At 10am on 13 December 1804,
Princess Charlotte was west of
Cape Antonio when she sighted an unknown brig. After a chase of seven hours southward,
Princess Charlotte caught up with her quarry at Lat. 30° 50' N Long. 85° 32' W. The brig surrendered after her pursuer had fired four or five shots. The quarry was the French privateer
Regulus, out of
Guadaloupe. She was pierced for 14 guns but had only 11 on board, having thrown two overboard during the chase. She had a crew of 88 men under the command of Citizen Jacque Mathieu. Captain F.F. Gardner of
Princess Charlotte described
Regulus as "a very fine Vessel" that "sails remarkably well" and is "perfectly adapted for His Majesty's Service". The Royal Navy took her into service as , there being an already in service. The French corvettes and left Martinique on 29 September 1805 provisioned for a cruise of three months. was the senior officer of the pair.
Cyane was armed with twenty 6-pounder and two 4-pounder guns, and six 12-pounder carronades. She had a crew of 190 men under the command of
lieutenant de vaisseau Mesnard (Meynard). Mesnard "defended his Ship in a very gallant Manner", with the result that
Cyane had three men killed and nine wounded. The French fired high, attempting to damage
Princess Charlottes rigging; consequently she had only one man killed and six wounded, one of them mortally. In 1812,
Princess Charlotte was renamed '
HMS Andromache'''''. On 11 December 1812, together with the frigate ,
Andromache took the American
brig Leader from Boston bound for
Bordeaux, France with a cargo of fish, and then on 10 December the French privateer
San Souci from
St Malo.
San Souci of 14 guns, had a crew of 120 men.
San Souci arrived at Plymouth on 20 December. ''
Lloyd's List described her as being of 16 guns and having a crew of 70. It further reported that Andromache
and Briton
had chased Sans Souci
for 12 hours before catching her. San Souci
had been out six weeks and had captured two British vessels, Speculation
, which had been sailing from Cork to Lisbon, and the South Seas whaler . Sans Souci
had only captured Frederick
after an hour-long engagement in which Frederick
lost her mate killed, and had "Body" and three or four other crew severely wounded. Sans Souci
had on board the crew from Frederick''. On 17 December the two frigates captured the American brig
Columbia, loaded with coffee and sugar en route from
Philadelphia to Bordeaux then the brig
Stephen carrying cotton, potash and skins from
New York to Bordeaux, shortly followed by the brig
Exception on 20 December, underway from Philadelphia to Bordeaux loaded with cotton. The American ship
Mount Hope, which had been sailing from Georgetown to Cadiz when a French privateer captured her, arrived at Plymouth on 12 May 1813, after
Andromache recaptured her. A later account has the capture taking place on 5 May,
Mount Hopes voyage as starting in Charlestown, and her cargo as rice. Her captors were , rather than
Andromache, and and . On 23 October 1813
Andromache captured the French frigate after an engagement of only 15 minutes.
Trave, although a new vessel, had lost her masts in a storm and was sailing under jury-rigged masts and so unable to maneuver. She was armed with twenty-eight French
18-pounder long guns sixteen 18-pounder
carronades, and had a crew of 321 men, almost all Dutch. Before she
struck she had one man killed, and 28 men wounded, including her commander
capitaine de frégate Jacob Van Maren.
Andromache had little damage and only two men wounded. The Royal Navy took
Trave into service as the troopship
Trave. At the time of the capture the ketch was in sight, though it is not clear what she could have added had the engagement lasted longer. On 14 March 1813
Andromache captured the Baltimore
letter of marque , off Nantes.
Courier, of 251 tons (bm), was armed with six 12-pounder carronades and had a crew of 35 men under the command of Captain Robert Davis. She was sailing back to Baltimore from Nantes. Two weeks later, on 2 April, and
Andromache captured the American ship
Good Friends. The privateer
Cerberus was in sight. ==Post script to the war==