The journal of van Willem Veerman, a junior officer serving on Havik, is a little a little unclear about where around Batavia she was built.

His journal says, in translation "This ship was built in the town of Lassem, on the north shore of Java near The city of Cheribon.

Havik (Hawk) was built as a merchant ship, and now bought for the government and put into service.

English account: HMS Thistle gave chase to a vessel hat she had encountered.

[5] Dutch sources: Havik, Lieutenant Steelingh, captain, had an estimated burthen of 200–250 tons (bm).

[7] Peter Proctor, Bouner, master, first appeared in online records when on 30 December 1810 she sailed from Gravesend with the West Indies fleet, bound for St Kitts.

On 27 September 1822 Peter Proctor, Brown, master, ran ashore on the lower part of the Knock Sand.

She was stuck for three days, but was gotten off with the assistance of the revenue cutter Fox, Lieutenant St. John, and two fishing vessels.

[11] On 26 June 1828 Peter Proctor, Black, master, ran aground at Skanör med Falsterbo as she was sailing from London to St Petersburg.

With the ceasing of convict transportation to New South Wales becoming imminent by the late 1830s, the colonists there sought a substitute source of cheap labour.

In 1837 a Committee on Immigration identified the possibility of importing coolies from India and China as a solution.

John Mackay, an owner of indigo plantations in Bengal and a distillery in Sydney, organised the import of 42 coolies from India who arrived on 24 December 1837 on board Peter Proctor.