The embargo interrupted the grain trade with the Baltic at a time when Britain was in the grips of weather-induced crop failures.

The bread shortage precipitated the British government's decision in November 1800 to send a naval force to the Baltic once ice and weather conditions permitted.

It also led the government to have the British East India Company (EIC) charter 28 vessels, comprising 14,785 tons (bm), to sail from England between December 1800 and February 1801 to bring back rice from Bengal.

A seaman on Fishburn, John Andrew Fisher, sued for £40 for back wages for the period of his detention.

[7] Fishburn, Leake, master, was lost on 19 February 1803 on the coast of Honduras a day after leaving for London.