Bardaster first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1835 with Chalmers, master, and homeport of Liverpool.

[1] In October 1834 Bardaster, Captain John Thomas Chalmers, arrived at Tolaga Bay, New Zealand.

Convict transport: Captain Alexander McDonald sailed from Portsmouth on 16 September 1835.

Bardaster, Captain John Virtue, left London on 7 October 1838, and arrived at Port Adelaide on 22 January 1839.

Lloyd's Register for 1840, showed Bardaster with Vertue, master, and trade London–Sydney.