As a privateer she captured a Spanish vessel in a notable single ship action that earned her captain an honour sword.

Kitty entered Lloyd's Register in 1800 with Redemayne, master, Miller & Co., owners, and trade Lancaster–St Kitts[6] The Register of Shipping for 1805 showed Kitty with K. Mallet, master, Clays, owner, and trade London-Government service.

[4] In March 1805 Kitty sailed for the South Seas, which has led the leading sources on the ships of the British Southern Whale Fishery to classify her as a whaler.

[5] On 10 March, while under the command of Thomas Musgrave, she captured the Spanish privateer Felicity (or Felicidad) in the Channel.

[9] Kitty's owner and the Lloyd's Patriotic Fund presented Commander Musgrave with an honour sabre worth 30 pounds for the action.

[12] That month she was at Maldonado, Uruguay, where Sir Home Riggs Popham, who was leading a British invasion of the Rio Plate hired her to take Mr. Blennerhassett, purser of Raisonable, to Rio de Janeiro to buy supplies and to convey a message.

[3] Whaling voyage #1 (1830–1835): Although the date that Kitty left England is obscure, she was reported to have been at Guam on 7 August and 5 December 1832, and Honolulu between 1 and 5 April 1833.

She had sailed under the command of S. Barney, and she returned to England on 16 February 1835 with Sam Barry Whitton as master.

[3] Whaling voyage #3 (1838–1841): Captain George Benson sailed from England on 21 June, bound for Timor.

Lloyd's Register for 1847 listed her master as J. Romley, her owner as Coates & Co., and her location as London, with no trade given.