On 6 November 1810 Decoy, recaptured Lord Boringdon,[2] which was an old, 194 ton (bm), Danish-built vessel that normally sailed between Plymouth and Lisbon.

[5] A week or so later two fishing boats and HMS Kangaroo also brought in similar bales of cotton.

On 26 July 1811, Decoy and Pigmy ran a French privateer lugger on shore between Gravelines and Dunkirk, and destroyed her.

[11] On 13 May 1812 a French row boat privateer, of 29 men, prize to Decoy, arrived at Dover.

[12] Decoy was at Portsmouth on 31 July 1812 when the British authorities seized the American ships there and at Spithead on the outbreak of the War of 1812.

[b] On 11 September 1812 HMS Bermuda captured the French privateer lugger Bon Genie, that the cutters Pioneer and Dwarf were chasing.

A party of French soldiers approached and opened fire with small arms, wounding a seaman on Decoy.

A larger party of soldiers arrived under a flag of truce and offered good terms of surrender so Pearce struck.

Lastly, it ordered the two pilots to lose all pay due them and sentenced one to six months in the Marshalsea Prison.