Goéland was the name ship of a two-vessel class of "brick-avisos" (advice brigs), built to a design by Raymond-Antoine Haran and launched in 1787.

[6] Early on the 16th Leissègues was seeking to enter the bay while searching for a convoy he was to escort when he observed an enemy frigate at the entrance.

In September 1793, at the request of French Royalists, Commodore John Ford took a squadron and attacked Saint-Domingue and Jérémie in the Caribbean.

At Môle-Saint-Nicolas, on 23 September, Europa, Goelan, and Flying Fish captured the Convention Nationale, among other vessels.

[10] In December command passed to Lieutenant George Hopewell Stephens (temp), who sailed Goelan to Portsmouth, arriving on 27 August 1794.

[1] Brothers, of 242 tons (bm), Anderson, master, and Mather & Co. owners, was employed in the South Sea Whale Fishery between 1796 and 1798.

The information in Lloyd's Register is not entirely consistent with that from other sources for the period 1799 to 1808, but does overlap them to a great degree.

Cyrus recorded in her logs that Brother was returning in July 1804 from the Pacific with 150 tons of sperm oil.

It differs from the data in Lloyd's Register, which gives the owner as Elliot & Co., the trade as Falmouth and the Brazils.