Liberty entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1787 with T.Clark, master, Lucas, owner, and trade London–Southern Fishery.

Liberty was reported to have been in the Brazils in late 1787 and the Falkland Islands in January 1788, together with a number of other whalers.

[1] Liberty, Clark, master, sailed from Dover on 28 September 1790, bound for the South Seas.

[6] There was a report that Liberty, Clark, master, had been lost in the South Seas,[7] and she subsequently disappeared from LR.

Captain Benjamin Baxter sailed from London on 27 August 1792, bound for the South Seas.