Her loss led the British government to increase the protection of the outward-bound whaling fleet.

Half the cost of outfitting a whaler went to doubling and fortifying the hull, specialist cordage, and the provision of blubber casks.

[10] By late June 1795, Gibraltar had returned to Hull from Greenland a little early as she was already a "full ship".

[11] In November, Lloyd's List reported that Gibraltar, Wray, master, had returned to Hull from Archangel.

[c] In February 1796, near Tinmouth, a French privateer captured Truro, Mackie, master, and Gibraltar.

It was feared that she had burnt Gibraltar as a large ship had been observed on 25 February to be on fire off the coast.

Gibraltar had been 6 or 7 miles off Shields when the French privateer brig Nayade, of 16 guns, Captain Leonard, had captured her.

[13] That evening Nayade had encountered HMS Star, one of two cutters that had been dispatched from the Firth of Forth to look for the privateer.