When convicts took over Trial on 12 September 1816, the government chartered Rosetta for £200, put a detachment of troops from the 46th Regiment on her, and sent her in pursuit.

[4] The government in Tasmania purchased Rosetta circa November 1818 to service the settlements in Van Diemen's Land, and renamed the brig Prince Leopold.

[6] Around midnight on 28 October 1822 Actaeon, from Mauritius and bound for Sydney struck the rocks in D'Entrecasteaux Channel and the crew abandoned ship.

She was carrying five bushrangers who had been captured: Matthew Brady, Goodwin, Patrick Bryant, Thomas Jeffrey, and John Perry.

On 29 June 1827 Hope, of 231 tons (bm), Cunningham, master, grounded on a beach opposite Betsey's Island as she was coming into Hobart from Sydney.

[11] Prince Leopold returned to Hobart on 30 July with a full cargo of oil that she had gathered at Adventure Bay.

[14] While Mary Elizabeth, Lovatt, master, was at Cloudy Bay the local Maori took her boat, gear, dead whales, and whatever else they could.