A French privateer captured and burnt her in a notable incident that violated the neutrality of the United States.

[1] Captain Jonathon Storey loaded Oracabissa with sugar and rum at Jamaica and in early October sailed for England.

[2] On 17 October 1797 a French privateer believed to be Vortitude (or Vertitude or Fortitude), commanded by a Captain Jourdain and belonging to Cape Francois, captured and burnt Oracabessa within the bar of Charleston Harbour, in violation of the United States's neutrality.

Pinckney stated that he had dispatched the cutter USRC South Carolina to the scene, but that by the time she arrived Oracabessa had burnt and the privateer had fled.

[3][4][a] Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 15 December 1797 that a French privateer had burnt Orracabeza, Storey, master, off Charleston.