[5] She was commissioned in the Royal Danish Navy and served for some years as the cadet training ship in the North and Baltic seas.

[9] In 1793 she was patrolling in the North Sea under the command of A J Herbst,[10] and in 1795 and 1797 was part of a joint Danish/Swedish squadron enforcing neutrality and protecting trade.

[12] In 1800 the Royal Danish Navy sold Store Bælt for 7,800 rigsdaler to the Danish Asiatic Company who renamed her Holsten[2] From her home port of Copenhagen Holsten completed three voyages to the East Indies: On 12 June 1805 Holstein, Helfding, master, was reported off Dover on her way from Bengal to Copenhagen.

A report in the Madras Courier dated 10 February 1807 stated that the Danish company's ship Holstein was sailing from Copenhagen to Serampore when she was dismasted off Ceylon.

[2] The DAC replaced her, in December 1806, with the purchase from the French at Mauritius the recently captured East Indiaman Warren Hastings, which the Company then renamed Holsten.