Elizabeth spent much of her career trading between India and England under a license from the EIC.

Under the command of Walter Cock and surgeon Joseph Hughes, she left Cork, Ireland on 27 August 1827, and arrived in Sydney on 12 January 1828.

[9] Captain John Craigie sailed from the Downs on 25 July 1833, bound for China and Halifax.

Outward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 12 March, reached Saint Helena on 19 June, and arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia on 18 August.

[5] In August 1833 Parliament passed legislation that ended the EIC's monopoly on the China trade and the company ceased its mercantile operations.