She appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1844 with J.Terry, master, J. Allan, owner, and trade London-India.

[3] Scindian left Portsmouth on 4 March 1850 under the command of Captain James Cammell and surgeon-superintendent John Gibson, and docked at Fremantle on 1 June 1850 after a voyage of 89 days.

[4] The vessel carried 275 people to Western Australia including 75 male convicts and 163 military pensioners.

After the pensioners arrived, the governor of the colony inducted 100 of them into an armed constabulary force; one of their first tasks was building the prison.

Passengers on Scindian included Thomas Hill Dixon, Edmund Henderson and George Throssell.