On her maiden voyage she ran aground and sank off the Cape Verde Islands off West Africa.

[1] She was on her maiden voyage, loaded with goods including 209,280 troy ounces (6,509 kg) of silver.

Fiott arrested and confined three men, but with half the crew still refusing to obey orders, he changed course and headed for the Cape Verde islands, where he intended to hand over the mutineers to the authorities.

[2] One of the midshipmen aboard was John Bellingham, later notorious as the assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.

[6] Between 1788 and 1791, under an East India Company contract, the Braithwaite brothers reportedly recovered 97,650 silver dollars from the wreck.