After she arrived at Plymouth the Royal Navy fitted her as a receiving ship in November 1797; she was sold in 1806.

To that end it sent nine ships of the Batavian Navy (including Castor, under Captain Claris), with 2,000 sailors and soldiers under the command of (temporary) Rear-Admiral Engelbertus Lucas in February 1796.

On 17 August the British captured the Dutch expeditionary force at Saldanha Bay in a bloodless "battle".

Most of the sailors and soldiers in the Dutch force were Germans and nearly all entered British service, either with the Royal Navy or the East India Company.

[2] (He and three other post captains had sailed as passengers on HMS Trusty to Cape Town late in the year to take command of captured ships.)