[1] On 17 January, 1778 she captured merchant sloop Friendship on the southern end of the Georges Bank and burned the prize.

[2] On 27 January she and HMS Venus captured Massachusetts privateer schooner True Blue on the Georges Bank.

[4] On 9 March 1778, the frigate captured the sloop Sally off southern end of Georges Bank, and the schooner Polly the next day.

[5] Apollo's opponent was the 26-gun French privateer Stanislaus, and after nearly an hour of intense cannonading Pownall was hit by a cannonball and killed.

[6][7] Command of Apollo devolved to Edward Pellew as the first lieutenant, who continued the fight, eventually driving the Stanislaus on shore.