Pusey Hall was launched at Brockbank's Yard in Lancaster for James Moore & Co., who intended her for the Jamaica trade.

[a] On 23 April 1819, Thorn, Ashcroft, master, was at Barbados when a gust of wind pushed her on her beam ends (side).

This caused 20 hogsheads of sugar, which was on deck, to shift all the way to her larbord bulwarks, leading observers to fear that she would be lost.

[5] From about July 1819 on, Pusey Hall's master was Foster, and she started trading between London and Quebec.

By 1820 Head was again master, and Pusey Hall was again trading with he West Indies, including Barbados.

In 1830 the shipowner William Mellish purchased Pusey Hall to sail her as a whaler in the southern whale fishery.

[b] 1st whaling voyage (1830–1833): Captain Robert Newby sailed from England on 18 June 1830, bound for the Japans.

[3] Pusey Hall arrived back at England on 5 September 1833 with 400 casks of whale oil.

[7] On 10 April 1839 Kingston foundered in the Atlantic Ocean while on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to New York, United States.

On 1 March 1845 Pusey Hall, Ware, master, was at Possession Island, loading guano.

[9][c] Pusey Hall was reported on 29 January 1848 to have stranded and been condemned at Santa Cruz, Patagonia.

Prior to sailing for the Falkland Islands, Pusey Hall had spent her time on the Patagonian coast gathering guano.

On 4 August 1846 she had sailed for Fort William on Soledad (East Falkland) Island to seek out provisions.