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, one of the convoy escorts, sighted breakers and fired a gun, the signal to tack; she herself barely missed the danger.
As Britannia was on the point of tacking she ran afoul of Streatham and lost her bowsprit and foretopmast.
[6] Europe and the rest of the fleet arrived at San Salvadore on 11 November, and the Cape of Good Hope on 4 January 1806.
[2] The British fleet arrived in Table Bay on 5 January 1806 and anchored off Robben Island.
[7] After Jansens, the Dutch Governor, signed a capitulation on the 18 January, and the British established control of the Cape Colony, Belliqueux escorted the East Indiamen to Madras.
Europe and four other Indiamen, Streatham, Lord Keith, Monarch, and Earl Spencer were expected to sail from Bengal on 30 April under convoy by HMS Victor.
On 24 May a storm split the convoy and Victor and the small ships separately lost touch with the Indiamen.
Europe resisted and in the engagement she had two British seamen killed and one lascar wounded out of 128 people on board.
[10] Lord Keith too exchanged broadsides with Caroline and was damaged, however she escaped and sailed to Penang to repair.
She was badly holed and Captain Féretier of Caroline had to have some of her guns thrown overboard to lighten her.
[10] The British recaptured Streatham and Europe during the raid on Saint-Paul on the Île Bonaparte on 21 September.
The British raiding party burned the warehouses where the captors had stored the silk and other valuable parts of the cargo from both Stratham and Europe.
Lloyd's List (LL) reported on 9 January 1811 that the captured vessels, except for Europe, which had been sent to Bombay, had all arrived at the Cape of Good Hope.
Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 10 October and reached the Cape of Good Hope on 26 March 1815.
[2] Captain John Mills sailed from the Downs on 15 November 1815, bound for Madras, Bengal, and Batavia.
Homeward bound, she was at Saugor on 11 November, reached St Helena on 19 March 1817, and arrived at Blackwall on 25 May.