LR was only as accurate as shipowners bothered to inform it of changes; consequently the data was stale, or even inaccurate.

1st Fly slave voyage (1772–1773): Captain William Batty sailed from Liverpool on 6 August 1772.

1st Tartar slave voyage (1780–1781): Captain John Houghton sailed from Liverpool on 5 August 1780.

Tartar acquired her saves at the Banana Islands and left Africa on 3 March 1781.

[4] 2nd Tartar slave voyage (1781–1782): Captain Houghton sailed from Liverpool on 12 September 1781, bound for West Africa.

[5] 3rd Tartar slave voyage (1782–1783): Captain William Mashiter sailed from Liverpool on 4 November 1782, bound for West Africa.

[7] A report in Lloyd's List states that while Tartar was gathering slaves her ship's tender was totally lost on the bar at Cape Mount.

[8] 5th Tartar slave voyage (1785–1787): Captain Archibald Dalziel sailed from Liverpool on 8 September 1785, bound for the Bight of Benin.

[9] 6th Tartar slave voyage (1787–1788): Captain John Hughes sailed from Liverpool on 26 September 1787.

At the same time they purchased a small, two-masted schooner of 10 tons (bm), that they named Little Tartar.

The owners sold her on the coast of Africa and on 17 June 1789 gave up her certificate of registration.