After delivering the convicts she sailed to New Zealand where Maori warriors attacked her, killing, and eating, almost her entire crew and passengers.

[7] In 1795, Lloyd's Register reported that Boyd's master was G. Sargent, her owner Boddington, and her trade London — St Kitts.

[5] She underwent a good repair in 1795, and before the EIC chartered Boyd as an "extra" ship they had her inspected and measured.

The EIC records describe her as a three-decker vessel with ten gun ports on each side.

[3] Captain Young left Portsmouth on 8 July 1795, bound for St Helena and Bengal.

Homeward bound Calcutta she passed Kedgeree on 22 June, reached the Cape on 29 September, and St Helena on 28 October.

However, on 19 May HMS Galatea recaptured the "English ship Boyd", which was carrying "plantation stores".

Under the command of Captain John Thompson, Boyd sailed from Cork, Ireland on 10 March 1809.

[16] Boyd sailed in October 1809 from Port Jackson to Whangaroa, New Zealand to pick up kauri spars.

[b] In March 1810, half-a-dozen whalers gathered in Bay of Islands and launched a retributionary attack on the Maori.

The vessels involved in the attack were Atalanta, Inspector, New Zealander, Perservernce, Speke, and Spring Grove.