 She then was reclassified in March 1757 as an unrated tender.On 16 April 1757, she sailed to North America from the Cove of Cork along with a fleet commanded by Vice-Admiral Francis Holburne, for Halifax in Canada.There she was left behind with several other ships - the "Windsor", the "Arc-En-Ciel", the "Nightingale", the "Speedwell" and the bomb-vessel "Grenado" - to defend the city of Halifax, as a fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Holburne left to reconnoitre Louisbourg.