She served as a merchantman, packet ship for the British East India Company (EIC), a whaler, a warship of the navy of the United States of America, and a merchant vessel again.

Georgiana first appears in Lloyd's Register (LR), in 1791 with W. Waring, master, St Barbe & Co, owner, and trade London—Turkey.

[5] In 1794 William Waring became master of Amazon, but LR carried the 1793 information unchanged for a number of years.

[1] She served as a packet ship between England and India, and also as a tender to the EIC's station at St Helena.

Lloyd's List's ship arrival and departure data for 1795 has no mention of Georgiana, or Luard.

[10] Captain John Luard sailed from Portsmouth on 23 January 1796, bound for St Helena and Bengal.

Homeward bound, she was at Kedgeree on 22 August, reached St Helena on 2 January 1802, and arrived at Deptford on 27 March.

The EIC announced the sale on 30 April 1802 of 1,300 bags of rice that had come from Bengal on Georgiana in private trade.

[3] Georgiana would then spend some three years at St Helena, serving primarily as a look-out vessel and guard ship.

Enderbys appointed Captain W. Pitt as master, and dispatched Georgiana to the South Seas fishery.

[6][13] In early 1813 Captain David Porter entered the Pacific, via Cape Horn, in the thirty-two gun frigate USS Essex.

Porter referred to Georgiana as a "letter of marque ship, armed with six 18-pdrs., 4 swivels, and 6 long blunderbusses".

After capturing Hector, Georgiana placed the crews of all three whalers in Rose, under parole, and sent her as a cartel to St Helena.

[14] Also on 28 May, Essex captured the whaler Greenwich; Porter armed her too as and put Lieutenant Gamble of the US Marines on her as captain.

Porter loaded Georgiana with a full cargo of sperm oil from several of the captured whalers.

[13] Her recapture gave rise to a court case over whether Georgiana and her cargo were a prize, or salvage.

[18] The Register of Shipping for 1815 shows Georgiana with R. Boyes, master and owner, and trade London-Bremen.

[19] Georgiana put into Funchal, Madeira, on 24 February 1818 as she was sailing from Antwerp for the River Plate.