On 13 March 1795 she captured the French corvette . "Lively" sighted three vessels and headed for the larger one, which tacked to meet her. After three hours of exchanging fire the French vessel was so disabled that she struck. She turned out to be the 28-gun corvette "Tourterelle", under the command of Lieutenant Antoine Marie François Montalan. She had lost 16 men killed and 25 wounded; "Lively" had only two men wounded. The British took "Tourterelle" into service as HMS "Tourterelle". The Admiralty would recognize the action in 1847 with the award of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Lively 13 March 1795". "Lively" also captured the other two vessels that "Tourterelle" had been escorting. They had been prizes to "Espion".