Her owners may have intended to send her to the South Seas as a whaler in 1786, but there is no evidence that she actually made such a voyage.

A Baltimore privateer captured Dominica Packet in 1813, but the British Royal Navy quickly recaptured her.

[5] Capture of Galga: Alfred, Dominica Packet, and Intrepid, all Liverpool letters of marque, were sailing in company with Captain John Pettigrew of Intrepid serving as commodore of the squadron, when on 22 June 1801, they encountered the Spanish frigate-built ship Galgo at 18°25′N 40°10′W / 18.417°N 40.167°W / 18.417; -40.167.

Galgo, of 600 tons (bm), was armed with twenty-four six-pounder guns and had a crew of 78 men under the command of Francisco de Pascadeilo.

[c] On 28 November Dominica Packet was at Cork when a storm capsized Dumfries, which had her master and four men aboard.

[13][d] On 12 May 1805, as Dominica Packet was sailing from Liverpool to Barbados, she sighted a French fleet near Martinique.

[14] In 1807, Dominica Packet, Cowall, master, captured a Dutch East Indiaman sailing under American colours and brought her into Trinidad.

[16] When Dominica Packet, Rising, master, returned to Liverpool from Para she fell over in the dock and proceeded to fill with water at every tide.

[17] Capture and recapture: on 6 March 1813, Dominica Packet, of Liverpool, was sailing from Demerara bound for St. Thomas with rum, sugar, cotton, and coffee when she encountered the Baltimore privateer Comet.

Midas, of the United States, rescued her crew and passengers, and delivered them to Lisbon on 27 January.