She spent almost her entire career sailing between Britain and North America.

In 1798 a French privateer captured her but a British slaver homeward-bound recaptured her.

She was last listed around 1808, at which time she had been sailing as a London-based coaster Clarement first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1787.

[1] In November 1798 Lloyd's List reported that the French privateer Gironde had captured several vessels near the Newfoundland Banks.

Clermont, Bartels, master, had been sailing from North Carolina when Brooks recaptured her.