The Lieutenant commanding the British tender Earl of Inchiquin seized the snow Dickenson (or Dickinson), William Meston, master, on 7 April 1776 at King Road, off Avonmouth in the Bristol Channel.

She carried documents describing all the vessels the American rebels were sending to France.

[2] The French privateer Duc de Chartres captured Earl of Inchquin on 15 March 1781.

Earl of Inchquin, of six guns and under the command of Lieutenant William Robertson, was in the Channel when she encountered Duc de Chartres, which gave chase.

[3][4] Earl of Inchiquin was no longer listed in Lloyd's Register for 1782.