In 1791 she transported convicts to New South Wales and then began whale hunting around New Zealand; she returned to England in 1793.

She then began trading widely, to Bahia, Bombay, Archangel, Spain, Honduras, and the Mediterranean.

Under the command of Master Eber Bunker, she departed Plymouth as part of the third fleet on 27 March 1791, and arrived on 28 August 1791 in Port Jackson, New South Wales.

[9] In April 1802 William and Ann, Kelly, master, sailed from Leith for Davis Strait, but had to put back into Stromness, leaky.

[10] The data below for the period between 1814 and 1839 comes primarily from Coltish,[11] though amended or corrected with reports in the contemporary press.