[4] Her owners tendered her to the British East India Company (EIC) in January February 1794 on her return from her voyage to Jamaica.

She had parted from the Jamaica Fleet on 31 July in a heavy gale of wind that had left a number of the merchantmen dismasted and otherwise damaged.

[5] Following the resumption of war with France in early 1803, concern developed in Britain about Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom.

The British East India Company in November voted to underwrite 10,000 tons (bm) of armed transports to protect Great Britain's coasts.

A newspaper report dated 10 April 1804 stated that the armed transports Indefatigable, Albion, and Duckingfield, were to sail to Saint Helen's to maintain a guard there until Queen could relieve them.