She was registered in London, and made voyages to India, British Guiana, Australia, and New Zealand.

In 1841 Whitby, Arrow, and Will Watch carried surveyors and labourers for the New Zealand Company to prepare plots for the first settlers (scheduled to follow five months later).

[2] In May 1838, she brought the first 270 apprenticed East Indian hill coolie migrants from Calcutta to Berbice and Demerara in British Guiana for Gillanders, Abuthnot and Co.[3] In 1839 Whitby transported 133 female convicts to Sydney.

Under the command of Captain Thomas Wellbank, she left Dublin on 18 February and arrived at Sydney on 23 June.

[10] On 3 November, while under the command of Captain James Swinton, Whitby arrived at Nelson, New Zealand, with the Will Watch and Arrow.

[11] Ownership changed in 1843 when she sold to Thomas Hawson in Moulmein, Burma, then part of British India.

[17] She was sailing under Captain Bruce with a full cargo of timber when she was lost on Tory Shoal at Kaipara on 24 April 1853.