She immediately transferred to British registry and spent a number of years trading across the Atlantic.

& Co.[2] Manchester Packet 20 December 1814 engaged an American privateer and had to refit at Salvador, Bahia.

In 1824 Manchester Packet twice carried specie in the form of dollars from Havre, France, to New York at the behest of the U.S. Government.

[5] Whaling voyage #1 (1828–1829): Captain Maxwell (or Marshall) Griffing sailed from New London in May 1828.

[6] Whaling voyage #2 (1829–1830): Captain James Fordham sailed from New London in June 1829.

Lloyd's List reported on 18 September 1835 that Manchester Packet, Reid, master, had put into the River Gambia on 27 August, leaky.