[1][2] An advertisement noted that Royal Bounty, of 338 tons (bm), would be offered for sale on 8 February 1811 at the Leith Coffeeroom.

[3] Royal Bounty, Captain Henry Gamble, sailed from Hull on 8 June 1812, bound for Prince Edward Island.

[a] The United States privateer Yankee, Captain Oliver Wilson, captured Royal Bounty off Saint Pierre and Miquelon on 1 August.

[b] The American vessel was the privateer Yankee, of Bristol, Rhode Island, of 18 guns, and a crew of 120 men under Captain Wilson.

[8] As noted earlier, some American reports of the action doubled Royal Bounty's burthen, and gave her armament as sixteen 6-pounder guns.