Cossack was launched in 1812 in Sunderland and first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1813.

[1] Cossack, Black, master, a brig of Greenock, had been sailing from Alicante to Newfoundland when on 16 October 1814, the privateer Grand Turk captured her.

Grand Turk transferred a considerable quantity of raisins from Cossack before sending her for the United States.

[6] When Captain Green, of Grand Turk reached Salem he was delighted to see Cossack anchored there.

[7] The Register of Shipping (RS) carried the annotation "CAPTURED" by Cossack's name in its volume for 1815.