1st voyage transporting enslaved people (1796–1797): Captain Robert Bennett acquired a letter of marque on 20 October 1796.

Bernard had been sailing from Demerara to Bremen with a cargo of coffee and cotton for Messrs Neilsen and Heathcote when a French frigate and a brig had captured her.

On 29 March 1799 LL reported that Fame, Atkinson, master, had been sailing from Demerara to Liverpool when she had put into St Vincents.

[12] 2nd voyage transporting enslaved people (1800–1802): Captain Owen Pritchard acquired a letter of marque on 21 July 1800.

[13] 3rd voyage transporting enslaved people (1803–1804): Captain Richard Davidson acquired a letter of marque on 8 October 1803.

[9] Fame acquired captives slaves at Rio Pongas, Cape Grand Mount, and Gallinhas.

[a] In January 1806 Fame sailed for Demerara but had to put back to Liverpool, having suffered damage in a gale.

[3] She appeared in the Register of Shipping in 1818 with origin India, but no date of building, or mention of her being a prize.

For her first voyage to the Northern Whale Fisheries she sailed from Liverpool on 2 April 1818 and returned to Whitby on 18 August.

Sir William Congreve equipped her with rockets at his own expense to test their utility in whaling hunting.

The Master General of Ordnance and the First Lord of the Admiralty had Lieutenant Colquhoun and two Marine artillerymen accompany the rockets as observers.

Captain Scoresby wrote a letter from the Greenland fishery in June reporting that the rockets had been a great success.

[19] Subsequent reports made clear that the rockets were fired from about 40 yards and were highly effective in killing whales that had already been conventionally harpooned.