As a privateer, the extra men above the number required to sail her where there to act as prize crews on any vessels she would capture.

[2][3] General Doyle, formerly under the command of Captain William Tardiff, was offered for sale on 18 September 1806.

[8] The Gazette de Guernesey carried the advertisement: "General Doyle packet, built 1803, copper fastened, 83 tons.

The hull to be sold December, 1809 in consequence of a late Post Office regulation not allowing clinker built vessels to be employed in the service on account of the Smuggling Act.

Apply Captain Pipon, Weymouth, Francis Janvrin of Jersey, or Messrs. Cary and Macullock of Guernsey".

[9] In August 1814, Lloyd's List reported that the United States privateer Neuchatel had captured General Doyle and burnt her, after taking out the most valuable part of her cargo.