Following trading with Central and South America, she made two voyages under charter to the British East India Company (EIC) between 1811 and 1814.

On 23 February 1816, Minerva, James Mackie, master, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope from Quebec.

Convict voyage #1 (1818): Minerva sailed from Cork on 1 January 1818 and arrived at Port Jackson on 30 April.

[11] She had embarked 160 male convicts; three were left in Port Jackson and the remaining 157 were transported on to Hobart Town, where they arrived on 7 June 1818.

Convict voyage #2 (1819): Minerva sailed from Cork on 26 August 1819 and arrived at Port Jackson on 17 December.

[12] Convict voyage #3 (1821): Minerva sailed from Sheerness on 1 August 1821 and arrived at Port Jackson on 16 December.

[15] In January 1822 Lloyd's List reported that on 14 December Minerva, Bell, master, had been driven out of Aberdeen Bay and had taken refuge at Long Hope, where she found 15 vessels detained by contrary winds.

On 1 July 1823 Lloyd's List reported that Minerva, Bell, master, had been taking in a cargo at Bengal on 14 February for her homeward journey.

She had undergone repairs there, having lost her false keel and sustained other damage when she hit a sunken rock off "the Nicobar".

[17] Then on 11 November Lloyd's List passed on a report that Minerva, Bell, master, on her way from New South Wales, had put into Valparaiso in distress and had been condemned there.