She made one voyage to England carrying rice from Bengal on behalf of the British East India Company (EIC).

[9] She was built of teak and her actual carrying capacity (as distinct from her registered burthen), may have been on the order of 1300 tons.

[4] Lloyd's List reported on 21 August 1804 that a French squadron under the command of Admiral Linois' had captured Lucy Maria, and some other vessels, prior to 28 February as she was sailing from Bengal to China.

[19] The Asiatic Annual Register... reported under the rubric "Bengal — Occurrences for October, 1806" that one of the Dutch vessels that Greyhound and Harrier had captured was Lucy Maria.

[8] In 1810 the British Government detached Bombay Anna and Minerva, and two Calcutta ships, Oxford and Troubridge, from the rest of the transports and sent the four to the Cape of Good Hope to gather reinforcements.

[23][a] Trowbridge, Fairlie, Fergusson, and Co., owners, appeared in a list of vessels belonging to the port of Calcutta in January 1811.

Troubridge's third mate, a gunner, and another crewman were charged with having kidnapped a young girl at Sambas, in Borneo, and attempted to sell her as a slave at Semarang on 23 August.

The East-India Register and Directory for 1819 gives the name of Lucy Maria's owner as Fairlie & Co., and her port of registry as Calcutta.

[3] In 1816 Lucy and Maria, Captain A. Barclay, transported the 72nd Regiment of Foot from Calcutta to Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope.

East India Company to convey his Majesty’s 72d regiment from Calcutta to the Cape of Good Hope.

On the passage, during a calm, one of the privates was sitting in a port of the lower gun-deck, eating peas-soup out of an English quart tin pot; and, by carelessness, let the pot, with a portion of the soup, fall from his hand overboard; almost immediately after this, it was intimated to me a large shark was caught by the hook; a rope was got over his body, and he was hauled on deck.

As he was considered a very large one, most of the officers (sixteen in number) of the regiment, with myself, attended to examine the contents of the stomach, and, to our surprise, the tin pot entire, which the man had dropt overboard, was taken from the shark.

Major-General Monckton, who commanded the regiment, was present; Captain Moses Campbell, now on the retired list, and Lieut.

[31] The Register of Shipping for 1821 gives the name of Lucy Maria's master as Barclay, her owner as Fairlie & Co., and her trade as London–India.