She made one voyage to Bengal and back for the British East India Company (EIC).

David Webster, on behalf of the builders Bonner & Horsburgh, negotiated a price for Severn of £17,000 and for Hindostan of £18,000.

[1] Disposal: The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" first offered the "Camel, store-ship, of 558 tons", "lying at Deptford", for sale on 13 April 1831.

Severn entered Lloyd's Register in 1831 with Braithwaite, master and owner, trade London–Calcutta, and having undergone small repairs in that year.

Severn reached the Cape of Good Hope on 13 October and arrived at Calcutta on 27 December.

Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 12 March 1834, reached Saint Helena on 10 June, and arrived at The Downs on 11 August.

On 20 October 1837 a party of missionaries boarded Severn at Gravesend, were bound for the mission stations in Travancore.