"Terrible" took part in the Battle of Toulon on 22 February 1744, as the flagship of "Capitaine de Vaisseau" Charles-Élisée Court de la Bruyère. On 17 October 1746 she captured the British 50-gun in the English Channel. She served with the French fleet at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, under "Chef d'Escadre" Henri-François des Herbiers, Marquis de l'Étenduère, on 25 October 1747, and was one of the French ships captured by the British fleet, under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke.