The acting commander after Creutz' sudden demise, Admiral Claes Uggla, was surrounded and his flagship Svärdet battered in a drawn-out artillery duel, eventually being set ablaze by a fireship.
She was used for harbour service from 1819, renamed HMS Veteran (fireship) in 1839 and broken up in 1852.
On the night of 11 April 1809 Captain Thomas Cochrane led a British fireship attack against a powerful squadron of French ships anchored in the Basque Roads.
On 18 April 1672 Wrenn was appointed commander of the Hopewell fireship, and in the following year of the Rose dogger.