but only mounting one 18-pounder, a schooner pierced for 12 guns, a French 4-gun privateer, and three Spanish privateers of one gun each. The party also burnt at least six smaller coasting vessels after having removed their cargoes. Total British casualties amounted to one man badly wounded. On 2 September Flying Fish, Stork, Superieure, and Pike destroyed two privateers, names unknown, on the Jamaica station. One was a felucca of five guns. Between 1 January 1806 and 1 January 1807, Pike, in company with Shark, Superieure and Flying Fish captured a French felucca of one gun. Whether or not it was one of the above vessels is unclear. Capture and recapture On 10 March 1807, Pike, still under Otley's command, was sailing from Jamaica to Curaçao when she encountered a French schooner that fired on her but then sheered off. The next day another schooner approached, fired on Pike, and then drew off to join the first schooner. Pike endeavored to escape, but by 17 March the larger of the two French vessels commenced to gain. At daybreak on 18 March the larger French schooner caught up with Pike off Altavella (the eastern point of the island of Santo Domingo). In the 45-minute engagement that followed, Pike lost one man killed and five wounded out of her crew of about 20. Some of her crew, who were new, left their stations during the engagement and had to be driven back to their stations. With his rigging in pieces, damage to his gaff and masts and yards, and the second French schooner approaching, Otley struck Pikes colours. The French privateer that captured Pike was either Impérial, or the French 16-gun privateer Marat, or Murat. The court martial board ruled that Otley could have better managed the encounter and warned him to be more circumspect in the future. It did recognize that his crew was raw. In September 1808 the Cruizer-class brig-sloop , under Commander Alexander Gordon, recaptured Pike. She was commissioned in Jamaica under the command of Lieutenant Joel Orchard. (Orchard had been captured in 1805 by the Spanish after his ship , Pikes sister ship, was wrecked.) On 6 July 1809 Pike was one of the vessels that made up the blockade of the city of Santo Domingo and she, and Fleur-de-Mer, were present at its surrender. Fate Although one source reports that Pike foundered in August 1809, Hepper, the