In the case of Alacrity both registers gave her trade as London–the Cape, with neither updating the information to include voyages to India.

On 3 November 1820 Alacrity, Findlay, master, left Deal for the Cape of Good Hope.

On 31 March 1823 she arrived at the Cape in a much damaged state; she had encountered a hurricane six hours after leaving Mauritius.

On 29 June 1825 Alacrity, Findlay, master, left Deal, bound for the Cape and Bombay.

Similarly, Henry Wellesley, bound for Sierra Leone, put back having lost her mainmast.

On 9 July 1826 Alacrity arrived back at Deal, having left Bombay on 18 January, Tellichery on 13 February, the Cape on 1 May, and Saint Helena on 18 May.

[5] On 27 March 1827 Granger signed a contract with Dent that Alacrity would leave England by 27 April and that so long as she arrived at the Malabar Coast ready to load before 27 November, unless delayed by weather or other unavoidable impediment.

[6] Captain Findlay and Alacrity left the London docks on 22 April, bound for New South Wales.

[6] Alacrity, Dunn, master, ran aground on 15 January 1830 on the Barber Sand in the North Sea.