sloop, with a cargo of salt, that
Bordelais captured the night before, and that the French had already recaptured, together with her prize crew of a midshipman and four men. The port was under the control of the Haitian government of
Toussaint Louverture, which threw the crew of the privateer into prison. The men from
Bordelais spent four months in prison but were well treated, with Gordon and the midshipman being permitted to move freely on parole. Eventually all were released to a
cartel under the command of Captain Kelpoisson, the commander of the port of Aux Cayes, and the only Frenchman in a position of authority. The British arrived at Port Royal (except for one man who had died), where they found out that the war was over. They returned to
Bordelais, where Gordon was able to sit down in the officers' mess before any of his fellow officers even knew that he had returned. On 23 October Barrie replaced Manby. This was a temporary appointment as Barrie was still a lieutenant.
Bourdelais arrived in Portsmouth on 18 January 1802 at the same time as Barrie's promotion to commander was announced. Then on 29 April 1802 Captain John Hayes replaced Barrie. One source has Commander Barrie as captain of
Bourdelais in July 1802, but this seems to be in error. ==Fate==