[5] Captain Edward Veazy (or Veasey, or Veazey) took command a few days after 9 November, and received his letter of marque one month later.

[7] She had been out two weeks when a fierce storm on 20 December drove her on an off-shore bank near Cape Henry, Virginia.

The death toll might have been greater had her owners not equipped, voluntarily and at their own expense, the crew with heavy winter clothing even though Tartar was not heading for northern waters.

[8] American accounts report that Royal Navy brigs came up on the morning of the 22nd and started firing on the survivors on shore and the two companies of Virginia militia that had arrived on the scene.

[2] British records credit the 74-gun HMS Dragon, Captain Robert Barrie, with destroying her on 22 December.