Some very successful privateers were sloops, such as the Dart from Saint John, New Brunswick. However, their small size meant they were good for only short range privateering. One privateer sloop, Frances Mary , made a disastrous cruise to the West Indies in 1800 that bears some resemblance to the fate of Antelope . Sloop also had another meaning as a class of Royal Navy warships, smaller than a frigate but larger than a schooner. However there is no little or no evidence that this meaning of sloop was used by privateers.
Listing means a vessel tilted to one side by leaking or sloppy ballasting, a very worrisome sign.
And the cook in the scuppers with the staggers and jags Scuppers a small holes to drain water from decks and a logical place to find someone reeling from an alcoholic affliction. In Jamaica, but actually a poor privateer base as it was too close to navy ships who might conscript your crew and too far removed from American trade routes. Pumping like Madmen all the way Ships damaged in storms, or in this case, a worn-out, leakly vessels had to be pumped continuously, a wearing and backbreaking task. Rogers was perceptive in this reference. Indies often attest to heavy pumping.