EIC voyage #1 (1779-1781): Captain Thomas Hindman sailed from Portsmouth on 7 March 1779, bound for St Helena, Bengal, and Madras.

Earl Talbot reached Madeira on 12 April and St Helena on 30 July, before arriving at Kedgeree on 5 December.

[1] EIC voyage #2 (1782-1784): Captain Robert Taylor sailed from Portsmouth on 6 February 1782, bound for Bombay, Madras, and Bengal.

On 9 March 1783 Earl Talbot participated in the capture of Mangalore fort from French during the Second Anglo-Mysore War.

Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 26 November, reached St Helena on 21 February 1789, and arrived at Gravesend on 27 April.

Not long after Earl Talbot sprang a leak due to a gale and had to put into Santiago on 24 June.

[1] Dawkins was issued a letter of marque on 20 August,[3] i.e., while Earl Talbot was sailing between St Helena and Long Reach, where she arrived on 3 October.