She captured several small privateers while on the West Indies and Halifax stations before the Royal Navy sold her in 1817.

[1] To raise a crew he put a front-page advertisement in The Bermuda Gazette on 13 April 1805, extolling her virtues.

[2] Lloyd's List reported in September 1806 that Indian had captured Nuestra Senora del Carmen and had sent her into Halifax.

[4] In May or June Indian detained Eliza, an American vessel sailing from Cuba to Charleston, and sent her into Bermuda.

At the end of September a violent gale had dismasted her dispersed the small convoy for the West Indies that she had been escorting.

Austen's prisoners informed him that the second schooner was the 6-gun Exchange, with a crew of 95 men, which too was bringing provisions to St. Domingo.

Lieutenant William Bowen Mends then became acting commander, a role that he held until September.

[c] Mary Elizabeth, of 167 tons (bm), was sailing from St Ubes, Portugal, in ballast but carrying specie.

[14] Earlier, an American privateer had captured William, of Bristol, J. Hare, master, off Cape Sable.

[16] Indian and Plumper, Lieutenant James Bray, captured the privateer schooner Fair Trader on 16 July 1812 in the Bay of Fundy.

[17][d] A report in Lloyd's List stated that Indian had captured Fair Trader, Argus, and a third American privateer.

[19] Argus, which Indian and Plumper captured on 17 July, was a 21-ton privateer schooner out of Boston and under the command of W. Heath.

[19] Indian shared with Maidstone, Spartan, and Colibri in the proceeds for the capture four days later of the American vessel John.

[g] Two days later, on 15 August, Indian and number of the vessels parted company in a fog off the Newfoundland Banks.

[11] Three days later Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren appointed Lieutenant Thomas Sykes to command of Indian at Quebec.

The Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy offered the "Indian sloop, of 394 tons", lying at Deptford for sale on 15 December 1814.

She had two masters, Sullivan, and then William Swain, and she brought home 800 casks of whale oil.

[30] Indian, Bermuda-built and of 399 tons (bm), appeared in Lloyd's Register for 1818 under their ownership with S. Swain as master, and trade as London-South Seas.

The Australian in its "Ship News" column for 26 July reported that she was carrying 16 tons of sperm oil, but had had to put into port because her crew was mutinous.

[33] She returned to England by 3 March 1828 with 700 casks of whale oil gathered in Indonesian and New Zealand waters.

[34][h] Indian left Britain on 23 May 1828 on her fifth voyage (and last for Enderby), bound for Timor and under Swain's command.

For her seventh voyage, she left Britain on 4 September 1835 bound for Timor, with J. Freeman, master, and T. Ward, owner.

She was bound for New Zealand and was reported at the Bay of Islands on 9 January 1846 with 75 tons oil, having been out 31 months.

She brought back 12 tanks blubber, 130 casks of sperm oil, and 54 [seal] skins.