Royal Bounty was launched in South Carolina in 1770, probably as George and Sarah.

[1] Circa 1785 new owners renamed George and Sarah to Royal Bounty; she also underwent a thorough repair.

Although there is no online copy of LR for 1785, there is a press report that she had returned to Leith from Greenland in August 1785 "clean", i.e., without having caught anything.

Royal Bounty, Ritch, master, was wrecked on 16 July 1819.

She was one of 10 whalers lost within a few days of each other in the Davis Strait due to gales in the ice fields.