She was wrecked at Muizenberg Beach, False Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa in July 1839 while returning to London from her third whaling voyage.

[7] On 28 January 1819, Admiral Cockburn, J. Briggs, master, sailed for Bombay under a license from the British East India Company.

There she picked up the artist Augustus Earle, who had been inadvertently marooned there earlier in the year on 29 March.

He left Admiral Cockburn on 18 January 1825 when she stopped at Hobart Town, Van Dieman's Land.

On 16 February 1829 Captain Peter Kemp sailed Admiral Cockburn to Timor and New Zealand on a whaling voyage.

[5] On 11 October Captain William Hingston[5] (or Kingston), sailed from England on Admiral Cockburn's second whaling voyage.

[1] For her third (and last) whaling voyage Admiral Cockburn had a new master, Captain James Lawrence.

[12] Three months later, on 7 November 1837, Admiral Cockburn was in the bay at Hilo, Hawaii, when a tsunami hit at 7pm.

Coronet encountered Admiral Cockburn on 24 April at Geby (Pulau Gebe in the Central Halmahera Regency; 0°05′32″S 129°29′33″E / 0.092236°S 129.492635°E / -0.092236; 129.492635), at which time she had 1600 barrels.

[1] On 19 October 1839 The Times reported that Admiral Cockburn had gone onshore at Muizenberg Beach on 26 July 1839 while returning to London from a whaling voyage in the South Seas.