She carried immigrants to Quebec, traded with Batavia and Bombay, transported convicts to Van Diemen's Land, and made a voyage to Calcutta for the British East India Company (EIC).

[4] On 24 September 1816 Stakesby, Gransmore, master, was returning from Jamaica when she ran aground at South Sand Head.

In July 1818 Stakesby, Wheatley, master, from London to Petersburg, ran on shore on Saltholm, Denmark, at the end of August, but was got off with assistance and proceeded.

Bomanjee had built Salsette of teak at the Bombay Dockyard and Henderson attributed her survival to the quality of her construction.

[1] EIC voyage (1830–1831): Captain Thomas Johnson sailed Stakesby from the Downs on 7 June 1830, bound for Bengal.

Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 2 February 1831, reached Saint Helena on 27 April, and arrived at her moorings in England on 27 June.

H. Allen & Company, 1835 Mentions of Stakesby during the 1835–1840 period suggest that she served the British government as a transport.

[19] On 10 June 1837 there was a report that the transport Stakesby, with a detachment of the 43rd Regiment of Foot, had gone onshore at the Old Head of Kinsale.

[20] In 1839 Stakesby stopped at The Brazils on her way to deliver stores to Saint Helena and marines to Ascension Island.