British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a license from the EIC.

Forward and surgeon Peter Fisher, sailed from London on 20 December 1839 and arrived in Hobart, Tasmania on 28 March 1840.

[7] Immigrant transport (1841): Runnymede departed London on 25 April 1841 with 222 assisted emigrants, sponsored by a John Marshall.

[8] Runnymede left Gravesend on 20 June 1844, transporting elements of the British 10th and 50th Regiments of Foot, and their dependents, from England to Calcutta.

A cyclone wrecked Runnymede driving her ashore on 12 November 1844 in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.

The two vessels independently ended up wrecked on John Lawrence Island about a quarter of a mile apart.