She was at Pring, a pepper port some 16 miles northwest of Manna Point, on the west coast of Sumatra Benkulen on 14 March.

Airly Castle reached Madras on 20 September, and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 5 November.

She then sailed for China, reaching Malacca on 6 September and arriving at Whampoa Anchorage on 18 October.

[3] The EIC inspected the East Indiamen as they arrived and on 15 October fined Stewart and eight other captains £100 each for having not stowed their cargoes in conformance with the Company's orders.

[a] War with France had commenced on 1 February 1793 and Captain John Gale acquired a letter of marque on 30 November.

The British government held her at Portsmouth, together with a number of other Indiamen in anticipation of using them as transports for an attack on Île de France (Mauritius).

[3] Lloyd's List reported on 24 June that Marquis of Lorn, Livingston, master, had come into Lisbon in a much damaged state.

[5][b] Airly Castle reached the Cape of Good Hope on 28 July, and arrived at Madras on 7 September.

Captain Gale died at St Helena and his first officer, Samuel Barnard, assumed command.

[7][8] While the Indiamen were at St Helena, the 64-gun third rate HMS Sceptre, under the command of Captain William Essington, arrived with a convoy of EIC ships sailing to India and China.

Essington had prevailed upon Colonel Robert Brooke, the governor of St Helena, to lend him some troops and to put the EIC vessels there at the time under his command to form a squadron to try and intercept the Dutch.

On 22 August the returning EIC ships and the prizes, a convoy of some 20 vessels, sailed for Shannon, where most arrived on 13 December.

[9] Captain Barnard is given as Airly Castle's commander in the prize money notice, suggesting that Gale died before the capture of the Dutch vessels.

Lloyd's List reported on 30 March 1802 that she left Bombay on 15 November bound for Anjengo and Mahé.

Homeward bound, she was again at Anjengo on 21 January, reached St Helena on 3 April, and arrived at Deptford on 21 June.

[3] She left Madras on 8 September, together with Baring, Duke of Montrose, Lord Hawkesbury, and Devaynes, and under escort by HMS Weymouth, herself a former Indiaman.

Airly Castle reached St Helena on 13 July, and arrived at Diamond Harbour on 27 November.

Lloyd's List reported on 10 July 1812 that Airly Castle had arrived at Plymouth from Havana.