She made two complete voyages under charter to the British East India Company before she burnt at Madras in 1801 in an accident.

On 16 December 1795 Nieuwland put into Plymouth on her way home from the Dutch East Indies.

[3] The convoy reached Lombock and Bali in late September,[4] and arrived at Whampoa on 2 December.

[4] She reached Malacca on 30 January and Penang on 9 February, before arriving at Kedgeree, an anchorage on the Hooghly River, on 1 March.

[4] Malabar then sailed back to Bengal with a cargo of salt, 75 "Chests of Treasure", and troops from either the 10th or 19th Regiment of Foot.

She then took on a cargo of sugar and a number of passengers, including 37 military invalids, and ten French prisoners.

[2] Messrs Princip & Saunders had tendered her to the EIC to bring back rice from Bengal.

However, Malabar's entire cargo, comprising some 12-13,000 bags of rice, as well as coffee and pepper, "and many articles of still greater value" was lost.

It was so strong that it threw up on the beach the entire bottom of a ship of about 800 tons burthen.

Captain Kent, who happened to be at Madras at the time, conjectured that the remains came from Malabar.