cut out a French brig anchored near the shore. At about 9pm Scorpion spotted the 16-gun clearing the north point of the bay. Stanfell set off in pursuit. During the chase Scorpions crew had to use her sweeps before she could close with Oreste at about 11:30pm. The action lasted for two to two-and-a-half hours, with Scorpion exposed to fire from the shore, before Oreste, which had been dismasted, struck her colours at 1:30am on 12 January. At this point a barge from Blonde arrived and assisted in the capture. Scorpion had four men wounded during the action; the French losses were two killed and ten wounded, including her captain. Oreste was armed with fourteen 24-pounder carronades and two long 12-pounders and carried a crew of 110 men. She had sailed from Bordeaux for Guadeloupe on 18 November 1809. She was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Monnier and was bound for France with a lieutenant-colonel and two other army officers and the captains and other officers from two French frigates as passengers. In addition to Blonde, and also shared in the prize money by agreement. Oreste was a new vessel so the Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Wellington. However, the Navy never commissioned Wellington and she was broken up in 1812. In 1847 the Admiralty issued the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Scorpion 12 Jany. 1810" to the surviving claimants from the action. Guadeloupe Scorpion took part in the attack on Guadeloupe at the end of January 1810. Stanfell and a detachment of seamen served ashore with the 2nd division of the army under Brigadier General Harcourt. The French capitulated on 6 February and Scorpion then left for England on 10 February with Admiral Alexander Cochrane’s dispatches; Stanfell arrived at the Admiralty Office on 15 March. In 1847 the Admiralty issued the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Guadaloupe". Late career Commander the Honorable John Gore took command in April 1810 and returned Scorpion to the Leeward Islands. While she was sailing to the windward of Martinique, she encountered a heavy squall. The squall broke some of her masts and swept three seamen overboard. Gore saw them struggling and jumped into the sea to rescue them. He succeeded in rescuing two; the third man was exhausted from battling the waves and drowned. Ironically, Gore drowned on 18 February 1812, off the coast of Africa.