While he was preparing, storms scattered the invasion transports, with heavy loss of life, and ended the immediate threat.

LR for 1784 showed Duke of York's name changing to Elizabeth and Margaret, though she remained a Greenland whaler.

[8] 1st southern whaling voyage (1788–1789): Captain James Hopper sailed from London on 16 October 1788, bound for the coast of Patagonia.

In April 1789 Elizabeth and Margaret and Sappho were in Port Desire when a Spanish frigate arrived and confiscated thousands of seal skins they had gathered.

On 22 February 1790 Elizabeth and Margaret and Lucy were at Table Bay when HMS Guardian arrived in great distress and unable to make her way into safety.

Elizabeth and Margaret and Lucy (Captain William Gardiner Dyer), and some other whalers despatched seven boats and helped bring her in.

[10] Elizabeth and Margaret returned via Saint Helena and Cabo Verde, arriving back in London on 20 September 1790.