The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Braak, 615 Tons, Copper-bottomed, lying at Deptford" for sale on 9 September 1802.

[2] The shipowner Daniel Bennett purchased Braak and renamed her Africaine (or Africa, or African).

She first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1803 as African with R. Jones, master, and Bennett, owner, and trade London–South Seas.

[8] On 3 August 1805 African left Saint Helena in a convoy under escort by HMS Calcutta.

On 26 September the convoy was in the Channel south of the Isles of Scilly when it encountered Admiral Allemand's squadron.

[7] African reached Falmouth,[9] and then returned to her moorings on 4 October 1805 with 70,000 seal skins, and oil.