In 1810 she was under the command of Jacques François Perroud, a notable French captain with a long history of privateering.

On 25 January 1810 the privateer Phoenix, of 20 guns and 110 men, belonging to Bordeaux, captured Donna Maria, Lunes, master, which had been sailing from Boston to Lisbon.

[10] On 13 March, the English ship Chatham, which had sailed from Georgia with a cargo of rice and cotton, arrived at Paimbœuf.

Captain Wolfe, of Aigle, was fulsome in his praise of Phoenix, her master, and crew.

[12] Phoenix had on 24 August captured the American bark Agenoria, which had been sailing from New Orleans to Liverpool with a cargo of cotton,[6] but HMS Manilla had recaptured her.

[12] Phoenix had also captured, on 14 August, the English brig Unity, which had been carrying a cargo of fish from Newfoundland to Lisbon.

[14] However, Captain R. Murray took command in 1815 while Phoenix was in the Australia and New Zealand grounds after Parker broke a leg.

[19] William Dalton signed on to Phoenix as a doctor a year after qualifying in medicine, and shortly before she sailed in February 1823.

[b] In April 1825 Captain Reed transferred to Phoenix from Frances, which had rescued him and his crew after Mary had wrecked in January.

Then James Colvin reported at Honolulu that Phoenix had been lost at Mounts Bay.

[3] One of her crew was Robert Clark Morgan, who rose through the ranks to become a captain of a whaling ship.