[1] On 13 May 1779 True Briton was part of a squadron commanded by Captain Sir James Wallace in HMS Experiment that captured the French frigate Danae, and a brig and cutter, in Cancale Bay.

Other vessels in the squadron consisted of the sloops HMS Cygnet, Fortune, and Wasp, and the hired armed ship Leith.

[2] Capture: True Briton was returning to England from France in November 1780 when she got caught in a storm off Lisbon that cost her her bowsprit.

She was proceeding towards Ireland under a jury mast made of spars and booms when on 5 December she encountered the French 32-gun privateer Bougainville.

[5] HMS True Briton: Tartar underwent fitting at Portsmouth between February and August 1782, and was recommissioned in June under Lieutenant Francis Loveday, for the Channel Islands.