Ganges appeared in the Register of Shipping (RS) for 1800 with F.Brown, master, Hurry & Co., owners, and trade Newcastle–London.

[6] On 30 December 1800 Captain Forster Brown sailed Ganges from the Downs bound for Bengal.

Lloyd's Register (LR) for 1803 showed her with W.O.Carr, master, Hurry & Co., owners, and trade London–Dominica.

[1] Lloyd's List (LL) for 7 January 1806 reported that Ganges, Rand, master, was one of several vessels that the "Rochfort Squadron" had captured and sent into Teneriffe prior to November 1805.

[5] Fortuitously, a flotilla from Rochefort captured a whaler named Ganges around 15 December 1805, or early in 1806.