1st EIC voyage (1802–1803): Captain Charles Jones sailed from the Downs n 4 March 1802, bound for China.

[1] 2nd EIC voyage (1804–1805): Captain David Jones acquired a letter of marque on 21 January 1804.

The plants were placed on the poop deck where they would get strong sunlight and be further away from sea spray from the bow.

[4][a] David Scott reached St Helena on 31 December, and Plymouth on 10 March 1805.

[1] 3rd EIC voyage (1806–1807): Captain John Locke, jr. acquired a letter of marque on 28 January 1806.

Most sources, however, state that it was his father, John Locke, who sailed from Portsmouth, bound for Madras and China.

Between England and Santiago, Cape Verde, a French privateer approached and fired two broadsides, with little or no effect.

Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 5 December, and stopped at Penang again on 23 January 1806.

[1] Homeward bound, she and the other Indiamen she was travelling with, as well as their escort, tried to enter Table Bay on 5 April, but were unable to.

David Scott reached Madras on 11 June, Penang on 26 September, and Malacca on 22 October; she arrived at Whampoa on 14 January 1813.

[1] When David Scott arrived back at London she discharged her crew, including her Chinese sailors hired in Canton.