She was carrying a cargo of drugs, annatto, cochineal, indigo and sugar, and some 1,500,000 Spanish dollars (£313,000).

Thetis was under the command of Captain Don Juan de Mendoza and carried a cargo of cocoa, cochineal and sugar, and more importantly, specie worth 1,385,292 Spanish dollars (£312,000).

HMS Triton, Naiad, and Alcmene captured Santa Brigida after a short engagement.

"[7] Prinsep and Saunders purchased Santa Brigida, converted her into an East Indiaman, and renamed her Automatia (or Automasia, or Automation).

[8] Automatia appears in the Register of Shipping for 1802 with S. Cortis, master, R. Heater, owner, and trade Plymouth-Calcutta.

[2] Messrs. Princip and Saunders had tendered Automasia, Anthony Curtis, master, to the EIC to bring back rice from Bengal.

[9] However, on 30 December a violent squall of the Lizard carried away Automatia's mast; HMS Defiance towed her to Falmouth.