[3] He sailed from Spithead, England on 21 June 1801 in convoy with Canada and Nile, and reached Rio de Janeiro on 29 August.

The 1804 volume of the Register of Shipping lists her master as Sanster, her owner as F. Hurry, and her trade as London transport.

She had left on 28 October under the command of Captain Wood, in company with Esther, Ariel, and a schooner, all under the escort of HMS Peterell.

They arrived at the Charleston bar on 3 November and took on board pilots, who informed them of the presence of the French privateer Creole.

[12] The men from the privateer then proceeded to murder her captain and a number of her crew before taking her into St. Marys, Georgia, on 11 November.