[1] The ship Charles Mary Wentworth launched privateering in Nova Scotia during the Napoleonic Wars.

[4] Charles Mary Wentworth was bigger than most colonial privateer schooners, although still a relatively small warship at only 130 tons.

However she was heavily armed with 16 carriage guns, and carried a crew of 80 men provisioned for up to six months of cruising.

The Spanish brig Nostra Seignora del Carmen was steered into Liverpool with a cargo valued at over £10,000.

[6] Wentworth's success led within a few months to the commissioning of six other privateer vessels at Liverpool as well as one from nearby Shelburne, and four more from Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Several of these new Nova Scotian privateers were in fact French and Spanish prizes to Wentworth that were now turned against their former owners.