[4] The Trial Packet Captain Pointer, bound for the East Indies, put into Limerick on 9 November 1781, having lost her mainmast and topsails.

[5] A report from Limerick dated 31 January 1782 stated that before Trial could sail for India a conspiracy was discovered.

Ten members of the crew had planned, once at sea, to take her officers, kill them, and sail her and her dispatches to a French port.

The men appear to have been American prisoners who had escaped at Kinsale and had agreed to enroll together as sailors on a vessel that they would then seize.

[7] Captain James Methurst Poynter sailed from Limerick on 12 February 1782, bound for Bengal and Benkulen.

[1] The French privateer Apollon, Captain Jean-François Hodoul, captured Tryalle and Harrington in Balasore Roads on 9 November 1797.