She traded with India and Australia and thrice carried free immigrants to New South Wales under private charter.

On 29 January 1813 HMS Achates captured the American ship Orbit, of 390 tons (bm), six guns, and 25 men.

She entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1813 with Niels, master, Crawford, owner, and trade Plymouth-West Indies.

[1] What enables one to make the link between Orbit and Hugh Crawford is a mistake in the Register of Shipping (RS) in 1814.

The privateer wanted to put 38 Spanish prisoners on Hugh Crawford but Athol refused to take them.

By the 1825 issue Orbit had disappeared from the RS, and both registers were in essential agreement on Hugh Crawford.

She also carried such cargo as sheep, horned cattle, horses, mail, merchant goods, and timber.

Thomas Potter Macqueen chartered Hugh Crawford to carry emigrants from England to New South Wales.

[11] From Sydney Hugh Crawford sailed on 10 June to Batavia, Dutch East Indies, via the Torres Islands.

She sustained little damage, but Langdon published a letter in The Australian thanking the commanders of HMS Warspite and Volage for the assistance they had rendered.

[13] On 23 March 1827 Langdon sailed Hugh Crawford from Hobart, Tasmania, en route to England via Cape Horn.