One year later the East India Company built a new and much larger ship which was also named the Earl of Abergavenny and which sank off Weymouth Bay in 1805.

Captain John Wordsworth completed two return voyages to China and back between January 1790 and September 1794.

On her first voyage Earl of Abergavenny departed the Downs on 30 January 1790, arriving Bombay, India on 5 June 1790.

At Whampoa that December were several East Indiamen that on their return to Britain the Admiralty would purchase: Royal Charlotte, [5] The British Government had chartered Hindostan to take Lord Macartney to China in an unsuccessful attempt to open diplomatic and commercial relations with the Chinese empire.

For her return Earl of Abergavenny crossed the Second Bar on 1 February 1794 and reached St Helena on 18 June.

In June 1795 she was sent to Cork to transport troops for the Santo Domingo[failed verification] part of Admiral Christian’s expedition.

[1] He was present at the British defense of Port-au-Prince in mid-April 1797 when he sailed Abergavenny and some other ships to Léogâne to carry out a diversion.

[9] On 5 October, Fitton and Ferret engaged a large Spanish privateer that escaped into Santiago de Cuba.

Later interrogation of prisoners that had belonged to the Spanish privateer revealed that she carried fourteen 6-pounder guns and a crew of 100.