She was again at Madras on 24 February, and reached St Augustine's Bay (Madagascar), on 14 June, and the Cape of Good Hope on 25 August.

[1] Captain John Hamilton Dempster sailed from Portsmouth on 6 February 1782, bound for Madras, Bombay, Bengal, and China.

She reached Bombay on 6 September and Madras on 19 October, and arrived at Culpee, on the Hooghli River, on 21 January 1783.

She was at Simon's Bay on 6 September and reached Cork on 8 January 1785; she arrived at Deptford on 9 April.

[1] Captain James Williamson sailed from Portsmouth on 1 February 1786, bound for Madras and Bengal.

[3] The British government held Ganges at Portsmouth, together with a number of other Indiamen in anticipation of using them as transports for an attack on Île de France (Mauritius).

However, her new owners chartered her to the British government as at transport for Admiral Hugh Cloberry Christian's expedition to the West Indies.

[4] The expedition sailed on 6 October, 16 November, and 9 December, but weather forced the vessels to put back.

The fleet finally successfully sailed on 20 March to invade St Lucia, with troops under Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby.