[1] Smith commissioned HMS Nancy on 23 September 1808;[1] An Admiralty Order dated 7 January 1809 ratified the purchase.

[4] On 16 June 1809 Agamemnon, together with a squadron (which was now under the command of Rear-Admiral Michael de Courcy), put into Maldonado Bay to shelter from a storm.

Captain Jonas Rose, of Agamemnon, testified at his court martial that she could have been gotten off had so many knees, beams, and timbers not been decayed; furthermore, rotten planking giving way had caused the flooding that doomed her.

[8] Nancy, Mutine, Mistletoe, and the hired armed brig Pitt were anchored in the harbour of Buenos Aires on 25 May 1810 during May Week, when the revolution broke out in the city.

Captain Fabian of Mutine broke out bunting and the British vessels saluted the revolution with salvos of cannon.

They reported to Captain Pitt Burnaby Greene of Bonne Citoyenne that a "mania" had overtaken Killwick and that they had had to restrain him with a straitjacket.

At the time (December 1811 to September 1812), Greene was the senior officer of the Buenos Aires station and he appointed his First Lieutenant, William D'Aranda, to be acting commander in Killwick's place.

[9] On 9 August D'Aranda sailed for Rio de Janeiro, with Killwick still restrained, and bearing a dispatch explaining the situation from Greene to Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon in Montagu.

The Royal Navy, always concerned about the possibility of mutiny, had a formal procedure for the removal of commanding officers for insanity.

The next month Dixon sent Killwick aboard a merchant vessel bound for London, together with two marines from Nancy to take care of him.

Barnard and his party survived for eighteen months marooned on the islands until the British whalers Indispensable and Asp rescued him in November 1814.