At the Battle of Pulo Aura the Fleet, under the leadership of Commodore Nathaniel Dance, managed to bluff a French squadron of a 74-gun third rate, two frigates, and two corvettes, into withdrawing after an exchange of long-distance fire.

In August 1804 Admiral Linois was cruising in the Indian Ocean in Marengo, together with the frigates Atalante and Sémillante.

On the 18th, near Desnoeufs Island they encountered and captured two British merchant men, Charlotte and Upton Castle.

[6] How Charlotte and Upton Castle returned to British hands is currently obscure.

In 1808 Captain Purefoy, of Charlotte observed a reef that was later determined to be at 21°35′N 121°50′E / 21.583°N 121.833°E / 21.583; 121.833,[7] about 100 miles ESE of the southernmost point on Taiwan.

British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a licence from the EIC.

[1] On 25 February 1825 as Charlotte returned from London she stopped at Cannanore where she picked up troops from the 20th Regiment of Foot.

It consisted of iron and steel, canvas, cordage, masts and spars, spelter, and turpentine.

The cutter swamped in the surf, drowning one European apprentice and a native seaman.

Near noon Charlotte's master and the remaining crew left her on a raft they had constructed.

There the British East India Company's agent facilitated their reaching Bombay.