EIC voyage #1: Captain Edward Berrow left Balambangan Island on 14 February 1774.

[5] EIC voyage #2: Captain Joseph Smith sailed from Portsmouth on 19 January 1775, bound for Bencoolen and Bengal.

[3] Lloyd's List reported on 17 February that the "Syren Pqt, Smith, from London to Bengal, is put into Waterford in Distress, having receiv'd considerable Damage.

It further states that on 12 August 1793, after she had landed a cargo of slaves, she was driven out of the harbour at Nevis by a hurricane and foundered.

[8] Furthermore, the African Queen that foundered in 1793,[9] first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1787 and in 1793 was described as built in the East Indies in 1775 and of 376 tons (bm).