When the ship was finally able to set sail, Captain Norton recorded a total of sixty-one hands on board. The first order of business was to appoint a quartermaster, and the crew elected Duncan McKenley. Jameson, Privateering and Piracy, 392. Revenge would quickly make their first encounter with a Spanish ship, Humming Bird. Aboard the ship was the leader of the almost mutiny that took place in Huntington Bay, and some of the men that went with him. Norton was able to persuade the captain of Humming Bird to return the hands that had pledge themselves to Revenge. The opposing captain obliged and returned two hands.
