[8] Britannia engaged in a small amount of sealing and whaling during her absence from Britain.

Britannia, under the command of William Raven, left Britain on 15 February 1792, bound for the New South Wales fishery.

She sailed on 30 September but returned to Sydney Cove on 3 October to fit for a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope.

The officers of the New South Wales Corps had hired her for £2000 to sail there and purchase cattle and stores not available in Australia.

Britannia left in September 1793 for Bengal to bring back supplies for Lieutenant-Governor Francis Grose.

On the way Raven retrieved the sealing gang at Dusky Sound, and then stopped at Norfolk Island.

There Governor Philip Gidley King engaged Britannia to carry himself and two Maoris to New Zealand.

[b] However, bad weather delayed Raven, as did pirates in the Malacca Straits that attacked Britannia but were driven off.

Still, the officers of the New South Wales Corps again chartered Britannia to bring back supplies from the Cape.

[14] In June the acting governor, William Paterson, chartered Britannia to acquire provisions from Bengal.

In December 1797 Raven was appointed master of HMS Buffalo to sail her from England to New South Wales.

She had been "doubled" in 1798, a process that extended her useful life and strengthened her for sailing in northern waters, and her burthen increased to 320 tons.

[4] There is good data for Britannia's catch in Greenland whale fisheries between 1814 and 1821. throughout the period her master was Jacks.

She stopped in at Rio de Janeiro on her way to the South Seas fishery, and was reported to have 50 barrels of whale oil by December 1822.

Britannia returned to Britain on 2 September 1826 with 450 casks and seven tanks of whale oil.

[33] After a career of 47 years that took Britannia to Greenland and the South Pacific, she is no longer listed in 1845.