She wrecked on 22 January 1804, as she was returning from the West Indies where she had landed her captives at Trinidad.

Lloyd's List reported on 14 November 1794, that Sovereign, Benn, master, was one of seven transports that had sailed to Toulon from Corsica as cartels, carrying prisoners.

[6] Voyage transporting enslaved people (1802–Loss): Captain John Ward sailed from London on 7 November 1802.

[9] Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 3 September 1803, that Sovereign, late Ward, had arrived at Suriname from Africa and was bound for Trinidad.

[7] On 22 January 1804, Sovereign, B.Richardson, master, struck the Smith's Rocks, a submerged reef in the Irish Sea off Ballycotton, County Cork.

She was carrying sugar, coffee, indigo, hides, and elephants' teeth (ivory).

When the weather abated, people on shore launched boats to retrieve whatever flotsam they could, to secret it.