The EIC announced the sale on 30 April 1802 of 1,300 bags of rice that had come from Bengal on Georgiana in private trade.

[9] On Union's first voyage for the EIC Captain William Stokoe sailed from Calcutta on 17 January 1804, bound for England.

She sailed in company with Sir William Pulteney and reached St Helena on 28 June.

Union sailed from St Helena on 9 July in company with Sir William Pulteney and a third EIC "extra" ship, Eliza Ann.

At daylight on 22 August, the Indiamen sighted a French privateer brig that sailed towards them and engaged Union, which was the leading ship.

The engagement lasted about 20 minutes and the French vessel surrendered at 48°5′N 13°0′W / 48.083°N 13.000°W / 48.083; -13.000 after Eliza Ann and Sir William Pulteney came up.

She had a crew of 73 men (of whom five were away on prizes), under the command of Lieutenant Pierre Henri Nicholas Benamy of the French Navy.

[9]) She also had on board five men from a prize crew that HMS Wasp had put on a Spanish vessel that Venus had recaptured.

The next evening, west of Scilly, Venus parted from the Indiamen and headed for a British port.

[10][a] Sir William Pulteney, Eliza Ann, and Union arrived at The Downs on 2 September.

[1] After the Dutch Governor Jansens signed a capitulation on 18 January 1806, and the British established control of the Cape Colony, HMS Belliqueux escorted the East Indiamen William Pitt, Jane, Duchess of Gordon, Sir William Pulteney, Comet to Madras.

The convoy included the Northampton, Streatham, Europe, Union, Glory, and Sarah Christiana.

She was in convoy with Northampton, Sarah Christiana, Ann, Diana, Sir William Pulteney, and Glory.

Union, Captain Barker, left Bengal in December 1815, bound for Batavia, and nothing was heard of her for some 16 months.

There the inhabitants took them prisoner, stripped them naked, divided them into three groups, and put them to hard labour.

The ship Good Hope, with a surgeon and a party of troops had been dispatched from Fort Marlborough to rescue the prisoners.

The escapees stole two canoes that they tied together and succeeded in reaching Crooe,[c] from where they were forwarded to Fort Marlborough, where they arrived in January 1817.

The rescue party in Good Hope traded a variety of articles with the inhabitants for the captives.