[5] Two sources report that she was under the command of Lieutenant Peter Rigby when she was wrecked at near Saint-Malo on 9 November 1801.

A gale on 2 November 1801 had driven Friendship, Lieutenant Ashley, out to sea from Guernsey Roads.

When she hadn't been heard from for several weeks it was supposed that she had been lost and Ashley's family went into deep mourning.

The local French Commandant marched them some two miles inland where they were held for ten days in a barn with plenty of straw for bedding.

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