[1] A report from Coringa dated 22 September 1817 stated that a heavy gale had occurred on the 18th and that the next day the brig Dotterel, from Bengal, had arrived at the Roads flying a flag of distress.

She was under the command of Captain Charles Bell and was carrying a cargo of wheat and wool to Sydney.

The wreck was burned to recover her iron work.

The cutter Speedwell, Captain James Corlette, then took the ironwork to Launceston.

[5] Dotterel, and Marquis of Lansdown, which also had been built in India, had each obtained a license from the British East India Company to trade in tea for two years, with any port eastward of the Cape of Good Hope.