In 1811, Nymphe was assigned to a frigate division under Joseph-François Raoul, along with Méduse, tasked to support Java. On 2 September, the frigates arrived at Surabaya, tailed by the 32-gun frigate HMS Bucephalus. On the 4th, another British ship,, joined the chase, but lost contact on the 8th. On the 12th, Méduse and Nymphe chased the Bucephalus, which escaped and broke contact the next day. The squadron was back in Brest on 22 December 1811.
She then served in the Atlantic.
Between 27 and 29 December 1814, the French frigates Nymphe and captured a number of British merchant ships at 16°N -39°W. The vessels captured were, Dalley, master, Lady Caroline Barham, Boyce, master, and Potsdam, Cummings, master, all three coming from London and bound to Jamaica; Flora, Ireland, master, from London to Martinique; Brazil Packet, from Madeira to ; and Rosario and Thetis, from Cape Verde. The French burnt all the vessels they captured, except Prince George. They put their prisoners into her and sent her off as a cartel to Barbados, which she reached on 10 January 1815.[1]
Between 1814 and 1824, she was decommissioned in Penfeld, only undertaking a refit in 1822.
On 26 March 1824, she was recommissioned with the crew of and sent to the Caribbean station, and later Brazil.
From 1832, she was used as a hulk, and was eventually broken up in 1873.