She left Liverpool on 2 January 1799, bound for West Central Africa and Saint Helena.

[3] Royal George appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1805 with J. Walker, master, Kirkpatrick, owner, and trade Liverpool–Africa.

A report from France dated 10 February 1805 stated that the French privateer Adolphe had captured the three-masted ship Royal George off the Isle of Wight.

Royal George, of London, had a crew of ten and was carrying ivory, corn, flour, iron, tin, dye wood, and the like.

[4] A report dated 14 February stated that Adolphe had taken into Boulogne a British ship carrying flour, dye wood, lead, tin plates, etc.