1815 showed her with J. Duncan, master, Ewing & Co., owners, and trade Greenock–Newfoundland. The entry carried the annotation that she had been captured in 1814. Fate In the autumn of 1814 Sir John Sherbrooke was outward bound from Halifax with a cargo of oil and dried fish. She encountered the American privateer Syren, which captured her and put a prize crew aboard her. Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 21 October 1814 that Sir John Sherbrooke, Lester, master, was one of four merchantmen that American privateers had captured. (The other three were James, McNeil, master, Emulation, and , Lester, master. Their crews were landed at Viana.) However, a British squadron came along and chased the captured Sir John Sherbrooke ashore. The American prize crew managed to get away with all the valuables on board despite the fire of the British frigate's guns. The frigate sent her boats to attempt a recovery, but gunfire from a nearby fort drove them off. Salvage was impracticable, so the cutting-out party from the frigate set Sir John Sherbrooke on fire; she then burned to the water's edge. On 16 November 1814, boats from and , herself a former American privateer, ran Syren ashore under Cape May, where her crew destroyed her. Other informationSir John Sherbrooke was not as famous as her smaller and more successful counterpart, the schooner Liverpool Packet. However some believe that Sir John Sherbrooke inspired the line "I wish I was in Sherbrooke now", from the Stan Rogers song "Barrett's Privateers", because the town of Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia did not yet exist, as the song takes place in 1778. The Sherbrooke also significantly postdates the American Revolution as it was commissioned only two years before the town, a full 35 years after the song's setting. Notes, citations, and references Notes Citations References Dan Conlin, profile of privateer brig Sir John Sherbrooke Snider, C.H.J. (1928) Under the Red Jack; Privateers of the Maritime Provinces of Canada in the War of 1812. (London: Martin Hopkinson & Co.). Kert, Fay. Prize and Prejudice''. Sherbrooke, John Maritime history of Canada Military history of Nova Scotia Tall ships of Canada Individual sailing vessels Privateer ships Brigs Captured ships Maritime incidents in 1814