Mercury was launched at Calcutta in 1806.

On 5 April 1807 Mercury Packet, Taylor, master, arrived at Falmouth.

She had left Bengal on 24 November 1806 and St Helena on 5 February 1806.

[3][a] Mercury Packet arrived at Gravesend on 13 April.

[5] In November 1818 the British East India Company's (EIC) hired armed ship Mercury, Captain John James Robson Bowman, sailed with the expedition to the Straits of Malacca under Stamford Raffles.