Comet entered Lloyd's Register in 1800 with E. Tate, master, Lyall, owner, and trade London–Trinidad.

Between September and October 1810 Spy was at Woolwich undergoing fitting as a store ship.

[1] Lloyd's List reported on 17 May 1811 that the store ship Spy had arrived at Portsmouth two days earlier after having left Gibraltar on 29 April in a convoy of some 16 vessels under the escort of HMS Wolverine.

[4] On 10 December 1812 Spy repelled an attack by a French privateer schooner of 10 guns and 120 men in an action that lasted 50 minutes.

[5] Lloyd's List reported on 5 January 1813 that the store ship Spy had come into Cork.

[1] Comet, of 275 tons (bm), British built, reappeared in Lloyd's Register in 1814 with Wilcocson, master, Parker & Co., owner, and trade London–Quebec.