A letter dated 2 March 1804, reported that City of Edinburgh's Quebec registration had been cancelled.

[2] City of Edinburgh first entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1804, with Postgate, master, Brickwood, owner, and trade London–Quebec.

[4] Lloyd's List had reported on 8 February 1805, that City of Edinburgh, Moreton, master, had been onshore near Margate and had received much damage.

[6] On 16 October 1820, City of Edinburgh was sailing from Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America, to London when she parted from her anchors at the Isles of Scilly and ran onshore at the Point of the Crow Bar.

More tellingly, she does not again appear in the Lloyd's List SAD data after her arrival in 1821 at Falmouth in a crippled state.