Return To British Service
Parker renamed Santa Cecilia the Retaliation. In late 1799 or early 1800, Retaliation captured four vessels. These were the two American brigs Gracey, sailing from bound to Baltimore with a cargo of sugar, honey, and hides, and the Peggy, sailing from Cartagena to New York with a cargo of sugar, coffee, cotton, fustick, and hides, and the Danish sloop Sisters, which was sailing from Jamaica to Baltimore with a cargo of sugar, and which had just left St Thomas.
The Admiralty then renamed her Retribution on 31 January 1800. She was recommissioned in September 1800 at Jamaica under Captain Samuel Forster. Apparently before that she detained an American schooner sailing from Port Republic with a cargo of coffee and logwood. On 1 October Melampus, Juno, and Retribution were in company when they captured the Aquila.
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