Robert entered Lloyd's Register in 1815 as an American prize.

Until 1822 the brig was a West Indiaman based in Liverpool and sailing to the Bahamas or Havana.

On 2 February 1817 Lloyd's List reported that Robert, Wilkes, master, had been sailing from New Providence to Liverpool when she struck a reef off Egg Island and had to put back for repairs.

[6] He sailed her to go seal hunting in the South Shetland Islands, where she was lost on 7 March 1822.

[6] Robert Fyldes had visited Desolation Island and the South Shetlands in 1820–1821 as captain of Cora,[8] owned by his father-in-law Henry Wood.