As she was returning to Saint-Malo, a sloop of the British Royal Navy captured her off Cape Finisterre in 1809; she was accidentally sunk shortly thereafter.

[7] A prize crew of 13 men under the command of Jean-Baptiste Graffin sailed Unicorn back to France.

[1] Caroline captured the ships Waldegrave and Commerce in the Indian Ocean, and Melville and Prince de Galles in the Gulf of Bengal,[9][b] teaming up with Perroud's Bellone and Henry's Henriette.

[1] On 28 December 1808, the British sloop HMS Eclair was returning to Britain from Corunna when she encountered and captured Caroline north of Cape Finisterre.

She brought Caroline, described as a "French Letter of Marque from the Isles of France to Bordeaux (with a valuable cargo)", to Plymouth,[12] where however, on Saturday, 14 January 1809, she was run down in the Catwater and sunk.