[5] His most notable prize was USS Alfred on 10 July 1778, captured in company with James Richard Dacres's HMS Ceres.

[8] The day after Nelson's marriage to Frances Nisbet in 1787 Pringle wryly remarked that the navy had lost its 'greatest ornament', so expressing his concern that a wife got in the way of a successful naval career.

[17] He was in Saldanha Bay under Vice-Admiral George Elphinstone when a squadron of the Batavian Navy under Rear-Admiral Engelbertus Lucas was forced to surrender on 17 August 1796.

The seamen aboard the ship had threatened their captain, George Hopewell Stephens, with a court-martial composed of members of the crew on charges of cruelty and mistreatment.

[20] The mutinous spirit was temporarily quashed with a general pardon, while Stephens requested a regular court-martial to clear his name.

While this was held aboard HMS Sceptre, Pringle sent a ship to recall the Tremendous's previous captain, Charles Brisbane.

[20] Stephens was honourably acquitted at the court-martial and returned to duty, but shortly afterwards the crew of the Tremendous broke out into open mutiny, this spreading to other ships in the harbour.

With over 100 guns pointed at his flagship he demanded the crews return to obedience and give up the ringleaders within two hours, or he would order the Tremendous destroyed.