1. Jersey privateer ship Vulture, Peter Cabot/Chabot, commander, 100 tons burthen, carrying eight 3-pounders, four swivel guns, and a crew of 50 men; owned by Elisha and Daniel Tripper of Guernsey and Francis Janurm of Jersey. UkLPR, H.C.A. 26/62, p. 58.

2. Jersey privateer snow Lively, Capt. J. Kirby, commander, 120 tons burthen, built in 1756 and repaired last in 1777. It carried sixteen 6-pounders and was owned by Patriarch & Co. Lloyd’s Register of Ships, 1777–1778.

3. In an account of this battle taken from an “Extract of a Letter from Plymouth, May 15,” it was reported that the French privateer “was furnished with a commission of resistance from the French King, which was sent up yesterday morning with the Lieutenant of the Jersey privateer express to Court.” The London Chronicle, 16–19 May 1778. If the French had actually begun issuing letters of marque, it would have been the equivalent of a declaration of war. In fact, France did not authorize privateering and began issuing letters of marque on 10 July 1778.

4. The “Extract of a Letter from Plymouth, May 15,” ibid., said that the French privateer also had “eight Engineers on board.”