 In October 1811 Beaufort removed property from a "pirate boat", and on 3 December "Frederickstein" captured the polacca "Teresina".An attack on the crew of his boat (at Ayas, near Adana), by Turks interrupted his work and on 20 June 1812 he received a near-fatal bullet wound in the hip.Beaufort sailed her back to England as a convoy escort.