The quarry was the privateer Sorcier, of 14 guns and 60 men under the command of Guillaume Francoise Neele.

[5] On 19 April 1806, 24 men from the hired armed brig Colpoys and Attack, under Lieutenants Thomas Swain and Thomas Ussher, landed at the entrance of the River Doelan (Douillan), spiked two 12-pounder guns of a battery, captured two chasse-marées, and destroyed a signal post.

[6] In the course of 1806 Attack also chased on shore a convoy of merchantmen under the escort of two brigs and a lugger.

For nearly two years Lieutenant Swain was employed with a schooner under his orders in watching the Passage du Raz.

[8] Attack and Bold were among the vessels driven ashore near Yarmouth, Isle of Wight in a gale on 6 January 1811.

[10] In November 1811 Lieutenant Charles Walker was appointed to command Attack,[11] She was recommissioned that month.

In 1812 Lieutenant Richard Simmonds transferred from command of the prison ship HMS Glory.

In the evening Lieutenant Simmonds sighted a transport galiot, a sloop, and a privateer coming out of the harbour.

strong currents and light winds prevented Attack from reaching Wrangler, which soon disappeared from view.

After she had taken two men killed and 14 wounded and had her rigging destroyed and her hulled shot through in several places, Simmonds struck.

[15] The Danish flotilla had consisted of 14 gunvessels each armed with two 24-pounder guns and two howitzers; they had crews of 65–70 men.

The commander of the Danish gun boat flotilla based at Samsø was Jørgen Conrad de Falsen.