Commander Thomas Hanbury took command of
Hazard on 11 October 1749 and commissioned her for the Channel. On 22 February 1751 she was ordered to Portsmouth to have her lower masts shortened by . Between 1751 and 1753 she served in the Irish Sea. On 31 January 1753 she was paid off. On 5 March 1753 Commander Hanbury was accused of several 'Iregularites' and was dismissed, not to be employed until enquired at by court martial. Commander
Thomas Graves took command of
Hazard on 12 March 1754. When hostilities with France increased in 1755,
Hazard was among the vessels ordered to Brest to look for the French grand fleet under Admiral Macnamara. Graves had the good fortune to encounter the fleet as it was returning to Brest. He twice sailed across their line, counting the vessels. He was able to transmit the valuable information to
Lord Anson, who promoted Graves to
post captain on 8 July 1755. On 10 July 1755 Commander James Hackman replaced Graves in command of
Hazard. On 1 September 1756
Hazard captured the privateer
snow Subtile off Lowestoff.
Subtile was armed with 12 guns and had a crew of 86 men under the command of Jean Baptiste Tate. During the six-hour engagement
Subtile twice tried to board
Hazard, but was repulsed. After she struck off Winterton her crew were taken ashore the next day and lodged in the local jail. Fourteen managed to tunnel out, but one man got stuck and his cries for help alerted the guards who succeeded in recapturing four men. The navy took
Subtile into service as , but sold the 99-ton sloop in 1759. On 4 February 1757
Hazard captured the privateer
Saint Thomas.
St Thomas, of Dieppe, was armed with six guns and six swivel guns.
Hazard brought her into Portsmouth. On 3 May 1758 Hackman paid off
Hazard.
Samuel Granston Goodall was promoted to Commander on 2 June 1760 and given command of
Hazard. On 7 August he sent in his boats and capture the French
privateer ''Duc d'Ayen
while she was at anchor off Egersund, Norway. Duc d'Ayen
was a dogger armed with seven 4-pounders and had a crew of 65 men. Hazard'' brought her into Shields. Her capture was alleged to have been in violation of
Denmark's neutrality, and Goodall became involved in a lengthy correspondence on the subject. Goodall commanded
Hazard in the convoy that brought Princess
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz to England in August 1761 for her wedding to King
George III. Then Goodall was sent out to the
West Indies where on 3 (or 13) January 1762 he was promoted to the rank of
post captain. Commander The Hon. Henry St John assumed command on 28 January 1762. On 15 August
Hazard captured the French privateer
cutter Savage (or
Sauvage). She was armed with four swivel guns and had a crew of 15 men. She was four days out of Dunkirk and had captured the sloop
Robert, of Ipswich, John Hunt, master.
Hazard recaptured
Robert too.
Savage proved so leaky that St John burnt her.
Hazard shared the head money for the destruction of
Savage with the sloop and the armed cutters
Lyon and
Lurcher. The same four vessels also shared the prize money for the hull and head money for
San Souci. Commander St John left
Hazard on 31 August. His replacement was Commander Dennis Every. Every paid
Hazard on 22 December 1762. The navy had
Hazard surveyed on 25 February 1763. Commander William Webster took command on 19 May and recommissioned her. On 24 October 1766 Commander Thomas Pemble replaced Webster. He commanded until 26 October 1769, when Commander James Orrok replaced him. He recommissioned her in May 1770. In 1771 she served on the east coast of Scotland. On 28 October 1772 Commander
John Ford replaced Orrok. On 23 June 1773
Hazard participated in the Spithead Review. On 25 June
King George directed that the commanders of
Hazard, , and be promoted to captain. However, Commander Ford continued to command
Hazard as a commander until 24 November 1775, during which time she continued to serve on Scotland's east coast. Commander James Orrok returned to
Hazard as a replacement for Ford. On 20 November 1777 Commander Alexander Agnew replace Orrock, and on 1 February 1779 Commander George Ann Pluteney replaced Agnew. Commander
Edward Pellew was
Hazards last commander. He took command on 1 July 1780.
Hazard was paid off on 24 January 1781. The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered the sloop
Hazard, of 140 tons, for sale on 11 February 1783 at Sheerness. She sold on that day for £200. ==
Joseph: Merchantman==