[2][3] Loss: On 8 November 1797, as Princess Amelia, Wyatt, master, was coming from London when she struck on the south side of Sable Island.

Cunningham arrived at Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia in the new year, with the schooner short of supplies and in distress.

A local inhabitant provided supplies and Thompson proceeded on his way, leaving behind a memorandum reporting on the survivors.

He hired the schooner Black Snake, of Liverpool, Thomas Parker master, with the agreement of the council, and sent it to provide assistance to the survivors of Princess Amelia.

[4] While this was occurring, Captain Wyatt, the Honourable Lieutenant Cochrane, and four men had decked Princess Amelia's long boat with canvas, and had sailed to an eastern port in Nova Scotia.