She was part of a convoy under escort by HMS Seahorse that also included General Stuart, Manship, Sarah Christiana, Northampton, Sovereign, Caledonia, Ann, Princess Mary, Varuna, Carron, Elizabeth, Monarch, and Friendship.

[2] Prior to Comet's ill-fated, second voyage for the EIC, Captain James Moring received a letter of marque on 20 May 1803.

[2][8] The French squadron, which consisted of five ships of the line and some frigates, had been returning to France from San Domingo.

The French had sold Comet at A Coruña (across the bay from Ferrol), to an American company in London.

While she was on her way, HMS Northumberland, flagship to Admiral Alexander Cochrane, detained her and sent her into Plymouth, where she arrived on 2–3 September 1804.

[11] Lloyd's Register for 1805 shows Comet, "Mooring", master, and St Barbe, owner, with trade London—India.

At 3:30 a.m. on 1 November, near Rocas Atoll at 3°51′27″N 33°48′57″W / 3.85750°N 33.81583°W / 3.85750; -33.81583, HMS Leda sighted breakers and fired a gun, the signal to tack, herself barely missing the danger.

As Britannia was on the point of tacking she ran afoul of Streatham and lost her bowsprit and foretopmast.

After the Dutch Governor Jansens signed a capitulation on the 18 January and the British established control of the Cape Colony, Belliqueux escorted the East Indiamen to Madras.

Captain George Higton received a letter of marque for Comet on 22 February 1808,[4] but there is no sign in online resources that he actually took command.

Captain James McDonald received a letter of marque on 7 February 1809,[4] but the supplemental pages to Lloyd's Register for 1808 already list him as master.

On 7 July 1815 it reported that Comet, Wilson, master, had been lost on 29 June on West Hoyle sandbank as she was sailing from Dublin to Chester.