A week after her capture,
Lottery convoyed several prizes to Bermuda. There the Royal Navy took her into service as HMS
Canso under the command of Lieutenant Wentworth P. Croke, who assumed command on 28 February. (He would remain her commander until she was sold. On 12 May
Canso and arrived in
Halifax, Nova Scotia with the mail from Bermuda and five vessels that they were convoying. On 11 September
Canso captured the ship
Massachusetts. Then on 13 November
Canso was among several vessels that grounded in a hurricane at Halifax. Most, including
Canso, suffered no material injury and were quickly got off. On 11 May 1814,
Canso recaptured the brig
Traveller, of Leith.
Traveller, Bishop, master, had been sailing from North Bergen to Gibraltar when the American privateer had captured her. On 30 May
Traveller was off Portsmouth. In the second half of the year
Canso was part of a squadron that operated in the Chesapeake. There, between 17 and 19 July vessels of the squadron captured the schooners
Buzi and
Margaret, with cargoes of flour, tobacco, tar, and clothing. On 23 July they captured the schooner
Unity, including 176
hogsheads of tobacco. On 4 September the brig
Charlotte arrived at Halifax. She had been sailing from Antigua to
Greenock or
Port Glasgow when on 31 August the US privateer
Mammoth captured her.
Canso recaptured
Charlotte, but the US privateer
Grand Turk recaptured her for the Americans. Then re-captured
Charlotte for the last time and sent her in to Halifax. Between 29 November and 19 December 1814, captured the schooner
Mary and the transports
Lloyd and
Abeona. The squadron, under the command of
Admiral George Cockburn, then sailed south to
St. Marys, Georgia, where they attacked Fort Peter, a small fort protecting the town. Point Peter is located at the mouth of Point Peter Creek and the
St. Marys River. The
battle of Fort Peter occurred in January 1815, after the signing of the
Treaty of Ghent, which would end the
War of 1812, but before the treaty's ratification. The attack on Fort Peter occurred at the same time as the
siege of Fort St. Philip in
Louisiana and was part of the British occupation of St. Marys and Cumberland Island. At Fort Peter on 13 January the British captured two American gunboats and 12 merchantmen, including the
East Indiaman Countess of Harcourt, which an American privateer had captured on her way from India to London. Prize money for the
Countess of Harcourt, the bark
Maria Theresa, goods from the ship
Carl Gustaff, and the schooner
Cooler, was paid in April 1824. On 31 January the squadron captured
St. Simons, Georgia, and the schooner
Reserve. Off
Amelia Island on 10 and 12 February the squadron captured the ships
Maria Francisca and
Governor Kindeland. Lastly, two days later they captured the brig
Fortuna, Jansen, master, also off Amelia Island.
Canso recaptured the British ship off
Abacco on 9 March. ==Post-war and fate==