[9]) After her launch, on 20 March 1830 Commander John H. Wilson, of the Indian Marine, left Bombay for the Red Sea.

Furthermore, a sailing collier brig preceded Hugh Lindsay, carrying 500 tonnes of coal to Aden, Jeddah, and Suez.

Lastly, in addition to sailing time, the voyage required extra days for stoppages, especially coaling.

[13] In 1834, after Hugh Lindsay returned from a voyage to Suez, the Bombay Government sent her with dispatches to Bassadore, in the Persian Gulf near Bandar Abbas.

[14] The next year Hugh Lindsay supported the English Euphrates expedition and carried mails and dispatches from Basra to Bombay.

On 13 April 1837 Hugh Lindsay, HMS Winchester, and HCS Atalanta carried troops and artillery to Mangalore to relieve a siege there by an insurgent army.

[17] Hugh Lindsay parted her moorings and got foul of Berenice, and lost her paddle boxes, cutwater, and figurehead, and suffered other severe damage.

In 1839 Hugh Lindsay, under the command of Lieutenant C.D.Campbell, embarked the British Government's Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain Hennell.

Hennell and Hugh Lindsay made a tour of the ports of the west coast of the Gulf to encourage the sheikhs to renew the one-year truce on naval activities (including piracy).

[18][c] After Hennell left Hugh Lindsay at Bushire, she carried the mails to Bussorah.