Lastly, she made a third cruise that resulted in a French privateer capturing her, the Royal Navy recapturing her, and her being wrecked in a hurricane.

Young Nicholas entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1798 with D. Ferris, master, Prinsep & Co., owners, and trade London-Cape of Good Hope.

[7] However, in early 1800 Messrs. Walker and Peters purchased 367 bags of Java coffee and one case of gum Benjamin at a prize court sale of the cargo of the Danish ship Christianus Septimus.

[11] However, Henry James Jessup, Chief Searcher of His Majesty's Customs at the Cape, on the advice of Peter Mosse, Advocate, requested that W.S.

van Ryneveld, the King's Fiscal, detain Young Nicholas and seize the cargo that had come from Christianus Septimus.

[13] Next, Young Nicholas was one of 28 vessels that left England between December 1800 and February 1801 to bring back rice from the Cape of Good Hope or beyond.

[3] The government took up Young Nicholas at the Cape in early November 1802 to transport 160 to 170 tons of cannon and some officers and 250 invalids to Spithead.

In June 1803, after the resumption of war with France, Young Nicholas became a privateer,[2] with Captain John Cunditt acquiring a letter of marque.

The ensuing engagement lasted an hour and a half before Young Nicholas struck after she had suffered four men killed.

Young Nicholas was to sail to Honduras to gather mahogany, 60 tons of dye wood, and logwood or fustic.

[19] Lloyd's List reported about a month later that Young Nicholas, Henry, master, had put into Savannah in distress.

[24] When Young William came in to St Kitts as a prize, the Vice admiralty court ordered her sold, together with her cargo.

The court agreed with the plaintiff, Hunter, that as the cargo had not arrived in England no freight was due and so Prinsep & Saunders were required to refund the charges.