[2] On the morning of 13 March 1804, Fort Diamond sailed around the Pearl Rock to attack a French privateer schooner.

[2] Forest's tactic was simply to run Fort Diamond into the privateer at a rate of about nine knots.

As Fort Diamond bore down on them, the schooner's crew fired a broadside and discharged some small arms before all 50 or 60 crewmen jumped overboard and swam ashore.

On the evening of 23 June 1804, whilst the Fort Diamond was on a provisioning expedition at Roseau Bay, St. Lucia, a French boarding party from a schooner captured her.

[1] Fort Diamond's commander, Acting Lieutenant Benjamin Westcott, was on deck where he was fishing from her stern.

When the boats let loose with small-arms fire he ran below to get a weapon as all the arms were stowed below, there being no chest on deck.