Gaetano Andrea Schembri, consul for Ottoman Tripolitania, purchased "Transfer" at Malta. Tripoli then used her in blockade running during the Barbary Wars. , commanded by Lieutenant Charles Stewart, captured her off Tripoli on 18 or 21 March 1804. The Americans captured her for violating the conditions for the pass under which she had permission to pass through the blockade of the port of Tripoli.