1847 the Admiralty authorized the issuance of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Basque Roads 1809" to all surviving British participants in the battle. On 13 April Whiting sailed for Portugal. For the next few years she sailed in the Channel, to the west, and to the coast of Spain going as far as Cadiz and Gibraltar. Wildey was promoted to Commander on 3 May 1810. Whiting sent Mountaineer, Dow, master, into Plymouth, where she arrived on 6 July 1811. Mountaineer had been sailing from London to Honduras when she ran into Whiting off Dungeness, carrying away her main mast, and for and mizzen topmast. On 20 December 1811 Whiting left Plymouth for Padstow, to assist the gun brig , which had run on shore near there. In 1812 Lieutenant Lewis Maxey assumed command of Whiting. On 1 May he sailed for the Americas. War of 1812 Whiting did not survive the opening months of the War of 1812. Having sailed from Plymouth, she entered Hampton Roads on 8 July 1812 with despatches for the American government, and lowered her anchor. Unfortunately war had been declared about two weeks earlier. As Maxey was being rowed ashore, the Norfolk privateer Dash, under Captain Garroway, was leaving port and captured her. Dash had one large gun on a pivot and a crew of 80. Not only were a third of Whitings crew in her boat, the rest were not at the guns as they were unaware that Britain and the United States were now at war.{{efn|Later in 1812 and Variable captured Dash.<ref>Lloyd's List> 29 December 1812, №4732.</ref>}} This could have been the first naval capture of the war. However, Whiting was carrying official dispatches for the American government, which ordered her release. Instead, the first capture by either side was the British capture of on 16 July. In mid-August, the US Revenue Cutter led Whiting out to the Hampton Roads and turned over to Maxey her crew "at the place where they were taken". The Americans then ordered Maxey to quit American waters with all possible speed. Fate Shortly after Whiting left Hampton Roads for England, on 22 August the French 18-gun privateer brig Diligent, under Alexis Grassin, captured her. On 8 September Diligent would capture the 10-gun schooner . Post-script On 21 July came into the Chesapeake, not aware that war had broken out. The privateer took possession of Bloodhound.