 The privateer carried 18 guns and a crew of 140 men.On this cruise "Vice-Amiral Martin" was four days out of Bayonne and had not taken anything.Captain H. Vansitart of "Fortunee" remarked that "Vice-Amiral Martin" had superior sailing abilities that in the past had helped her escape British cruisers, and that though this time each of the British vessels was doing , she would have escaped if the British had not had two vessels.