[3] Emperor Alexander first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1818 with Watt, master, J.&E.Catto, owners, and trade London–New Providence, changing to Liverpool–Petersburg.

[7] The decline of kelp production in the Western Islands (Outer Hebrides) in the 1820s led many of their inhabitants to migrate to Cape Breton.

[8] Emperor Alexander was wrecked on the Arklow Bank, in the Irish Sea on 22 November 1832.

[9] On 24 November the coastguard station at Greystones saw a dismasted brig floating on her side, some three leagues away.

When the galley reached the wreck they found that she was Emperor Alexander, of Aberdeen, carrying lumber, and that there was no one aboard.

Then about two hours later Lieutenant Tandy of the Royal Navy's Bray, County Wicklow, station arrived on the scene too.