Dart first appears in Lloyd's Register in 1801 with Chetty, master, Captain & Co., owner, and trade London-Malta.

[1] Her first whaling voyage saw Dart sail from Britain on 9 July 1802 under the command of Captain Donald McLennan (or M'Lennan).

[5] Also, while at Port Jackson, McLennan signed an agreement with Governor Philip Gidley King to deliver an officer and six soldiers to Hobart.

Britannia reported that three or four British whalers, Dart among them, had been detained in Guayaquil,[8] due to the resumption in 1804 of the Anglo-Spanish War.

[6] The Register of Shipping last lists Dart, M'Lenan, master, M'Kenzie, owner, with trade London—South Seas, in 1811.