She was taken in prize and became a Liverpool-based slave ship in the triangular trade of enslaved people.

Roe first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR), in 1797, with Carlisle, master, John Shaw, owner, and trade Liverpool–Africa.

[4] Roe stopped in Barbados and on 1 March 1798, arrived at Demerara where she landed 394 captives.

[3] Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 3 August 1798 that Roe, Carlisle, master, from Demerara to Liverpool, had been captured and taken into Guadeloupe.

[7] In 1801, John Shaw would own a second slave ship named Roe that would make four voyages transporting enslaved people.