The British were able to capture their quarry, which turned out to be the lugger Point du Jour, of Roscow (Roscoff).
"[8] On 30 December Sandwich was under the command of Lieutenant Atkins when she encountered a French privateer lugger off the Île de Batz.
On 5 March 1810 Lieutenant William Edmund Drake assumed command of Sandwich on the Jersey station.
[10] On 17 October 1810, HMS Revenge captured the French privateer Vengeur, a lugger from Dieppe with 78 men and 16 guns, off Cherbourg.
[16] North Star, of St Mary's, Peterson, master, had been off the Eddystone on 13 February when the French privateer Petit Jean, of Dieppe, had captured her.
[20] Courageux, Jean-Baptiste Sauveur, master, was a privateer from Saint-Malo armed with two guns and carried a crew of 24 men.
[22] On 21 July, HMS Sealark captured the 113-tonne French lugger Ville de Caen, of sixteen 4- or 6-pounder guns and 75 men, under Jean-Marie Cochet,[23] in a sanguinary engagement that earned her crew the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Sealark 21 July 1812".
Lieutenant Thomas Warrand, commander of Sealark, reported that Ville de Caen had repulsed the lugger Sandwich some time earlier.
[26] Later that year Sandwich captured a number of other merchant vessels: Marie Charlotte (29 May), Jeune Victoire (9 June), Adelle (17 July), and Lydia (18 September).
[27] Lydia was apparently a privateer and one of the prize money notices for her referenced the "peculiar circumstances attending her capture".
On 27 December 1813, off the coast of France, she had repulsed an attack by two well-armed and well-manned French naval luggers.
[10] On 24 March Sandwich, under the command of Lieutenant Henry Jewry, captured the French sloop Isabella.