On her first voyage as to gather captives she detained a neutral vessel, an action that resulted in a court case.

4th whaling voyage (1789): Captain Gardner was reported to have been at 5°S 8°E / 5°S 8°E / -5; 8 (about 270 miles west of Pointe-Noire), with about 250 barrels of sperm oil.

Lloyd's List reported on 22 January 1790 that Nimble, Gardner, master, was on shore at Leigh (possibly Leigh-on-Sea), while on her way to the South Fishery.

[3] 9th whaling voyage (1797–1798): Captain Holland Barton sailed from Deal, bound for the South Seas via Portsmouth, on 17 August 1797.

[7] Immediately subsequent issues of LR and the Register of Shipping showed Nimble still sailing to the South Seas.

1st voyage transporting enslaved people (1799–1800): Captain James Blake acquired a letter of marque on 12 March 1799.

[1] In March, off Cape Finisterre, Blake stopped the Danish brig Rebecca by firing a warning shot and then ramming into her, putting his own men aboard.

On his return, Captain Brunn discovered that Blake and his men had vandalized Rebecca, and made off with portable valuables and a sack of silver.

Brunn sued Blake before the King's Bench, but on 18 December 1801 the judge dismissed the suit on the grounds that there had been no personal injury; the jury agreed.

[12] 2nd voyage transporting enslaved people (1800–1801): Captain Thomas Nuttall acquired a letter of marque on 13 June 1800.

[13] In May Lloyd's List reported that the French privateer Braave had captured Nimble, Nuttell, master, as she was sailing from Demerara to Liverpool.

The source for this data does not show any losses on the homeward-bound leg of the voyages,[16] perhaps because Révolutionnaire had recaptured Nimble.

[11] On 17 July 1804, Nimble, Bridge, master, was passing Barbados when she would have been captured had not Mary Ann accompanied her for three days.

[19] In September 1804 Lloyd's List reported that Nimble, Bridges, master, had arrived at St Thomas's from Africa and had sold her captives there.

[20] The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade database reported that Nimble, Bridges, master, had been wrecked after she had disembarked her captives.