She became a Liverpool-based merchantman, trading across the Atlantic with North America until she was wrecked in August 1840.

British Tar first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1815.

[2] British Tar, Blenkhorn, master, ran aground on the Arklow Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Wicklow, on 14 August 1840 and subsequently became a wreck.

She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick to Liverpool with a cargo of timber.

[3] British Tar floated off on 17 August and drifted down the channel.