[4] LR shows Harriet, Jones, master, leaving for Bombay on 8 July 1817, sailing under a licence from the British East India Company.

Harriet arrived at Hobart Town on 21 March 1817,[6] and at Port Jackson on 11 May 1817 from London, with passengers and merchandise.

Harriet arrived at Sydney in ballast on 12 February 1819; she sailed for the whale fishery on 6 March.

[10] 2nd whaling voyage (1822–1825): Captain William Anderson sailed from London on 4 December 1822, bound for the New south Wales fishery and New Zealand.

She arrived back in Port Jackson on 29 April 1824 from New Zealand with 125 tons of sperm oil, which she may have transshipped.

Captain Edward Reed (or Reid, or Poad) sailed from London on 15 May 1826, bound for the Sandwich Islands.

Then Harriet, whaler, of 417 tons (bm) and 34 men, was reported to have been at San Francisco in October 1831.

Harriet reported that Captain McLean had died, and that the other officers and crew were refusing to obey Mr. Long as commander.

On 14 October 1833 Harriet, Skey, master, was wrecked on Île Poivre (Pepper Island; 5°46′S 53°19′E / 5.767°S 53.317°E / -5.767; 53.317), in the Seychelles, while on a whaling voyage.

[14][15] French sources state that the whaler Harriet, Skey, master, was wrecked on 6 October 1833 on a horseshoe reef near Île Poivre.