However, another report states that around 1801 a Mr. Bennett commissioned two Nantucket whale captains, Ransom Jones and Benjamin Swift, to purchase two Danish sloops of war that the British Government was selling.

[6] Brook Watson first appeared in LR in 1802 with B.Swift, master, B.Watson, owner, and trade London–Southern Fishery.

[7] 1st whaling voyage (1802–1804): Captain Benjamin Swift sailed from England on 9 November 1802, bound for the South Atlantic.

[8] Brook Watson gathered 1300 barrels of black oil that she took back to England.

[9] At St Helena Brook Watson was one of several whalers that joined a convoy consisting of the East Indiamen that had been under the command of Captain Nathaniel Dance at the Battle of Pulo Aura, and that HMS Plantagenet escorted back to England.

2nd whaling voyage (1804–1804): Captain Obediah Worth, like Swift also from Nantucket, acquired a letter of marque on 14 September 1804.

On 7 December, Brook Watson, Holmes, master, sailed from Deal for Jamaica.