[1] Captain H. Wilson reported that the French naval felucca Entreprenante (or Entreprenant), Lieutenant Pierre Bouvet, captured Margaret on 9 February 1808.

The felucca initiated the chase the day before at point about 63 miles SSW of Bombay as Margaret was bound for Basra.

[9][10] The French immediately put their captives on Entreprenant, and took over Margaret (or Marguerite), which they then sailed to Île de France.

The British Library gives Margaret's origin as Chittagong, her managing owners as Downie & Maitland, and her burthen as 250 tons, but her master as Benjamin Fergusson.

The other sources, which are not entirely independent of each other, give her owner and master as Benjamin Fergusson, her origin as Calcutta, and her burthen as 275 tons.