On 31 December October 1771, departing from Texel, she made her first voyage to Batavia under command of Pieter Sijbrandsz Flout.

She started her return voyage on 21 January 1775, and arrived in Texel on 17 July 1775, having stopped at the Cape of Good Hope.

[1] On 15 January 1781 Honkoop returned from Guangzhou, China to the Dutch Republic with a cargo value of ƒ 657,335 for the Chamber of Zeeland [nl].

[3] After the regular intermediate stop at Cape of Good Hope between 31 March and 13 June 1781, she was captured as part of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War during the Battle of Saldanha Bay by a squadron of Royal Navy warships under the command of Commodore George Johnstone.

Honkoop was lost in January 1782 as the result of a gale in the Indian Ocean and believed to have foundered with all hands.