She made two voyages for the British East India Company and then traded with the West Indies.

Pursuit enters Lloyd's Register in 1795 with J. Barker, master, Atty, owner, and trade London-East India.

Homeward bound, she was at Fultah (possibly the present day Falta), on 27 March, and reached St Helena on 21 July and Crookhaven on 26 November.

Homeward bound, she was at Culpee (an anchorage towards Calcutta, and just below Diamond Harbour), on 30 November, and reached St Helena on 2 March 1798 and Cork on 25 June.

While Pursuit had been sailing from London to Jamaica, she had repelled an attack by a French privateer, but at the cost of the death of all her officers, except her master, who had been severely wounded.

[8] One report has Pursuit parting from her convoy on 23 August 1806 on passage from Jamaica for London in the 1806 Great Coastal hurricane and not being heard of again.

The other vessel that Lloyd's List mentions as being captured was Argo, Middleton, master, sailing from Pernambuco.

[15][b] Later, the British Royal Navy captured Atlas and took her into service as HMS St Lawrence.