 At that time she was listed as having 20 guns and a complement of 150 men.While on station, pretending to be a merchant ship, she lured two Spanish privateers to chase her; when they realised their mistake they took off in opposite directions, but "Winchelsea" captured one of them, a small brig with a crew of 46, which she carried to Gibraltar.She returned to Britain from the Mediterranean at the end of 1742, taking eight days to make the passage.