[5] Lloyd's List, however, reported on 4 October 1784 that Neptune, Martin, master, from Suriname, had arrived at Hispaniola, and was expected to sail from Port-au-Prince to Quebec in mid-August.

[6] Lloyd's List reported on 5 June 1789 that Neptune, Martin, master, had had to put back into Waterford after having been out some three weeks.

[7] Lloyd's Register for 1797 showed Neptune's master changing from J. French to T. Hopper, and her trade to London–South Seas.

[3] Captain Hopper sailed Neptune in 1797 on a whaling voyage to the East Coast of Africa.

Lion had been carrying a cargo from Madras and Columbo to England when she had put into Delagoa Bay in distress.