Sappho first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in the supplementary pages to the 1805 issue.

Captain Edmond Smith, of Sappo, acquired a letter of marque on 26 November 1807.

[1] In February 1808 Lloyd's List reported that the privateer Sappho had detained and sent into Cowes Mary, Babbidge, master, which had been on a voyage from Virginia to Amsterdam.

They also captured and destroyed two other British merchant vessels, Sarah King and Windham.

The French put the crews on Sofia, Delaney, master, of and for New York, which brought them into Plymouth on 26 March.