Reaper later spent many years in Shetland fishing for herring in the summer and she was fitted with an engine between the Wars.

During World War II she was requisitioned by the Admiralty[1] and served in the southeast of England, often being used as a barrage balloon mooring.

[citation needed] From 1959 she served the local council as a general purpose cargo boat until the introduction of the roll on-roll off ferries when she was retired from service.

In 2001, with seven people aboard, she was the centre of an emergency off the coast of northeast England when she began to take on water due to the failure of a bilge pump.

[2] In August 2016 she was blown over and partially submerged in unseasonably strong winds while docked at Johnshaven Harbor in Aberdeenshire.