On 29 December captured the French privateer brig Aventurier (or Avanture). Avanturier, out of Lorient, was armed with 14 guns and had a crew of 75 men. One month earlier, on 29 November, Aventurier had captured the American ship Cato and taken her master, John Parker, and his crew prisoner. When Amethyst captured Aventurier Cooke freed the Americans and informed Parker that Cato had been sent to Cork. Cooke sent Aventurier into Plymouth from where Parker and his mate traveled to Cork. Before she was captured, Aventurier, of L'Orient, had also captured an English ship coming from Newfoundland with a cargo of cod, oil, and fish. Aventurier sent her prize into Corunna.
