She was built in Lincoln, New Brunswick, Canada as a three-masted barque with square stern, no galleries, and a bust figurehead.

[1] In 1829 she was re-registered with an altered construction comprising square rig, sham quarter galleries, and a female figurehead.

Her first voyage proper was to the Swan River Colony, departing Gravesend on 11 October 1829.

Other ships that arrived in 1830 included: Calista, St. Leonard, Marquis of Anglesea (wrecked), Thomson, Amity, Georgia, Lotus, Tranby, Warrior, Britannia, Wanstead, Hooghly, Atwick, Governor Phillip, Euphemia, Aurelia, Orelia, Cumberland, Caroline, Admiral Gifford, Lion, Dragon, Gilmore, Norfolk, Nancy, Leda, and Skerne.

On 9 July, Protector, Lewis, master, having come from New Orleans, grounded in Prince's Basin, Liverpool, as she was setting out for Savannah, but was gotten off and brought into dock.