Bordelais (or Bourdolaise, or Bourdelais, or Bordolois), launched in 1799, was a privateer corvette from Bordeaux, France.

At the beginning of June Bordelais left Pasajes in company with Grand Décidé and Courageaux.

On 6 October 1799 Bordelais, under the command of Captain Joseph Moreau, detained and took into Bayonne the American vessel Victory, Robert Hatton, master.

Twysden, in an attempt to interest the Admiralty in purchasing her, described Bordelais as "a most beautiful new Ship, well calculated for His Majesty's Service; was the largest, and esteemed the fastest sailing Privateer out of France.

She proved unsuited to the task, being long, narrow, and low in the water, and consequently so wet her crew sickened.

[12] In December Manby sailed Bordelais for the Jamaica Station, in company with Andromache as escorts to a large convoy.

A gale dispersed the convoy near Cape Finisterre and Bordelais was sent to the west of Barbados to look for stragglers.

[12] The French privateer Mouche had captured Aurora, Redman, master, as she was near the Western Islands.

Mandby then turned Bordelais and engaged the larger of the brigs at a range of ten yards.

Victor "Hughes", governor of Cayenne, had dispatched the three vessels some 28 days earlier to intercept the outward-bound West Indies merchant fleet.

Dealing with the situation, securing 120 French prisoners, and repairing sails and rigging delayed Bordelais until 8p.m.

The cannon fire from the Spanish defences did so much damage to Bordelais that she had to return to Port Royal for repairs.

He put his second lieutenant James Gordon in command and gave him a crew of seven men and two boys.

There they found another sloop, with a cargo of salt, that Bordelais captured the night before, and that the French had already recaptured, together with her prize crew of a midshipman and four men.

[18] The port was under the control of the Haitian government of Toussaint Louverture, which threw the crew of the privateer into prison.

The men from Bordelais spent four months in prison but were well treated, with Gordon and the midshipman being permitted to move freely on parole.