From June 1809, she was stationed with the 16-gun and the 38-gun . In September, she sailed with
Renommée,
Loire, and
Seine to
Guadeloupe. On 13 December, she and
Renommée captured . On 15 December 1809,
Clorinde ran aground, and freed herself by dropping guns and ammunition overboard. She took part in the
action of 20 May 1811, fought off Madagascar, and returned to Brest. Captain
Jacques Saint-Cricq was found guilty of failing to properly support his commodore. Saint-Cricq was demoted of rank, expelled from the
Legion of Honour, and sentenced to three years in prison. On 6 December 1813,
Clorinde captured the British merchant vessel in the Atlantic Ocean ().
Lusitania, Johnston, master, had been sailing from London to Suriname.
Clorinde then put the crews of four other vessels that she had captured aboard
Lusitania and sent her into Plymouth. The other four were: • , of 473 tons (
bm), Barr, master, which had been sailing from London to Bermuda; • , of 426 tons (bm), P. Inglis, master, which had been sailing from London to Martinique; •
Aurora, Scheidt, master, which had been sailing to
Amelia Island; and, •
Superb, R. Roberts, of 130 tons (bm), which had been sailing from Gibraltar to England.
Clorinde abandoned
Blenden Hall at sea, where the Falmouth packet
Eliza, homeward bound from Malta, found her floating. brought
Blenden Hall into Plymouth. They arrived on 19 December, on the same day as
Lusitania. On 18 February 1814
Clorinde captured the
Post Office Packet Service packet , Captain James Cock, at . Although Captain
Denis Lagarde, flew Portuguese colours in an attempt to trick Cock, Cock surmised that the frigate was French, not Portuguese, and threw his mails overboard before the Frenchmen boarded
Townshend.
Clorinde sank
Townshend. On 25 February 1814, at , the 38-gun chased
Clorinde. A violent fight ensued for two hours and 20 minutes that left both ships dismasted,
Eurotas suffering 20 killed and 30 wounded (including Captain
John Phillimore), and
Clorinde, 40 killed and 80 wounded. During the night, the ships built
jury rigs and resumed the pursuit the next day, when and intervened. The helpless
Clorinde struck after the first cannon shot from
Dryad, which towed
Clorinde into
Portsmouth. ==British frigate==