[4] Duck had been carrying 40 Irish labourers from Waterford to work in the Newfoundland operations of Newman & Co., a branch of the firm Hunt Roope & Co., which transported salt fish from Newfoundland to Portugal, and then port wine from Portugal to England.

They removed Brilliant's crew and abandoned her at sea; the frigate HMS Hyperion found her floating and brought her into Plymouth.

[8] Penrhyn Castle was wrecked on 4 September 1823 on the coast of Newfoundland while sailing from Quebec City to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Duck carried Penrhyn Castle's cargo, soldiers' clothing, from Newfoundland to Quebec.

[9] On 15 October 1829 a gale drove Duck, of London, Meek, master, on shore at Stanton Sands.