She made seven voyages as a whaler in the northern whale fishery until she was wrecked in November 1808.

Gardner & Joseph first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) for 1802 with Js.Allen, master, Foggintons, owner, and trade Hull–Davis Strait.

[3] On 4 March 1803 Lloyd's List (LL) reported that Holderness and Gardner & Joseph had been on their way to Davis Strait when they had had to put back to Hull having lost anchors and cables, and having sustained other damage.

[7] Both LR and the RS for 1809 (published in 1808), showed her master as J. Dick and that she had had damages repaired in 1806.

In November 1808 Gardiner and Joseph was driven ashore in the Saint Lawrence River.