Lord Hawkesbury reached St Helena on 26 March, Bencoolen on 8 July, and Whampoa anchorage on 5 October.

Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 27 December, reached St Helena on 29 April 1789, and arrived at The Downs on 9 July.

Homeward bound she was at Kedgeree on 17 January 1792, reached Rat Island (Bencoolen) on 17 February and St Helena on 4 June, and arrived at The Downs on 10 August.

[2] Lord Hawkesbury was one of 39 Indiamen that the British government held back for a planned, and later canceled, attack on Mauritius.

While Lord Hawkesbury was at St Helena, the 64-gun third rate HMS Sceptre arrived with the convoy of HEIC ships sailing to India and China.

The assembled vessels at St Helena received word that a convoy of Dutch East Indiamen would pass by, sailing from the Cape back to Holland.

Lord Hawkesbury reached the Cape of Good Hope on 19 September and Madras on 9 January 1797, and arrived at Kedgeree on 27 February and Diamond Harbour on 2 April.

[3] The British government chartered Lord Hawkesbury, together with numerous other Indiamen and country ships, to serve as a transport in a planned attack on Manila.

[3] The EIC charged the British government some £4312 10s for demurrage for the 207 days delay to Lord Hawkesbury's original voyage.

[3] She left Madras on 8 September, together with Airly Castle, Duke of Montrose, Baring, and Devaynes, and under escort by HMS Weymouth, herself a former Indiaman.