The Register of Shipping for 1811 showed her master changing from W. Pixley to J. Richards, her owner from Henry & Co. to Gibbons, and her trade from London–Hayti to London–South Seas.

[4] Early in 1813 the Spanish privateer Santa Teresa detained Hector off Peru's Punta Aguja on suspicion of dealing in contraband.

The court then reduced the fine to 300 pesos in response to his pleas and in consideration of the alliance between Spain and England.

[6] In the action off James Island on 28 May 1813 Lieutenant John Downes, of the U.S. Navy, in the captured British whaler Georgiana, exchanged broadsides with Hector.

[7] Before he did so, he had the prisoners swear not to take up arms against the United States until they had been formally exchanged, and he further threw her guns overboard, as well as her cargo of sperm oil.

[9] Actually, Downes sailed Georgiana, Catherine, and Hector to rendezvous with Captain Porter and the USS Essex there.