After her one voyage to India, Alcyone traded to the Baltic and to North and Central America.

[2] A report from Liverpool stated that on 25 December 1824 a hurricane from the west drove Alcyone aground as she was coming from St Johns, New Brunswick.

British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a licence from the EIC.

In 1842 he read an account published in New York in 1832, by Benjamin Morrell, an American sealing captain, who wrote about having landed at Ichaboe in 1828 and seen massive deposits of guano.

Livingstone was eventually able to convince some Liverpool investors to send out a small exploration expedition of three vessels.