Her loss gave rise to a court case that revealed interesting information about her last voyage.

[2] On 18 August 1823, Captain Watson sailed from Gravesend to Plymouth where he collected more passengers before departing England on 3 September 1823,[4] for Van Diemen's Land,[5] with her next destination being Tenerife.

This excuse angered Colonel George Arthur, fourth Lieutenant governor of Van Diemen's Land.

Arthur resented the defaming of the port, blaming the delay not on the river but on Watson's having sent his mate and some seamen in a boat to hunt seals while waiting to gather a cargo.

She was coming from Sincapore, Penang, and Mauritius, bound for London when a gale at Algoa Bay on 11 and 12 December damaged her badly.

[8] While at George Town, Watson was frequently on shore supervising the building of a house on some land he owned.

She sailed from Sydney on 18 August, bound for Singapore, but bad weather sent her back down to Hobart Town.