Her loss resulted in a court case in which her insurers refused to pay on the grounds that her owners had not fully disclosed their plans.

She and an enslaving vessel that the same privateer captured proved to be notably profitable prizes for her captor.

When that did not occur, her owners decided to send her to Africa to gather dyewood, ivory, bees wax, palm oil, etc.

[2] What her owners did not reveal to their insurers was that in October 1802, they had sent out a smaller vessel, George, to acquire a cargo for herself, and to contract for one for Imperial.

She also contracted for barwood for Imperial, which was expected some two months later, and then sailed to the Cameroons and Calabar for ivory, palm oil, and the like.

While there, there was a mutiny aboard Imperial that resulted in the deaths of several crew members and delayed her.

They argued that it resulted in Imperial being on the coast of Africa longer than they had anticipated when they set their rates, and so increased their risk.

[10] Imperial was one of two ships that the French privateer Mon Oncle Thomas captured in 1804.

French sources give the dates of capture as 30 January 1804 for Venus and 17 March for Imperial.

[11] At Cayenne, Captain Papin, of Mon Oncle Thomas, sold Venus and Imperial, and their cargoes.

In July 1806, Lloyd's List reported that a French privateer had captured Imperial, Galt, master, as she was sailing from Jamaica Liverpool.