[2] On 31 March 1810 Captain Charles Spencer Compton acquired a letter of marque.

[1] Captain William Cranitch acquired a letter of marque on 5 December 1811.

British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a licence from the EIC.

[3] On 30 March 1817 Sappho, W.Grice, master, sailed for Bombay, under a license from the EIC.

[4] On 9 July 1833 Sappho, Duncan, master, was on her way from Savannah to Saint John, New Brunswick, when she stranded on "the Wolves" (the Wolves Archipelago, at the entrance to the Bay of Fundy).