Carrier shared with Active, Earnest, Gripper, Mariner, and Minx in the proceeds from the recapture of Francis, Tucker, master, and Betsey on 14 and 15 September.
[4] Nine days later, Carrier recaptured and sent into Yarmouth Courier, which had been sailing from Memel to Hull when the French privateer Revenge had captured her on the 27th.
[6] Ragotin, under the command of Jaques Jappie, carried eight guns, which she had thrown overboard during the chase, and a crew of 29 men.
[10][b] Two days later Carrier was still in company with Crescent when they captured Swedish brig Christiana Elizabeth, Louis Raberg, Master.
[14] Then on 11 September Carrier brought to the Admiralty the despatches from Admiral Thomas McNamara Russell announcing the capitulation of the island of Heligoland to the British.
On 14 November, off Cromer, Carrier was under the command of Acting Lieutenant William Milne when she captured a French cutter-rigged privateer.
[16] Milne had steered towards what he thought was a fishing boat from which he wished to ask about how far they were from land, but when he got close she hoisted French colours and opened fire.
Actif had left Dunkirk three weeks earlier and had captured two vessels, a galiot that Sybille recaptured, and the Lord Keith, an English sloop.
The best account, based on court martial records, reports that on 24 January 1808 Carrier grounded off Étaples, on the coast of France.
[21] Lieutenant Edward Southcott, commander of the hired armed cutter Princess of Wales captured Anacreon on 11 December 1811, off the Dogger Bank.