Earl Fauconberg's early career is obscure as she did not enter Lloyd's Register (LR) until 1784.

[3] Between 1784 and 1799 Earl Fauconberg made annual voyages to the Greenland whale fisheries from Whitby.

[6] The Register of Shipping (RS) for 1801 showed Earl Falconberg (of 351 tons burthen, launched at Whitby in 1765), with J. Crosby, master, J. Atty, owner, and trade Newcastle–London.

[7] Although one source reports that Earl Fauconberg was sold to Grimbsby in 1801,[1] she proceeded to make four whaling voyages from Kingston upon Hull.

[12] Later, in March 1806, Earl Fauconberg was driven ashore at Aberdeen, Scotland, during a voyage from Grimsby, Lincolnshire, to Greenland.

The Greenland Fisher Company, including its boiling house and premises, were sold to George Tennyson.