Sir John Sherbrooke was built in 1804 in Nova Scotia.

Sir John Sherbrooke first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1815.

[1] Captain Cowan was sailing from Jamaica to New York when Sir John Sherbrooke struck a reef in the Dry Tortugas on 19 October 1816, and bilged.

Then the captain, mate, some crew members, and two steerage passengers went back aboard and took out all the specie, which had been stored in barrel and boxes in the hold.

Reportedly, Cowan offered the two steerage passengers $500 each if they went in the longboat with him to the United States.