Mariner first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1804 with J.Askew, master and owner, and trade Dublin–Whitehaven.

[1] On 1 July 1813 the American privateer Yankee, of eighteen 12-pounder guns and one 18-pounder captured Mariner, Fraser.

[2] Yankee paroled Mariner's master and crew, put them on a boat, and permitted them to land.

In February 1820 Mariner, Richmond, master, was driven ashore near Castletown, Isle of Man.

[10][a] The next report was that her crew had abandoned Mariner in the Atlantic Ocean on 23 August while she was on a voyage from Ayr to Richibucto, New Brunswick.