Experiment entered Lloyd's Register in 1799 with Aldis, master, R. Wigram, owner, and trade London—Jamaica.

[7] On 30 December 1800 Captain John Nelson Whyte sailed from the Downs, bound for Madras and Bengal.

[8] Under the command of Francis J. Withers, Experiment sailed from Cowes, England on 4 December 1803.

While sailing in the Bay of Biscay (or 16 leagues from the Isles of Scilly, Experiment sprang her bowsprit and had her main top gallant mast carried away, during a gale.

Experiment arrived at Rio de Janeiro on 8 March and left on 8 April.

[11] While Experiment was on her homeward passage from China to London, carrying a cargo of tea for the EIC, the French privateer Napoleon, of Saint-Malo, captured her.

An item in the Times dated 11 September 1805 simply reported that Experiment had parted from Ocean off the Cape of Good Hope and had not been seen since.

[13] The French sent Withers, the surgeon, and the Fourth Officer to Île de France in Experiment.

[2] On 3 August 1805, HMS Calcutta, under the command of Captain Woodriff, left St Helena as escort of a motley convoy to England.

The convoy consisted of the East India company's "extra-ship" Indus, from Madras, the southern whaler African from Desolation, the whaler Fox from the Mozambique channel, the whaler Grand Sachem from the Peruvian coast and bound to Milford, the Prussian ship Wilhelmina, which Calcutta had detained on her way out to St Helena, and the large Swedish ship Carolina, which was sailing from China and asked to join.

[16] Lloyd's List reported on 7 September 1819 that Experiment, Dacre, master, of Hull, had been condemned at Batavia in December 1818.