A group of passengers on an EIC ship traveling to China went ashore at Java for a picnic.

One of the ship's officers led an armed party that succeeded in rescuing the young girl.

[5] Java bore a figurehead depicting a young girl with her hands crossed over her breast.

[6] Java first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1813 with Dennison, master, Paxton & Co. owner, and trade London–India.

Her owner, Joseph Hare, who had purchased her in 1825,[2] offered her to the EIC, which chartered her to bring teas from China back from Bengal.

Java sailed from London and Plymouth, England, in October 1839 and arrived in Gulf St Vincent off Adelaide, South Australia, on 6 February 1840.

He chartered her to the British government as a troop carrier visiting North America, the West Indies, South Africa and New Zealand.