She made one or two voyages as whaler and then became a West Indiaman, and later traded across the Atlantic and with the Baltic.

His whalers, Cambridge, Wilding (or Willding), and Caerwent passed to Lord Grenville, a relative by marriage, who sold them when they returned from their voyages.

[4] Lloyd's Register for 1807 still showed her master as Thompson, her owner as Rodgers, and her trade as London–South Seas.

[8] West Indiaman and general trader Lloyd's List reported on 24 June 1808 that Cambridge, Sullivan, master, had had to put back into Havana, having been run into.

She had repelled an attack by a Carthaginian privateer schooner of one gun and 80 men near Morro Castle (Havana).