In 1797 Captain Benjamin Hallowell assumed command. On 29 May, during the battle for Santa Cruz, Lieutenant Thomas Hardy led a cutting out party using boats from and "Lively" to capture the French 16-gun corvette . The cutting out party boarded and captured the vessel; they then sailed her out of the port to the British fleet under heavy fire from shore and naval guns. Hardy was wounded during the action, as were 14 of the other British officers and men in the cutting out party. The British subsequently commissioned "Mutine" under her existing name with Hardy as commander. In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the issuance of the NGSM with clasp "29 May Boat Service 1797" to the three surviving claimants from "Lively" and "Minerve".