1st voyage transporting enslaved people (1775): Captain John Dawson sailed from Liverpool on 7 April 1775.

[1] As she was coming over the bar the captives revolted and succeeded in killing the cooper and one or two seamen before the crew could re-establish control.

[10] 3rd voyage transporting enslaved people (1777–1778): Captain B. Cazneau sailed from Liverpool on 8 August 1778.

[10] The British Admiralty gave notice in April 1777, that they were ready to issue letters of marque for privateers against the Americans.

[14] On 18 December Bellona captured the sloop Canister, which was carrying 58 hogsheads of tobacco from Virginia to France.

She was sailing from St Ubes to South Carolina with a cargo of salt, wine, oil, fruit, soap, and several chests of arms.

4th voyage transporting enslaved people (1781–1783): Captain Francis Holland acquired a letter of marque on 11 September 1781.

She left the Bonny River and crossed the bar in company with Champion, but then became leaky and had to put into Prince's Island.

7th voyage transporting enslaved people (1786–1787): Captain John Smale sailed from Liverpool on 31 March 1786.

8th voyage transporting enslaved people (1788–1789): Captain Thomas Jolly sailed from Liverpool on 30 April 1788.

[24] Shortly after she left Liverpool, Lord Stanley, Jolly, master, had to put into Kindale as she had lost her main mast.

[24] 9th voyage transporting enslaved people (1790–1791): According to one source, Captain George Farquhar sailed for the West Coast of Africa on 24 July 1790.

[25] 10th voyage transporting enslaved people (1791–1792): Captain George Farquhar sailed for the West Coast of Africa on 17 December 1791.

11th voyage transporting enslaved people (1793–1794): War with France had broken out in February 1793 and Captain George Farquhar acquired a letter of marque on 1 March.

[29] Shortly after leaving Liverpool, Lord Stanley brought into Kinsale Julie Chere, of about 250 tons (bm).

[29] 12th voyage transporting enslaved people (1794–1796): Captain George Farquhar sailed from Liverpool on 22 October 1794.

She was sailing from St Kitts down the north side of San Domingo when on 30 October 1795 she encountered a French privateer schooner of 12 guns.

An inconclusive single ship action ensued but after 45 minutes the privateer broke off the engagement and sailed away.

[34] When Lord Stanley arrived at Liverpool she also brought the news that while she had been at Havana, the Spanish ship of the line San Lorenzo had arrived there carrying the "coffin, bones and fetters of Christopher Columbus" from San Domingo to be re-interred at Havana with "the highest military honours.

"[36] 13th voyage transporting enslaved people (1796–1797): Captain Edward Hollywood (or Holywood), acquired a letter of marque on 29 July 1796.

[37] 14th voyage transporting enslaved people (1798): Captain William Murdock sailed from Liverpool on 2 February 1798.

[42] 15th voyage transporting enslaved people (1799–1800): Captain William Murdock acquired a letter of marque on 26 January 1799.

[2] He sailed from Liverpool on 5 February,[43] but Lord Stanley had to put back after she had sprung her foremast in a gale.

[43] 16th voyage transporting enslaved people (1800–1801): Captain John Kirby acquired a letter of marque on 28 August 1800.

[2] He had been mate under Hugh Crow, a famed captain of enslaving ships, including Kitty's Amelia, which in 1807 was the last vessel to leave the United Kingdom on a legal slave trading voyage.

[46] Lloyd's List reported that Diana, of Liverpool, Ward, master, had wrecked on the Bonny Bar, but that the crew had been saved, and that Will and Lord Stanley had brought them into Jamaica.

[48] 17th voyage transporting enslaved people (1804–1805): Captain Thomas Livesley acquired a letter of marque on 21 June 1804.

[49] Before leaving Jamaica, Captain Livesley hired a black man, Potter Jackson, as his steward.

The floggings occurred repeatedly between 4 and 14 June, and Daniel Robinson, the second mate, also engaged at Jamaica, reported that Jackson had received over 1000 lashes.

The judge, Lord Ellenborough, stated that "such savage and unprovoked cruelty... had never before disgraced the Annals of a British Court of Justice".