She was registered in Boston, United States and left Norfolk Island in June 1802, under the command of Captain Lovat Melon.

[1][2] There a runaway seaman by the name of Doyle helped the Tongans capture Duke of Portland.

Morley came out in a canoe, called out that the Tongans had killed the shore party, leaped overboard, and swam to the ship.

The crew took her aboard, held off the Tongans, and then sailed with her to Sydney.

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