Most of the crew were rescued by the American sealer Nanina which was built and operated out of the whaling port city of Hudson, NY, and commanded by Captain Charles Barnard.
Realizing that he would require more provisions for the expanded number of passengers, Barnard and a few others went out in a party to hunt for meat on the nearby New Island.
During the same day, Barnard had received information that Congress had passed an embargo on all vessels in the United States's harbours and waters.
If the Collector of the port of New York was to receive official instructions from Washington, Barnard's voyage would not be allowed, which prompted him to go to Sandy Hook until the 12th.
When the entire crew had arrived, Nanina departed and headed towards Cape de Verd Islands to gather salt for curing the seal skins and water.
The crew consisted of Valentine Barnard (Charles Barnard's father), Edmund Fanning, Bazilla Pease, Henry Ingham, mate; John Wines, carpenter; Havens Tenant, Jacob Green, Henry Gilchrist, Andrew Lott, William Seaman, steward; and John Spear, cook.
Nanina arrived at Bonavista Island after sailing for 35 days, and gathered salt, resupplied the hold, and brought a large supply of hogs, goats, fowls, and vegetables.
While at anchor during the month of April in Fox Bay, on the Southeast side of the English maloon, Barnard and the crew saw heavy columns of smoke rising in the direction of the Anacan Islands.
At first, Barnard suspected them to be fires from Spaniards possibly from Buenos Ayres, on one of the Anacans, but upon further thinking, decided that it was most likely light by shipwrecked mariners using it as a signal of distress.