[1] Sailed first to Charleston on 1 September 1823, under Captain Hugh Stewart,[2] and subsequently to Rio de Janeiro[3] and other ports in Brazil.
[7] On 5 June 1826, with Lalla Rookh described as "the fine new ship, burthen 400 tons",[a] she sailed to Madras, Penang and Singapore under Stewart.
[11] A wooden sailing vessel, 333 tons, built in 1825 by Thomas Metcalfe & Son in South Shields, "rigged as a Snow".
[12][b] She sailed firstly under Captain B. R. Jones, initially between British North America, including Quebec and Miramichi, and Liverpool,[13][14][15] and then (from 1828) in the Mediterranean.
[16][17] From around 1831 Lalla Rookh sailed under Captain Green, with voyages to Mobile, Alabama, Alexandria, Virginia,[18][19] New Orleans,[20] Charleston,[21][22] and Quebec.
[23] A "new coppered and copper-fastened brig" of 284 tons burthen, advertised for freight or passengers for a voyage from Greenock to New Orleans by or on 1 June 1826.
[31] A barque, 372 tons, built in St Helier, Jersey, used to transport emigrants to the colony of South Australia, first sailing April 1840.
[34] A smack, Lalla Rookh, assisted the US ship Trident after she ran aground on the Cork Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex.
[39][40][d] In November 1852 she towed the schooner Alcyon in to Harwich, Essex, after she was discovered abandoned in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent, England.
[42] Wrecked December 1873 at Prawle Point, Devon, returning to Britain fully laden with tea and tobacco.
Reported broken up June 1876, but re-registered on 14 September 1876, with different tonnage, said to be built at North Shore, Auckland, in July 1876 by different shipbuilders, and with a single engine of 15 hp.
[53] Built in Liverpool, was the first ship to transport Indian indentured workers from British India to the Dutch colony of Suriname.
[62][63] A schooner on Lake Michigan, 60.34 ton, built in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, by James Butler 2 February 1881, launched on 4 August 1881.
[64] Lalla Rookh II was built in 1956 by R J Prior & Son in Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, as a research vessel, but styled as a fishing boat.
After a somewhat chequered history, she is now based at Clydebank in Scotland after being restored as an historic vessel, and (as of January 2021[update]) may be privately chartered for excursions.
[65] October 1826: Imports brought on Lalla Rookh under Captain J. M. Anthony, from Sierra Leone and "Isle de Loss" - 176 elephant teeth, palm oil, camwood, animal hides, etc.
[78] On 29 August 1835 Lalla Rookh under Captain Mackie (sic), bound for Maranham, "was on shore near the Magazines, but got off last night without apparent damage, and proceeded this afternoon".
[79] On 16 January 1836, Lalla Rookh under Captain Mackay, arrived in Liverpool, and reported having seen an abandoned and waterlogged unnamed vessel en route across the Atlantic.
[88] On 17 January 1843, Lalla Rookh arrived at Clyde from Demerara (then a county in British Guiana famed for its sugar) under Burrows.
[106] The boat was in distress in a storm 3 miles (4.8 km) off the coast, and 11 fishermen set out on board a small ferry, the Britannia.
[107] The second boat put 16 (or 6) hands on the deck of Lalla Rookh to help with rigging a jury mainmast[108] and to guide her safely to port,[104] and she was seen "to bend a new foretopsail" at 4pm.
[109] A newspaper report on 5 December says that once the storm abated, she would be taken to Newhaven, a port in East Sussex;[110][111] later accounts record that she was escorted to London by a lugger.