She became a privateer sailing out of Guernsey and captured at least three vessels trading between the United States and France.

Two sources state that she was the American warship USS Argus, which HMS Pelican captured on 14 August 1813,[3][4] but that is highly improbable.

One, from Newburyport, Massachusetts, was a schooner of 275 tons (bm), but there is nothing beyond her name and size that would suggest that she might have become Vittoria.

Vittoria, David de Putron, master, received a protection on 30 September.

The same source that stated that Vittoria had been the American sloop USS Argus, reported that the Vittoria privateer, of Guernsey, had taken the Baltimore letter of marque schooner Eliza, of 272 tons (bm), five guns, and 38 men.