Daniel Bennett, one of the leading owners of whalers plying the Southern Whale Fishery purchased her.

New Zealander first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1808 with W. Elder, master, Bennett, owner, and trade London–South Seas.

[4] In March 1810, half-a-dozen whalers gathered in Bay of Islands and launched a retributionary attack on the Maori.

The vessels involved in the attack were Atalanta, Inspector, New Zealander, Perservernce, Speke, and Spring Grove.

Captain Donnemann / George Denman (or Donneman) sailed from England in 1812, bound for the Galápagos Islands.

USS Essex captured New Zealander c.13 July 1813 in the Galápagos in the action off Charles Island.