However the gun-brig HMS Sharp Shooter and the hired armed cutter Britannia recaptured Patent and sent her into Plymouth.

[4] A fuller account from Plymouth dated 11 February reports that a French privateer had captured Patent, Smale late master, as she was returning from New Providence with logwood.

[5][a] Between 21 February 1812 and 17 May, a three-vessel French squadron consisting of the frigates Ariane and Andromaque, and the brig Mameluck engaged in commerce raiding in the Atlantic.

[7] Returning to Lorient, the squadron met the British 74-gun ship-of-the-line HMS Northumberland, Captain Henry Hotham.

On 14 September, Patent was near Bermuda when her mate and a boat crew took possession of Hannibal, Hunt, master, which was sailing to America from Java.

[8] Patent, Ward, master, was driven ashore on 17 October 1819 on the coast of Lincolnshire and severely damaged.