A French privateer captured her at the end of October 1811 in "a spirited but ineffectual" single ship action.

[2] On 17 June 1810, Chesterfield rescued five boys who were in a small boat that was drifting towards the rocks off Guernsey.

When they set out to return their boat was unable to handle the currents, which were carrying them towards rocks.

She was armed with 14 guns and had a crew of 61 men under the command of Captain Alexandre William Black.

Beaver, Beveridge, master, had been sailing from Mogador to London when she was captured on 1 March.

[8] French sources report that the English vessel Peavert, of 130 tons (bm), arrived in Cherbourg in March.

The schooner Arrow later drove Eliza ashore on the French coast, where she was destroyed.